The Woodcut Portrait

Instructor: Stella Ebner
3-day workshop
July 10-12, 2025
Thurs-Sat, 10am - 4pm
Class size: 4-6, some printmaking experience preferred
Cost: $395 members, $445 non-members

There is a long history of artists using the woodcut print process to create expressive and meaningful portraits. Portraiture has an intimate, and vulnerable nature to it — whether it is creating a portrait of someone, allowing another to capture your image, or making your own self-portrait for others to see. The act of making a woodcut itself is also intimate, from the laborious and expressive process of carving the wood, the careful ink application, and to the quiet revealing of an image from the block. In this workshop each participant will have the opportunity to create a portrait or self-portrait using multiblock relief printing techniques. We will look at the work of artists who have explored portraiture using relief printing techniques. Carving techniques, registration, inking and printing by press will be covered.