Hand-Drawn Printed Pattern Class Series
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Sample prepared by Katie Parry, Museum Tour Manager. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño
Go deep into the world of contemporary pattern design! Drawing from our extensive printed pattern archive, including artist boxes in our collection, we'll explore hand-drawn pattern design techniques, tools, and themes inspired by the works of Kiki Smith, Trisha Brown, Betty Woodman, Elizabeth Kley, Laurie Anderson, John Killacky, Louise Nevelson and more. At the end of the series, leave with a portfolio of pattern studies and paper prints documenting the evolution of your own designs.
Week 1: Botanical Patterns
October 2
Artists Martha Madigan and Jim Hodges use natural and silk flowers to capture the impressions that flowers leave behind. In this workshop, use mono printing and frottage techniques to create your own botanical studies exploring symmetry, texture, and balance.
Week 2: Geometric and Abstract Patterns
October 9
How do artists like Louise Nevelson and Richard Tuttle imbue meaning and emotion into their works using abstraction and geometry? With inspiration from these artists, we’ll use positive and negative space and printmaking techniques to create several black and white pattern studies.
Week 3: Animal Patterns
October 16
Inspired by Laurie Anderson’s 2011 exhibition, Forty-Nine Days in the Bardo—a tender exploration of love and grief after the passing of her dog, Lolabelle— employ mixed media and a reductive drawing process to capture the spirit of a beloved animal. Then, learn to express memory and myth using transfer techniques and searching lines inspired by the sensitive line work in Kiki Smith’s sketches for her 2001 work, Familiars.
Week 4: Life Size Patterns
October 23
Glean inspiration from the artist boxes of Elizabeth Kley and Trisha Brown, artists who use scale to create the feeling of the body, place, and architectural memory. Engaging your own body's full range of movement, create expansive patterns with fluid, reaching lines by painting with textile ink on huge open screens along our print table.
Week 5: Self Portrait Patterns
October 30
Artists John Killacky and Jonathan Lyndon Chase have used dissolving and transitioning faces to explore the complexity of the self and the body. Experiment with additive and reductive mono printing techniques to create your own expressive self-portrait patterns.
Week 6: Repeat Patterns
November 6
Delving into the FWM swatch archive for inspiration, learn how to take a singular motif and transform it into a repeating pattern.
* For an opportunity to build on these skills, check out Hand-Drawn Printed Pattern Class Part ll in January.
Philadelphia, PA 19107