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ONSITE | Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Instructor: Jessica White

$225 Non-member Adult**

(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)

Course Capacity: 16

3 hour credit | BREG Elective - Design & Botanical Illustration | BRN Elective - Growing in Place & Special Topics

We’ll draw inspiration from the Arboretum’s Bloom with a View event in the gardens and from our current exhibition An Abundance of Riches, featuring the stunning prints of birds and botanicals created by Andrea Rich. This day-long workshop on multi-color block printing taught by Jessica C. White, professor of art at Warren Wilson College encourages us to train our eyes observing the season’s flora and fauna, and appreciate the infinite variety of colors, textures and patterns in nature. Then we can translate inspiration into creation – making multi-color block prints! Participants will learn how to carve rubber blocks and print in several colors and layers made from a single block as well as how to combine blocks in a composition. We’ll use these blocks to create our own printed textures and patterns, then blocks can be reused after the workshop to print personal stationery, on fabric, journal covers, and even as wall patterns.

Open to individuals of all skill levels. Participants should be able to hold and safely handle a sharp cutting tool and hand skills are involved with the printing process.  All materials are included in the registration.

As if the meditative flow of learning new skills and making beautiful art aren’t inspiring enough, participants in the class can join in a global celebration of printmaking – Print Day in May – dedicated to making and sharing prints! Over the course of the day, we’ll share our work on social media, creating in community with tens of thousands of other printmakers the world over.

Jessica C. White grew up in Taiwan where she learned to love storybooks and traditional folk crafts, and now lives in Asheville, N.C.. where she continues her studio practice and also teaches printmaking, drawing, book arts, and paper making at Warren Wilson College. Her practice revolves around narrative relief prints, wood engravings, letterpress printing, and crankies. She draws inspiration from folk tales, ghost stories, children’s books, and the nature she sees while hiking in the Blue Ridge mountains.

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