WOOODCUT

The art of making woodblock prints: Making images with heart.

Making prints from carved woodblocks is an ancient craft. Dating back to the Orient around 1500 years ago, religious and secular subjects have been recorded for posterity in this manner. Today, printmaking is a tool for self expression, used to explore ones inner world like a musician listening to his own music, or a poet rereading a poem. An image you make may reveal what you feel in ways you can describe in words.

Materials needed for the course

Participants should bring an 8x10 sketchbook for recording your ideas/images and soft lead pencils.

Materials such as woodblocks, a set of student grade woodcut tools, paper, printing ink, a wooden spoon and baren to be provided.

There will be a materials cost of $75.00 in addition to the registration fee.

Course limited to five participants. Some experience with drawing would be useful but not mandatory.

Merlin Dailey has taught printmaking and drawing for many years at the college level, from which he is now retired. He has a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA degree from the University of Indiana in printmaking and Asian art history. He studied painting with Ross Braught, printmaking with Rudy Pozatti, and art history with Theodore Bowie. Over the years he has had numerous exhibitions of his art in university and professional gallery settings. His lifelong interest is clarification of the human experience as revealed in art.