Explorations in Printmaking …on the press!
Registration
$475.00
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Charley Young
Monday to Friday, July 13 – July 17, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
This week-long workshop will explore a variety of printmaking techniques, including drypoint, chinecollé, water-soluble monotypes, reductive monotypes, and pochoir (stencils). Participants will have the opportunity to use a small printing press to experiment with monoprinting techniques, creating one-of-a-kind printed images that incorporate imagery and subject matter of their interest. This workshop is intended to focus on exploration and experimentation and is suitable for those new to printmaking, as well as those with experience who are eager to try new approaches.
Students should bring:
- Apron/ Comfortable footwear (aprons can always be purchased at the LSA)
- Imagery to reference each day: Photocopies, sketchbook drawings, photographs, magazine pages, collages etc. Should be imagery of interest to you! Bring as much as you have.
- Textures Fabric: lace, leaves, netting. Items must be thin, soft and flat. Items will get inky!
- Drawing Materials: Pencils, crayons, whatever you have! (The LSA will have some on hand)
- Water-soluble media: Watercolour pencil crayons, water-soluble crayons etc. (The LSA will have some on hand)
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Charley Young
Shaped by the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Charley Young is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Charley holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art (Portland, Maine) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
Young’s practice combines site-based and indexical modes of making shared between printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She uses textures found within natural and built environments to record unique impressions of sites in transition. To date, her work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, intimate portraits of vanishing Arctic ice and small-scale hand casts that record the space between clasped hands of new Canadians. A tool for connection, her artwork often invites participation in socially engaged and public projects.
Charley Young is Regular-Part Time Faculty at NSCAD University where she teaches drawing and printmaking. Charley works out of her home studio in Bedford, Nova Scotia.