past workshops

North Country Cultural Center

Visual Arts Classes for Teens and Adults

Eco-Friendly Handprinting Workshop

Workshop Instructor: Nadia Korths

Saturday, March 16 (10:30am – 12:30pm)   Cost: $35

Create styrofoam relief prints with non-toxic inks and found or meaningful objects with local artist, Nadia Korths. By the end of the two hours, participants will have six unique prints of their own.  Participants do not need any previous experience with print making. To see examples, please visit nadiakorths.com.

Registration

To register by mail: Please print and complete the registration form and mail it with your payment to: Education Coordinator, NCCCA Arts Center, 23 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901.

To register by phone: Please call the Arts Center directly at 518-563-1604.

To register in person: Please visit us at 23 Brinkerhoff Street in downtown Plattsburgh.  You may print off the registration form or fill one out at the Arts Center.

Payment: The Arts Center accepts cash, check, Visa and Mastercard.  Scholarships are available for certain programs.  Please contact the Arts Center for more information.

{ 0 comments }

Today I made prints with a dear old friend, family friend, my friend.

She’s the free spirit, she has pleasure in the appreciation of beauty, the joy of making beauty.

I went with my mother, her daughter-in-law joined in. We had so much fun.

Impromptu printmaking, a bit of a mess but the four of us worked about the house. Panes of plexiglass with white sheets underneath.

I will go again soon. I love her, I grieve, I explore this new world with her.

{ 0 comments }

Below are links to some of the artists who came as participants to take my Eco-friendly workshop on August 18, 2012 at the North Main Street Studio and Gallery in Salem, NY. No wonder the class was cranking!!! Thanks to all for your energy and joy!

http://otterpondbindery.com/ Susan Bonthron offers classes in the book arts at Otter Pond Bindery in rural Guilford, Vermont. She so liked my technique that she has since added it to one of her classes: *NEW* A Weekend of Paper Decoration & Book Arts: Take One or Both Classes—September 1st and 2nd, 10:00-4:00.
Day One: Three paper decoration techniques:  Spontaneous Printing, Watercolor Play & Stamping
Spontaneous printing is a simple evocative printing technique that uses nontoxic Akua inks and rubber brayers to ink plates made with common found objects which we then hand-rub onto rice paper.

http://www.johannerenbeck.com/Home_Page.html Wearable Books lExhibit by Joanne Renbeck, part of the Book Arts Summer in Salem.  North Main Gallery and Annex, July 11 – Sept 3, 2012
Johanne is quite tall and was very happy that I had brought additional small tables that people could place on the banquet tables for added height. Beautiful exhibit!

http://pinterest.com/r71uth/ Dolores (Dee) Romack. Dee was just such a treat – always a gleam in her eye and just so delighted to be playing and discovering.

http://www.artistbooks.com/ And then there was Ed Hutchins, artist bookmaker and workshop contact and support. You are so cool, Ed. Thank you for treating me like gold. It was just lovely to have such wonderful, flexible, accommodating help and such encouragement. I do hope to work with you again. Don’t forget me. And Hannah’s last piece, the arrow shaped one, was just delicious.

And then there was Ruth Sauer, infatiguable owner of http://www.artinsalem.com/ North Main Street Studio and Gallery, who is why we all gathered and created. Thank you Ruth. Isn’t that great what we discovered – that Murphy’s Oil cleans Akau Inks off plexiglass so easily!

What a great home to the arts in Salem, NY. Ands Ruth was approved by everyone to leave their prints hanging on exhibit at the gallery until Sept. 5? What an idea!

http://www.lorrainetells.com/ Storyteller Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi came with Johanne, driving up from Dutchess County. She’s been learning how to make books with Ed. She loved that the imagery is discovered/revealed as we printed, not planned beforehand.

http://www.performancepoets.org/index_files/LIpoets2.htm Poet Vivina Ciolli, quiet, focused, who wrote “Aha! Color and surprise!” as her comment in the workshop guestbook. Two books, one anthology and many journal publications under her belt.

And there was Hannah, Cordella,  Kerry and one other. Wonderful time!

{ 0 comments }

5 photos: Gallery of colorful prints created during workshop, two prints close up, soy oil based, non toxic organic pigment inks rolled out, and a shot of the kitchen when the women are cranking prints out. Turns out having a workshop in a kitchen with counters standard counter height is a great setting. I look forward to many more.

{ 0 comments }

Sheila has done an amazing job of inviting friends to their place for Wed. afternoon and Thurs. morn. printmaking workshops, with a meal afterwards. We are thinking curried red lentils with veggies and green salad from garden. For dessert, rhubarb and strawberry compote with So-Delicious Coconut Milk Ice Cream – hmmm! so rich.

I am so looking forward to this adventure. I have not seen these two dears in two years or so. I cannot wait to spend time in their localvore life.

{ 1 comment }

Create eco-friendly hand printed reliefs:

Plattsburgh, June 15th, 2012
Potsdam, June 16th

Plattsburgh, June 30th

Plattsburgh, July 1
handprinting demo at 13 Plein Air Sundays, private home in the lake valley country 5 miles north of Plattsburgh.

Laurentians (near Ste. Agathe) : les Laurentines (pres de Ste. Agathe)
July 17 – 19

Create 6 to 15 colorful pieces on rice paper. No press nor experience needed. Using richly colored non-toxic inks, create improvised works using found/meaningful objects. Process learned in minutes. Recycle styrofoam into printing plates. Experience the meditative feeling of handprinting. Easily duplicated at home. Create new colors from the blending of primary colors. Enjoy a trust-the-process, experimental atmosphere.  Instructor Nadia Korths creates workshops and works of art which induce reverie wherever she wanders up and down the east coast.

Artist statement/bio
“I walk the skin of the earth, I clean the skin of the earth. From my gleanings, I make prints, jewelry, assemblages and am inspired to create word images.”

{ 0 comments }