Trace Monotype: The Hard Line

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Description: Monotype is a great way to initiate a printmaking practice: it requires no acid and no carving. Some monotype techniques don’t even require a press. This workshop introduces stencils, ghost printing, and a monotype drawing technique called trace monotype. Trace Monotype: The Hard Line explores a non-painterly methodology to making unique, one-of-a-kind prints: using line, hard edges, transparency, and layered passages of color. Enjoy the visual vocabulary of drawing, printing both by hand and on the press, working intuitively or intentionally, making abstract or representational imagery, to develop a body of works on Asian paper. Demonstrations include ink modification, trace monotype, stencil printing, counter-proofing, ghost printing, flats, and blend rolls. Create complex, engaging works that can stand on their own or initiate collages, mixed media works, and printstallation. MGC Members receive a 25% discount toward registration, and non-members receive 14 hours of additional studio time outside of class. Class fee includes materials. Instructor Bio: Sarah Smelser has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center; Franz Masereel Center, Artica Bilbao, Kala Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Anchor Graphics, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and Tamarind Institute. She has shown her monotypes in solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions, and at numerous art fairs including Art Frankfurt, Estampa Madrid, Affordable Art Fair New York, Art Miami, Art Chicago, EDITION Chicago, Boston Print Fair, Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, EXPO, and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair. She has taught monotype workshops at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Frogman’s Print Workshop, Remarque Print Workshop, Chicago Printmakers Collabortive, Manhattan Graphics Center, and Kala Art Institute. Smelser received her BA from University of California at Santa Cruz, and her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the 2022-24 Harold Boyd Endowed Professor in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. Cancellation Policy STUDENT CLASS CANCELLATION If a student must drop out of a class, 75% of tuition will be refunded as long as MGC is notified 15 days or more prior to the start date of the class. If a student notifies MGC less than 15 days prior, no tuition can be refunded. Materials fee are non-refundable. If MGC cancels the class we issue a full refund or studio credit.