ExpiredPrint Your Blocks on the Vandercook

Learn the basics of printing and editioning your woodcuts or linocuts on the Vandercook proof press. The instructor will cover proper inking, adjusting packing, adjusting rollers and the operating the press to edition your carved block. Color registration will be covered, but students will edition only in one color during the class. Completion of this class will qualify students to use the Vandercook presses during Open Studio times. Students will bring their own paper and blocks that are already carved. (This workshop does not cover carving blocks).

Level: This class is appropriate for students at all levels.
Dates: Saturday, January 28
Time: 10am-4pm
Max. no of students: 6
Instructor: Laura Brown
Cost: $90 tuition

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Laura Brown is a printmaker, book artist, collaborator and teacher. Her work examines human relationships and memory through the lenses of geography, movement, and time. She has held residencies at the Myren Graffikk in Kristiansand, Norway; the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California; Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, and her work appears in collections at Yale University and the Library of Congress, among others. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art/Printmaking at the University of Texas at Austin.