ALL DAY – Bob Blackburn Birthday Bash

SUN. DECEMBER 16, 2018

1PM – 4PM

2nd Floor

FREE WORKSHOP - Viscosity Printing w. Kathy Caraccio

Please join us setting off BOB’S BDAY BASH with a FREE Viscosity Workshop with Kathy Caraccio. ALL Materials included - Beginners are welcomed! We will provide a limited amount of paper (brought to you by Legion Paper) and inks.

Limited spots available, please RSVP to rbpmw@efanyc.org or call 646.416.6226

about the instructor

K. Caraccio is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility dedicated to printmaking, investing in the most sustainable printmaking practices available. Kathy Caraccio, the owner and founder of the studio, is a master printer, artist, curator and professor. She has her BFA from Herbert Lehman College, was trained in etching color print with Maria Samosa (El Museo del Barrio, NYC, 1972-3), in viscosity printing with Arun Bose and Krishna Reddy (NYC, 1972-3), papermaking with Zarina Hashmi (NYC, 1979), and in Hanga (Japanese water based woodblock printing) with Sensei Toshi Yoshida (Nagano – Japan, 1984).

K. Caraccio Studio was founded in 1977 and houses a collection of more than 4.000 prints - available for both research and sale. Over three hundred artists have editioned in the studio, such as Louise Nevelson, Robert Kipniss, Emma Amos, Sol LeWitt, Malcolm Morley, Mel Bochner, Romare Bearden and Jackie Battenfield.

Image by Kathy Caraccio

4PM - 6PM

BLACKBURN 20|20 - 5th Floor

Lilies in the Field - A Tribute to Robert Blackburn
16 December - 19 January 2019

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is please to organize an exhibition celebrating Bob Blackburn’s 98th born year and 70 years of the Printmaking Workshop featuring selected works of the master printmaker, his contemporaries and students of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. A “printmaker’s printmaker,” Blackburn affected the course of twentieth-century graphic through his own work, as well as through the institution which he founded in New York City in 1948, The Printmaking Workshop—the oldest and largest print workshop in the United States until 2001.

Members Holiday Print Sale! 16 - 23 DEC
Find affordable gifts for friends and family! Etchings, lithos, risos, collagraphs, reliefs, screenprints and more!

6PM – 8PM