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Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, PRINTCAMP2020 was canceled

We'll come back new and strong as soon as possible. 

 

 

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Printmakers Open Forum PrintCamp2020

 

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PrintCamp2019 


A great blog by Liz Castaldo on PrintCamp2019


Printmakers Open Forum summer 2019

 Shop and tents PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

Crews PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum  

 

Participants at PrintCamp2019 

(See 2019 participants websites here) 

 

Amanda Heidt PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

Amanda Kralovic PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum  

Angela Victor PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum 

 

Six TESTIMONIALS about PrintCamp2019 Session 2/2 PDF 

 

PrintCamp was an intense nine days of printmaking that expanded the boundaries of my work. It offered a rare chance to live and work alongside a group of professional printmakers in an extraordinary shop. From the SkillSwap to Shelley’s demos to informal experimentation, PrintCamp offered a forum that fostered true community and technical experimentation. If I imagined an ideal residency, it would be one with wonderful facilities where printmakers exchange ideas informally, critique work and get to know each other really well – this was PrintCamp. Especially important was the ability to work in multi print media/ move between print media. Shelley’s demos and tips often added ways to work more fluidly between media or solved problms I often encounter in the studio. The camping aspect meant more time in the studio plus more choices to get to know each other which led to sharing ideas. Wonderful!

Emily Orzech

 for PrintCamp2020 Application click here 

 Christina Rose PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

 

 Claudia Fieo PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

 Emily Orzech PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

 

Jo Yetter PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum  

Want more about camping and living at PrintCamp? (don't bring towels or tents!) 

Look here

and here for much more

 

Kristin Sarette PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

 

Six more TESTIMONIALS about PrintCamp2019 from Session 1/2 

 

PrintCamp was amazing! PMOF truly carries out its mission. Nothing beats having the opportunity to camp in a beautiful tent and walk to a studio that is open to traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques and experimentation is encouraged! Shelley and Dale have created a cooperative and collaborative space that allows for artist all over to meet/network to create and new collective. Thank you for a beautiful time! This space is truly a sanctuary! Thank you for all your time, energy and help.

Amanda Heidt

 

 

Liz Castaldo PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum 

Nicole Geary PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum 

 Sue Carrie Drummond PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

 

Pics of PrintCamp2019

 

 

PrintCamp at night PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum  

 

Want more about camping and living at PrintCamp? (don't bring towels or tents!)

  Look here

and here for much more 

 

Tents PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

 

 Dusk at PrintCamp PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

Shop environs and Allison Rosh PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum  

  PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum curators Tru Ludwig Ann Shafer Kathrine Pag

 

Pics of the shop interior here

 

 Shop and Shelley Thorstensen research PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum

Shop kitchen and house dining room PrintCamp2019 Printmakers Open Forum  

PrintCamp2019 Kristin Sarette helps make tshirts and comes from all over  

 

 APPLICATIONS for PrintCamp2020 (to be held the start of June 2020) will be out December 15th

 Please join the mailing list here to receive an application 

 

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PRINTCAMP2018  

 Short videos of #PrintCamp2018 on Printmakers Open Forum youtube channel here 

A tour of the shop and camping during #PrintCamp here 

   What is the shop like? Facilities pics here!     

Printmakers Open Forum PrintCamp Printmaking workshops

pictured above  L to R: Heather Simonsmeier, Jane Kim, Jenn Manzella #PrintCamp2018

 

Printmakers Open Forum PrintCamp Printmaking workshops

 pictured above: intaglio demo proofs, Shelley Thorstensen

 

PrintCamp2018 Printmakers Open Forum

pictured above: L to R Michael Ezzell, Shelley Thorstensen, Sarah McDermott, Heather Simonsmeier #PrintCamp2018

 

Camping at Printmakers Open Forum Printmaking Workshop PrintCamp

camping at #PrintCamp with marshmallows to roast

 

 Printmakers Open Forum PrintCamp Printmaking workshops

pictured above L to R: Workspaces, Ann Piper and Katie Baldwin, Heather Simonsmeier, John Caperton (critic) with Carey Good #PrintCamp2018

 

 Printmakers Open Forum PrintCamp Printmaking workshops multiprint media

pictured above L to R: Litho materials - color, digital, polyester plate and stone graining       

            

     Printmakers Open Forum Printmaking Workshop PrintCamp

  pictured above L to R: Michael Ezzell and Carey Good, the garden and shop, Ann Piper, Dale Baggerley and Michael Ezzell breakfast 

 

Printmakers Open Forum PrintCamp Printmaking workshops

 pictured L to R: Katie Baldwin and John Caperton (critic), PMOF evenings,

Dale Baggerley, Sarah McDermott, Heather Simonsmeier, Katie Baldwin, Jenn Manzella, Jane Kim



 Printmaking Workshop Printmakers Open Forum resources ink and drying racks

materials, resources and drying racks

 

 

 About #PrintCamp2019

 

Informal Saturday critics are Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig. They look at work and stay for dinner. 

