Full Coverage: Repeat Printing for Wall Installations (Fall 2024)
Course Code: 24FPM200I
This five-day workshop takes place at CBA on Tuesdays, November 5th – December 3rd from 6-9pm
- Tuesday, November 5, 6:00 pm–9:00 pm
- Tuesday, November 12, 6:00 pm–9:00 pm
- Tuesday, November 19, 6:00pm–9:00pm
- Tuesday, November 26, 6:00pm–9:00pm
- Tuesday, December 3, 6:00pm–9:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on October 22, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
In this five-session in-person class with Instructor Elizabeth Castaldo, participants will learn to create large wall installations out of small modular prints.
Students will learn how to turn their drawings and other artwork into a repeatable module that can be transferred to a linoleum block for carving or turned into a polymer plate. Students will then learn how to print these patterns on the Vandercook presses, allowing you to make many multiples of the prints, which can then be trimmed and tiled to create large repeat patterns. The multiples are suitable to use for creating large scale wall installations, wallpaper, or even for covering three dimensional objects.
Students will have several options of substrate, such as linoleum, photopolymer and fun foam to work with and the imagery can be combined with wood type from CBA’s type collection as well. The class will contextualize this concept by looking at examples by artists working with repeat pattern and tessellation such as Lanette Scheeline, MC Escher and Julia Rothman.
Required Materials:
- carving tools (recommended)
All materials will be provided by Center for Book Arts at no additional cost.
About Elizabeth Castaldo
Elizabeth Castaldo is a New York based artist, printmaker, and bookbinder. Working with collage, drawing, and printmaking she creates multi-layered and visually abundant works on paper and artist’s books that explore nature, the divine feminine and interconnectivity. She was a 2024 art-in-ed workspace resident at Women’s Studio Workshop and has completed residencies at Proyecto ‘Ace in Buenos Aires Argentina, Arquetopia in Oaxaca Mexico, the Center for Book Arts, NYC and Printmaker’s Open Forum, Oxford PA.
In 2023, her work was included in an illustrated edition of The Awakening by Kate Chopin published by Kasini House and Kolaj. Her work has been exhibited internationally including with Proyecto ‘Ace, Saint-Paul de Mausole at Saint-Rémy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Empty Set Gallery, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Center for Book Arts, Saint Joseph’s College, and Landing Contemporary. She teaches printmaking and book arts at Parsons School of Design and the Center for Book Arts. Castaldo received her MFA from SCAD Atlanta where she was a Dean’s Fellow in Printmaking and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts.
Her work is held in many private and institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, SCAD, The University of Alberta, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University and others.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
