Printmaking Workshop

On Botanicals with Matt Wagner [Relief cut Printing]

[SOLD OUT]

2-Day Session: Saturday, March 25 - Sunday, March 26 [9am - 4pm]

Tickets: $175 per person \ Member Rate: $150 \ program full

In this two-day workshop, students will learn the basics of relief carving and printing. In the printmaking process an image is carved in reverse onto a block, which is then inked and pressed onto paper. Participants will see examples of the technique in the exhibition Ian Hanesworth: Fragments of this Living Earth, and experiment with carving and inking a block with instruction from artist and educator Matt Wagner. Participants will create limited edition prints of their own and learn the basic skills needed to continue their artistic practice beyond the classroom. All materials are provided and include a set of basic printmaking tools that participants will be able to take home with them.

Matt Wagner

Matt Wagner is an artist and educator based in Winona, MN. Wagner's most recent collection of work, Animals of the Driftless, funded by a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, was inspired by the fauna of the unique bluffland landscape of his Driftless surroundings, an area encompassing southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois, that was untouched by glaciation. After reading picture books to his son featuring seemingly random animals — elephants, hamsters, etc. — Wagner sought to create images of the animals of the Driftless Region in which he lives. The resulting series of prints features the birds, frogs, insects and mammals that he and his son might encounter on hikes in their own neck of the woods.

Learn more about Matt Wagner and his Animals of the Driftless project from Minnesota Public Radio.