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#PrintCamp2019 June 1 - 9, 2019

Applications Due by March 15, 2019

#PrintCamp2019 All Print Media hybrid Workshop/Residency Summer 2019 is a hybrid resid3ncy/workshop for serious established artists and printmakers who want to expand their practice.  The intent is to create a coherent, hard- working/learning printmaking community under the direction of Shelley Thorstensen.

  Six participants are chosen through application. Applicants are asked for a proposal in part so that the workshop is weighted evenly in terms of media – and one area is not used or neglected more than another. This will ensure the best use of the shop and materials.

  In the mornings, Shelley Thorstensen will begin the workshop with a series of demonstrations and ideas on printing, intaglio, lithography and silkscreen combinations - stencils, a la poupeé, chine collé, viscosity, multiple plates, relief, collage, and digital media.  

Possible topics that could come up are how to seamlessly incorporate handwork such as drypoint and mezzotint on various substrates, editioned monoprint, paper and polyester photo litho, hand-worked and photo based collagraphs, photocopy transfer, handmade rubber stamp patterning for chine colle, registration systems that are best suited to individual needs, considerations for content, scale, series, multiplicity, format, paper choice, and available matrices.

  Participants can work in one or more of these mediums, in combination or separately: Etching on copper, drypoint on plexiglass, stone/plate/photo/prontoplate lithography, silkscreen,wood/lino cut, plaster prints, monoprints, gelatin prints.

 All participants will camp on the grounds next to the house and the 2000 square foot print shop. Camping makes the workshop less expensive than staying in motels, creates an all day experience and promotes a strong printmaking community. This is not a wilderness adventure! The property is a secluded acre on the edge of Oxford. There are showers, and bathrooms, the kitchen is open, there’s password protected wifi and we’re less than ten minutes walking distance to downtown. PMOF will supply the tents and the air mattresses.

Want or need to bring someone with you? Please email - it can probably be arranged! (but no pets, please) 



Camping:

PMOF supplies the tents and air mattresses. There is shower for use, a refrigerator and a second bathroom in the shop.  Use of the kitchen in the house is available to everyone.  

 Transportation:

Printmakers Open Forum is located at 120 West Lancaster Pike, Oxford PA USA 19363, one hour west of Philadelphia in rural southern Chester County. 

If you do not have a car, we can arrange to pick you up from Philadelphia, Baltimore or Newark DE. The town of Oxford, with restaurants and shops, is a mile walk or a quick drive.

 Particulars:

The printshop is open after hours on a buddy system basis. There will a PRINTCAMP monitor to oversee after hour work in the shop.  Drugs and alcohol are not allowed at the camp and all participants are expected to act responsibly.

 Skill Share: 

At the start of the workshop, we ask you to share something print-related that you know with us – demo or images/powerpoint.

 Critique Opportunity:

Toward the end of the workshop, we will have a guest critic here for a casual conversation about your work and direction over dinner. Critics for #PrintCamp2019 will be Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig. Read more here

 Goals:

We are aiming to create community that organically continues beyond the time frame of PRINTCAMP.

 Cost:

The cost of the workshop is $500 plus $80 lab fee. Camping onsite defrays workshop expenses by eliminating lodging costs and creates a coherent, hard- working/learning community. 

 All Print Media:

You can work in one or more of these mediums, in combination or separately: Etching on copper, drypoint on plexiglass, stone/plate/photo/prontoplate lithography, silkscreen, wood/lino cut, plaster prints, monoprints, gelatin prints. You are asked for a proposal in part so that the workshop is weighted evenly in terms of media – and one area is not used or neglected more than another. This will ensure the best use of the shop and materials.

Application:

Last day for applications is midnight, Thursday March 15th.  Notifications will be sent within two weeks.  Confirmation of your acceptance is needed within a week of notification, otherwise your space cannot be held.  A $200 deposit is due one week after notification to insure your inclusion in the workshop. This deposit is not refundable.

 More information:

  For questions please go to www.printmakersopenforum.org/contact

 http://printmakersopenforum.org/printcamp_all_print_media_workshop

Please note:

Printmakers Open Forum LLC does not apply for or receive any outside grant funding. This workshop strives to be affordable as a concrete way to pay good fortune forward.

 Shelley Thorstensen, Director

65 days to apply for #PrintCamp2019 (June 1 - 9) Link to apply:

We usually walk in the morning. It’s cooler and the air is clearer. The pictures Mike published here a couple of weeks ago were made on this same walk, but in the morning. In the evening it’s different, but equally delightful. The color of the evening light is warmer and the later it gets the rays of the sun slant through the trees and across the hills at a low angle. We were surprised that, though it’s only half an hour’s drive up the hill from our house, and we walked for less than an hour and a half, when we came back to the bar at the bottom we felt we’d had a holiday.

Here are the pictures. (P.S. The last photo is of our house, my studio and the Gallinero from across the valley of the River Genil. The scene looked so serene as we were driving home that Mike stopped and shot the picture.)

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