2025 Summer Workshop Program

Julie Lapping Rivera Deep Dive into Color Reduction Woodcut July 20 to July 25, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Printmaking Materials Fee: $75.00 Open To All On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

There are many ways to introduce color and variety to woodblock prints! In this workshop we will explore the exciting process of color reduction, which involves working with one block, carving away and printing successive layers from light to dark. We’ll begin with an experimental block to get comfortable with the process, and move on to a larger pre-planned image. We’ll also explore a variety of ways of working with color, such as using transparency, rainbow rolls, selective inking, stencils and masks.

This class is appropriate for all levels of experience, though a basic knowledge of woodcut is helpful.

Biography

Julie Lapping Rivera began her career in New York as a teaching artist with the Studio In a School Association, Museum of Modern Art, and Lincoln Center Institute. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Drawing, and has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2022, Lapping Rivera was awarded a guest artist fellowship at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, representing the Boston Printmakers. Her current print and poetry project, “Look Again” is on display at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA and will travel starting in 2026. She currently teaches at Smith College and Zea Mays Printmaking.