Monoprinting and Pop Up Paper Engineering
Michelle Wilson
Class #11:
Saturdays, February 4 & 11, 10am-4pm
Tuition $232
In this workshop, students will use learn to incorporate basic monoprinting and pop-up paper engineering techniques to create printed pop-up structures that can be the basis of paper sculptures or artist books. This class is ideal for artists who are interested in ways of taking their two-dimensional work into the third dimension, or teachers who are interested in learning ideas to incorporate into their classroom. No prerequisite required.
Michelle Wilson is a papermaker, printmaker, book and installation artist. Her works are in various collections, including Yale University (New Haven, CT), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, (Boca Raton, FL). She has been featured in exhibitions at numerous institutions, including the X Initiative in New York, NY, the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, the 2006 International Biennial for the Artist’s Book in Alexandria, Egypt, and at the Joshibi Art Museum outside of Tokyo, Japan. Her extensive teaching experience includes Bryn Mawr College, Moore College of Art and Design, the University of the Arts, the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, the Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, the Perkins Center for Arts, on the East Coast, and now includes Southern Exposure and Nimbus Arts in her new California home. In addition, she was a 2010 New Courtland Fellow from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia. In 2011, she will spend a month as Artist-In-Residence at the Jentel Artist Program in Sheridan, Wyoming. Wilson has a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design, and an MFA from the University of the Arts. Her imprint is Rocinante Press. Formerly a longtime resident of Philadelphia, Wilson has recently relocated to the San Francisco Bay area. Her work can be seen online at michellewilsonprojects.com.