Calendar of Workshops and Events
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September 3-24, 2024
Block Prints in Brilliant Color (online Course through JCCFS)
Find inspiration in the textures and patterns you see in the nature to create multi-color block prints. Learn how to print in layers of colors made from a single block as well as how to combine blocks in a single composition. You’ll use these blocks to create prints as well as to print patterns that can be used to make personal stationery, patterned fabric, journal covers, and even as wall patterns. Open to individuals of all skill levels.
This class meets online on Tuesday evenings 6-8pm for four sessions.
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Oct. 4, 5, 6, 2024
My very first crankie performance will be three nights this fall at the Minneapolis Crankie Festival! I'll be "playing" the Flare crankie together with the music that inspired it. So excited to be part of this show full of amazing artists, musicians, and puppeteers.
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October 17-21, 2024
Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands:
This will be my first time back as a vendor since 2018!
Hosted in downtown Asheville at Harrah’s Cherokee Center, artisans will fill both the concourse and arena levels of the venue, exhibiting a variety of craft ranging from contemporary to traditional in works of clay, wood, metal, glass, fiber, natural materials, paper, leather, mixed media, and jewelry. Join us for this unique shopping experience and enjoy live music and craft demonstrations during your visit. $12 tickets are available for individual days, at the door, and online (coming soon). Children under 12 are free.
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Nov. 26 - Dec. 17, 2024
Block Prints in Brilliant Color
(online Course through JCCFS)
Because the September printmaking class filled with a waitlist, we are offering a second class!
Find inspiration in the textures and patterns you see in the nature to create multi-color block prints. Learn how to print in layers of colors made from a single block as well as how to combine blocks in a single composition. You’ll use these blocks to create prints as well as to print patterns that can be used to make personal stationery, patterned fabric, journal covers, and even as wall patterns. Open to individuals of all skill levels.
This class meets online on Tuesday evenings 6-8pm for four sessions.
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January 19-24, 2025
(workshop at JCCFS)
Crankies are illustrated scrolls in boxes with attached handles that are "hand cranked" to create a moving panorama, inviting the viewer to experience the images like watching a movie. These historic storytelling devices were traditionally used to illustrate ballads sung by traveling musicians as they performed through the Appalachian mountains. Carve blocks to print smaller "personal" crankies as well as collaborate on a single long scroll to create a shared experience.
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February 9-14, 2025
Letterpress and the Printed Book
(workshop at JCCFS)
Bring your stories to life in a unique hand-printed and hand-bound book. Explore the basics of letterpress printing and hand typesetting including type composition, press bed set-up, and printing on a variety of presses. Then, learn the basics of cutting rubber and linoleum blocks to complement the text. Bind your printed pages together in a beautiful book structure to share your story. All levels welcome.
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May 15-18, 2025
Letterpress Cards and Stationery
(workshop at JCCFS)
Explore the basics of letterpress printing and hand typesetting, including type composition, press bed set-up, and printing. Cover the basics of cutting and printing from a linoleum block together with text. By the end of the week, design and print a collection of cards and personalized stationery that will add a special touch to your notes and letters.
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Save the Date!
Upcoming in 2025:
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July 11-13: Gelatin Prints & Drum Leaf at JCCFS
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Past events and workshops listed below:
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May 25 - August 17, 2024
"Press On" exhibit with the Asheville Printmakers, at the Bascom Center for the Visual Arts:
Asheville Printmakers is an independent alliance of artists who express themselves through the medium of the print. Its membership encompasses both experienced and emerging artists, as well as those new to printmaking. The participants define “the print” broadly to encompass a wide range of processes and content, from traditional to experimental, and classic to contemporary.
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A free public reception will be held July 11 at 5pm.
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June 2-8, 2024
Letterpress: Books and Broadsides at John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC
Get to know the basics of letterpress printing and hand typesetting to print your own books and broadsides. Learn to set hot lead and wood type, print large broadsides and small books, and to use vintage printing presses. Add images with carved linoleum blocks, then finish the week by binding the small prints together into a book. All levels welcome.
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July 19-21, 2024
Make A Crankie! at Atlanta Printmakers Studio
Crankies are illustrated scrolls contained in boxes on dowels with attached handles. These scrolls are “hand cranked” to create a moving panorama, inviting the viewer to experience the images like watching a movie. These historic storytelling devices were often used as full-immersion experiences, filling an entire room with images of far-away lands to create the feeling of going on a journey.
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In this workshop, we’ll make smaller “personal” crankies that tells your story through relief prints. Each student will carve a block, then we’ll collaborate to print them together on a single long scroll. The scrolls will then be attached to crankie mechanisms in wooden boxes, and then we’ll have a show!