Shop Assistant is Katie VanVliet 

 Read more here

Ann Shafer Tru Ludwig PrintCamp2019

 

                                        Ann Shafer                                                                                                                 Tru Ludwig                                                                                          

     

#PrintCamp2019 All Print Media Workshop Summer 2019 is a hybrid residency/workshop for serious established artists and printmakers who want to expand their practice.  The intent is to create a coherent, hard- working/learning printmaking community under the direction of Shelley Thorstensen.

  

Six participants are chosen through application. Applicants are asked for a proposal in part so that the workshop is weighted evenly in terms of media – and one area is not used or neglected more than another. This will ensure the best use of the shop and materials.

  

In the mornings, Shelley Thorstensen will begin the workshop with a series of demonstrations and ideas on printing, intaglio, lithography and silkscreen combinations - stencils, a la poupeé, chine collé, viscosity, multiple plates, relief, collage, and digital media.  


Possible topics that could come up are how to seamlessly incorporate handwork such as drypoint and mezzotint on various substrates, editioned monoprint, paper and polyester photo litho, hand-worked and photo based collagraphs, photocopy transfer, handmade rubber stamp patterning for chine colle, registration systems that are best suited to individual needs, considerations for content, scale, series, multiplicity, format, paper choice, and available matrices.

  

Participants can work in one or more of these mediums, in combination or separately: Etching on copper, drypoint on plexiglass, stone/plate/photo/prontoplate lithography, silkscreen,wood/lino cut, plaster prints, monoprints, gelatin prints.

 
All participants will camp on the grounds next to the house and the 2000 square foot print shop. Camping makes the workshop less expensive than staying in motels, creates an all day experience and promotes a strong printmaking community. This is not a wilderness adventure! The property is a secluded acre on the edge of Oxford. There are showers, and bathrooms, the kitchen is open, there’s password protected wifi and we’re less than ten minutes walking distance to downtown. PMOF will supply the tents and the air mattresses.

 

Want or need to bring someone with you? Please email - it can probably be arranged! (but no pets, please) 



Camping:

PMOF supplies the tents and air mattresses. There is shower for use, a refrigerator and a second bathroom in the shop.  Use of the kitchen in the house is available to everyone.  

 

Transportation:

Printmakers Open Forum is located at 120 West Lancaster Pike, Oxford PA USA 19363, one hour west of Philadelphia in rural southern Chester County. 

If you do not have a car, we can arrange to pick you up from Philadelphia, Baltimore or Newark DE. The town of Oxford, with restaurants and shops, is a mile walk or a quick drive.

 

Particulars:

The printshop is open after hours on a buddy system basis. There will a PRINTCAMP monitor to oversee after hour work in the shop.  Drugs and alcohol are not allowed at the camp and all participants are expected to act responsibly.

 

Skill Share: 

At the start of the workshop, we ask you to share something print-related that you know with us – demo or images/powerpoint.

 

Critique Opportunity:

Toward the end of the workshop, we will have a guest critic here for a casual conversation about your work and direction over dinner. Critics for #PrintCamp2019 will be Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig. Read more here

 

Goals:

We are aiming to create community that organically continues beyond the time frame of PRINTCAMP.

 

Cost:

The cost of the workshop is $500 plus $80 lab fee. Camping onsite defrays workshop expenses by eliminating lodging costs and creates a coherent, hard- working/learning community. 

 

All Print Media:

You can work in one or more of these mediums, in combination or separately: Etching on copper, drypoint on plexiglass, stone/plate/photo/prontoplate lithography, silkscreen, wood/lino cut, plaster prints, monoprints, gelatin prints. You are asked for a proposal in part so that the workshop is weighted evenly in terms of media – and one area is not used or neglected more than another. This will ensure the best use of the shop and materials.

