Letterpress Intensive with Daniel Drennan ElAwar

Saturday, September 16th, 11am-4pm

Members: $110, Non-Members: $125, Materials: $20

This one-day intensive class is designed to give students an overview of the possibilities of working in the relief printmaking tradition and two-color letterpress work. Students will work on carving out very simple two-inch square blocks with straightforward patterns which will then be ganged up on the press bed to create an overall design. These will then be shuffled and rotated for a second pass in a different color, producing a communally created graphic poster.

No previous printmaking or letterpress experience required!

Technique: We will go over how to transfer an image reversed onto a block; approaches to carving; the mechanics of the press; ganging up on and locking in the press bed; carbon-paper proofing; registration and printing; press clean-up; and editioning a print.

About the instructor: Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an illustrator, printmaker, and educator currently working as an associate professor of Illustration in the Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. His work, based in a documentary genre and the relief printmaking medium, focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. His research interests are based on radical archives and the history of artist collectives, with frameworks sourcing primarily from the Global South.

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