Large-Scale Prints with Alexis Iammarino (4-Week Workshop)

Anchored in interdisciplinary exploration, this 4-week printmaking workshop will share several approaches to creating large-scale prints for fabric and paper with large-scale DIY printing-presses. Using cardboard, mixed-media and textile materials, we’ll create large collagraph plates and block prints and explore ways to use photo references with painted monotypes. Workshop dates are March 1, 8, 15, and 22. Ages 16+
 
Demos will focus on technique-building and material exploration to encourage more improvisational approaches to composition. This will draw from sensibilities of dance, movement and structured improvisations found in music that encourages collaborative art making or to enliven + inspire independent practices. Materials students should bring to workshop: preferred drawing supplies such as charcoals, pastels, colored pencils; journals, sketch books or photographs from recent projects or on-going inquiries/ studio explorations; textile remnants, fabric/canvas scraps, ribbons, yarn.
 
About the instructor: With a focus on youth mentorship, community-based murals, film, dance, and collaborative project design, Alexis Iammarino has led multiple large public art projects in the Midcoast and statewide. From 2016-2021 she served as CMCA’s ArtLab Lead Artist and Educator; she is a founding artist with Leaps of Imagination and Arts in Action; and is co-director at Interloc in Thomaston, Maine. She and her husband Scott Sell run Little Legs Co. a mural, publications and small film production company in Rockland. Her recent and on-going public history projects include donuts and bricks!!