 

Application:

 

Last day for applications is midnight, Thursday March 15th.  Notifications will be sent within two weeks.  Confirmation of your acceptance is needed within a week of notification, otherwise your space cannot be held.  A $200 deposit is due one week after notification to insure your inclusion in the workshop. This deposit is not refundable.

 

More information:

  

For questions please go to www.printmakersopenforum.org/contact

 

Please note:

Printmakers Open Forum LLC does not apply for or receive any outside grant funding. This workshop strives to be affordable as a concrete way to pay good fortune forward.

 

Shelley Thorstensen, Director

Printmakers Open Forum LLC 

 

 

Printmakers Open Forum Print Camp 2018 pictured above L to R back row Katie Baldwin, Sarah McDermott, Carey Good, Michael Ezzell, Heather Simonsmeier, Jane Kim

front: L to R front Ann Piper, Jenn Manzella 



 #PrintCamp2018 Testimonials here! (there are more, here's a few...) 

  

Printmakers Open Forum LLC, (PMOF) the Home for Wayward Print Girls and Boys, is:

 

- a free form, shared, non hierarchical amalgam of printmakers

that believe information, technologies, ideas should be accessed in open-source fashion.

 

- a working studio utilizing all printmaking techniques:

screenprint, intaglio, lithography, relief and digital modalities.

 

PMOF focuses on continuing education for the working artist, artistic transcendence,

technical proficiency and an innovative future.

 

We are grateful to those who came before us,

to those who spent their lives immersed in and entranced by this endeavor.

 

PMOF strives to be a conduit of continuing education for the working artist.

 

 

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PAST WORKSHOPS 

 

 All Print Media Printmakers Open Forum


 tests PMOF

 

Carey Karly Allison Printmakers Open Forum

 

Allison Rosh and Carey Good

Allison Rosh and Carey Good, Summer 2016 All Print Media at PMOF

 

 PMOF out on the town

2016 - an evening out for all 

 

"I gained an incredible amount of print knowledge in only a week and enjoyed every minute of it!

Printmakers Open Forum is its own creative epicenter with a peaceful countryside backdrop. 

This week was a full of productive and positive energy - it rejuvinated my printmaker spirit!" 

Alicia Taylor, Summer 2014



All Print Media Workshop Experience:

 This is a true Atelier experience with the entire shop at the participant’s disposal.

 

Participants can choose to work separately or in combination with various techniques such as etching, aquatint,

spit bite, collograph, silk collograph, monoprint, gelatin monoprinting, plaster printing, relief woodcut and linocut,

plate, stone, pronto and photo lithography or all types of silkscreen.

 

In addition, you are free to include ways to seamlessly incorporate color and printing,stencils, a la poupee, chine colle,

viscosity, multiple plates, and relief.

 

Shelley will work with you to explore, expand and deepen your practice. Have no fear; this class will help you successfully mobilize your vision.

 

The shop is air conditioned and with full ventilation and a seperate processing room with powerful venting.

 

 

Shelley Thorstensen is the director of Printmakers Open Forum. 

Shelley has exhibited her work around the world   

and taught at numerous art colleges in the US for the last 30 years as a professional artist/printmaker.

  See her portfolio, learn more about her career and contributions here: shelleythorstensen.com

Her work can be seen at Dolan/Maxwell



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All Print Media PMOF Summer 2016

Mezzotint Printmaking

Two limited/partial Scholarships available  -  please email here for information Summer 2017

 

View shop photos here 

Printmakers Open Forum Press Room

The shop is a beauty with 24 hour access. Class runs from 9 - 4pm

 

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 Summer 2016 Workshops taught by Shelley Thorstensen

 All Print Media Workshop at Printmakers Open Forum

 June 5 – 10, 2016

This workshop is now full. Please join the mailing/wait list for future workshops, please join our mailing list here

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 Motivational Intaglio at Women's Studio Workshop

July 11 - 15, 2016

This workshop is now full. Please join the mailing/wait list for future workshops, please email here

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Expedition Abroad: Ireland Field Study at The Ballinglen Foundation

July 23 – 31, 2016

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Presto Intaglio Intensive at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CT) 

August 20 and 21, 2016



 

Past Workshops:

Gelatin Printing:

Teaching Artist Workshop for the Bartol Foundation  Terri Saulin Gelatin Printing



Past Workshops - Print The Midnight Sun: Printmaking in Finland, Solstice 2014 here

 

 Print The Midnight Sun Printmakers Open Forum


Marguax McAllister Doug Bosley group PMOF Finland

 

