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Printmaking for Educators Summer 2010
Recommended for educators of grades 4 to 12

Two weeks in July on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (lunch break: 12 to 12:30 pm)
Cost: $385.00 (required materials included)

Week One – July 5: Monoprinting; July 6: Relief printing
Week Two – July 12: Photocopy transfer; July 13: Screenprinting

ABOUT THE COURSE
The focus of this course is to introduce educators to a variety of printmaking techniques that can be incorporated into school art programs at various levels. Throughout the course class participants will [...]

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Spring 2010 Education Registration Starts Today!

8-Week Courses:
Cost:  $270.00 + $50.00 materials fee
Water-based Screenprinting
Tuesday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
May 4 to June 22
Instructor: Geneviève Jodouin

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Monday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
May 3 to June 28 (no class May 24th holiday)
Instructor: Shannon Gerard

Explore all the possibilities that screenprinting, a process derived from stencil printing has to offer. Learn about direct stencil methods, photo-based screenprinting techniques, inks and modifiers. Suitable for photo-based, hand drawn or computer manipulated imagery. Water-based inks are used in this course.

Lithography
Tuesday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
May 4 [...]

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COLOUR AND TEXTURE WORKSHOP FOR QUILTERS (with Gunnel Hag)
March 27, 2010: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Unleash Your Creativity! In this workshop students will learn how to mix their own personal colour combinations in order to create useful and unusual textures. Students will experiment with the application of pigments to cloth by using brushes, foam applicators and scrapers. They will build a surface structure for fabrics from scratch. While using a variety of everyday implements and found objects (forks, potato mashers, pot scrubbers, bottle caps, you name it) they [...]

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The Unconventional Sketchbook
Mixed Media Classes with Sharon Epstein

April 1 – May 6, 2010
Thursdays 9:30am-12:30pm
Class Fee: $235
Material Fee: $65

This course will enable you to make the most out of using a sketchbook practice, develop images, observe and experiment with materials and ideas. Students will be encouraged to use drawing, print-making, resists, transfer and collage. The course will look at the purpose of the sketchbook to reflect, record, express ideas. Field trips as well as working in the studio will allow the student a variety of locations to [...]

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QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS: Genevieve Jodouin

Interview and photos by Sara Titanic

Describe the process of creating your work. What is involved for you to make one of your pieces?
Once I’ve come up with my initial idea for the piece, I take many photos that will act as reference for my drawings. I’ll then draw all the figures in the piece, as well as the decorative and background elements.   I draw everything on tracing paper so that all the layers fit together. Once the drawings are done I’ll move [...]

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