Monotype Workshop

The Children’s Art Carnival in Partnership with EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program Present PRESS & PULL | SPRING 2025 Workshop Series

MONOTYPE WORKSHOP

Instructor: Devin N. Morris
Date: Saturday, April 5th, 2025
Time: 1:00-3:00pm

Age Group: Families and Adults

Fee: $10
Online registration is required to participate: Register now

This class will introduce students to working with soy-based Akua inks to create monotypes. Monotypes are considered one of the most painterly forms of mark-making in printmaking. It is therefore a great class for those working in painting, as it offers both a painterly approach to a print medium, and an introduction to working in printmaking.

Bio Photo by Campbell Addy

About the Instructor: Devin N. Morris is interested in abstracting American life and subverting traditional value systems through the exploration of racial and sexual identity in mixed media paintings, photographs, writings, and videos. Devin N. Morris’s works present innocent and kind recollections of memories within surreal landscapes and elaborate, draped environments that reimagine the social boundaries imposed on interactions between friends, romantic partners, and family. Morris’s process of making is driven by improvisation and responding to changing environments where space, kinship, social interrogation, and available materials are explored and reflected.

In Dialect. Reminded Well, Indeed, 2024 Monotype, watercolor, oil stick, color pencil, pencil, collage, velvet, etching ink, marker, spray paint, key, ignition, lore, doorknob, hinge, lithograph ink, metal wire, pastel, molding trim, door stop, graphite in paper on panel
32.25” W x 36.75 H x 6.5”

A moon, a star, and the light whispered, ‘lean in, like that. Brace the eclipse’, 2021
Oil & watercolor monotype, oil paint, acrylic, pastel, oil stick, wood veneer, gouache, color pencil, charcoal, paraffin wax, wood trim, collage, mirror, poly chiffon, metal hinge on paper100 × 60 inches