Fabric Block Printing Weekend Intensive with Susan McDonnell
2 days: Saturday and Sunday
December 2nd and 3rd
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $470 (All materials included in price)
Discover the joys of printing on fabric during this full weekend of block printing with Susana McDonnel of LinoCave. Whether you’re a total beginner or an experienced block printer looking to refine your skills, Susana will allow you the opportunity to learn new techniques for each aspect of block printing and most importantly, have time to practice them. Susana will demonstrate her tried and true methods for pattern design, carving and different methods of inking. All materials and supplies will be included, but if students have specific fabric items they would like to print, they should bring them along, but please pre-wash them. Students will leave with an array of hand-printed textiles, their own rubber block, and the skills and knowledge to continue the process from home.
Susana McDonnell is the owner of LinoCave, a Boston-based home studio focused on geometric pattern design and block printing on fabric and paper. She holds a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and is a lifelong artist who has studied and taught many mediums including, but not limited to glassblowing, neon, wood, drawing and watercolor. Despite the fact that block printing is one of the few mediums she has not formally studied, the allure of it inspires her to teach and explore it further every day. She is the co-host of @printersolstice, a prompt-based printmaking campaign on Instagram that inspires printmakers around the world to create during the winter solstice and is also a Speedball Demo Artist.
Free parking is provided.
As seen on WBZ Channel 4
Cyanotype for Beginners with Suzanne Moseley & Liz Shepherd
Wednesday, November 29th
Two sessions: 10am to 12pm and 1pm to 3pm
$60 all materials included
This workshop is for everybody! It is easy and fun with great results.
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that results in a distinctive cyan-blue print. It is an inexpensive and simple process that yields lovely results. We will explain the cyanotype process and you will have hands-on experience of doing it yourself while in the studio. We will also explain how to produce beautiful pieces at home. No prior experience is necessary.
Suzanne and Liz were artists in residence at the Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge where the public was invited to experience first hand the magic of this experimental photographic process.
Suzanne Moseley is an experimental artist, currently working in cyanotype and screen printing mediums in both 2D and 3D formats. Many of her fiber sculptures contain her cyanotype work in them. She has been experimenting in Traditional and Wet Cyanotype printing along with other alternative photographic methods for the past three years, and teaches at Snow Farm in western Ma and Aya fiber Studio in Stuart, Fl in addition to Shepherd Maudsleigh Studio.
Liz Shepherd uses printmaking to enhance objects made of wood or paper. She also produces small, hand pulled print editions.
In the past 15 years she has exhibited in the United States and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edinburgh College of Art, Syracuse University, Boston Children’s Hospital, Hanoi (Vietnam) Contemporary Art Center, Boston Public Library as well as numerous corporate and private collections
Each session 2 hour session will be limited to 8 participants. Free parking is provided.
As seen on WBZ Channel 4
Cyanotype for Beginners with Liz Shepherd
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Two sessions: 10am to 12pm and 1pm to 3pm
$60 all materials included
This workshop is for everybody! It is easy and fun with great results.
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that results in a distinctive cyan-blue print. It is an inexpensive and simple process that yields lovely results. We will explain the cyanotype process and you will have hands-on experience of doing it yourself while in the studio. We will also explain how to produce beautiful pieces at home. No prior experience is necessary.
Liz was an artist in residence at the Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge where the public was invited to experience first hand the magic of this experimental photographic process.
Liz Shepherd uses printmaking to enhance objects made of wood or paper. She also produces small, hand pulled print editions.
In the past 15 years she has exhibited in the United States and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edinburgh College of Art, Syracuse University, Boston Children’s Hospital, Hanoi (Vietnam) Contemporary Art Center, Boston Public Library as well as numerous corporate and private collections
Each session 2 hour session will be limited to 8 participants. Free parking is provided.
What people are saying about our workshops
“This is an amazingly equipped and organized space.”
“The instructor did a great job describing things and expanding on ideas.”
“Detailed explanations, step by step, lots of time and attention spent on individuals’ projects/ideas.”
“Terrific, very thoughtful and responsive to each member of the group!”
“I loved how Liz explained but encouraged us to experiment and not to be too fussy.”
“What a set-up here in Newton for a printmaker!”