Finland water scenic

Print The Midnight Sun: Printmaking in Finland, Solstice 2014


Past Week and Weekend Workshops at PMOFhere

 



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Atelier Intensive workshop

Workshop participants Leokadia Stanik sketching the flower garden, Stefan Bossmann working outside, Steve Ford and Katie VanVliet working on silkscreen

 

Printmakers Open Forum Workshop Susan Altman Dawn Simmons

Workshop participants Susan Altman, Etching with Batteries with Dawn Simmons

 

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Activities

 

PMOF Press room

The press room - full list of facitlites here 
Memorial Day Weekend Grand Opening 2014
Printmakers Open Forum
Visitors on the Memorial Day Weekend Grand Opening 2014 - on the left
Jenn McTague and Zach Lindenberger of Second State Press, Philadelphia
a young visitor screenprints on the right

Jon Irving, Jess Solitrin
On the left, Jon Irving printing Tshirts Memorial Day weekend Grand Opening
                                                                                                               On the right, LOGO designer Jess Solitrin                                                                                           

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Fall 2014

 Print City Detroit

PANEL: Beyond the Institution: Creating an Independent Creative Life Without Academia

PMOF speaks! Talk entitled "Live Like Dogs are Chasing You"

Friday, September 25, McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Wayne State University

 

Summer 2014

 Print the Midnight Sun Printmakers Open Forum Solstice 2014 in Raahe Finland

Print The Midnight Sun:

Printmaking in Finland / Solstice 2014 (June 21 - June 28)

 

 

Spring 2014

 

Printmakers Open Forum Memorial Day Open Studio 2014

join us Memorial Day weekend!
The weekend's activities: 10am - 6pm each day:
Free Stuff!
Tote Bags and flyers plus
Printmakers Open Forum Opening
Silkscreening logo patches and stickers each day
(bring a tshirt and we'll be happy to oblige!)

PMOF


Jon Irving
Printing Saturday - Jon Irving
above: Jon Irving "lately ive been spilling milk everywhere"


Marguaux McAllister
Printing Sunday - Margaux McAllister
above: Margaux McAllister "Study for Repose"

Gillian Pokalo
Printing Monday - Gillian Pokalo 
above: Gillian Pokalo "Industrial Landscape"
Tours of the shop all day

Special event:
Playing on screen in the shop,
*Stanley William Hayter's short film on "A New Way of Gravure" 
a 1950 rare classic (*the patron saint of PMOF)
produced by Jess Paley with thanks to Edward Paley, narrated by SW Hayter
SW Hayter film New Ways of Gravure
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Lodging click here
Printmakers Open Forum driveway
Parking: on either side of 472/Lancaster Pike are Park and Ride lots -
four houses from PMOF
Parking for Printmakers Open Forum

(There will be signs by Gaux Folie!)
map and driving directions here

 

 

 

Print the Midnight Sun Printmakers Open Forum Solstice 2014 in Raahe Finland

Print The Midnight Sun:

Printmaking in Finland / Solstice 2014 (June 21 - June 28)

 



Visting Artist, SUNY New Paltz NY

University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA, mulitdisciplinary lecture series 

          

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Fall 2013

 

Visting Artist, Kansas State University Fall 2013

 

 Part and Parcel by Shelley Thorstensen an expanded view of On Any Given Day

I'm very pleased to announce my exhibit at Second State Press in Philadelphia,

Part and Parcel. I've put up the proofs for making my latest print, On Any Given Day.

below is the show card and a few early installation views

Part and Parcel by Shelley Thorstensen an expanded view of On Any Given Day

Part and Parcel by Shelley Thorstensen an expanded view of On Any Given Day

Second State Press is at 1400 North American Street, B103 Philadelphia PA 19122

Reception: Thursday October 10, 6 - 9pm

Show dates: October 5 - November 8 2013

 click here for my statement for the show, The Practice of Remembering

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Other News

Shelley Thorstensen Print Revolution Ronald L Ruble U of Southern Illinois

 honored to be included in

Print Revolution, The Ronald L Ruble Collection exhibition

The Palmina F and Steven S Pace Galleries

University of Southern Indiana July 15 - September 7 2013

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DRAW 13 Guest Artist

Shelley Thorstensen, Printmakers Open Forum, Society of Graphic Artists DRAW 13

Society of Graphic Fine Art

92nd Annual Exhibiton, Menier Gallery 51 Southwalk Street London SEI 1RU

 September 30 - October 12 2013

(shown: Sail of the Confluence, etching collage and guache 10 x 7")

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   Visiting Artist

Kansas State University, Manhattan KS

October 20 - 23 2013

Shelley Thorstensen Kansas State University Visiting Artist Fall 2013

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 Spring/Summer 2013

 

Color into Print with Shelley Thorstensen and Women's Studio Workshop

Getting ready! Color into Print at Antica Tenuta le Casacce just outside of Seggianno, Tuscany!

