Sunday, April 6th & Sunday, April 13th
2:00pm-5:00pm (2 sessions)
Mask-required workshop (Kn95 or N95, extra masks will be available for students.)
Copper plate etching is a traditional form of printmaking that yields a variety of rich lines, textures, and marks. This introductory two-session workshop will demonstrate how to etch a drawing into a copper plate using an acid resist. Students will also be introduced to aquatint and drypoint techniques, as well as how to ink and print their plate on an etching press.
We will also cover safety and best practices while working in a communal studio with chemicals and press equipment. We will look at examples of printed works together and discuss the possibilities for translating individual artistic visions into print.
Participants will go home with a set of black and white prints, their 5”x5” copper plate, and a strong understanding of the medium.
No prior experience is necessary.
All workshop materials are provided.
Instructor: Uriah Bussey
Uriah Bussey is a non-binary archival Hoodoo interdisciplinary trauma-nformed artist, writer and educator from Cobbs Creek, Philly. Bussey has a deep care for self narrative work, grief, housing and disability justice. Their collaborative film with Abdul-aAliy A. Muhammad, titled, “#MEDSTRIKE, Confronting the Nonprofit Industrial Complex” (commissioned by Visual AIDS), recently screened at “ENDURING CARE” (Montreal, CA) with a world premiere in over 100 countries released on December 1st, 2021. Bussey received their BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Printmaking and Applied Digital Arts. Recently Bussey experienced their first international residency, Officina Stamperia del Notaio in Tusa, Sicily. Bussey’s practice spans photo, prose, printmaking, painting, and video. Offers a dialogue with their personal & inherited archive, disability, sexuality, death, living spaces, magic and memory. Black spaces are portals. Reflecting on technology and print as a function in keeping, sharing and remembering. Bussey has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally along with two solo shows in their emerging artist career.
Bottom: Copper plate etching by Uriah Bussey