Day Four

Rachel Canas works on a plate
Rachel Canas works on a plate

Day four: the final day of printing!

Students worked busily all day to finish the second half of the edition. All that is left for tomorrow is cutting and signing the prints. Parents are invited to stop by the studio in the morning to see the prints and partake in a breakfast snack.

Printmaking I visited Hawthorne and Longfellow Library to view some of the artist’s books from the special collections. These books were made using various printmaking techniques, and represented a range of styles–from Michael Mazur’s large-scale prints depicting scenes from Dante’s Inferno to Karen Bleitz’s machine-like book, The Mechanical Word.