Color into Print with Shelley Thorstensen and Women's Studio Workshop

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Printmakers Open Forum 

the shop is close to complete! 

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 Printmakers Open Forum up and running!

 

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Shelley Thorstensen, Society of American Graphic Artists, the SAGA continues

Society of American Graphic Artists

 

As the current president of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) I am ushering in our 2nd century in 2015. 

We've just had a very successful 80th Members Exhibit at the DeLind Gallery in Milwaukee during the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Conference the end of March.

The SAGA Council has a show up now at Galerie RECOLTE in Fukuoka Japan, entitled Across the Waters with a catalog on its way.

We've just finished producing both a catalog for our 79th Members Exhibition at The Old Print Shop in New York and a new "SAGAzine" downloadable here. Features include an interview of Richie Lasansky by Michelle Wilson and an article by Ralph Slatton entitled Dissent in Printmaking.

 

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Recent Exhibitions: (2013 Exhibitions, click here)

 

Since the River Spoke

Rose Lehrman Gallery / Harrisburg Area Community College 

Wednesday, Feb. 27 through Wednesday, April 3, 2013

 

Shelley Thorstensen Since the River Spoke Rose Lehrman Gallery

 

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Under Pressure 

Susquehanna University / Lore Degenstein Gallery

January 26th - March 1st, 2013

Opening Reception: Saturday January 26th, 7 - 9pm

 Shelley Thorstensen, Under Pressure, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna U

 

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 Juxtapostions

Spencer Hill Gallery / Corning NY

January 19th - February 16th

Opening Reception: Saturday January 19th, 3 - 5pm

 

Shelley Thorstensen prints

Shelley Thorstensen work in progress - Mezzotint, Etching



 

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Fall/Winter 2013

Color into Print / Shelley Thorstensen

July 9 – 18, 2013 

Women's Studio Workshop Summer Arts Institute

Picture the color of Tuscany. Changing hues from dawn to dusk. Rolling landscapes of yellow ochre and verde fields accented by vermillion, poppy, terra-cotta. Siena and umber earth. White-washed medieval architecture surrounded by century-old olive groves. Sepia pasta with porcini fired over the grill, that golden oil which is at times lime or pure molten ore. Picture ripening vineyards below endless azure skies. Picture timeless beauty.

Immerse your senses in the colors of Tuscany with printmaker and teacher Shelley Thorstensen in the nine day workshop, Color into Print, offered by Women’s Studio Workshop during the summer of 2013 held at Antica Tenuta Le Casacce (Residenzia Montale), Tuscany.    

Color into Print Shelley Thorstensen Tuscany Summer 2013

  Explore, expand and deepen your vision, inspired by how the Tuscan palette resonates uniquely with you.

 Color into Print Shelley Thorstensen Tuscany Summer 2013



Color into Print with Shelley Thorstensen and Women's Studio Workshop

 

Color into Print is designed to activate and accelerate your interpretation of color. It will generate momentum in your entire art-making practice. The focus is on color monoprint, drypoint, collograph, and simple polyester plate lithography, each printed in concert of the full complement of color options including layered surfaces, chine colle, and viscosity printing. This is precise yet juicy printmaking tailored to the needs of each participant. This is a low-stress, high reward workshop.  Leave with a record of your color journey in Tuscany.

Our Italian Workshop coordinator, Susan Fateh has selected this exquisite new site because it features breathtaking views whichever way you look,  ample and well lit indoor work-space opening out onto a private terrace, pleasant, charming bedrooms, and  sublime food prepared by a top Roman chef.

This panoramic location about 3 km from the medieval village of Seggiano. The villa is an ideal place for experiencing fine Italian cuisine in an evocatively authentic setting. Students may opt for private rooms or double occupancy and significant others and/or friends are welcome at a 20% discount.

