Instructor: Bláithín Haddad
Monday - Friday
June 8 - 12
9am - 12pm
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions
This course will introduce artists to experimental printmaking by brewing kombucha and printing the SCOBY. SCOBY stands for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast, and is a rubbery biofilm used to ferment sweet tea into tangy kombucha. In this workshop, students will learn how to brew kombucha and grow their SCOBY into different shapes before using a relief-collagraph like process to print. Students will also learn how to make bio-materials to explore texture through collographs. Bio-materials offer exciting and sustainable ways of printmaking.
Bláithín Haddad is an artist based in Providence, RI. Informed by her experience as a first generation American, with Irish and Jamaican parents, and growing up in West Texas, she uses experimental printmaking to explore generations, family and belonging. She earned her MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she currently teaches drawing and design. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is included in the Wheaton College (MA) permanent collection and the RISD Library special collections.
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