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2023 Workshops and Events

Joanne Price — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:00:12 +0000

2023 is starting out well with some exciting experiments I made last fall. Many of my experiments are played out in print exchanges – a fun print tradition where a theme is set and each artist gets one of each participant’s prints. I participated in three exchanges this fall. One for seed packets, one for cinderella stamps (detail of first-day-of-issue postcard above), and one to commemorate a wood engraving journey to the U.K in July 2022.

Catch up with me and my work at any (or all) of these 2023 scheduled events!

ART FAIRS

December 8th, 6-9pm (Friday Ticketed Preview) & Dec 9th 10-4pm (Saturday free & open to the public) Crafted Social’s Winter Market: A winter celebration with traditional and contemporary craft, art and spirits at the historic Greyline Station in Lexington.
December 16th (Saturday) 11am to 5pm: Last Call Art Market at West Sixth Brewery – your last chance to buy that perfect, unique gift!

March 11 (Saturday), 10am – 5pm – BOOTH 237: KY Crafted Market at the Alltech Arena in the Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY. Visit Starpointe Studio’s booth and shop the best visual arts and crafts of the Commonwealth.
March 12 (Sunday), 10am – 4pm – BOOTH 237: KY Crafted Market at the Alltech Arena in the Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY. Visit Starpointe Studio’s booth and shop the best visual arts and crafts of the Commonwealth.

May 13 (Saturday) – Noon – 5pm for Halftone Zine Fest at 21c Museum Hotel in Lexington, KY. A welcome return of the event formerly known as the KY Fried Zine Fest – find my table and shop/browse your way through small press publishers, self-published zines, local writers, and artists!

WORKSHOPS

November 19 (Sunday), 11am – 2pm: Demonstration at Kentucky Artisan Center, Berea. I’ll be there printing a fun take away and chatting with folks about my wood engraving process. Stop at this amazing travel center and browse the wonderful Kentucky art on your next road trip!

March 31 – April 2: A weekend wood engraving workshop at Starpointe Studio! Get 15 hours of instruction over 2 and a half days in a lovely rural setting. Instruction covers material basics, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, DIY printing, plus pro tips and tricks.

July 3 – 8: A week-long Wood Engraving workshop through Frogman’s Print Workshops at their new location in Iowa City. This is my first time going to the legendary Frogman’s to teach a workshop – Jim Horton and Deborah Mae Broad taught wood engraving for years when it was in South Dakota. I’m honored to be following in their footsteps.

July 16 – 28: A 2-week wood engraving intensive, Wood Engraving: Mighty Detailed Prints at Penland School of Crafts in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. A rare treat to explore wood engraving for such a long duration – we’ll talk about 2-color printing and experimental application of wood engraving and cap it off with a print exchange!

October 6 – 9: An in-person wood engraving workshop in the south of France at the Louis Jou Foundation in Les Baux-de-Provence! More details and registration here: https://www.starpointestudio.com/shop/classes/weekend-wood-engraving-workshop-in-france-october-6-9-2023/

EXHIBITIONS
November 10 – December 30: Wood Engravers’ Network 4th Triennial Exhibition, Arts Center of St. Peter, Minnesota.

February 7 – 26: 84th Annual Society of Wood Engravers Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK.

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Wood Engraving Disasters – Virtual Presentation March 21, 2021

Joanne Price — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 23:09:58 +0000

Join me (Joanne Price) for a short virtual presentation titled Wood Engraving Disasters followed by a Q&A style discussion hosted by the Wood Engravers Network (WEN) on Sunday March 21 at 3pm Central Time (US)!

Craa-ack! As relief print artists we don’t talk often about the mistakes, accidents, or failures that lead us to a final composition, color choice, or resolution. Or how those accidents sometimes have nothing to do with aesthetics, rather they were hard lessons about materials, physics, chemistry, patience, and/or common sense. So, I’m going to share my most embarrassing wood engraving mishaps with hopes that we can have a great discussion, learn from others’ mistakes, and swap disaster stories! – Joanne Price

Anyone is welcome to join the conversation (you don’t need to be a WEN member) — bring your disaster stories and your questions — this should be a cracker!

If you missed this exciting event, WATCH THE RECORDING: https://youtu.be/PCPx51ni1E4

Find out what disaster struck this reductive self portrait…

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2021 Summer Wood Engraving Workshops – In-person and virtual!

Joanne Price — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:36:49 +0000

Learn Wood Engraving with Joanne Price!

Wood engraving creates fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress cards, artist books, graphic novels, comic books, broadsides, or as stand-alone images. Learn to cut your own original drawings into miniature end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover materials, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving and proofing. It is the perfect at-home print process – portable, meditative, no printing press is necessary and now with water soluble oil based inks, clean up is safe and easy at home.

