Alternative Printmaking Processes to create unique, multi-layered prints at Center for Contemp. Printmaking

March 4 – 5, 2017
ALTERNATIVE PRINTMAKING PROCESSES TO CREATE UNIQUE AND MULTI-LAYERED PRINTS
with Leah Mackin
Saturday – Sunday, 10am – 4pm.
2-day weekend workshop, limited to 8; Intermediate to Advanced

This workshop encourages experimentation, collaboration and exchange as a means to generate a wide range of printed works in a supportive and productive environment. Versed in the language of process-based abstraction, Mackin will provide students with a variety of techniques that explore tactility, performative gesture, and rhythm in both practice and final product. Through hands-on demonstrations covering monotypes, lithographs and image transfers, students will use unexpected materials and tools, with and without a press.

LEAH MACKIN lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA where she in an artist and educator. Her practice incorporates printed media through publishing, photography, sculpture, and performance. She holds a BFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from The University of the Arts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mackin’s works have been exhibited in solo presentations in Chicago and Philadelphia and in numerous group exhibitions in Baltimore, Los Angeles, and throughout the Midwest. Mackin has received a number of awards, scholarships and honors including a winner of The Print Center’s 90th Annual Competition and an Artist’s Book Residency Grant at the Women’s Studio Workshop. www.leahmackin.com