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I invite any of my CLU printmakers from the last two years to work in the print shop and add a new Edition to your portfolio, join me in A-1 Thursday afternoons, June through July, 2008 1:00 pm to 3:00pm. If interested contact me via my CLU email or cluprinter@yahoo.com
Printmaking Instructor Kristi Colell

This summer come by (A-1) in the art building any Thursday afternoon, 1:00pm-3:00pm, and meet me. I am Kristi Colell,  the Printmaking instructor here at CLU. Maybe you have taken an art history course that introduced you to Rembrandt and Durer, master printmakers of the Northern Renaissance?  Check out the copper etching and woodcut relief processes that these Renaissance masters perfected. Both Rembrandt and Durer’s painting, drawings and prints had enormous impact on their contemporaries and influenced the style of many later artists  inspiration for future generations.

Our printmaking courses here at CLU offer you the opportunity to work in a variety graphic mediums that artists from medieval times to today use to express their creativity.

I invite any of my CLU printmakers from the last two years to work in the print shop and add a new Edition to your portfolio, join me in A-1 Thursday afternoons, June through July, 2008.

The California Lutheran University Printmaking program hosted a workshop by International master printmaker Dan Welden . Faculty, students and community members participated in this inspiring and creative four day experience.

Dan Welden, a world renown Master Printmaker who developed the Solarplate etching technique in 1971 as a simpler and less toxic alternative to traditional printmaking techniques which use strong acids. Welden, of Sag Harbor, N.Y., is an abstractionist who works in solarplate landscapes. Welden coauthored a 2001 book with Pauline Muir about the Solarplate process called Printmaking in the Sun. Dan has worked with dozens of artists including pop artists JasperJohns and Robert Rauschenberg and abstract expressionists Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. Welden has worked on all continents. He finds different lands make teaching and collaborating very exciting. He thoroughly enjoys dedicating a significant portion of his life educating people in the Solarplate technique.

CLU Printmaking instructor, Kristi Colell, invited Weldon to CLU to share his expertise on the Solarplate Etching process when planning to work with Welden in Lima Peru this last January was cancelled because of an accident. According to Colell “His Solarplate Etching printmaking methods are challenging, creative and inspirational. I wanted my students to experience working with the originator and master of this contemporary printmaking process. My goal here at CLU is to develop a strong printmaking program by inviting members of the world printmaking community to work with my students. This to help provide an enriching and creative printmaking environment for artistic expression through dialogue, instruction and active learning with world renown masters. “

Welden is an international innovator and his special gifts and dedication to the creation of art affected and inspired the involved students, faculty and community .

The workshop was a huge success as noted in the photos from the four day event.