Let’s celebrate our and our students’ idiosyncrasies! Come practice a drawing technique showcasing the artist’s unique embodied mark-making while never making a mistake. How? Because there is no such thing! Participants will practice drawing in stillness, a drawing technique done on transparent acetates whereby the user can only see the results when they feel they are done. The session begins with a brief presentation of context of the technique. I discuss the technique’s pedagogical merits a...

Come experiment with reduction printmaking! Have you ever wondered how the famous Japanese print of the giant wave was made? It’s not complicated. This is a technique that I have been teaching at all levels for years and every time, students have loved it. It’s a project that naturally caters to the importance of the process, as well as student-artists’ self-monitoring, iterative practices and communal support. Since we will be using maps as our reduction printmaking inspiration, discussions ...