Join me in a way that meets your level of comfort and needs in 2021: year 2 of a global pandemic:

In-Person Wood Engraving Intensive at John C. Campbell Folk School August 1 – 7, 2021

Join me for a week-long wood engraving workshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School August 1 through August 7, 2021.
We will use the Folk School’s printing presses and airy, spacious, and light-filled print classroom among the mountains of North Carolina.
This is a great course for beginners and intermediate skill levels. No previous experience is necessary, but it is helpful to previous drawing experience.

This will be an in-person course with precautions taken for Covid-19. Register by calling 1800-365-5724. OR visit the course listing online to register: https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=23617

Wood Engraving: Virtual Live and Recorded Instruction (8-hours total), 4 Wednesdays: June 2 through June 23, 2021.

Learn to cut a design into end-grain hardwood blocks through a combination of pre-recorded video demonstrations and live meetings via Zoom. Each participant will receive a class kit prior to the workshop. Instruction during 4 sessions covers material basics, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, DIY printing, plus Pro tips and tricks.

This is a great course for beginners and intermediate skill levels. No previous experience is necessary, but it is helpful to have some previous drawing experience.
Perfect for those who have difficult schedules – all live class meetings will be recorded and available for viewing (streaming only) during the workshop and a couple weeks after until July 11, 2021. So you can watch any classes you missed at anytime!

Held via Zoom Wednesday nights 8pm–10pm ET: June 2, 9, 16 and 23

For specific supplies information and to register < click the underlined text

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Wood Engraving Class at Frogman’s Print Workshop July 5–10, 2021

Joanne Price — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:20:37 +0000

Join me, Joanne Price, for an intensive week-long Wood Engraving Workshop at Frogman’s Print Workshop! July 5-10, 2021

Wood engraving creates delicate, fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect as stand-alone images, or as illustrations to letterpress holiday cards, artist’s books, or posters. Learn to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover all parts of the process – materials, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, and proofing. All levels welcome – some drawing experience helpful, but not required.

This class is designed for beginners and intermediate students of wood engraving — you’ll learn everything you need to know to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Frogman’s Print Workshop is an institution — an organization that is known as a crossroads for print cross-pollination and print networking.

You’re not just learning a new print skill at Frogman’s – you’ll have a FULL in-person experience including special activities including a faculty lecture series, open portfolio viewing sessions, gallery crawls, and costumed bowling tournaments. Expect barbecues, pool parties, karaoke, fireworks, and free concerts. The workshop will culminate in a very special final banquet. More information regarding these activities will accompany your confirmation packet. Be prepared for anything!

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Starpointe Studio Virtual Tour

Joanne Price — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:06:31 +0000

Welcome to a virtual tour of Starpointe Studio! Following the cancellation of the Kentucky Crafted Market event in Lexington, KY March 14 & 15, I decided to set up prints and items as a showcase. You can experience a quiet, slow-paced video perusal on You Tube: https://youtu.be/BQ2fEnFVDdo or just click on the picture above — you can view and purchase all of the prints you see in the video in my online shop. If you see some mini books or greeting cards that you’d like to order contact me directly. PLUS, from now to March 31, 2020 you can enjoy free shipping on your orders!

In the picture above I am just starting sketches for a commission from Yew Dell Botanical Gardens for their Twilight event this year. I’ll be using a natural box wood round to engrave an image of a tree(s). My antique engraving tools, generically called burins, sit atop a handmade tool roll.A new Beneficial Insect illustration of a Robber Fly — the eagle of the insect world. This is being engraved on a plastic material called high impact polystyrene. I’ll be posting progress on social media as this moves along.Some newer images, including the most recent Matriarchy, and a colorful bunny print Stay Sharp! Also shown are Athena and Greenie (lower left) and some Japanese Side Stab blank journals (upper right).
Above: Miniature blank books (3 inches high) with my original prints on the covers — great for gifts.
Above: Miniature blank books in progress. Half ready for your creative venture. See one you want — let me know. I’ll finish it up and ship it off to you!Even smaller miniature blank book necklaces (about 2″ high) — a classy way to remember important notes AND a beautiful expression of your love of books.Locally sourced black walnut (top) and hickory (bottom) wood covers for coptic stitch binding of blank journals in progress. A finished purple-heart wood coptic bound blank book, upper right. Many of these books and business card holders are not on my website because they are all unique. The papers and prints I use are available in limited supply. Business card holders with magnetic or button closures ready to represent and present you and your business in style.
Starpointe Studio in its functional, casual, working state — ready for more wood engraving, letterpress, printing, book binding, and overall creativity. Wood engravers need stretches of quiet time, with social isolation — its built into our DNA. The printing part is far more social, but can easily be done at social distance. Stay safe and healthy y’all.

