A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching.
Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing. The resulting print is called a collagraph.
You are invited to participate in an exquisite corpse style animal block printing project. Brian Lane of Print Zero Studios is collaborating with artists Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari for a series of printing events at the Getty Museum in LA this July and August. The project is responding to their current exhibition “Book of Beasts: …
This is day 13 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Today we have transcription challenge. Make something inspired by Caravaggio’s The Cardsharps (1594). What’s a transcription? In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or …
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Each participant draws or collages an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is the first week in a …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7643″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Bruce Nauman, Failing to Levitate in My Studio, 1966. In art school I learned about the clever and funny Bruce Nauman. In particular, I learned about a series for which he said (I’m paraphrasing broadly) “I am an artist, therefore everything I do is art, therefore this is art.” And …
Glen Alps
A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching.
Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing. The resulting print is called a collagraph.
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