Creative Drypoint Etching Using TetraPak Plates Spring 2024
by Kirsten Sanford | Mar 4, 2024
Join teaching artist Amanda Chesney for a relaxed session of printmaking using upcycled tetrapak packaging materials as the base of your images. This material is easy to wipe and work with to capture lines and inscribed details. As an added bonus, it can be cut to unique shapes using scissors, so you can work outside of the traditional square or rectangle print format if you choose. You’ll make several small print plates using your choice of image, then ink them and print them by hand on an etching press onto archival papers. Please bring several images on your phone, magazine images, or printed photos for you to work from to the class.
$5 Materials fee due to the teaching artist at the beginning of the workshop
About the Teaching Artist
Amanda Chesney is a printmaker, visual artist and instructor as well as a biologist. She makes works on paper in small editions and as unique originals using traditional and modern sustainable printmaking techniques. Amanda earned her degree in Microbiology from the University of Guelph Canada, and completed a 25 year career with Johnson & Johnson before leaving in 2022 to fully work as an artist. In parallel, she has been continuing to build on her artistic practice and teaching skills for the past 20 years, most recently completing artist residencies at Zea Mays Printmaking in Massachusetts and the Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Texas. Amanda loves to teach and regularly hosts printmaking classes for adults and teens across the area.
Amanda’s prints capture the fleeting and sometimes unexpected beauty of the natural world to appeal across cultures and times. She uses found and reclaimed materials and upcycled papers to reflect the locations and seasons where she makes her work. You can see her work on Instagram @chesneyprintmaking.