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Flight Path: From Block to Street to Press

Joanne Price — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:51:32 +0000

I mark spring’s progress by the arrival of the elegant, but spunky barn swallows. I love that their diets include eating wasps and other insects around our home. And if you’ve ever witnessed the feast of mayflies by a body of water — you’re lucky enough to have seen the feeding frenzy coupled with the grace, fluidity, and freedom of these birds. So, of course, a print was going to feature them!

I started by drawing directly on the block.

This print was originally printed with a construction steamroller at the Portland Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The free public event was organized by Rachel Singel of the University of Louisville and supported in part by a grant from Burning Man.

The edition was printed on a large Takach Press at the University of Kentucky with printing assistance from Charles VanMeter.

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Wood Engraving Class at Wells Book Arts July 14–20, 2019

Joanne Price — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:17:19 +0000

I (Joanne Price of Starpointe Studio), will be teaching a week-long workshop at the prestigious Wells Book Arts Summer Institute in Aurora, New York July 14–20, 2019. Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration will help you create delicate, fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress greeting cards, artist’s books, broadsides or to create a stand-alone image.

This class is designed for beginners and intermediate students of wood engraving — you’ll learn everything you need to know to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover all parts of the process – materials, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, setting printer’s type by hand, and proofing. Finish the week with two engravings and a collaborative book — the perfect way to start your own art collection! All levels welcome — some drawing experience helpful, but not required.

This class would make a great primer for anyone also interested in going to the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN) annual conference — celebrating 25 years of this exciting graphic medium at Hamilton Wood Type Museum July 29–August 3, 2019. The Wells Book Arts Summer Institute boasts an impressive line-up of WEN connections — you’ll be in good company with this Book Arts Dream Team no matter what workshop you take!

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Wood Engraving at John C. Campbell Folk School June 9-15, 2019

Joanne Price — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:57:18 +0000

Join me, Joanne Price, Wood Engravers’ Network President and founder/owner of Starpointe Studio, June 9–June 15, 2019 in Brasstown, North Carolina at the John C. Campbell Folk School for an immersive week of Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration. John C. Campbell Folk School has a long tradition of keeping old crafts fresh and alive amid the beautiful and peaceful setting of the Appalachian Mountains. Wood engraving creates fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress cards, artist books, broadsides, or as stand-alone images. Learn to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover materials, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, setting printer’s type by hand, and proofing. We will examine wood engraving’s history through a presentation and interaction with historic books and prints. All levels welcome; some drawing experience helpful, but not required.

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Wood Engraving Demo at Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea August 11

Joanne Price — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 02:40:24 +0000

On Saturday, Aug. 11, Joanne Price (that’s me), will present a demonstration of wood engraving from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea. It appears this will be the first time wood engraving will be demonstrated at the Center. Wood engraving is a relief printmaking medium, like stamps, woodcuts, letterpress, or linoleum cuts. Wood engravings produce images with fine details while retaining the bold relief characteristics of woodcut and linoleum. This process is perfect for adding illustrations to books, broadsides, greeting cards, or to create a unique piece of art.

“For me, wood engraving’s intimate scale and slow pace provide a welcome respite from our cyber-fast world. The tactile nature and physicality of the relief printmaking process is satisfying. The strokes of my tools reveal the light, with the image slowly emerging from a darkened surface. It is charmingly mysterious and feeds my need for quiet concentration and hands-on creative productivity.” – Joanne Price

Wood Engraving (also known as Xylography) was developed in the late 18th century by Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), an artist and naturalist in Northern England. Bewick made his living doing commercial graphic design work, much like modern day designers do – making ads, business cards and logos combining image and text. Bewick engraved both cooper and wood, but excelled in the latter. From the 1830s – early 1900s, wood engravings dominated illustration in newspapers, magazines, and in books with demand for increased edition sizes. The demands of the Industrial Revolution created a medium that could be as detailed as copper engraving, able to withstand thousands of impressions and could be printed at the same time as the text. This reduced the printing time, labor, and cost of illustrating text.

Once photographic techniques gained a broader foothold in workshops, the creative engraver in commercial realms declined, but the relief medium as an art form truly blossomed in the early 1900s.

Come discover this medium, steeped in its history, utilized in a computer age, with me!

I’ll show you how I cut my original drawings into endgrain wood. I will demonstrate how I ink and print my wood blocks. I’ll also talk about the history, the tools and materials, as well as contemporary resources and examples.

Price is nationally known for her wood engravings and is president of the Wood Engravers Network, an organization that fosters education and creates a resource for wood engravers. She has led wood engraving workshops throughout the country, has exhibited widely and teaches printmaking at the University of Kentucky.

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