Pochoir Reimagined: Stencil-based Printmaking Applications 
with Claudia R. Fieo
This seven-day workshop expands and reimagines traditional pochoir techniques, exploring the potential for layering color passages in print editions, building complexity in color monoprints, or creating a series of monotypes in a more dynamic method. The art of pochoir, popularized in France by Parisian illustrators during the 1920s and 1930s, was a stencil technique used to reproduce color drawings for fashion journals and architecture folios. Before more streamlined, less expensive methods were developed, colorists were employed to create patrons (templates, or
stencil-plates), carving the shapes for each color out of thin metal foil through which paints were applied by hand using brushes and sponges onto paper. Artists such as Braque, Matisse, and Picasso, among others, also used pochoir as an effective color reproduction technique for their works. With a focus on demonstration and experimentation, we will create stencils and masks using different materials and methods as a way to expand on motifs inspired by the landscape around Ballinglen. We will experiment with found objects, glues, hand-cut and laser-cut mylars, screen printing fabric and carborundum, and chine collé papers to adapt pochoir in a variety of applications, and, ultimately, to compose a series of prints, either as monoprints or monotypes. Having developed a visual lexicon of stencil motifs, through printing in various colors schemes and in numerous combinations, participants will realize several iterations on an idea. This workshop is open to all levels of experience.

Claudia R. Fieo is a printmaker, graphic designer, and educator. She is a Professor of Art in the Department of Visual Art and History of Art and holds the Hannah Goldberg Chair in Teaching Innovation at Wheaton College in Norton,
Massachusetts, USA, where she has taught design, drawing, and printmaking courses since 1992. Though her training is in traditional stone lithography, relief, and intaglio printmaking, she has been committed to working with less toxic processes for several years. She was a 2019 Ballinglen Artist Fellow and the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project 2019 Visiting Artist at Bowdoin College. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and are held in private collections, as well as permanent and public collections, such as the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Permanent Collection, Boston Public Library, Bowdoin College, Newport Art Museum, Slater Memorial Museum, and the University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, China. Fieo is a member of the Monotype Guild of New England,
Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England, Southern Graphics Council International, and Zea Mays Printmaking, and her prints are represented by Dolan/Maxwell. A native of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Fieo moved to Florence, Italy
to attend Rosary College Graduate School of Art at Villa Schifanoia and Il Bisonte International School for Advanced Printmaking, earning a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking.  She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University.  The artist currently resides in Mansfield,
Massachusetts.

The cost is $1,900 which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for 8 nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/dropoff to the bus/train stations in Ballina, full use of the Dolan/Maxwell library and facilities 24/7. Payment is made to Ballinglen: USA/Ireland using the payment button on the website www.ballinglenworkshops.com. Participants arrive on the 29th and depart on the 6th of June (The workshop is for seven days with arrival and departure day making it nine days). Please contact Claudio on fieo_claudia@wheatoncollege.edu with questions about workshop content or materials.
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Ballinglen: USA/Ireland Workshop @
​The Ballinglen Arts Foundation

Pochoir Reimagined: Stencil-based Printmaking Applications
workshop with Claudia Fieo

August 12 – 20, 2022
TOTAL COST $1,900 Registration begins on October 25th, 2021, booking forms, with deposit must be received by April 1st 2022. First come, first serve basis. 
A $500 booking fee applies and is non refundable after May 20th 2022, (An administration fee is deducted from refunds.)  Final payment must be made before the 21st July 2022, please email for details re payment, booking forms will be accepted online.  Materials fee for supplies will be available once the number of participants is confirmed.  Class participation constitutes an agreement to our Health and Safety Policy.  Accommodation available from 12th August with departure on the 20th.Collection/dropoff                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               at train/bus in Ballina is also included.  Please contact Claudia with any questions on the class directly, email fieo_claudia@wheatoncollege.edu.

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