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I have taught several color woodblock classes each year since 1997. They say to teach is to learn, and certainly teaching has taught me a great deal. Each new class increases my enjoyment of the interchange, challenge, and variety I believe is inate to the process of making hanga color woodblock prints.
Prints from a class at the Arts Sudents League of Denver in Feb, 2011 (see bigger sizes of the images on the Blog):
Below find a few pics from a class at the Concord Art Association in Concord, MA, April 11 - 13, 2008:
Prints from the workshops Prints are approx. 4 1/2" x 6". Included are links on the names of students who maintain web-sites of their own work (look for underlines). Each student finishes and editions their print on the last day to be able to receive a portfolio of all the prints from the class. When you consider many of these prints were made by folks who may never have carved, made prints, or sometimes even taken an art class before, it is quite exciting to think of what this imagery represents! Workshop of 2007:
Workshop of 2006:
Workshop of 2005:
Workshops of 2003.
Workshop of 2002:
Workshops of 2001:
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Tools and Materials
Workshops of 2007
Workshops of 2006
Workshops of 2005
Workshops of 2003
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A little feedback from a few students:
"Hi Matt, thank you again for conducting such a carefully planned and wonderful workshop. You really spoiled us with all the preparation you put into it with the pre-cut paper, pre-cut blocks, jigs,and all the materials within hand's reach. Thank you for welcoming us into your home and shop the way you did. It was a very special event and I am grateful to have been part of it."
Lucie Wellner, June, 2007
"It would have taken me a couple of years to have learned what you shared in a weekend. Absolutely."
Ruth Rego, June, 2007
"I wanted to thank you for an incredibly rewarding workshop experience. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it except to say that I could literally feel all the tension of everyday life being carved away with the wood shavings. It was magical."
Mary Forrester, May, 2006
"Dear Matt, I thank you for the excellent workshop--maybe the best I've taken. I came away feeling I had gotten a complete sense of the Japanese woodcut and a love for the process of making it. For me it's definitely a gateway."
Ruth Ginsburg-Place, May, 2006
Dear Matt,
What a great experience! It feels to me like traveling somewhere new, including a new language, new stuff to adjust your hands to (gouges being analogous to, say, chopsticks versus fork and knife), and new ways of seeing what you're looking at. While you're there it is confusing and sometimes baffling, so sometimes you need to push yourself along, or get a push from a friend (Matt).
On the trip home, you think, was I crazy to do this?
When you get home you're exhausted, but you notice you have a head filled with wonderful images to savor.
That evening when you show your husband your work, and the progression, he loves it and you start to love it too!
And by the next day, just like a trip to a strange place -- the difficulties you experienced along the way have somehow mellowed-out in your memory, and you can only say, "Wow! Am I glad I went there! Gotta go back soon!"
Sally Foskett, April, 2012
