Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts

Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced

Gel plate printing, a user friendly, kitchen table compatible printmaking technique with NO need for a press is applicable to painters, printmakers, ceramic artists, journal keepers, etc. Once the basics of Gel Plate printing are learned, it lends itself to both home, studio and travel purposes with ease and practicality. Fun and open to experimentation and improvisation - this is a method where artists with any experience level can discover new motifs and approaches for their art practice - and make beautiful, finished prints. There will be many demos including an “invisible” collage technique where your vibrant colorful prints can become raw material for larger works on paper. We will use slow drying Golden’s Open Acrylics mostly printed onto mulberry paper.

Holly Hughes is an artist with her own shorthand, developed to describe both nature and the human-made visual world surrounding us. Hughes, Professor Emerita of Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), works in various mediums - always in conversation with one another. Processed by an imagination raised on Disney, the pictures exude both humor and inspiration from modern culture and the decorative arts. Codes for the idyllic and pastoral slam against a play of repossessed abstract language, with sources ranging from painting history through heraldry to domestic linens. Her practice ranges across painting, works on paper, printmaking, and ceramics. Hughes’ work can be found in many corporate, public, and private collections including Citibank, Pepsico, Prudential Bache, Pfizer Collection, Benziger Imagery Collection, Davis Museum, Dorsky Museum, and Museum of Rhode Island School of Design.

Course Fee: $300 + $40 Lab Fee + $40 Non-Refundable Registration Fee