Plein Air Relief Printing with Vicky Tomayko [Held outside]

Enjoy the outdoors while creating relief prints inspired by the surroundings. Work on drawings to transfer to blocks or carve directly on wood/linoleum. Meetings will take place in person at selected outdoor locations in Provincetown and the Provincelands. You can choose the material you prefer to work with and receive instruction in image making, carving, and printing your blocks by hand. Work in black and white or color. Options for color include selective inking, multiple blocks, and reduction printing. Students will have access to outdoor work space at PAAM for proofing and printing if the weather is inclement. Oil based inks and brayers will be available, but you will need to have your own carving tools, blocks, and paper.

Masks will be required in all outdoor and plein air workshops at PAAM, regardless of vaccination status.

Vicky Tomayko is an artist who works with a variety of print methods creating one-of-a-kind works on paper. She studied printmaking in Detroit and with Michael Mazur in Provincetown. She was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University.

In addition teaching at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, she teaches at Cape Cod Community College and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Summer Program. She manages the print studio for the Fine Arts Work Center during their 7 month Residency Program, providing workshops and one-on-one instruction. She was an artist-in-residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans for ten years. Tomayko was assistant professor of printmaking at Connecticut College. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn NY.