STUDIOCLASSES
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winter 2015
Layered Block Printing
Take relief prints to a new level
in this class with Julie Winter.
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Color Theory Workshop
Renowned artist Marie Thibeault leads a
four-day intensive on “Unleashing Color.”
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Tunnel Books
Visiting artist Ann Kresge
teaches this dimensional book form.
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DRAWING & DESIGN
“Razors Edge Cliff”
by Pat Clark
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Large Format Drawing
Sat & Sun, Mar 14-15, 10-1 pm
Suspend your pre-conceptions
of what it means to draw—and
embark on a journey involving
intuition, surrender, control,
spontaneity, trust, focus, and
coordination of hand and eye.
Working in a large format, build
confidence in your ability to make
meaningful marks. Broaden your
drawing skills by utilizing different
tools and techniques. In this
foundational course, process is
more important than outcomes.
Instructor: Ron Schultz
Drawing II
Drawing III
Sess.1: Mon, Jan 19-Feb 16, 10-1 pm
Sess.2: Thu, Jan 22-Feb 19, 5:30-8:30 pm
Thu, April 9-May 7, 5:30-8:30 pm
Build your drawing skills in this
five-week course while expanding
into a variety of media, including
graphite, charcoal, colored pencils
and wet media (watercolor,
acrylic, and soy inks). Explore
specific techniques and media
for different types of drawing.
Follow your drawing interests
(still life, portraits, mindscape,
or landscape). Practice drawing
from observation, and address
composition through the
elements of design. Supply list.
Instructor: Pat Clark
This class gives you the chance
to further engage and develop
your individual voice in drawing.
Follow your drawing interests and
work on independent projects
with instructor guidance in and
outside of class. During class
meetings, Pat Clark will discuss
compositional goals, review media
selection, and discuss ways to
expand drawing into different
printmaking processes. Supply
list.
$84 / $65 Artist Members
$15 supply fee
Cover Art
“Wind Tunnels” by Julie Winter,
a layered multi-block linocut print
with color reduction. Take the class,
“Layered Block Printing” this March!
See page 5 for details.
Instructor: Pat Clark
$250 / $200 Artist Members
$20 supply fee
$210 / $168 Artist Members
$20 supply fee
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COLOR THEORY
Unleashing Color
Sat-Tue, Mar 28-31, 9-5 pm
Visiting artist Marie Thibeault
leads this intensive, four-day
course designed to expand your
understanding of color.
Sharpen your ability to discern
and mix color, and discover how
color can enhance and strengthen
your own creative work.
Art Talk
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“Emanations” by Marie Thibeault
Contemporary Color
Fri, Mar 27, 6-7 pm
On the eve of her workshop, visiting artist
Marie Thiebault discusses the use of
color in contemporary art.
$10 / $5 Artist Member
About the Artist
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Begin with monotype studies
and collages that address
essential color contrasts, with an
emphasis on light, saturation, and
proportion of color relationships.
These studies will become the
springboard for larger works.
Discover how color creates light,
space, focal point and meaning
within your work, and create more
power with color expression.
Some painting or printmaking
experience recommended.
A valuable course for beginning
to professional artists. Enrollment
limited to 14 students. Supply list.
$395 / $316 Artist Members
$50 supply fee
Marie Thibeault is a Professor of Art
at California State University, Long
Beach. She received her BFA in
painting from Rhode Island School
of Design, and an MFA in painting
from the UC Berkeley. Her large
abstract paintings are arenas of
action and utilize symbolic color
as an expressive force. She has an
extensive exhibition record, and is
the recipient of numerous awards.
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PRINTMAKING
Defining the Figure
in Monotype
Sat & Sun, Jan 17-18, 9-4 pm
Degas was the first to use
monotype to explore color and
composition. There is no better
way to learn the elements of
drawing and painting than by
doing monoprints directly from
life. Starting with charcoal
sketches and transitioning into
black and white monotypes, we
will draw and print from a clothed
model. On the second day, we
will refer to photographs of our
models as we continue working
in additive and subtractive
approaches to monotype.
