Where is the Workshop?
Kenai Peninsula College Kachemak Bay Campus Printmaking Studios
When is the workshop?
Saturday, March 21, 1:00-4:00 PM
Who are the instructors?
Rosemarie Gleiser is a Latin American interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. You can see her print work here. View her web site.
Sharlene Cline is a Homer multidisciplinary artist whose work spans installation art and mixed media. View her web site.
How do I register?
Visit: kpc.alaska.edu/communitycourses or Call 907-235-1674
Workshop fee: $60 per person. Limited to 12 participants.
Tell me more about the workshop
Transform salvaged materials into tactile, velvety art using flocking techniques and printmaking. In partnership with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, this 3-hour hands-on workshop addresses climate change and pollution through creative reuse, turning discarded objects into dimensional textile art.
What you’ll learn: Stencil printing with flock for bold, raised designs. Texture relief printing using reclaimed materials and plasticine (printed onto custom notebooks). Spontaneous monoprinting with selective flock accents.
What You’ll Go Home With: All techniques work on paper, fabric, and mixed surfaces. After this work-shop you can take home a completed notebook plus samples you can use to texturize future projects like cards, t-shirts, patches, tote bags.
Sustainable Practice: Beyond commercial flocking powder, we’ll create our own flocking materials by mincing and shredding found plastics and other reclaimed objects – literally transforming pollution into art material. This hands-on approach demonstrates creative solutions to waste while producing unique textural effects.
Materials Provided: Commercial flocking powder plus DIY flocking created from minced recycled materials. Glue and medium. Inks: Water-based fabric inks (suitable for paper and fabric surfaces). Printing tools: Brayers, rollers, printing plates. Notebooks for printing, plus paper and fabric samples. Upcycled textured plastics, cardboard, corrugated packaging, bubble wrap, and other reclaimed objects with printmaking potential, stencil-cutting materials, tools for shredding and mincing materials.
What to Bring: Wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy. Optional: any interesting textured objects or clean plastic waste from home (bags, packaging, bottles, tea leaves, sawdust, eraser dirt, pencil sharpening, etc) to add to our shared material library and transform into flocking material.
Visit: kpc.alaska.edu/communitycourses or Call 907-235-1674
“The Climate Artists Collective is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.”
“The University of Alaska is an equal opportunity/equal access employer and educational institution. The University is committed to a policy of non-discrimination against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.”
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