Workshops

Introduction to Japanese Color Woodblock Printmaking
The Japanese developed a woodblock printing method using water as the medium, brushes to apply colors to the blocks, and a hand-held baren instead of a press to transfer colors from multiple carved blocks to printing papers. This is a low carbon-footprint, non-toxic printing method with a great history.
The workshop is organized to offer a comprehensive introduction to the wonderful range of tools, techniques, and materials involved in this art form.  Everyone completes a multi-color print and engages with aspects of design, carving, and printing. There is an emphasis on sharing tricks and techniques that may be adapted to other approaches to making art (watercolor painting, western-style printmaking).

All experience levels are welcome.  Each 3-day workshop is taught in six three hour sessions.  To find out more, and to see prints made by past class participants, visit the Studio, or send me a note.

May 12 - May 14, 2023, 
Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA.  I have taught one class each year at Snow Farm since 1997 (except in 2020), and it will be a pleasure to be back there again.  Someone cancelled their sign-up and on April 23 there was one space left in the class.

June 3 - 5, 2023, at the Cotton Free Library, Weybridge, VT.   Big windows, good airflow,  a sweet history, I look forward to again sharing my woodblock workshop in this unique and well set-up space for two weekends in June.  This beautiful building, the Cotton Free Library,  with its counters located below large windows (six total, one for each student), has proven to be a great set-up for teaching hanga woodblock.  Just three doors away from our house in the Quaker Village area of this town (ten minutes north of Middlebury), it backs up to a dramatic waterfall of the Otter Creek river.
Tuition is $595 including studio materials fee.  Meal and lodging options are available.  Interested to know more? Send me a note!
Limited to 6 participants. This class has one space left.
To find out more,

June 17 - 19, 2023, at the Cotton Free Library, Weybridge, VT.   This will be a repeat of the class offered above, only we will keep the class slightly smaller in case it is hot and we need to run with an air-conditioner (which would take up one of the printing stations).
Limited to 6 participants.  This class is full.  Feel free to contact me about going onto a wait-list.
To find out more.

Talks

No talks scheduled, but . . .
consider checking out a booklet on color theory authored by myself and Prof. Ming Meng: The Energy Theory of Color. 
Find links to recordings of past talks (and to purchase the booklet) on a web-site we have created for sharing aspects of our work: energytheoryofcolor.com.