Class Title: Surrealist Printmaking – Drypoint and Laser Engraved Plates
Instructor: Charles Goolsby
Cost: $25 (Special rate!)
Time and date(s): Tuesdays, 10/14-11/18 (6 weeks) from 5:30PM-8:00PM
Location: Print Shop, Art Lab lower level (stair access only)
Skill level: Intermediate/New Learners
Audience: Teen – adult
Description: This special topics class is in conjunction with our Salvadore Dali printmaking exhibition and focuses on surrealist imagery, drawing, and printing techniques. The special class rate for this class is made possible by support from the Town of Abingdon arts grant. Printmaking is a process that involves creating a unique image on a repeatable surface, often a “plate” (in this case, a small sheet of plexiglass with a drawing scratched into its surface). In this class, participants will be guided through the creation process to make their own unique plate as well as be challenged to combine their own imagery with a variety of images from plates provided by Art Lab. Participants will learn how to ink and print their creations as well as tear paper and sign their prints (there is indeed a method!). All supplies are included in this workshop. Registration will open on September 14.
Experience with printmaking is helpful, but not necessary. Drawing experience is strongly encouraged. Please note this workshop is located in a classroom accessed solely by a flight of stairs due to the ongoing campus construction.
About the Instructor:
Charles W. Goolsby, Professor Emeritus of Art at Emory & Henry College and former Chair of the Division of Visual & Performing Arts, has been a practicing professional artist for more than forty years. He held the Allen & Agnes Rowlett Chair of Creative Studies from 2015-2018. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University in 1980 and the M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University in 1994. Goolsby’s work has been featured in more than 45 solo exhibitions throughout the southeastern United States at various college, university, fine arts center, museum and commercial galleries. Blue Spiral I Gallery, in Asheville, North Carolina represents him.