Instructor: Dawn Emerson
$182 / $145 Artist Members
$25 supply fee, $12 model fee
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Fresco Printing
Sat & Sun, Jan 24-25, 9-Noon
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Monotype Study
by Dawn Emerson
Renaissance masters created
frescos by painting on freshlyapplied plaster. As the plaster
cured, the painting became part
of the plaster. This class will
explore methods for printing into
fresh plaster to achieve a “fresco
print.” Once cured, these plaster
prints can accept additional
media, such as digital image
transfers.​
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Kitchen Litho
Sat, Feb 7, 10-3 pm
Developed in Paris by Émilie Aizier,
this new lithography process is
non-toxic and uses inexpensive,
easy-to-find materials. Experiment
with a variety of grease-based
drawing tools and quickly create
several editionable plates.
Instructor: Barbara Hudin
$70 / $56 Artist Members
$20 supply fee
Intro to Mezzotint
Sat & Sun, Feb 14-15, 9-4 pm
Mezzotint was developed in
the 1600s as the first tonal
printmaking process. Mezzotint
produces velvety blacks and subtle
gradations. Visiting artist Leigh
Meeter will demonstrate how to
prepare a plate using a traditional
mezzotint rocker and use scrapers
and burnishers to work reductively
on a pre-rocked plate.
Instructor: Leigh Knowles Meetter
$182 / $145 Artist Members
$45 supply fee
CATCH THE ARTIST TALK>
Leigh Knowles Meetter surveys
contemporary mezzotint artists. See
opposite page for details.
Instructor: Marty Decker
$84 / $65 Artist Members
$15 supply fee
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PRINTMAKING
Intro to Collagraph
Layered Block Printing
Tue & Thu, Feb 23 & 25, 6-8:30 pm
Thu, Mar 5-19, 6-8:30 pm
This introductory class looks
at different collagraph plate
substrates and explores methods
for creating textures, lines, and
marks. Create collage-based
collagraphs by adhering found
materials. Learn relief and intaglio
methods for inking and printing
collagraph plates.
Combine reduction linocut
and multi-block printing in this
experimental class. Learn easy
registration techniques and
strategies for creating depth and
transparency in your prints.
Instructor: Julie Winter
$70 / $56 Artist Members
$20 supply fee
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Working With Akua Kolor
Sat & Sun, Feb 21-22, 9-Noon
Akua Kolor is a thin ink that
comes in a bottle rather than a jar.
It is useful for many applications
of printmaking and painting on
and off the plate. We’ll explore
the properties and possibilities
of using Akua Kolor together with
intaglio ink, and on its own.
Instructor: Dawn Emerson
Instructor: Julie Winter
$105 / $84 Artist Members
$20 supply fee
Found Object Printing
Tue, May 5-26, 9-Noon
Explore the history and dimension
that found objects, words and
images can bring to your work.
Play with these elements as we
create collograph plates, stencils
and chine colle layers for original
prints. Cut-up your prints to create
new collage elements. Push your
prints further. If you love to work
with collage, color, shapes, and
images, this class is for you.
Instructor: Lloyd McMullen
$168 / $134 Artist Members
$25 supply fee
Intro to Mezzotint
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Found Object Printing
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Working with Akua Kolor
Art Talk
Visiting Artist
Leigh Knowles Meetter
Fri, Feb 13, 6-7 pm
On the eve of her Intro to Mezzotint
workshop (see page 4), visiting artist
Leigh Knowles Meetter presents
examples of her work and contemporary
work in the centuries-old technique of
mezzotint.
An experienced printmaker. Leigh’s
etchings, lithographs, paintings and
drawings are in collections all over
the world. Her interests in the figure,
landscape and allegory have produced
works that solicit both quiet introspection
and dynamic revelation.
