New Workshop Schedule for 2014 - 2015

Monotype in Mazatlan
Combine art and creativity with a backdrop of Mazatlan’s beautiful historic district. Add additional activities such as swimming, yoga, spa, massage, a day at Stone Island under a beach palapa, and you’ve got The Perfect Art Vacation!

Oaxaca Art Vacation Take a magical trip to Oaxaca, Mexico with an opportunity to enjoy printmaking, papermaking, galleries and museums, excursions to Artesan Villages and archeological sites. Enjoy 10 days in the beautiful, colonial city of Oaxaca known for its cuisine, crafts and architecture.

Guanajuato Print Workshop Glen Rogers teams with Hugo Anaya for a 5 day printmaking workshop in the charming colonial city of Guanajuato, Mexico. Piramidal Gráfica is a private well-equipped printmaking studio located within a two-century-old stone wall with patios and adjacent gardens close to the center of Guanajuato.

All workshops are suitable for beginners to advanced.

Schedule:
May 31 and June 1 (Sat and Sun) 2 day monotype workshop at a private studio in Los Gatos, CA. (waiting list only)
June 7 - 8, 2014 - 2 day monotype workshop, OpenGrounds Studio, Monterey, CA
July 13 - 20, 2014 - Guanajuato Print Workshop (waiting list only)

January 5-14, 2015 Oaxaca Art Vacation

January 26 - 30 Monotype in Mazatlan
February 2 - 6 Solarplate Printing with Dan Welden

Oaxaca Art Vacation in January an artful feast!

 Just back from another great trip to Oaxaca, Mexico for the January Art Vacation.  What's not to like about this city?   It is abundant with art, history, unique cuisine, lovely people, great artists and a veritable smorgasbord for the eye.  It would be worth a trip just to visit the numerous archeological sites like Monte Alban, Mitla, and Yagul some of which are world heritage sites and rich with artifacts from those cultures. We stayed at Casa Colonial, a hacienda style BandB within walking distance to everything.

Oaxaca is known for its artesanias - fine crafts including the famous black pottery, the wood carvings painted in intricate patterns, the rug weavers, and the cotton fabrics made by the women with a back strap loom just as their grandmothers had done.
We visited the villages where they practice their crafts and demonstrated their techniques although their work can be seen in shops around town.  Everyone loved walking the Centro Historico with its colonial architecture and filled with interesting shops, galleries and museums. And the most interesting grafitti ever! Ofcourse Oaxaca is also known for its food - mole sauces, chaupalines (grasshoppers!), squash blossom soup, tamales and more. It can be experienced on the cheap in the mercado or as a fine dining experience - we did it all!  Some of the group took Susan Trilling's cooking class on our free day and loved it - from the shopping at the mercado to the finished meal.  I have to admit - this is the Perfect Art Vacation!

 On this Oaxaca Art Vacation that I offer once or twice a year, you get to be a participant, not just come as a  viewer. After visiting Monte Alban, a Zapotec pyramid complex, for inspiration the first day, we visited San Agustin, Etla to take a papermaking workshop at Arte Papel Vista Hermosa on day 2.  Etla is a lovely town, but the centerpiece is the Centro de las Artes, a renovated textile mill that has become a major art center with incredible galleries and performance spaces.  We saw an exhibition by Francisco Toledo  and a huge group show of works made with natural materials - both were incredible.

Then we did a 5 day monotype workshop at Taller Rufino Tamano.  We usually have the place to ourselves since most of their classes are in the evenings.  After I gave a demonstration of various techniques, everyone began working.  We had beginners to advanced in this group and all in between with me facilitating in the printshop.  Wonderful monotype prints were created that we later exhibited at Casa Colonial.

"It was a terrific group of people and an awesome location for art and food.  The trip was the perfect mixture of structure and free time, of touring and art activities.  I had a wonderful time and hope to find a way to explore monotype further here."   Annette Colfax, Los Angeles, CA.

"Thanks for a wonderful trip.  I returned home refreshed, inspired and best of all with some new printmaking skills.  You are wonderful teacher and travel companion!"

Susan Gilchrist, Santa Cruz, CA.

 

Monotype Printing at Taller Rufino Tamayo

Some of the group on our first outing to Monte Alban, Zapotec Pyramid. 

Papermaking at San Agustin

At our final reception: Stella, Maryvonne, Annette, Pam, Glen, Sidney, Susan, Ginger, Shane, and Carol. (I think Sam must have been in pursuit of a margarita.)

San Agustin, Etla, view from the Centro de las Artes

Paper Migration: Artist Exchange & Exhibition: NY – Mazatlán

Carol Vossler, Hand made paper

Paper Migration: A Cross-Border Exploration of Art, Culture and Community is an artist exchange and exhibition  between artists from BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake,  NY and Glen Rogers Studio/Luna: Arte Contemporáneo, Mazatlán, Mexico, the 2nd exchange between these two communities. 

In May,  BluSeed Artists Peter Seward, Karen Davidson, Larry Poole,  Carol Vossler, John LaFacle, Jen Kretser visited Mazatlan to share their artwork and have a Mazatlan experience. (Artist Katherine Levin-Lau couldn't make the trip this time) They exhibited their monotypes, photo-etchings, hand-made paper, relief and mixed media works at Luna Gallery along with the Mazatlan artists.

Interactive Papermaking in the plaza

Students from CMA for a Free Demo

Carol Vossler with CMA student

 

As part of the exchange, Carol Vossler and John La Falce brought their papermaking equipment and skills to Mazatlan to share this artform with students from CMA, the municipal art school, with free demonstrations, and to the community at large with a 3 day workshop. 

Papermaking Workshop with John La Falce and Carol Vossler

NY  Artists Larry Poole, Jen Kretser, Karen Davidson and Pete Seward  Monotype Workshop in my studio

Karen Davidson, John La Falce, Glen Rogers, Rafael Avila, Claudia Gallardo, David Robb, Lucila Santiago Nan Robb, Carol Vossler, Dory Perdomo, Peter Seward, Carlos Zeta, Jen Kretser, Larry Poole

  
In July/August, many of the Mazatlan artists; Rafael Avila, Elina Chauvet, Claudia Gallardo, Dory Perdomo, Nan Robb, David Robb, Glen Rogers, Lucila Santiago, Carlos Z., will visit Saranac Lake, New York, home of  BluSeed to attend the exhibition and take part in planned activities of art and enjoy that  environment. Lucila Santiago will give an enameling workshop the week prior.

Organizers of the exchange: Glen Rogers, director of Luna Gallery and Carol Vossler, director of BluSeed Studios. Supporting this project was Mazatlan's Institute of Art and Culture.

May 1 – 31 – Exhibition at Luna Gallery, Mazatlan.

May 16 - Free Papermaking Demo and Workshop to Students of CMA, Municipal Art School

May 17, 18, & 19 (Friday, Sat., Sunday) 9am – 1:30pm- Papermaking Workshop -

May 18   Interactive Papermaking in the street – BluSeed Artists Carol Vossler and John La Falce, Plaza Machado

May 20, 21- Monotype Workshop with Glen Rogers

May 22 Visit to Las Labradas, Petroglyphs on the Beach

May 22 Meet the Artists and Gallery Talk at Luna Gallery

July 26, 27, 28 – Enameling Workshop with Lucila Santiago at BluSeed Studios

August 2 – September 15 – Exhibition  at BluSeed Studios, Saranac lake, NY. ( Opening Reception Friday, August 2 )