Linoleum Block Printmaking, with Nancy Crasco

Linoleum Block Printmaking, with Nancy Crasco 

Join artist, Nancy Crasco, for a 2-day workshop exploring linoleum block printing techniques. Students will learn to create a print design, transfer the design to the block, carve, and print from a linoleum block.  

Session 1 | March 23 - design, transfer, and begin to carve block

Session 2 | March 30 - proof and print from block, learn how to sign the block, and discuss options available for matting

Registrants are required to bring their own and/or purchase materials for the workshop.

See Materials List here.

About Nancy Crasco   

Nancy Crasco is a BFA graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, earned her Master’s degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and has been working in fiber since 1968, actively exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since 1975. Since her retirement from public education in 2003, and working from a studio in her home in Brighton, Massachusetts, she has pursued her career in the arts full time. Nancy has extensive teaching experience in both public and private education, and gives lectures and workshops to various groups interested in fiber art and printmaking processes.  She is a member of the Cambridge Art Association, Studio Art Quilters Association and the Surface Design Association, for which she is currently a co-representative for the Massachusetts/Rhode Island Chapter. 

 Combining fiber with printmaking has taken Nancy along many paths of expression. In addition to paper, she prints on silk and cotton fabrics using a gelatin plate, linoleum blocks or occasionally an inkjet computer and/or copier.  Much of her content is inspired and motivated by the natural world, especially with the problems associated with the use and misuse of our natural resources, the effects of which are not always apparent to the naked eye.  Monoprinting on opaque cotton and constructing them as quilts, by stitching and embroidering through three layers of fabric, lends an added dimension to her smaller works.