PRIVATE
INSTRUCTION
A6 offers private instruction in
printmaking, drawing, design and
book arts. Call 541.330.8759.
$90 / $72 Artist Members
$20 supply fee
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LETTERPRESS / BOOKARTS
Letterpress Combinations
Sat & Sun, Feb 28-Mar 1, 9-Noon
Explore the capacity of letterpress
to incorporate different elements
into a finished piece. Gain
experience combining antique
lead type, wood block type, premade photopolymer plates, and
student-carved linocut blocks.
Using A6’s antique clamshell
presses, learn special strategies
for locking up different elements
in the chase, and practice
registration techniques for twocolor prints. Students may reserve
a one-hour afternoon slot to print
with direct instructor supervision,
and will have access to the studio
in the afternoons following the
morning class. Supply list.
Instructor: Clare Carpenter,
Tiger Food Press
$140 / $112 Artist Members
$15 supply fee
Letterpress Open Studio
Every Second Sunday, Noon-4 pm
Experienced printers oversee this
open studio time, so you can build
letterpress skills by assisting on
studio projects or working on your
own projects. Prerequisite: One or
more Letterpress courses.
$20 / Free for Artist Members
Classes
Sponsored by
Deschutes Public Library
Teen Writing Group:
Typewriters and
Bookbinding at A6
A Novel Idea:
Origami Accordion Books
Sat, March 14, 2-4 pm
Inspired by the 2015 “A Novel
Idea”selection, A Tale for the Time
Being, Deschutes Public Library
presents an origami bookmaking
workshop at A6. Create an original
origami book to be displayed
at author Ruth Ozeki’s reading
on April 19, 2015 at Bend High
School. Class size is limited and
registration is required. Call
541-312-1032 or go on-line at
www.deschuteslibrary.org.
Bring your own piece of writing to
type up and bind in a handmade
book in the A6 studio.
Register for this free event at
deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.
Direct questions to April Witteveen,
541.617.7079 or aprilw@
deschutespubliclibrary.org.
Instructor: Julie Winter
Cost: Free
Sat, Apr 18, 9-11:30 am.
Instructor: Linda Piacentini-Yaple
of Piacentini Studios
Cost: Free
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“Models: Some Assembly
Required” Flag Book
by Linda Piacentini-Yaple
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BOOKARTS
Tunnel Books
Flag Books
Sat & Sun, Apr 11-12, 10-3 pm
Thu, Jan 15, 9-12 pm
The flag book is a deceptively
simple structure based on a
concertina (accordion) style
book. Tabs of paper (the “flags”)
extend from the concertina folds
to stretch and move against
one another, adding motion and
satisfying sounds to the mix.
Flag books reveal and conceal
their mysteries, and create a
wonderful interplay between text
and imagery. This class is suitable
for beginning through advanced
artists. Supply list.
Instructor: Linda Piacentini-Yaple
$42 / $34 Artist Members
$5 supply fee
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“Crossing Borders” Tunnel Book
by Ann Kresge
Discover the intriguing,
dimensional form of tunnel
books In this two-day class led by
visiting artist Ann Kresge.
This class begins with an
exploration of the tunnel book
form. Create a painted, layered
landscape book. On the second
day, create a second, more
refined tunnel book using a
theme of your choosing. Use
painted, collaged or printed
pages to create interesting layers
within the tunnel.
Instructor: Ann Kresge
$140 / $112 Artist Members
$5 supply fee
ON EVERY CLASS
Art Talk
Visiting Artist Ann Kresge
Fri, Apr 10, 6-7 pm
Visiting artist Ann Kresge will show
sample tunnel book formats and share
examples of her work as well as work
from her artists’ books collection. Ann
will also present slides from the National
Museum of Women’s landmark show,
“Book As Art.”
Book Makers Open Studio
Every Second Sunday, Noon-4 pm
Join fellow book makers every
second Sunday for an afternoon
of productive, independent work
time and idea sharing.
$10 / Free for Artist Members
Become an A6 Artist Member!
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FORKIDS
ABOUT
TUMBLEWEED PRESS
tumbleweed press: spring break
Kitchen Litho
Solar Printing
Mon-Wed, Mar 23-25, 9-Noon
Grades 6-12
Mon-Wed, Mar 23-25, 1-4 pm
Grades 6-12
This class is for kids who like to
draw! Lithography (or “litho”) is
one of the most accurate ways
to reproduce a detailed drawing
or quick sketch into an original
edition of prints. Traditional
lithography used heavy limestones
and toxic materials, and required
complicated, time-consuming
steps. Kitchen Litho is an exciting
break-through—it’s quick, nontoxic, and uses inexpensive
materials found in most kitchens.
We’ll explore the science and
history of lithography, then
experiment with a variety of
grease-based drawing tools to
create different kinds of drawings.
Create several plates and use our
hand-operated press to print an
edition to save or share.
Turn your digital photos and
collages into artistic prints by
“etching” them into light-sensitive
solar plates. We’ll discuss the
science of solar plates and how
contemporary artists use this
medium to make original work.
Play with combining and collaging
negatives and transparencies to
create an interesting image. Learn
how to ink and wipe solar plates
by hand, and pull prints with our
hand-operated etching press.
Create a small edition to save or
share.
Instructor: Marty Decker
$140
Instructor: Julie Winter
$150
Tumbleweed Press is our new
arts education program for
middle school and high school
students. Tumbleweed Press
offers printmaking and book
arts classes at A6 during school
breaks. Tumbleweed Press
also develops class projects
designed to expand students’
understanding of science, math,
history and language arts through
tailored projects in printmaking
and book arts.
Kids explore new artistic
processes in our professional,
“green” studio facility and enjoy
access to several hand-operated
printing presses and other
specialized studio equipment.
Learn more about Tumbleweed
Press: visit atelier6000.org/
arts-education.
library program
Teen Writing Group:
Typewriters and
Bookbinding at A6
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FORTEACHERS
Integrating Print Arts
into Science
Integrating Print
& Book Arts into Writing
For Science and Art Teachers
in Grades 6-12
For Language Arts and
Art Teachers in Grades 6-12
Sat, Mar 7, 10-4 pm
Sun, Mar 8, 10-4 pm
Increase classroom engagement
and deepen your students’
understanding of core science
standards through art-based
learning. A6 art educators will
introduce you to three printmaking
processes—solar printing,
cyanotypes, and collagraph—that
are effective and creative tools
for exploring a variety of scientific
concepts.
Foster deeper engagement and
work quality by injecting an artistic
component into student writing
projects. A6 art educators will
introduce you to three options
for elevating your students’
creative expression—image
transfer, linocut, and leporello
book binding. Used separately
or combined in a single project,
these processes encourage
thoughtful consideration of
word choice, narrative or poetic
structure, scene setting, and
character development.
February 2015
“The Typewriter Returns”
We’ll provide several examples of
how you can integrate print and
book arts with writing projects.
We’ll also introduce you to A6’s
Tumbleweed Press program. We’ll
finish with group discussion and
idea sharing.
A free field trip opportunity!
Students view contemporary
prints of antique typewriters,
learn about two printmaking
processes, and engage in a
creative writing exercise on our
antique typewriters.
Thirty-minute lunch break. Coffee
and baked goods provided at
9:30 am.
September-October 2015
Instructors: Julie Winter,
Carolyn Platt
“Edward Curtis:
Shadow Catcher”
$135
This blockbuster exhibit features
more than 50 original photo
prints by Edward Curtis, the
famed photographer who
documented Native American
tribes in the early 1900s. Studio
project included. $5 per student.
Please schedule prior to June 1.
