Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Penland's focus on excellence, its long history, and its inspiring, retreat setting have made it a model of experiential education. The school offers workshops in books and paper, clay, drawing and painting, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, wood, and other media. Penland sponsors artist residencies, a gallery and visitors center, and community education programs.
Printshop Manager, Morgan Calderini and glass artist, Nicole Chesney will be teaching a Printmaking workshop July 25th through August 10th at Penland. Vitreography is a printmaking technique using thick sheet glass as a matrix. Daily demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for applying vitreography to their own work. Demonstrations will include chine collé, multiple-plate registration, working reductively, monoprinting, editioning, carving, engraving, and sandblasting. From painterly to graphic, vitreography offers endless approaches to artists of all disciplines and levels of experience.
