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Dynamic Collaborations, a Printmaking Workshop

Drypoint, Chine Colle, Monotype
Sat, 04/25/2015 - 10:00am to 5:00pm

Note: This workshop takes place at Lane Community College Art and Applied Design Department, LCC Building 10, Room 223 (Intaglio/Relief Prtintmaking Studio). LCC Campus map

   

Date: Saturday & Sunday, April 25-26, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Instructors: Rick Bartow & Seiichi Hiroshima

Cost: $60 for registered Lane Community College and UO students; $200 community at large. 

 

About the workshop:

All skill levels are welcome, beginning to advanced.  Class limit, 15 students. A wait list will be created in case of cancellations.

Day 1 includes students making and printing their own drypoint prints. Hiroshoma will advise about paper handling. Participants are encouraged to bring in their most challenging papers. Day 2 includes instruction in monotype printing. Bartow and Hiroshima have a fluid, elegant working dynamic that is a joy to observe. Students will work with Hiroshima and Bartow in learning mixing inks, paper handling, press techniques, and discuss the subtleties of collaboration in printmaking.

 

To register:

Registration deadline, April 20

Send check to: Bartow/Hiroshima workshop,  Art  Office, Lane Community College, 4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene, Oregon 97405, Attn: Mary Jo

Make check to: Lane Community College Foundation, Printmaking

Include: Your name, email and phone number, your L# (if Lane Community College student) or birthdate. LCC staff will confirm your registration and send you a basic supply list and other information about the workshop.

A non-refundable deposit (1/2 the tuition fee) is needed to hold your place in the workshop.

 

Instructors:

Personal experiences, cultural engagement and global myths, especially Native American transformation stories, a re the heart of Mr. Bartow's art. Animals and self-portraits populate his iconography, and he is known for astute interpretations of literary, musical and visual sources. Born in Newport, Oregon, in 1946, Rick Bartow is a member of the Wiyot tribe of Northern California. His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibits nationally and internationally. His recent career highlights include the career retrospective exhibit "Things You Know But Cannot Explain," organized by and currently on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR;  completion of "We Were Always Here," a monumental 27' sculpture commissioned by The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, which stands on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.; inclusion in a three-person exhibit at the School of Sacred Music, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Dog's Journey, a traveling 20-year retrospective; and two works are on view at the United States Ambassador's residence in Sofia, Bulgaria and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Seiichi Hiroshima is a master printmaker and print artist living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He has printed Rick Bartow's drypoint prints since 1997. He also prints for Yayoi Kusama, among others. For his own work, Hiroshima primarily uses the color mezzotint process, using a rocker to create a rich textured surface from which he burnishes and scrapes his image, producing a velvety quality. His poetic images of maple leaves, cherry blossoms, crows, frogs and other creatures, often set against a kimono textile-like background, portray an important connection to traditional Japanese art and culture, often, referencing the great Japanese 20th century mezzotint master, Yozo Hamaguchi.

 

Questions?  For more information, contact Mary Jo Kreindel,  LCC Art and Applied Design, kreindelm@lanecc.edu, 541-463-5411.

 

Image credit (L to R): Be Still, 2000. Rick Bartow (American). Drypoint, 13 x 14 inches. Moon & Dog Press, Tokyo, Japan/South Beach, OR, Courtesy of the artist and Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR; Gambler 2, 2006. Rick Bartow (American). Monotype, 30 x 22 inches. Moon & Dog Press, Tokyo, Japan/South Beach, OR, Courtesy of the artist and Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR; 3 Hawks, 2006. Rick Bartow (American). Drypoint, 12 x 10 inches. Moon & Dog Press, Tokyo, Japan/South Beach, OR, Courtesy of the artist and Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR