ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Workshops in relief printmaking, intaglio, collagraph, monotype, monoprint and book arts are offered at all levels as artist residencies in museum, arts organizations, and university settings.

RELIEF PRINTMAKING
All levels. Create block prints using gouges to carve a soft-kut block, or scissors to cut a flexible linoleum-like material. Upper level students can produce block prints from linoleum or wood. Hand burnishing or blind embossing using a press.

COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKING
All levels. Variously textured materials are cut with scissors or x-acto knives and adhered to a mat board surface. Relief, intaglio or blind embossed printing with a press.

MONOTYPE PRINTMAKING
All levels. A variety of painterly techniques are employed to create images on a plastic surface which is then printed. Use of stencils and found materials may be incorporated to enhance printing effects. Combining a relief or intaglio image with a painterly print will result in a monoprint.

INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING
Upper levels. The use of tools or acids to incise images into metal plates. Requires adequate ventilation, use of a press. May be adapted to dry point etching (drawing onto a plate), using water-based intaglio inks.

BOOK ARTS
Creating a simple book form using original prints and creative writing.

As an approved teaching artist on the rosters of the Tennessee Arts Commission and Allied Arts of Chattanooga, professional development workshops and K-12 residencies are also available.

For K-12 Teacher In-Service and Professional Development: Regional Kennedy Center Workshop: You Can Tell A Book By Its Cover: Combining Writing, Drawing, and Bookmaking

K-12 student residencies are characterized by the following:

• teaching art as a means of learning across the curriculum;
• engaging multiple intelligences in arts-based learning;
• developing connections across the curriculum by fully involving and investing the teachers requesting the residency;
• communicating a sensitivity and interest in cross-cultural influences as a result of extensive travels and Peace Corps experience.

All residencies meet the National Fine Arts Standards as well as curricular needs, and are adapted to grade and skill level.

Pre-planning sessions will identify teachers’ content focus and determine appropriate imagery or topics. A post-residency session to discuss possibilities and ideas to continue skills acquired in the residency is helpful.

Hamilton County schools may arrange for an exhibit of student work in the Landis Gallery at the Association for Visual Art.

PRINTMAKING
Students will create several copies of an original block print, one of which they will keep, along with the block they have carved. Artist will supply the tools necessary to cut and print blocks created by students, while the school is responsible for all other supplies. Water-based pigments are recommended for all residencies.

CALLIGRAPHY
Students receive basic instruction in the technique of holding a calligraphy pen correctly in order to produce the characteristic thick and thin strokes typical of ‘beautiful writing’. Emphasis is on original art, seeing calligraphy as a necessity prior to the printing press, and as a luxury in the age of computers.

WRITING, PRINTMAKING, BOOKMAKING
Students will respond to the curriculum by reflecting on how their personal experience puts learning into context. Creative writing and illustrating with original block prints will culminate in the creation of a simple book form.

Residencies are generally five one-hour classes. The Writing, Printmaking, Bookmaking residency requires up to three weeks (not necessarily consecutive) to have adequate time for each component.

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