In this workshop, you’ll learn how to design a stamp and basic relief printing skills while observing the shape and design of botanicals. The session begins outdoors, where participants will sketch plants throughout the Garden for inspiration. Back inside, you will finalize your plant-based design and carve it for stamping and relief printing. Participants will then stamp their design onto a variety of paper options. The design can also be printed, and, time permitting, participants will experiment with a basic printmaking technique.
Date: Saturday, Nov. 7
Time: 10 a.m. – noon
Fee: $50 ($45 Member)
Registration Deadline: Nov. 3
Instructor: Christy Petterson
About Christy Petterson
Christy Bardis Petterson is an artist and writer from Atlanta. For 18 years, she organized an award-winning craft market called the Indie Craft Experience. She was a teaching artist at the High Museum of Art for 10 years and has also taught at the Museum of Design Atlanta, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Clubhouse Kid + Craft and other locations around Atlanta.
She enjoys printmaking, bookbinding, natural dyes and dabbling in all things creative, and she also loves reading and writing. Petterson graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in literature and creative writing, with an emphasis on creative nonfiction. She lives in East Atlanta Village.