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Creating Monotypes
Using water-based inks, participants will explore the monotype process–a combination of painting and printmaking –to create a one-of-a-kind image. Monotype is the most forgiving of the printmaking processes and allows for quick, direct experimentation with immediate results. Students will learn to prepare aluminum plates for printing, then explore additive, subtractive, stencil, ghost, and chine collé processes. Participants are encouraged to bring colorful textured scraps of paper to use in chine collé.
This printmaking workshop is for beginners, but experienced artists are welcome.
Required tools: palette knife, assorted artists paintbrushes, cotton rags, paper scraps, disposable gloves
January 19 & January 20 (Saturday & Sunday)
Tuition: $110 • Materials fee: $25
Painters in the Print Shop: The Monotype
Painters are encouraged to take their talents to the printmaking studio and experience one of the least technical, most forgiving printmaking techniques. Painters tend to loathe laborious processes, but this class will demonstrate how the monotype offers immediate results and provides an excellent format for exploring ideas. Using water-based inks, everyone will have the opportunity to experiment with both painterly processes and roll-up techniques, plus a combination of the two. Those who wish to bring colored paper scraps and other very thin materials may incorporate these into the process. All artists are welcome, not just painters!
Required tools: palette knife, assorted artists paintbrushes, Q-tips, disposable gloves
February 23 & 24 (Saturday & Sunday)
Tuition: $110 • Materials fee: $25
*Musicians: Create Your Own CD Art!
Local musicians have expressed interest in creating unique original cover art for their CD jewel cases. This session will offer various methods of printing, both by hand and with a press. They will make a simple monotype, a monotype combined with intaglio (making lines with an awl), and if time allows, an etching that uses a laser printer, clay paper, and Photoshop images.
No prior art experience is necessary.
Required materials and tools: CD with Photoshop images, cheap artists paintbrushes, disposable gloves
March 22 & March 23 (Saturday & Sunday)
11:00 am – 5:00 pm (not too early!)
Tuition: $110 • Materials fee: $45
*Basic Intaglio Workshop
Intaglio combines drawing and printmaking. If you like to draw, this is a very basic way to create an edition of prints from an aluminum plate. Intaglio (drypoint) uses a simple hardened steel point to draw (scratch) into the surface of a plate. This results in grooves and burrs which capture the ink, creating the print on paper. Printing will be done both by hand and with a Takach etching press. Beginners and experienced artists are welcome!
Required tools: cotton rags, hardened scribe, burnisher (optional), disposable gloves
March 22 & 23 (Saturday & Sunday)
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuition: $110 • Materials fee: $35
*NOTICE !! MUSICIAN'S AND INTAGLIO WORKSHOPS ARE NOW COMBINED (SAME WEEKEND)
Woodcut Printmaking I
This is a basic introduction to woodcut using water-based relief inks. Participants will draw directly onto a wood block or transfer a simple sketch to the block, then work the image using carving tools. Prints will be made both by hand and with a Takach etching press. Beginners and experienced artists are welcome!
Required tools: linoleum carving set,
woodcut set, or equivalent
April 19 & 20 (Saturday & Sunday)
Tuition: $110 • Materials fee: $45
Woodcut Printmaking II
This process uses a single wood block and water-based relief inks in combination with reductive carving techniques. Participants will use a color printing sequence to produce an edition of multicolored prints.
Prerequisite: Woodcut I or prior experience.
Required tools: linoleum carving set,
woodcut set, or equivalent
May 24 & 25 (Saturday & Sunday)
Tuition: $110 • Materials fee: $45
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Intelligent Design, 2006, is the most recent donation by Philanthropist Tom Haas to The Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum in St. Louis , Missouri.
Intelligent Design, by Roger Goldenberg, oil on canvas assemblage with rope, string, thread and other fabric, 90" x 75"
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Head Space for Kate, was donated this summer to the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans, following in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This painting is proving to be a morale booster for the children and parents in New Orleans, the birth place of jazz.
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Hairy Harry! seen below, was donated last year by philanthropist,
Tom Haas, to the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, in Gulfport, Mississippi. Their children's museum was also devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005. This gift is part of an on-going national children's museum project to spark children's creative imaginations through Roger Goldenberg's dynamic paintings such as this one.
Hairy Harry by Roger Goldenberg, oil on canvas assemblage on panel with string, 28"
x 36"
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Goldenberg'spaintings can be found in children's
museums across the country and many other noted private and corporate collections. These paintings are vivacious oils on dynamically
shaped canvas assemblages.
Goldenberg plays trumpet as a hobby and listens to jazz as he works. “Though even when my studio is silent, jazz is there, inside me,” he muses. His imagery is jazz made visible: layers of melodies and rhythms, swinging and syncopating, calling and responding. This visual improvisation is conjured from a deep place and appears as gestures, colors, symbols, and glyphs. Roger explains, “Shapes, textures, and patterns move through me onto my canvas.” His paintings share the complexity and innovation heard and felt in the Bee Bop innovations of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, saxophonist Charlie Byrd and jazz explorer of 'terra incognita', Wayne Shorter. Chris Millis, the former Living Arts Editor for Boston's South End News and current editor for artsMEDIA, exclaimed, "these are paintings you could 'listen' to forever."
For the past 5 years artist Roger Goldenberg has been working in partnership with philanthropist Tom Haas to place his paintings in children's museums throughout the nation.
Philanthropist Tom Haas' Children's Museum Project comes to a successful
conclusion this year. Haas donated 26 of artist Roger Goldenberg's paintings to children's museums throughout the United States: some major cities include New Orleans, Dallas, Cleveland, Memphis, Miami, Philadelphia and some humbler locales include Masphee and Easton, MA; Derry and Portsmouth, NH; and Bangor, ME and Gulfport, MS.
The idea for this project was inspired by Haas' eight year old son Tommy, who relishes telling his Dad about the stories that he sees in Goldenberg's painting, Tree House, which hangs in his bedroom. Citing Tommy as an example, Mr. Haas believes that Goldenberg's paintings can be used within the forum of children'smuseums to inspire visiting children to use their gifts of imagination and to encourage them to develop their spirit of creativity. Tom Roger's artwork will broaden children’s exposure to art, deepen their understanding of art, and help build a trustworthy foundation from which they can confidently follow their creative instincts to boldly use their imaginations.
Roger Goldenberg believes it is an honor to be selected by Tom Haas as an ambassador for this purpose. Goldenberg is currently working on a book project to document this extensive project. This book will not only herald the generousity of Mr. Haas and the importance of his philanthropy, but will underscore Haas' vision: to bring unique high quality abstract art to children throughout the USA. The book will also provide simple curriculum for parents and children during their museum visit.
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Roger was just named by the United States Small Business Administration as NH SBA’s “2006 Home-Based Business Champion of the Year” for 2006. Goldenberg is an active member of , having served three years as the Vice Chairman and currently serving as the Chairman of the Arts Space Committee. The committee is charged with exploring the issue of space for the arts and artists; for living, performing and exhibition. The committee is actively pursuing local legislation to institute a public art ordinance, which would require that 1% of public buildings’ space be utilized for art. In addition to raising public awareness of art space issues, the committee has also brought the issue of affordable “live/work" space to the attention of the city council.
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