Matt Brown Color Woodblock Printing Class

05/08/2025

Integrating Mind, Body, and Art,
a Color Woodblock Printmaking Retreat,
June 20 - 22, 2025, at the Rowe Center, Rowe, MA.

Join Matt Brown, Todd Binzen, Matt Daniell, and Maureen Burford for a collaborative art-making weekend .
Visit https://ooloopress.com/calendar/teaching/ to find out more.

06/07/2024

Last weekend I led a workshop at a new venue, one where I had never taught before:
the Rowe Conference Center in Rowe, MA.

Things went well. Apprehensive about whether the space would be big enough, and whether the graffitied walls would be too distracting for us all to feel comfortable and happy, things developed smoothly and folks’ print projects took shape nice. It was clear everyone came to enjoy the place and its environs. Rowe’s chef, Dan Ross, cooked us great food, the weather was perfect and the air up in Rowe clear and clean. The print projects were really interesting.

If you have been wondering on the idea of learning this craft of color woodblock printmaking, Japanese method, realize the next class is full but the one for the end of this month, June 29 - July 1, has two spaces left.

Classes after that?
June of 2025.

04/19/2024

Spaces are left in 2 of my upcoming color woodblock workshops in June:
-1 space available in class of the first weekend, June 1 - 3 at the Rowe Center in Rowe, MA

- two spaces available for the last weekend, June 29 - July 1.

To learn more visit:

-Snow Farm in Williamsburg, MA, - The Concord Art Association in Concord, MA, -Anderson Ranch in Aspen, CO, -The Art Students League in Denver, CO, -Green Lion Gallery, Bath, ME-Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME-Jackson Art and Design Center, Jackson, NH-my shop in Lyme

06/26/2023

Photos from last weekend's workshop.

06/26/2023

Last weekend's class at the Cotton Library in Weybridge yielded a great crop of prints.

06/13/2023

June 3 - 5 color woodblock class at the Cotton Library in Weybridge, VT went well. Here are photos of some of the projects.

05/22/2023

And here are scans of the print projects from last weekend's Snow Farm class.
Nine students and 11 prints?
Well, Marguerite really got into the whole business: she designed, cut and printed two additional images of her cat Wilson during the class time.

05/21/2023

Last weekend's class at Snow Farm went well. We were 11 folks working three full days together and with beautiful weather, excellent food up in the dining hall, and all the tools and materials we needed (glad I didn't forget anything!), everyone got along fine and (I think) learned a lot!

Interested?
There's been a cancellation and space is available in an upcoming workshop in Weybridge, VT, this coming June 3 - 5. Visit https://ooloopress.com/CottonLibrary2022/ for more info.

05/07/2023

Preparing for next weekend's color woodblock print class at Snow Farm, I got out class portfolios from past classes. Reminded of the beautiful variety of work students have made, I resolved to share some of the imagery.

The first photo shows highlights from several of the classes, the rest show work from individual workshops. My favorite class size is six. This upcoming weekend we'll be ten, but I'll have Todd Renninger helping me to teach, and I feel hopeful for another crop of wonderful woodblock prints.

04/30/2023

Last January folks connected with the Vermont Art Educators Association had me lead a one-day color woodblock workshop for interested VT art teachers. The Middlebury Studio School (https://www.facebook.com/middleburystudioschool.org) agreed to host the class, and it went quite well.
Several from that class want to go further and are participating in upcoming classes this Spring. The classes had been full but this past week there were "drop-outs", now there is space available in each of three upcoming classes:
May 12 - May 14 at Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA
(https://canvas.snowfarm.org/classes/2391)
June 3 - 5 at the Cotton Free Library in Weybridge (https://ooloopress.com/calendar/teaching/)
June 17 - 19 at the Cotton Free Library in Weybridge (https://ooloopress.com/calendar/teaching/)

Interested?
Follow those links for more info.

06/23/2022

We had a great last class of the year a few days ago, June 18 - 20, 2022, at the Cotton Free Library, Weybridge, VT. Full of learning, printmaking, and a good time. Take a look at some of the moments we caught!

No more classes until next spring, but go to https://ooloopress.com/forms/maillis/ to get onto the list for info on classes for 2023.

As always, looking forward to the next one!