Unsure of which experience is right for you? learn more
Lorraine GlessnerExploring Landscape Through Encaustic, Mark Making & the Book with Lorraine Glessner
July 11 - 15, 2021 Go back
Utilizing the natural luminosity, textural and layering possibilities of encaustic, participants will experiment with innovative materials, drawing and marks to depict the spirit and essence of the land. Daily journaling, meditation, readings and expressive mark-making exercises along with leisurely walks exploring the outdoors provide the inspiration for which to develop ideas for series-based work while also developing your personal artistic voice. Participants will experiment with a wide variety of innovative processes and materials such as encaustic monoprinting, suminagashi, powdered graphite/charcoal, graphite bars, horsehair, pyrography, stitch and alternative bookbinding.
- Class description
- Bio
- Supply List
- gallery
Class description
Utilizing the natural luminosity, textural and layering possibilities of encaustic, participants will experiment with innovative materials, drawing and marks to depict the spirit and essence of the land. Daily journaling, meditation, readings and expressive mark-making exercises along with leisurely walks exploring the outdoors provide the inspiration for which to develop ideas for series-based work while also developing your personal artistic voice.
Participants will experiment with a wide variety of innovative processes and materials such as encaustic monoprinting, suminagashi, powdered graphite/charcoal, graphite bars, horsehair, pyrography and stitch. The conceptual use of translucency and layers is further explored through simple, yet versatile, book bindings to create unique personal journals through the alternative book form. Through listening, mapping, touching, collecting and communing with nature through all of the senses, our body's connection and its direct relationship to landscape is explored and experienced. Optional individual critiques with Lorraine will be offered to all participants.
THREE THINGS THAT RETREAT GUESTS WILL WALK AWAY WITH UPON RETREAT CONCLUSION:
- Use of abstraction/expression toward developing your personal artistic voice
- Expressive mark-making exercises to depict the spirit and essence of the land
- How to effectively use translucency and layering in the work to evoke memory and time.
**Please note that participants should be prepared to spend time outside as well as in the studio. In the event that participants are unable to take part in the workshop walks, participants are welcome to opt out and alternative outdoor creative exercises will be provided.
biography
Lorraine Glessner’s love of surface, pattern, markmaking, image and landscape has led her to combine disparate materials and processes such as silk, wood, branding, rust, paper and more in her work. Lorraine is an Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, a workshop instructor and an award-winning artist. She holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, a BS from Philadelphia University, and an AAS in Computer Graphics from Moore College of Art & Design. She has a diverse art background with skills that include painting, sculpture, graphic design, interior design, textile design, photography, digital imaging and much more. Among her most recent professional achievements is a Second Place award in Sculpture from Art of the State at the State Museum in Harrisburg, PA, a recently completed artist residency at Jentel Foundation and an acquisition by Kelsey-Seybold Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Lorraine’s work is exhibited locally and nationally in galleries, museums, craft centers, schools, libraries, universities, and more. Like her work, Lorraine brings to her teaching a strong interdisciplinary approach, mixed with a balance of concept, process, history, experimentation, problem solving and discovery.
| Contact: | Website: |
|---|---|
| lorraineglessnerstudio@gmail.com |
Supply List
$35 Supply Fee is included with Retreat Tuition
- Sketchbook (portable for outdoor use/notes/small sketches)
- Favorite sketching materials (a variety of water soluble AND non-water soluble)
- 2-4 actual OR images of your work, digital prints or phone/iPad sharing is fine
- 1lb encaustic medium from any company
- Any small sharp-ended tool for incising/writing/drawing into the wax
- 2-4 wooden painting panels (your preference of 8x8 or 10x10, but no larger or smaller, please.) (Your preference if you want to gesso, but nothing coated in acrylic or acrylic gesso!!)
- 2 to 4 hake or hog's bristle natural hair brushes in 1-2 inch sizes for encaustic painting (1 brush will be designated your medium brush, so it must be free of color if you are bringing used brushes)
- Any tool or material for any technique that you normally employ while working with encaustic
- A package of razor blades or clay scraper
- Your favorite art book to share with the class
- Inexpensive package of rice paper
- Favorite drawing/printmaking papers
- Collage materials (fabric, magazine pages, old books, photographs, old drawings/paintings, etc..)
- Variety of papers to print/draw/bind in any size-9x12 or 11x14 are good for travel and are large enough to work with (suggestions: Sumi rice paper, Strathmore mixed media, Strathmore printmaking, your favorite paper/sketchbook/surface for drawing/painting)
- Small ruler/straightedge
- Basic Bookbinding Kit OR Similar Supplies included in the kit