Dating back to the 13th C, the villa's recent renovations have rendered it comfortable without losing traditional character. All aspects of the workshop will be held in the original farmhouse on the estate that has its own pool. The farmhouse will be completely devoted to Women’s Studio Workshop participants – which can be men and women. The charming village of Seggiano is off the main tourist routes and maintains its traditional Tuscan charm and unspoiled countryside. Students may opt for private rooms or double occupancy. Partners and/or friends are welcome at a 20% discount.

On a typical day, the class will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. After a leisurely lunch break you can take a siesta, a swim in their lovely pool or go back to the studio for some quiet work time. Instruction will resume for another 2 hours before the evening meal. The studio itself can be used around the clock.  

                              Included in tuition:

                               -       most materials (paper, inks and plates)

                               -       housing

                              -       full board of 3 meals a day, including abundant vegetarian fare (extra charge for very particular dietary requests)

                              -       a day trip to nearby Siena

                              -       group transportation to and from Rome’s Fumicino airport will be provided 

                              Prices are $4100 for a single, $3700 double

                              Registration deadline February 28, 2013

 

Shelley Thorstensen has expertise in all printmaking techniques. She is a fount of technical knowledge when it comes to color. Her work is part deep personal archive, part printmaking evangelism, woven together in fabric of color, metaphor and commentary. Art critic Edward Sozanski writes of her work “The ease with which she combines these processes and exploits their individual strengths gives her prints uncommon presence and, more often than not, transcendent beauty”. Recent solo shows include: (2011) This the Smoke from when the Horses Left at the Painted Bride, (2010) Counterpoint: The Leap from Vision to Print at Woodmere Art Museum and (2009) The Preponderance of Evidence at The Print Center (Philadelphia). Shelley currently teaches printmaking and drawing at Tyler School of Art. Her work can be seen at Dolan/Maxwell (dolan/maxwell.com) and is collected across the US, Europe and Japan. She is President of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) in New York City. 

Susan Fateh serves as the Program Director for WSW's Italy workshops. She holds a BA/Hon. from Scotland, an MFA from NYU, and apprenticed at S.W. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris. Susan was a production papermaker at WSW, where she first learned the craft. She has conducted various workshops in Jordan, Trinidad, and Italy, and has coordinated a women's handmade paper self-help group in rural South India. Her own mixed-media works are in diverse collections around the world. For the past ten years, she has lived in Italy with her young son.

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 Summer 2012

 

Shelley Thorstensen Workshops 2012

 Summer Workshops

Castle Hill/Truro Center for the Arts, Cape Cod MA

Etching: Generating Momentum in your Practice / Shelley Thorstensen

July 23-27, 2012

Whether this is your first stop discovering printmaking or you are a veteran printmaker, this class is designed to activate and accelerate growth that can generate momentum in your entire art-making practice.

The workshop is designed for both artists working in other print, painting, or drawing media who are interested in the possibility of incorporating some level of print into their work and for artist/printmakers who work primarily on an etching press.

This is a low-stress, high reward workshop. Shelley includes in the workshop a series of demonstrations including ways of using color and printing, such as: stencils, a la poupee, chine colle, viscosity, multiple plates, relief and collage with ways to easily and seamlessly incorporate them into your work. Have no fear, this class will help you discover what aspects are unique to you and how to explore, expand and deepen your practice.

Shelley will work with you individually to discover what aspects are vital to your work and how to successfully mobilize your vision. This is precise yet juicy printmaking tailored to the needs of each artist. Bring drawings, ideas, prints in progress or just yourself and well take it from there.


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Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale NY

Motivational Intaglio / Shelley Thorstensen

Shelley Thorstensen Workshops 2012

Workshop Participants: Ann Piper, Paper Buck and Jillian Contreni Sokso

August 6 - 10, 13 - 17, 2012


These intensive workshops are designed for but not limited to artist/printmakers who work primarily on an etching press. It is also a good place for artists working in other print, painting, or drawing media interested in the possibility of incorporating print into their work.

Shelley will begin the workshop with a series of demonstrations including ways of using color and printing, such as: stencils, a la poupee, chine colle, viscosity, multiple plates, relief, collage, and digital media. Using your current work and ideas as a catalyst, Shelley will work with you individually to discover what aspects are vital to your work and how to successfully explore and expand your vision.

This workshop provides extended work time allowing participants to incorporate new ways of working into their artistic practice. Shelley will organize this period to further examine your work and mindset. She will include material specific to each participant while encouraging a further understanding of etching.

