Exploring Monotype with Gelli Plates

Exploring Monotype with Gelli Plates

 

On Oct. 21, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Melanie Yazzie, professor of printmaking at University of Colorado Boulder, will lead an intimate monotype printing workshop at McNichols Civic Center Building.

 

Using monotype as the primary technique, workshop participants will learn how to use Gelli plates to create their own richly layered compositions through one or more impressions and countless design variations. During the monotype printing process, artists may decide to paint or draw back into their prints to create a mixed media piece. With this style of printmaking, options are endless and mixing and matching imagery has the potential open many new paths.

 

Yazzie will use soy-based Akua inks. There is no press required for this type of printing. This workshop is intensive, enriching and eco-friendly.

 

All supplies will be provided, and attendees will take home a min. of 4 or more prints of finished 11” x 15” monotype prints that they will create during the workshop. Participants should provide their own sack lunch.

 

Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

$75

Limited to 15 participants.

 

This workshop is presented in conjunction with Nizhóní Way: New Works by Melanie Yazzie on display at McNichols Civic Center Building Sept. 9 through Dec. 18.

 

About the Instructor As a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Melanie Yazzie’s work draws upon her rich Diné (Navajo) cultural heritage. Her work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty” literally, creating beauty and harmony. As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural, and political phenomena shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond. Her work incorporates both personal experiences as well as the events and symbols from Dine culture. Her work is informed and shaped by personal experiences.

 

Ms. Yazzie uses her travels around the world to connect with other indigenous peoples. Her visits to New Zealand, the Arctic, the Pueblos in the Southwest, and to indigenous peoples of Russia, these travels have been the impetus for continued dialogue about Indigenous cultural practices, language, song, storytelling, and survival.

 

Ms. Yazzie has exhibited widely, both in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Print Collection, Providence, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Kennedy Museum of Art, Art Collection, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Rhodes University, Print Collection, Grahamstown, South Africa, to name a few. She has been reviewed in Focus Magazine, Santa Fe, the Los Angeles Times, New Zealand Herald, and she is mentioned in Printmaking in the Sun by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir and The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multi Centered Society by Lucy Lippard. She has had over 500 group and solo exhibitions combined. Yazzie makes prints, sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works. Her work can always be found at the Glenn Green Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

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