Take inspiration from Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking and trailblazing Baroque artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609–64) to create a monotype print in this Weekday Studio.
Monotype is a printmaking technique in which a design is painted on a surface before it’s transferred by printing press or by hand onto paper. Unlike typical printmaking techniques where one plate is used to create many, even hundreds of, prints, this process produces a single good impression.
Drawing on the work of Castiglione, who was one of Europe’s first monotype makers, participants are invited to apply ink to a plate and create an image by subtraction, removing the ink with various tools before printing.
about the teaching artist
Cameron Mankin makes drawings, prints, and artist’s books that investigate and retool found media. Security camera footage, cracked CDs, and old textbooks get broken down into their component parts and collaged together into exploded arrangements, all with the goal of cracking the surface of the increasingly streamlined media systems we interact with in our daily lives. Mankin teaches in the Media Arts and Design program at the University of Chicago.
what to expect
This is a printmaking workshop guided by teaching artists and Art Institute staff. This program will take place primarily in the Ryan Learning Center, Studio A, and it includes a short excursion into the Prints and Drawings galleries to see selected works in the exhibition Lines of Connection. The primary creative activity is making a monotype print; all activity supplies will be provided. If you have any questions or accessibility related requests, please email museum_interpretation@artic.edu or call (312) 857–7613.
