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Coming Soon: Online Demonstrations & Workshops

on Sat, 05/09/2020 - 19:44

Online Demonstrations & Workshops:

Due to the Corona Virus/Covid-19 Pandemic, Cherry Press is closed to the public for the time being and will re-open when deemed safe to do so.  I have been teaching online and hybrid workshops in lithography, screen printing and woodcut/relief printing for my Bennington College and RISD printmaking classes.  

Contact me if you are interested in scheduling an on-line workshop or demonstration.

When the academic year is over (spring 2021), we will begin offering workshops and demonstrations in printmaking and new to Cherry Press: wood carving, which will be

Century Plate Demonstration at Rhode Island College

on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 22:27

I had a wonderful visit November 5 with the Print Club, faculty John Paul McCaughey and Stephen Fischer at Rhode Island College for a non-toxic Century Plate lithography demonstration at their amazing new print studio.

Contact me to arrange a demonstration at your workshop!

Photos: John Paul McCaughey

   

Hot Off the Press

on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 19:07

Over the years, many students have suggested that I create a book from my detailed and many-paged instructions for learning Part 1 of my Century Plate Lithography classes and tutorials.

Now you can purchase my instruction book, Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 in printed or E-book formats from Blurb.com and from me directly.

Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 introduces printmakers to a new, sustainable and environmentally friendly way to produce high-quality, professional, hand-pulled lithographs without using toxic and petroleum-based materials.

This instruction book

Century Plate Litho Super-Intensive at EFA-RBPMW

on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 18:45

 Century Plate Lithography is going International! I spent the weekend of July 13-14 teaching a short and very intensive non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 class at EFA-Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to two artists from the Summerworks Residency Program of Art Hub Copenhagen/EFA-RBPMW (Moa Alskog, Anne Louise Blicher), a founding director of KKV Graficworkshop printshop in Malmo, Sweden (Vera Ohlsson) and an artist from Union City, NJ (Ruben Duran). 

The workshop was a super-intensive due to covering a lot in a short amount of time.

California Dreaming: Winter Century Plate Lithography Workshop in Sunny California

on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 19:39

Non-toxic Century Plate Litho Workshop Part 1 at CREATE Center for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA

I'm very excited to be introducing West Coast artists in the Coachella Valley to sustainable litho this coming January!  In this workshop students will learn how to grain a reusable Century Plate like a lithographic limestone, prepare a registration maquette and printing paper, transfer images and draw directly on the plates with a variety of media, etch and process with bio-based, biodegradable materials, print on CREATE's etching/relief press, clean and store an inked plate and re-grain a plate for

Century Plate Lithography Workshop Part 2 at EFA-RBPMW

on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 19:22

October 5-7, 2018: I taught a 2.5 day intensive Century Plate Lithography Part 2 class at EFA-Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City. In this whirlwind weekend workshop we re-visited techniques covered in Part 1 and covered graining for and coating plates with Posi-Coat (the first non-toxic, positive-working photo emulsion), exposed test plates, learned how to create tusche washes and and etch and process them with non-toxic materials and re-visited proofing on RBPMW's Charles Brand litho press.

Century Plate Litho Workshop Part 1 at Guttenberg Arts

on Thu, 05/24/2018 - 17:29

Get ready, Jersey for a three-day introduction to Century Plate Lithography at Guttenberg Arts in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Guttenberg Arts is an incredible community art space equipped with a printshop, ceramics studio and gallery....and is also the home of Paper Crown Press and Carrier Pigeon Magazine!

Guttenberg Arts is easily accessible from the NYC area (only a half hour bus ride from Port Authority), Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Friday Evening - July 13, 6:30-9:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday 14 & 15  10 am-4 pm
Visit 
guttenbergarts.org to register
 

This April: Century Plate Workshop at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC

on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 20:52

Join me April 13 - 15th for a fun-filled, fast-paced, two and a half day workshop at my favorite place to print in NYC:

Friday, Saturday and Sunday

4/13, 4/14, and 4/15

FRI 6:30-9:30PM

SAT + SUN 10.30AM - 4.30PM

Learn more & sign up here!

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts - RBPMW | 323 West 39th Street 2nd Floor NY NY 10018 | 646-416-6226 | rbpmw@efanyc.org

This class will introduce printmakers to Non-toxic Century Plate lithography -  a new, sustainable and environmentally friendly process using re-grainable Century Plates and biologically-based, biodegradable processing

Introducing the Expoguerator!

on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 23:18

The portable Expoguerator created by Skip Klepacki of C.S. Pogue Graphics has an 18 x 24" exposure area and weighs only 16 pounds!  Its riveted aluminium construction makes it lightweight and rugged for studio use at Cherry Press and for teaching positive-working photo processes off-site.  C.S. Pogue's Posi-Coat can be painted on Century Plates to make re-usable photo-litho plates and on copper or aluminium to make photo-etching plates.

Visit from Mark Silverberg Editions

on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 22:47

Mark Silverberg (formerly of Mark Silverberg Editions, Oaxaca, Mexico) came to the studio from Thailand for several days of immersion in non-toxic Century Plate lithography.  Mark is planning to open a new shop in Chiang Mai, where he will return to collaborating on and printing fine art lithographs for artists using re-usable Century Plates and the bio-based biodegradable processing materials invented by Professor Dwight Pogue and Inventor/Engineer Skip Klepacki of C.S. Pogue Graphics. We had a blast printing test plates and pushing the boundries.

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