kcolell’s blog

This weekend 6 community artists, the Pearce twins and 14 CLU printmaking students present and past are creating up a storm in the Mitch Lyons Clay Monotype workshop. Artwork to follow.

Mitch Lyons is coming to CLU printshop (B-1) this Saturday thru Tuesday to present the method of Clay Monotype in printmaking.

“True innovators in the art world, and Mitch Lyons is one of them,make the complex appear to be so simple, so clear. . Mitch Lyons has added to the vocabulary of contemporary art.”

Leonard Lehrer, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, NYU

California Lutheran University printmaking program presents two non-toxic art techniques created and taught by master printmakers Mitch Lyons and Dan Welden. The guest artists, Lyons and Welden, will provide CLU students and community members an introduction to their specialized printmaking methods. Both artists are internationally known for developing their techniques.

Mitch Lyons clay monotype workshop at CLU September 24-27, 2011
Dan Welden CLU resident artist the month of February 2012. Workshop Feb 10-12, 2012

Mitch Lyons created the use of a printmaking process that does not need a printing press. A clay slab is used as the matrix and rich monotypes and collage pieces can be created with non-toxic Akua waterbased inks and modifiers
The approach is energetic and open to each individuals style.
Mitch Lyons is an experienced instructor and has led over 150 workshops. He has taught at West Chester University, Moore College of Art, and Alfred University. He has an MFA from Tyler School of Art and his work is in various collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Woodmere Art Museum. Mitch Lyon’s own artwork from clay printing has made him a successful nationally recognized artist.
Lyons has had exhibitions of his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia museum of Fine Arts; Noyes Museum, New Jersey; Kalmar Lans Museum, Kalmar, Sweden; and the Vonderau Museum, Fulda, Germany. He is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the arts Visual Arts Grant. He has taught at West Chester University, Moore College of Art, Rowan University, Alfred University, and the University of Delaware.

Each year California Lutheran University invites resident guest instructors/ artists to share their expertise as speakers, and presenters and some as renowned members of the world art scene.

This February Dan Welden, an Internationally renowned artist, specifically the originator of the non-toxic process of solar printmaking will be our resident professional artist. Welden is a print maker who created the solar printmaking non toxic process. He is an artist who creates in colors , shapes and composition.

Welden is an Internationally renouned artist of Visual Arts Studies specifically solar printmaking. This February (2012) Welden will serve CLU as a resident artist. He is a master printmaker, painter, teacher and author. He has been making prints and works on paper for over 40 years.
Dan’s work has been shown in over 65 international solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in Australia, New Zealand and Peru. His work is in many public and private collections throughout the country including the Amity Art
Foundation Darien, Connecticut; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon; and Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania among many others.

Welden will be artist in residence the month of February 2012 and he will be presenting a solar plate workshop for
the CLU printmaking program February 10-12

For additional information contact:
Kristi Colell, printmaking instructor CLU
805 797 3018
CLUprinter@yahoo.com

Following all the summer teaching I produced some monotype prints. Two weeks were spent matting and framing prints and photographs for the Non Objective art show held at the TO Art Gallery.

Following teaching CLU summer session I initiated a summer art camp at my studio located on a farm in Somis. Art students all ages made paper, studied watercolor, made solarprints, collographs, drawing, hand built ceramics and paper mache. Four weeks of summer camp with CLU graduates Jason Nguyen, Brisis Favela and Cody R. Yan Yow Kwong helping.

Summer printmaking kept the print shop active. Christy Sutphen produced 12 graphic design pieces , while Hsiu-Wen Yang completed a beautiful series of lino prints to complement her poetry text. Mieke Howell completed the printmaking #330 course while including innovative printmaking lino prints on hand built clay pots. (see phot0) My senior printmaker Beverly Viola built a clay pot using the clay slab method as the printmaking matrix. Cody R. Yan Yow Kwong spent the summer getting the print shops in order as well as producing printmaking on ceramic matrix and working on watercolors.

image one: Beverly Viola built a clay slab using lino printmaking for an image.

image two: Mieke Howell executed lino print on a clay matrix