About the Workshop

This workshop introduces a range of intaglio techniques, including drypoint, line etching, and aquatint, alongside accordion and Japanese stab bookbinding.

Participants will learn the technical fundamentals of intaglio through demonstrations of basic processes, while also engaging with both traditional and contemporary applications of the medium. Experimentation will be encouraged throughout.

Over the course of the workshop, students will produce a series of monotypes, small editions in each process, and a larger combination plate that integrates multiple techniques. Select prints will be designed for inclusion in artist books or print folios.

Through a combination of individual feedback and group critique, students will focus on developing imagery, concept, and content as they build technical proficiency and personal vision within the printmaking process.

Refer to the Materials List for the materials students should bring to class. 

About the Instructor

Megan Foster earned her BFA from RISD and MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been shown at venues including Black and White Gallery, Mixed Greens, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), and the San Jose Museum of Art.

Foster’s prints and installations elevate everyday moments into open-ended narratives that examine the expectations of contemporary life and shifting connections to nature and technology. Drawing from imagery in art, architecture, and science, she repositions the ordinary as a site of reflection and spectacle.

She is an associate professor and department head of Printmaking at RISD, past master printer at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, and co-founder of Moonlight Editions.