Name: Carve, Press, Repeat!
Start: 2026-03-01T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-01T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Children's Art Carnival

Get ready to unleash your inner artist and create unique masterpieces at the Children's Art Carnival - Carve, Press, Repeat!
About this Event

Carve, Press, Repeat!

Facilitator: Alannah Sears

Class Date: Saturday, March 7 / 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Venue: The Children's Art Carnival

Max. Participants: 15

This workshop will guide students through the process of linoleum block printing. Participants will carve into linoleum, ink-up, and hand print your image multiple times. You will print in different colors using several different hand-pressed printing techniques. Students add to their practice with a whole new toolbox of methods as well as new conceptual approaches to the linocut medium. While some of the primary tenants of traditional block printing are covered, printmaking operates as a means to facilitate the student’s concept. Students gain knowledge of the fundamentals of linoleum block printmaking: carving, reproduction, inking, etc.

Lino printing is considered a traditional relief printmaking method and is often referred to as lino cutting. In this technique, a design is carved into a linoleum block. The uncarved, raised surface (relief) is then inked using a brayer and printed onto paper or fabric with the aid of a baren. This process enables the production of multiple copies of the same artwork, known as editions.
FOR: Adults and Children over12 years old (uses sharp tools)
FEE:
Individual: $10
Parent and Child: $14
Parent and Two Children: $18
Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Alannah Sears is a Brooklyn-based artist who investigates the complexities of the female experience through delicate graphite drawings. Her work challenges traditional representations of the female form, creating figures that defy gravity and conventional notions of beauty. These figures contort, elongate, squeeze, and fold in uncanny or impossible ways, embodying an ethereal beauty through the delicate interplay of light and shadow. She has exhibited her work at CUE Art Foundation, and Paradise Palace, and has been awarded residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, Joan Mitchell Foundation (NY), and Vermont Studio Center.