Two Sundays, November 16 & 23; 11am to 3pm

Instructor: Katya McCulloch

In this two-day workshop Master printer Katya Mc Culloch will guide you in designing and printing a beautiful holiday card.

In the first session you will learn to design a high contrast image and transfer it to your linoleum block. You will be shown carving techniques to allow you to carve out the negative spaces in your transferred design.

During the second session you will be introduced to papers, inks, and tools. You will learn registration and printing techniques designed to achieve an elegant hand-printed card.

No experience is necessary and young adults and adults are welcome.

The instructor will provide all the materials.

Katya McCulloch is a community artist whose work is exhibited internationally and in private and public collections including the Library of Congress, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Emory University, among many other special collection libraries. She has an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute, with BA in Studio Art & German Language and Literature from UC Berkeley.

She believes strongly that art is not just a profession, but a universal need that marks our humanity. Katya has taught printmaking at San Quentin State Prison through the William James Association Prison Arts Project since 2004. As Director and founding artist of TeamWorks Art Mentoring Program, she has made art with historically marginalized and justice system involved youth in Marin County for 26 years. She is passionate about collaborative murals and has created public art in unconventional settings such as Music Outback Foundation “MobFest” (Australia 2008-12), Marin County Fair “Public Art Days” (2000-2006), Italian Street Painting Festival (2001-2003), and in continuation schools throughout Marin.

Website: www.katyamcculloch.com

Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $190; Non-members $225

Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)