Marsico Visiting Artist Toni Mosely's Workshop: Creating Prints with DU Students

Toni arrived on Tuesday January 10 and started by setting up that afternoon. Catherine Chauvin's "Experiences in the Visual Arts" class helped her mix ink. It was a typical snowy Wednesday in Denver, the perfect day for the Workshop to start. First, the "Screen Print" class created rubbings all around the Shwayder Art Building. These became the base of several photo-screen prints which were used as the base of prints created by workshop participants. They then used the screens to print their own textures, layering hand cut stencils on top. Since the class used this method in their assignments, the preview of this tricky process helped immensely. 


On Thursday, Susan Meyer brought in two drawing classes to participate in the workshop. The first class had beginning students who used the textures and hand cut stencils to create their prints. Then, the intermediate class used a water based monotype process in order to have a more drawing-based experience. The day flew by with many students stopping by from 2-D Foundations to Advanced Problems, all looking forward to making prints. By the time Catherine’s Experiences in the Visual Arts class met, they found all the ink they had mixed had been used!  They decided to make a group piece – based on an Exquisite Corpse and each of them printed an individual piece as well.  All in all, over 50 people participated in the workshop, all printing in one day.  After that, Toni was “a bit knackered”  (exhausted) for her talk that evening – but it was well attended and she shared with the students a different view of artmaking and maintaining a studio practice wherever you go!

By Catherine Chauvin