Sunday, March 23rd
12pm-4pm
Have something to say? There’s no better way than a poster.
Using stylistic inspiration from the prolific mid-century poster designer Paul Peter Piech, students will develop a bold linoleum print featuring a quote or personal slogan.
This beginner-friendly workshop provides an introduction to carving linoleum blocks, using an etching press to print them, and hand-printing them using DIY techniques they can use at home!
Through this workshop, students will explore and discuss the historical connection between printmaking and political art. Students will learn how to pair text with images in a graphic way that expresses their unique voice.
All class materials will be provided.
Please bring a couple of short slogans or phrases (3-6 words) that you are interested in carving.
Instructor: Emma Mohrmann
Emma Mohrmann is an artist in Philadelphia originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Her practice embraces process and material history specifically through printmaking, papermaking, weaving, tattooing, and sculpture. She is passionate about urban history and the stories people and objects hold. She mixes intimate spaces and individual experiences with larger place histories and records bodily memories in subtle ways. Currently, Emma is making lots of work using construction materials to think about permanence and the concept of a home. She hopes her slow, process-based art can act as a protest to the constant pressure for speed and “progress” in today’s world. Emma also finds inspiration in her childhood art and sound archives.
Emma currently assists a papermaking artist and is a FOB Holder Resident at Second State Press in Philadelphia. In the past couple of years, she has also worked with a master printer at Island Press in St. Louis, Missouri and a master papermaker at the Morgan Paper Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. She also volunteered at the National Building Arts Center in St. Louis. Emma loves to teach, and has taught art classes to high schoolers, papermaking workshops, and ESL classes in Trenton. She has also led outdoor education backpacking trips and coached sports camps for kids since high school. Emma has exhibited in various galleries in St. Louis, Cleveland, New Jersey, and Philly. She received her B.A. as a visual arts major from Princeton University with a thesis show entitled “So soft you can barely feel the seams.”
Top: Get to Know People, Emma Mohrmann, 2023
Bottom: Peace Is Just Understanding People - Helping Them, Paul Peter Piech, 1980