Program Description:
All are welcome to join us as we print and wheatpaste carved woodblocks to create a large collaborative mural. This event is free and open to the public. Stop by to lend a hand or just watch the process!
Instructor Bio:
Anna Hepler is an artist based in Greenfield, MA. She discovered printmaking in the 4th grade after carving a linoleum block with the image of an owl. From there, she studied printmaking in college, learned to set movable type on a letterpress, discovered bookbinding, and in 1989, founded Beo Press. She is currently a visiting faculty member in the print studios at Smith College in Northampton, MA.
Hepler works across media, between sculpture and printmaking. Both hand-held and architectural in scale, her work overturns first impressions – wire forms flatten into drawings, clay impersonates metal, plywood coils like rope, plastic inhales and exhales. Hepler values embarrassment, uncertainty, blunder, and fragility as active agents in her studio process.
She has exhibited widely, and her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Modern in London, England, and the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, amongst others.
