Printmaking Demonstration with Chesapeake Film Festival Featured Artist Dan Welden

Sunday, October 11^th, 1:00pm – 3:30pm

Please join us for a very special demonstration with solarplate printmaking pioneer, Dan Welden! Following the Easton premier of Lasting Impressions at the Chesapeake Film Festival, an engaging feature length documentary on this world renown artist, Dan will join us in the Academy’s new printmaking studio to demonstrate the process at the heart of his career. Printmaking with solarplate is a simple acid free approach and safer alternative to traditional etching techniques. Since Dan Welden’s development of the process in the 1970s, printmakers, painters, photographers, and art teachers interested in multiple impressions have found printmaking with solarplate an exciting adventure. All one needs is inspiration, a graphic image created on a transparent film (acetate or glass), sun or UV light, an ordinary tap water, and the process is ready to begin. Both positives and negatives can be utilized; intaglio and relief printing techniques can be applied. 

About Dan Welden

Dan Welden is a world-renowned artist and pioneer of alternative printmaking, with a practice spanning more than five decades and over 100 solo exhibitions worldwide. He developed the solarplate process as a safer approach to intaglio and relief printing. Using light-sensitive plates exposed to UV light and developed with water, the process makes the medium more accessible without sacrificing depth or range.

Costs: $25 members / $30 non-members

Location: Printmaking Studio

Max Capacity: 18