This three day workshop was incredibly fun but exhausting! All the participants were extremely happy with the prints they created. Students also used my personal collection of photopolymer cuts. In addition to printing little broadsides with my Vandercook poster press (hauled all the way up from New Mexico!), we created linoleum relief prints, background blends, stencils and monoprints using the resident etching press. Print collaboration between Jackie and Stefan (above) and Cornelia’s book project, printed by Amanda (below).Īt the end of May, I lead a letterpress broadside workshop at The Sitka Center of Art & Ecology on the coast of Oregon. Prints by Amanda and Robbie Pino (printed by me).Īrt by Katelyn, printed by Nora (above) and my “Dead Wrestlers: Their Words” series. Tamarind folks after the install: Alice, Danielle, Amanda, Candice, Jackie and Maria.īook by Dvoie Inez, printed by Alice Gauthier.
Ladies’ Choice represents both original works by these Tamarind-trained printer-artists as well as collaborative lithographic works between printer and artist, in this case select current University of New Mexico Graduate and Undergraduate Fine Art Students.
PRINT WITH PRINTOPIA PROFESSIONAL
Those that complete the Professional Printer Training program continue their careers as professional printers, entrepreneurs, and artists. Since its founding in 1960, Tamarind’s main objectives include creating a pool of master artisan-printers in the United States by training apprentices, stimulating the artist – printer collaborative relationship in an effort to advance the expressive potential of lithography, and establishing an exceptional collection of original lithographic works of art. However, processing and printing from stone or plate is a highly technical and nuanced endeavor, necessitating the need for collaboration between professional lithographic printers and artists. The versatility of mark making, coupled with the ease and immediacy in which artists translate their artistic vision to print, has cemented lithography as an alluring, highly expressive medium for centuries. Lithography, invented in 1796, is a printmaking technique reliant upon chemistry to alter the composition of a stone or aluminum plate surface in order to repel or attract ink. This international program attracts students from around the world that wish to intensely study the fine art of lithography. Ladies’ Choice: An Exhibition of Women Lithographers from the Tamarind InstituteĪs the Tamarind Institute celebrates 55 years of collaborative fine art lithography, this spring the very first class of all woman printers successfully completed the prestigious Professional Printer Training Program.
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