Artists will learn how to seamlessly incorporate handwork such as drypoint and mezzotint on various substrates, editioned monoprint, paper and polyester photo litho, hand-worked and photo based collographs, photocopy transfer; handmade repeatable rubber stamp and registration systems. Shelley will also address possible considerations for content, scale, series, multiplicity, format, paper choice, and available matrices.

(Every year students want more time working with Shelley. She has agreed to spend a second week at WSW allowing students to take either week or both weeks to activate and accelerate their individual artistic development while generating momentum in all their art making practices.)

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Group Exhibits

A Sense of Place

Spencer Hill Gallery, Corning NY

Director, Kathrine Page

July 1 - August 4th

Shelley Thorstensen prints

Shelley Thostensen - Etchings with Mezzotint - new work, summer 2012

 

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79th Members Exhibition

Society of American Graphic Artists

at The Old Print Shop, NYC

May 19 - June 29, 2012

Society of American Graphic Artists 79th Exhibit The Old Print Shop

Pictured: left Merle Perlmutter (Council), Shelley Thorstensen (President) and Barbara Minton (Recording Secretary and SAGAzine Editor)

right: Shelley Thorstensen and Donald Axelroad recieving the Speedball Materials Award

SAGA Exhibit Review: Art and Antiques online

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 Exhibition Catalogs

Fusion - International Contemporary Intaglio Print Invitation Exhibition

Guanlan Original Printmaking Base Guanlan, Shenzhen, China

curated by Lynne Allen, Director, Boston University School of Fine Arts

Shelley Thorstensen Multiple Fusion Guallan Printmaking Base China

pictured: Hand to Mouth, Etching, Mezzotint and Relief, 24 x 36"

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 Mulitple Encounters, Second Edition

Shelley Thorstensen Multiple Encounters 2

pictured: Joyous Lake, Etching, Silkscreen and Relief with Chine Colle,18 x 24"

traveling invitational group exhibition beginning in New Delhi, India

January 23 - Febriuary 6, 2012

Lalit Kala Akademi

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 A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking

Print Summit
Gray Gallery, East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

 

Shelley Thorstensen Survey of Contemporary Printmaking

pictured: Rhyme and Reason, Etching, Silkscreen, Litho and Collograph, 23 x 35"

curated by Rochelle Toner

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New from Printmakers Open Forum

click here for more building progress and presses!

 

Printmakers Open Forum Presses and Building Progress

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--- also featured----

New Directions and Contemporary Trends in Printmaking - Shelley Thorstensen

take a look here: Print Revolution in America

 

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April 2012

CATALOG

Shelley Thorstensen in other words

Shelley Thorstensen catalog

(click image)

The catalog is available (with a flip book preview!) at viovio or by searching the web Shelley Thorstensen in other words. It's also available at Printmakers Open Forum . It catalogs my last three solo *exhibitions of 2009 - 2011, is 54 pages, with over 50 images and ten essays by:

Dr Glenn Benge, Professor Emeritus, Art History, Tyler School of Art

John Caperton, Curator at The Print Center, Philadelphia

Laurence Dreyfus, Professor of Music, Magdalen College, Oxford UK

Diedra Krieger, independent curator and aka Plastic Fantastic

Anabelle Rodriguez-Lawton, Independent Curator

Jillian (Contreni) Sokso, former student and Chair, Art Department Houghton College

Edward Sozanksi, Art Critic, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dr Burton Wasserman, Art Critic, ICON Magazine

Michelle Wilson, independent artist

The book was designed by the most awesome Sondra Graff / rpm projects

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SHOWS


Shelley Thorstensen Joyous Lake

 

Multiple Encounters, Second Edition a traveling group exhibition beginning in New Delhi, India January 23 - February 6, 2012 Lalit Kala Akademi,

curated by Vijay Kumar, one of the founders of Manhattan Graphics Center

Southern Graphics Council International 2012 - 2015 group traveling exhibition to be housed in 2015 at the Kate Skipworth Museum, University of Mississippi

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Printmakers Open Forum - THE SHOP

Heres a picture of where the silkscreen washout sink, acid room and the litho graining sink will be situated.

(The shop is 30 x 64 feet)

 

Shop in situ

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TEACHING / WORKSHOPS SPRING THROUGH SUMMER 

During the school year, I've been having a great time teaching drawing and printmaking for the

BFA program and the newly formed Visual Studies program at Tyler.

