July 10th: Carol Marie Vossler
Class: Monotype with Gelli Prints
In this workshop participants will learn how to make monotype prints pulled from a substrate called Gelli plates. The process is fun and immediate, cleaning the plate is quick and easy. Participants will learn how to use a variety of textures, color overlays, organic material and stencils, creating one of a kind works of art. Time will be taken to explain compositional choices and pattern designs!
Carol Vossler is founder and Artistic Director of BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake and a full time faculty member of North Country Community College. Her newest body of work, inspired by her two past art exchanges with artists from Mazatlan Mexico, includes traditional and contemporary printmaking/papermaking methods. After completing her Forestry Degree at Paul Smith’s College in 1981, she worked with her husband David as a logger in their forestry business, V&P Forestry Co., for six years. In 1986 she began her studies at North Country Community College, and continued on to Plattsburgh State University where she finished her B.A. in studio arts. Vossler received her Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Syracuse University in 1995. Her work optimizes the notion of collaboration, her experience as a logger and love for the outdoors is evident in her work. bluseedstudios.org/artist/carol-vossler/