Exploring Printmaking Techniques: Create an Original Print with Mandy Turner
If you can’t make this date, don’t worry—another one is on the calendar! Saturday | January 25 | 2025
Join artist and skilled production printmaker Mandy Turner as she guides you through the drypoint process. As Thomas Wood’s studio print assistant for over eight years, Turner supported the creation of many of Wood’s complex fine art etchings and has a deep knowledge of a variety of techniques which she will share through this workshop. Turner is offering two independent sessions at the Museum, one in November and one in January to introduce printmaking and guide participants as they create their own one-of-a-kind fine art print.
To orient participants to this historic process, Turner will start with a short visual overview of the history of printmaking and the origins of specific techniques from the Renaissance work of Albrecht Durer to the contemporary work of Thomas Wood. Then it’s your turn to create an original 5 by 7-inch print of your own using the drypoint process, a type of etching that involves drawing grooves into a surface with a sharp stylus. Create your own original design or draw from a variety of source images that Turner will provide to help guide the process.
A unique opportunity of this workshop is that your original prints will be created on Thomas Wood’s 1976 Hunter Penrose Press. Installed in the gallery as part of a recreation of Thomas Wood’s Bellingham Studio, this is the very press that Wood and Turner have created many of the etchings on display in the exhibition. Don’t miss out on the chance to create art while being surrounded by the works of one of the Pacific Northwest’s most dynamic and respected artists.
All experiences welcome, ages 21 and up.
Refunds are eligible for the ticket price if requested at least 48 hours in advance in order to give the Whatcom Museum a chance to fill the spot from the waitlist.
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If you can’t make this date, don’t worry—another one is on the calendar! Saturday | January 25 | 2025
The Whatcom Museum acknowledges that we gather on the traditional territory of the Lhaq’temish – Lummi People – and the Nuxwsá7aq – Nooksack People – who have lived in the Coast Salish region from time immemorial. The Museum honors our relationship with all of our Coast Salish neighbors and our shared responsibilities to their homeland where we all reside today.
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