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My Week at Camp FAWC
July 7, 2009

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The printshop busy at work
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Rebekah Tolley, the instructor, with students
I’ve just come up for air after an exhausting and productive week at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, at the very ragged tippy end of Cape Cod. I have lauded FAWC before, so will be brief: the week-long workshops in the visual arts and writing are intense, the staff – most artists themselves – are remarkably helpful and attentive, the faculty are top-flight, the other students generous and serious, and the overall experience immersive and often exhilarating. (Guess that wasn’t so brief.) But I am really fecking tired.
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my output at weekly exhibit
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another Weiss print
I learned photolithography and I’m still not sure why. The fundamental principle of lithography, of course, is based on the incompatibility of oil and water, which means that one has to use an oil-based ink to print, which means one has to use solvent, and my own printing studio up here is non-toxic and solvent-free, being that it’s about 10 feet from my bedroom. So I won’t be doing any photo-lithography in my own studio. But I might do it other places, so I guess that’s the answer to my question.
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and another by moi
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why stop now?
And it has some terrific features, prime among them being that you make the plate by exposing a computer printout or a photocopied image directly onto a thin aluminum sheet that’s been treated with a light-sensitive coating. So you can create imagery on the computer and make a plate out of it – no fuss, no muss.

 
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