Layered Monotype and Collage Intensive With Ron Pokrasso

Ron Pokrasso’s approach to monotype in combination with chine colle’/collage and drawing will open your eyes and working process to a whole new range of possibilities. Using Akua non-toxic products you will learn numerous methods of working with inks and tools. You will be guided through techniques to be able to use multiple plates with perfection. Using dry paper you will enjoy the immediacy of reprinting the surface and the ease in coming back to works in progress. You will learn how to think in layers with several plates and surfaces giving you the potential to move into exciting new directions. Pokrasso’s unique approach illustrated with concise demos and interspersed with art making philosophies makes this an intensive, enriching, eco-friendly three-day art immersion. This workshop is great for beginners as well as a perfect tune-up for experienced monotype artists. 

Ron Pokrasso has been an exhibiting artist, printmaker and educator for more than 40 years. He received his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in1975 and has had over 50 solo exhibitions and more than 150 group shows. His work is in public, private, and corporate collections throughout the U.S. His teaching experience includes universities, museums, public schools and private workshops as well as Artist Residencies in the U.S., Scotland, Ireland and Italy. Pokrasso’s passion for creating always comes across and through his teaching is known to be instrumental in helping to push students to break barriers. Ron Pokrasso owns and directs the Galisteo Street Studio, a Fine Art Printmaking facility in Santa Fe, NM. You can learn more about Ron, his art and teaching venues by visiting his website, https://www.ronpokrasso.com.

Cost: $550 per student

Register by November 1