I try to take one workshop every year, but it did not happen in 2019 because I was saving it up to take a workshop with
Joyce Silverstone at
North Country Studio Workshops. NCSW offers about a dozen different workshops, all in the same week, every
other year, using the fabulous facilities at
Bennington College. Bennington in the winter is not exactly a vacation destination, so you get to focus on studio work and commune with artists in all media from all over the place for a solid five days. It is a beautiful place to be in the winter: peaceful, with gorgeous views and no distractions from the art. Joyce is on the faculty at
Zea Mays Printmaking in Northampton, MA.
Here are a few photos from my experience at this workshop:
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Putting together a few of my black and white prints |
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Amy carving a test plate |
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The beehive of a studio |
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Another student's work up on the wall |
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Black and white work of several students |
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One of my assembled pieces, as hypothesis |
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Another of my hypothetical assemblages |
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Ditto the above |
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And another. This is SO FUN to put pieces of prints together in different ways, and then photo graph them. I did actually put one together more or less permanently. |
Here are some more (and better) photos on
North Country's Instagram feed. Enjoy!