Collagraph Printmaking: Experimental Image Making

Collagraph Printmaking: Experimental Image Making

Class - Printmaking | Registration closed 10/1/2025

251 N Spruce St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 United States
Print Studio - 204
10/9/2025-11/13/2025
9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Th
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$320.00
$288.00

Collagraph Printmaking: Experimental Image Making

Class - Printmaking | Registration closed 10/1/2025

Collagraph is a printmaking technique that is an additive and subtractive process, traditionally using Mat Board as the matrix. Derived from the words “collage” and “graphic”, a collagraph plate is made the same way a collage is made, and then it is printed as an intaglio print. This technique is a versatile and easy way to make prints that allow us to achieve prints rich in color and texture.

Over this six-week course, students will be using various materials glued together, such as cardboard, fabrics, thread, paper, and anything except for metals or hard materials that could damage a press. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students will explore the various forms of printing, including intaglio and relief styles. With an emphasis on learning the basics, students will be encouraged to experiment with materials and additive/subtractive techniques throughout building their plate.

 

 

All supplies will be provided but, please bring a bag full of assorted, flat objects (fabrics, lace, papers, strings, textured objects,feathers, leaves, or any other found objects. Keep in mind these things will not be able to be reused, as they will be inked and printed with.

Bridges, Alex
Alex Bridges

Alex begun her journey as a printmaker during her undergrad East Carolina University in North Carolina. Through those years, while learning traditional printmaking, an appreciation for breaking non-traditional printmaking practices became a common theme of her work. Alex has been pushing scale with different print techniques and mediums. Focusing on concepts that engage with the unconscious, the psychology of communication and appreciating the process of creating a print is what her work is founded upon. 

“I believe that a print can continue to evolve and grow beyond the point it is considered to be “finished”. There is a need for me to continue working through a piece and experiencing different stages it goes through. Collaborating with the work I’ve made and responding to it is at the core of my process.”