These printmaking processes
naturally accept collage, found
objects, photographs and digital
imagery—guaranteeing that even
the kids in your class who “can’t
draw” can still engage in the
creative process.
We’ll provide several examples of
how you can integrate printmaking
into your lesson plans. We’ll also
introduce you to A6’s Tumbleweed
Press program. We’ll finish
with group discussion and idea
sharing.
Thirty-minute lunch break. Coffee
and baked goods provided at
9:30 am.
Instructors: Julie Winter,
Paula Bullwinkel
$135
call to register: 541.330.8759
STUDENTS TO A6:
PLAN YOUR VISIT NOW!
Bring your class to A6 for these
two educational exhibits in 2015.
Call 541.330.8759 to schedule
your class visits now.
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FORARTISTS
JUST FOR
MEMBERS
Monthly Critique
Every Second Tuesday, 6-8 pm
A6 offers free monthly critique
sessions for Artist Members.
Critiques are designed to foster
artistic growth, clarify direction,
and test ideas. Essential for
any Artist Member interested in
exhibiting at A6.
Advanced registration required.
Maximum of three artists per
session.
Open Dialogue
Become an A6 Artist Member
Just $80/month. Call 541.330.8759.
Sun, Jan 11, 9 am & 10 am
Sun, Feb 8, 9 am & 10 am
Sun, Mar 8, 9 am & 10 am
Sun, Apr 12, 9 am
WORKING
Calls to
Enjoy demonstrations and
discussions on a wide variety of
artistic topics. Join us for Working
Questions every fourth Tuesday
from 6-8 pm.
“Myths and Legends”
International Biennial
Artist Books Exhibit
$10 / Free for Artist Members
Go to A6.submittable.com
to enter and view current calls to
artists.
QUESTIONS
ARTISTS
Entries due February 23, 2015
Sun, May 10, 9 am & 10 am
Hungry for some feedback, or a
way to get “unstuck?” Bring in
a few pieces of work and have
an hour-long open dialogue with
Pat Clark about your process,
direction, and other artistic
concerns. An excellent way
for Artist Members to prepare
for a group critique. Advanced
registration required.
$20 for a 1 hour session
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UPCOMINGEXHIBITS
february 6-28
“The Typewriter Returns!”
Typewriters rule in this exhibit
featuring contemporary
mezzotints from New York artist
Carol Wax and monoprints from
Ben Rosenberg of Astoria. Add
to our exhibit by typing six-word
stories on antique typewriters in
the gallery.
Free Field Trip Opportunity!
A6 invites Central Oregon schools
to visit “The Typewriter Returns!”
exhibit and hear a special
presentation about the art and
artists, and type six word stories
on our antique typewriters as a
creative writing exercise.
Free; suitable for all grades.
Call 541.330.8759 to schedule
a class visit.
“Inside Scoop”
mezzotint by Carol Wax
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MARCH 6-29
APRIL 3-26
May 1-31
Solo Exhibit: A6 Member
Barbara Hudin
“Myths & Legends”
International Biennial
Artist Books Exhibit
“Clark at 80”
Retrospective of A6
Founder Patricia Clark
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A PLACE FOR ARTISTS.
Connect with a community of active artists. Enjoy the camaraderie of a
working studio. Expand your technical skills and creative thinking. Explore
the varied, ever-evolving world of printmaking and book arts in a top-notch
print studio and gallery, and discover exciting ways these art forms connect
with painting, drawing, sculpture and writing.
Fuel your artistic growth.
A6 Artist Members enjoy open studio times, 20% off all classes, free
demos and discussions, critiques, and exclusive exhibit opportunities.
A6 promotes Artist Members online, in the gallery, and during First Friday.
Call 541.330.8759 or visit atelier6000.org/join.
Become an A6 Artist Member Just $80/month*
$25 Studio Orientation required for new members. Members must be a current Friend of A6 ($40 annual tax-deductible donation).
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