On February 28, the Art Collection was invited to participate in a Maker Hub workshop on linocut printing. The Library’s Maker Hub provided the tools and materials, printmaker and graphic designer Lauren Emeritz (abstractorange.com) provided the expertise, and the Art Collection brought examples of linocut blocks and prints from the collection to inspire.
The clear favorite was Mark Mulfinger’s Print Room, a large color print made using the reduction method. This technique uses only one block; with each successive color printed, more of the block is cut away, Mulfinger says, until only “the final darkest skeleton lines remain.”
Print Room
1995
Mark Mulfinger
450 x 670 mm
4/9
Fairchild Endowment Fund purchase
1997.33.1
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March 19, 2018