2024 Summer Workshops
When a writer touches the mind’s eye, images form, glorious and uncontained by any true physicality, open and fluid. But when does an artist get to put these images down on paper and to make physical the dialog going on in her mind? Writing in response to visual art is known as ekphrasis. In this class we will turn the tables and make art that responds directly to the written word. Make drawings and mono-prints using woodblocks as well as linoleum for relief printing, responding to words as the inspiration for images. Through an open ended exploration of imagery students will work quickly to generate images to create visual poems. We will collaborate with the poetry workshop Ekphrasis, Broadsides, and Collaboration, sharing our images to inspire their words, and using their words to inspire us in making our images. No prior printmaking experience necessary.
Biography
An artist, painter and printmaker, Daniel Heyman is driven by his social concerns and has striven through his work to give dignity and voice to victims of violence. He is a recipient of Guggenheim and Pew Fellowships, and numerous research grants has had residencies at Dartmouth College; MacDowell; Yaddo, the Awagami Paper Factory and Nagasawa Art Park in Japan and in Herzliyah, Israel. Heyman’s work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; St Louis Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery. Heyman lives and works in Rhode Island. Recent solo exhibitions include exhibitions at Spring Break Art Show in New York (2020), CR Ettinger Studio and Gallery (2020), the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence. Heyman teaches at RISD, Princeton and the PAFA.