We’d like to thank all of the great artists who participated in this past weekend’s four-day monotype workshop through the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Master Printer Frank Janzen taught the workshop, laying out the basics of printmaking and offering demonstrations for different techniques.
This was the fourth year Crow’s Shadow has hosted the event, a new experience for some participants and a return trip for others, including Portland-based artist Annie Meyer.
“I’ve done it every time and for myself it’s a treat to come to a place with such a beautiful facility, a master printer, contemplative landscapes and be able to work,” Meyer said. “It’s a very conducive environment for the creative process.”
Meyer, a landscape artist who works in both painting and printmaking, said her first visit to Crow’s Shadow four years ago helped her get started setting up her own press and influenced a new direction in her work. Now, Meyer said half of her work is inspired by the local landscape.
“It’s this whole body of work I’ve developed on Eastern Oregon,” Meyer said.
After thoroughly enjoying the two-day March monotype workshop weeks earlier, Seattle-based artist and design student Anthony Calloway said he decided from that experience to sign up for the PNCA event, as well.
“When I got back home I said, ‘You know what? That was amazing, transformative, etc., etc.,” Calloway said. “So that’s what brought me back.”
An enrolled member of the Karuk tribe, Calloway’s work was part of his ongoing experimentation with the triangular designs of his tribe’s basketry art.
“I’ll kind of look at some of the simpler designs and start from those and see where they lead me,” Calloway said.
By the end of the weekend Calloway ended up with a new series monotypes to take back to Seattle.
“I think I like the journey you can go on,” he said of the Crow’s Shadow workshop. “It’s sort of the the journey to get here, the journey through the art and then the travel back home.”
We’d, of course, also like to thank Debby Sundbaum-Sommers and Laurie Fairbanks for volunteering as press assistants.
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