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The Artist Book

Make Your Own Books

This class provides an introduction to woodblock printmaking without a press and bookmaking techniques. Students carve woodblocks and print them with water-based inks. After examining bookbinding techniques including both folded and sewn methods, students will use the remainder of class to explore combining their prints into small-scale books. The course will also cover embellishment techniques and display options for their prints.

This workshop is suitable for all experience levels.

 

Saturday, January 21, 2023 11am to 5pm

Instructor: Jennifer Dunbar

$150.00 (price includes $30 lab fee)

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Tetra Pak Carton Printmaking Workshop

Transform Your Trash!

Combining the traditional printmaking techniques of collagraph and drypoint with recycled laminated food and beverage cartons, participants create a very limited edition of eco-friendly prints.

Tetra Pak cartons become the printing plates that students incise using etching tools and blades.  These plates are then inked in the classical intaglio manner and printed on an etching press.  Students will leave with completed original artwork.

This workshop is suitable for all experience levels.

 

Saturday & Sunday, January 14 & 15, 2023 12 to 5 PM

Instructor: Veronica Barker-Barzel

$230 (price includes $30 lab fee)

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Example of Work in Progress

 

Example of “Plate”

Linocut Carving Demonstration

Samantha Shelton will be demonstrating the linocut printmaking method by carving linoleum in the Van Landingham Gallery, #311. Linoleum is an affordable and versatile block that can take marks from linocutters, wood engravers, dremel, leather embossing tools, and more.    This printmaking medium can be done easily at home and printed by hand.

Nancy McIntyre: “Rhythms of Time”

Nancy McIntyre’s silkscreens and paintings “treasure the local, the small-scale, the eccentric, the ordinary.” Her solo show, “Rhythms of Time,” focuses on different scenes over varying periods of time—over the course of a day, or across decades. Some of the places have hardly changed; others are almost unrecognizable. The silkscreening process is particularly suited to McIntyre’s focus on the passage of time: some of her more complicated pieces can comprise a hundred layers and take up to a year.

Gallery hours:
Monday–Saturday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am–9:00 pm
Sunday: 12:00 noon-6:00 pm

Second Thursday Art Night

Enjoy an special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. Browse open studios and galleries, interact with artists, and enjoy special programming. Stop by on your way to dinner and make an evening of it!

  • 6 – 9 pm: 
    • Four hands-on silkscreen stations will be located throughout the building to allow visitors to create a one-of-a-kind four-color print. Find the final station in the Alexandria Archaeology Museum (studio 327).
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 8:45 pm:
    • Cat Janice performs her original jazzy/alternative rock songs throughout the evening.
  • 7 pm:
    • Visitors are encouraged to bring in items to photocopy and experiment with Xerography in Target Gallery’s (studio 2) current exhibition, Printed Matter.
  • 7:30 pm:
    • The Art League Gallery (studio 21) hosts openings for Muted, featuring works subtle works that softly represent their subjects, and the Solo Preview 2016, which offers a glimpse of the nine artists who will have solo shows this year.

Wijati Soemantoro: “The Ring of Fire”

“This is a very personal expression of my empathy and sympathy towards the victims of Mother Nature, especially earthquakes and volcano eruption, which are quite familiar for me as an Indonesian who grew up near the Ring of Fire.”

Wijati Soemantoro’s abstract lithographs express her response to the energy, emotions, and aftermath of natural disasters. As an Indonesian who grew up near the Ring of Fire, this series is intensely personal.

Solo exhibition of member artist Alexander Gray, February 8 – March 1, 2015

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 8, 2 – 4 pm

The Joint Portfolio Project

We’re partnering with a group of outstanding printmakers from the Providence Art Club in Rhode Island to create a portfolio of 32 fine art prints: The Joint Portfolio Project.

Two simultaneous exhibits are scheduled for the portfolio’s première in Fall 2014: Providence Art Club’s Moit Gallery and in our own Main Gallery, Studio 325, November 1 – December 31, 2014. Opening Reception: Sunday, November 2, 2-4 pm.

There will be thirty-two 5×7 inch prints, each set housed in a beautiful portfolio box for storage. Only 12 sets are for sale to the public. The portfolios will retail for $550. Sales have been brisk, so get them while you can!

If you would like to reserve a portfolio or purchase one now at the pre-publication price of $500 call us now at 703 683 1342. Telephone sales are accepted with a credit card.