Workshop description:

Learn how to use gelli plates to create experimental monoprints for a one-of-a-kind small journal. Participants will explore monoprinting techniques using gelli plates and acrylic paint to create colorful, layered prints. You’ll use your prints to make a soft-cover journal, including printing on both the inside and outside covers. The book will be assembled with a simple pamphlet stitch, creating a handmade journal to keep and use. No prior printmaking or bookmaking experience is necessary, come experiment, create, and take home your finished journal!

What to bring: 

• Acrylic paint

• Posca markers

• black plastic/styrofoam takeout containers

• Beads 

• Embroidery threads/additional thread/linen book thread

• Any objects you think will make interesting impressions (bottle caps, leaves, etc.)

About the instructor:

Mary Ann Sampson is an artist based in Ragland, Alabama.  She studied art at Birmingham Southern and Samford University before earning a Masters of Fine Arts in Book Arts from the University of Alabama and is an active member of the Guild of Book Workers. She is the founder of the One-Eye Opera Company, which publishes limited edition letterpress books, custom bookbinding and unique editions. In her artist statement she says, “Handmade books are a personal stage and a memory stick for a life lived...a field for random thoughts and imagination. Flat works and three-dimensional pieces are mostly singular ideas that have fallen off the pages. It’s the plurality of techniques and materials that make them seem different.”

If this is your first workshop, please submit the workshop participant form.