Hi-Tech to Lo-Tech: Combining Digital and Traditional Relief Printmaking Processes Workshop

[Goldwell Open Air Museum]

April 25 & 26
Hi-Tech to Lo-Tech Printmaking Workshop
Red Ban Art center, Goldwell Open Air Museum
Instructor: Scott Ludwig

Members: $50 for both days
Non-Members: $100 for both days

This workshop will allow participants the opportunity to explore digital media as tool for creative expression. Starting with almost any image, you will learn how to do basic manipulations using a scanner and Photoshop for final printing in relief. From there, the image is output on an inkjet and then transferred to linoleum or woodblock. The image is then cut and printed in the traditional manner, by press or by hand.
*A basic understanding of Photoshop and scanning/image capture is helpful.

The session will begin with a presentation of various prints that incorporate relevant processes, followed by a technical demonstration. Then, you are free to develop your own work!

The workshop will cover the following content:
- Basic scanning/capturing of digital images
- Basic Photoshop manipulations for relief printing applications
- Methods of transferring the image to the lino/woodblock
- Printing (hand/press printing)
- Discussion of other advanced techniques (time permitting()

Instructional handouts will be provided to attendees.

Approximate time: 6 hours per day (an additional period for set-up/troubleshooting will be necessary prior to the public presentation)

The workshop will be led by printmaker Scott Ludwig, a 2009 Goldwell resident and professor of art at Applachian State University in North Carolina.

Scott Ludwig received his B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and his MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University.He has exhibited his work throughout the United States and in Canada, Turkey, and Cuba. Ludwig received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Turkey in 1999. During 2005 and 2006, he was awarded a series of grants that funded travel and research to Havana, Cuba and to Bosphorus University in Istanbul. In the spring of 2007, he was awarded a visiting artist residency at the Malaspina Printmaker's Society in Vancouver, British Columbia

To reserve a place in the workshop, send an email to [e-mail] with the subject line WORKSHOP. Please provide your name, address and phone number.

Lodging is available in Beatty...Goldwell highly recommends the newly remodeled Atomic Inn (aka Phoenix Inn). Ask for Goldwell's special rate. Their website is impressive (go ahead, press the button), but under construction, so best to call 775- 553-2250 to book a room.