Relief Printmaking: Plants and Animals with Ripley Whiteside | Teen

Concept and Experience

In this workshop, students discover the process of relief printmaking, as well as the basics of working in a printmaking studio. With a focus on ecological subjects, students carve and print woodcut and linoleum blocks, as well as make multi-color reduction prints with Ripley as their guide. Methods for translating images into prints, navigating texture, creating sound compositions, and mixing color are also shared. Final prints are completed both with and without a press, including printmaking with unconventional matrixes. No prior printmaking experience necessary.

Instructor

Ripley Whiteside grew up in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. He earned his BFA from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and MFA from State University of New York-Buffalo. His studio practice explores the mysteries of ecological movement. Our present and future are being shaped by the swiftly changing climate and he is haunted by the notion that we cannot comprehend the extent of our impact. Ripley has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Canada, and has been an artist-in-residence at Willapa Bay, The Peanut Factory, I-Park, and Vermont Studio Center. He teaches at Austin Peay State University and Belmont University in Nashville, TN.