Course Description:
This intensive, exciting workshop will awaken the possibilities of the woodcut printing process for the beginning and advanced printmaker. This approach is not technically tradition-bound...but inventive, with contemporary, creative methods, that can be spontaneous, simple and direct. This expressive medium will be introduced and explored through demonstrations and discussions of cutting techniques, oil-base ink and waterbase inks, and printing by hand as well as using the press. Participants will go from designing their images and cutting blocks, to printing several projects using a variety of methods and individual discoveries.
Biography:
Karen Kunc is Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her awards include Fulbright Scholar Awards to Finland and Bangladesh, two National Endowment for the Arts awards, the 2007 SGCI Printmaker Emeritus Award, a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Master Award, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. She has exhibited her color woodcut prints and artist books extensively nationally and internationally, most recently in Chamalieres, France, and Tokyo, Japan. Her work is in public collections including: the Museum of Modern Art; the Library of Congress; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Sheldon Museum of Art; American Art Museum Smithsonian; Haas Arts Library Yale University; Stanford University; Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland. She has taught workshops in Egypt, Italy, Finland, Poland, Japan, France, Mexico, Iceland; and she has lectured as a visiting artist to over 200 institutions. In 2014 she opened Constellation Studios as a creative work-site for print, paper, and book, inviting artists for residencies, workshops, collaborations, exhibitions.
