DRYPOINT WORKSHOP | PRESS & PULL | FALL 2024

DRYPOINT WORKSHOP

Instructor: Samantha Nochimson

C lass Date: Saturday, November 16th

Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm

V enue: The Children's Art Carnival

Max. Participants: 15

Students will learn how to use an etching needle to incise linework and texture onto a plexi plate to create an image, how to ink and wipe a plate, as well as how to register and print their plate using a press. By the end of the workshop, students will have a one drypoint plate, a small edition of prints, as well as the skills to continue printing and making their own drypoints in the future.

About the instructor: Samantha Nochimson is a multidisciplinary artist, working in printmaking, painting, and ceramics. Born and raised in New York and New Jersey, she explores the cultural liminal space she found herself growing up in as a Chinese American living outside the bounds of an ethnic enclave as well as the nostalgia of childhood and memory. For the past year, Samantha was an intern at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop where she honed her skills a printmaker, gained experience both assisting in printing and assistant teaching, as well as further explored printmaking in her own practice.

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