 

Shelley Thorstensen

For Workshops, please join me at the following for 2012 (chronological)

Printmaking Center of New Jersey , North Branch NJ

Notes to Self Thursday March 22nd , Thursday March 29th

The Path from Plate to Print all possibilities all day demo Thursday April 12th

Honing your Skills Thursday May 10th

Peter's Valley Craft Center, Layton NJ

The Integrated Print June 15 19

 

Castle Hill at Truro, Cape Cod, MA

Etching: Generating Momentum in your Practice July 23 27

 

Womens Studio Workshop,Rosendale, NY

Motivational Intaglio August 6 10, 13 17 (one week, or two optional is new!)

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President, SOCIETY OF AMERICAN GRAPHIC ARTISTS

Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA)

This summer I became the President of SAGA, The Society of American Graphic Artists. SAGA represents the very best of hand pulled printmaking for the last 100 years with an office on Union Square in Manhattan.

Since then, SAGA had its annual Member Show at Prince Street Gallery, NYC June 2011. The Prize juror was Ellen Handy, Art Historian at the City College of New York We had our Annual Award Dinner at the National Arts Club, Gramercy Park NYC this fall honoring long time Council Member, Ann Chernow and past President, Michael DiCerbo.

We just deinstalled Hands On, Prints from the Council of SAGA at Helen and Frank Hyders Projects Gallery in Philadelphia. This exhibition opportunity was made available through long time SAGA Council Member, Florence Putterman. The long-version review and insights by Dr.Glenn Benge can be found on the SAGA website.

Our next Members' Meeting is at the Westbeth Artist Community Center on May 12th - If you interested in attending, send me a message.

In addition, SAGA's next Annual Member Exhibition is at The Old Print Shop in New York from May 19 - June 29. The opening is Saturday May 19 at 1:00pm. The Prize Juror is Dr. Michael Schantz, Director and CEO of the Hecksher Museum of Art, NY.

For the first time, SAGA will be present at the Southern Graphics International Conference, held this year in New Orleans. I'll be there so stop by and say hi, and see SAGAs Collector Prints at our Publishers table. Pick up a forward-looking pencil created to kick off SAGAs plans for its 100thbirthday in 2015.

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*SHOWS included in my catalog include:

The Preponderance of Evidence

Print Center

Philadelphia PA

 

2009

Counterpoint: The Leap from Vision to Print

Woodmere Art Museum

Chestnut Hill PA

 

2010

This is the Smoke from When the Horses Left

Painted Bride Art Center

Philadelphia, PA

2011

 

 

Come make work at Printmakers Open Forum

Learn new print techniques and work in one, some or more print mediums.

 

You can work in one or more of these mediums, in combination or separately:

Etching on copper, drypoint on plexiglass, stone/plate/photo/prontoplate lithography,

(Two partial) scholarship applications are still being accepted until April 15th 

 

Summer 2016 All Print Media Workshop taught by Shelley Thorstensen 

 

Two Sessions 

Eight days, Saturday June 3  –  Saturday June 10 $675  (plus $75 lab fee) $750 total

Eight days, Sunday June 11  –   Sunday June 18 $675  (plus $75 lab fee     $750 total

Learn new print techniques and work in one, some or more print mediums. 

You can work in one or more of these mediums, in combination or separately:

Etching on copper, drypoint on plexiglass, stone/plate/photo/prontoplate

lithography, silkscreen, wood/lino cut, plaster prints, monoprints, gelatin prints...

 

 

 

 

(info pdf here)



 

"PrintCamp was a wonderful communal experience; all participants came into it with fresh ideas, little printmaking tricks and skills to share. Shelly was a gracious host who offered up her home and studio space to the group as well as her keen attention to the individual needs of folks in the group. The print studio space was spacious and comfortable to work in, well stocked for most printmaking needs including litho, etching and relief and screen-printing. Shared meals and evening campfires filled the evenings with good conversation and camaraderie!"

Jenn Manzella

 

“Pulled a couple prints of all three vases together. When I get back, I’ll do an full edition of the individual vases. This trip was so incredible. I needed to get away for a week and solely work on my bringing new ideas to fruition. Feeling hella revitalized, thank you Printmakers Open Forum.”

APPLICATIONS for PrintCamp2020 (to be held the start of June 2020) will be out December 15th

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you for a beautiful time! This space is truly a sanctuary! Thank you for all your time, energy and help.

 

you for a beautiful time! This space is truly a sanctuary! Thank you for all your time, energy and help.

 











 

 


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