Workshop

The Woodcut Portrait

July 10-12, 2025, from 10AM – 4PM

3-day workshop, Thursday-Saturday

Class size 4-6, Some Printmaking Experience Preferred

$395 Members, $445 Non-members

*includes all essential materials

Workshop Description: 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.

Workshop Location: Upstairs Studio – No Elevator

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Questions? Please email Workshop Coordinator Toni Miraldi at workshops@contemprints.org

Stella Ebner earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Exhibitions of her work include: the Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI; Field Projects, NYC, NY; International Print Center New York, NYC, NY; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Ebner has held residencies at MI-LAB in Lake Kawaguchi, Japan, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM; the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. Her work is in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; and Library of Congress Print Collection, Washington D.C.; among others. Ebner is currently an Associate Professor at Purchase College – SUNY in Purchase, NY.
Learn more about Stella Ebner on her website, https://stellaebner.com/

Image Credit: Erich Heckel, Portrait of a Man, 1918, Color woodcut, over zincograph, in green, blue, ochre and black on paper (detail). Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 2012.7