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May/June  means it is time I prepare my traveling portfolio to be shown in Florence,  Italy at the Santa Reparata Art gallery.  My work is an exploration of the Centurian “the predecessor” to a rural ediface of 2008. (note the print images)

By making the most of discovering, then reinventing the past I can pay tribute to the  family’s old farm history as seen through images of the “Centurian”.

Important lessons of life can be found from the past.  I am incorporating methods of drawing, chine colle and solar etching to develop the building’s  story.

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? Perhaps you have,”how did you do it?” questions. 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 medium that artists from medieval times to today have used to express their creativity. Printmaking I is offered this Fall Monday and Wednesday afternoons. If you are interested come visit me any Thursday this summer,(10:00-1:00pm),  or give me a call 805 797 3018.

Invitation to any of my CLU printmakers, if you want to work in the print shop and add a new Edition to your portfolio, join me in A-1 Thursday afternoons, June through July.

Highlights from the printmaking students of the 2008-2009 semesters include visiting  the Getty Museum, participating in four art shows held in the Kuan Fan Gallery on campus, and all of our own CLU senior art shows.( See Chase Hamano from Printmaking I working on a drawing) Printmakers from Winter 2008 and Spring of 2009 have produced some wonderful pieces of art as seen in the senior art shows. (See photo of Caitlin Bailey at work and her wood print.) Printmakers have sold their work and successfully entered work in art contests. (Jason Nuygen with Colell at the Ink and Clay Invitational art show in Pomona) Sophmore Jason Nuygen won entrance into the the prestigious Clay and Ink invitational art show. He was granted a financial award from Tryptych Art to study in Florence Italy this summer. Jason has also been invited to show his artwork at the Santa Reparata Art Gallery in Florence.

All Printmaking students have produced solar prints from either drawings, paintings, computer illustrations  or modified photographs. In the Spring of 2008 Dan Welden, International printmaker, came to CLU and offered a workshop to the CLU printmaking students as well as faculty members. Check out Welden’s website (http://www.danwelden.com) . Printmaking instructor Kristi Colell is teaching a mixed media art course this August for Dan Welden’s month long summer workshop held in Florence Italy. She too will be showing her artwork at the Santa Reparata gallery.

Printmaking is a fun, creative class offered this summer 2009, Tuesdays and Thursday (10:00-1:00) and this Fall and Spring Mondays and Wednesdays. A variety of printmaking processes are covered from classic copper etching (Rembrandt), Woodcut, (Durer), to contemporary monoprint, monotype, solarprint and ImageOn. If you can take a picture or draw,  this course is for you. Printmaking instructor is Kristi Colell, graduate of Marymount/Loyola University and Villa Schifanoia school of art in Florence Italy. Colell is an artist and presently serves as a judge for the Los Angeles Music Center BRAVO teachers award as well as an Examiner  for the International Baccalaureate program based in Cardiff England.

Contact Kristi Colell for further information:
cluprinter@yahoo.com
kcolell@callutheran.edu