Level: all

Jan 7 - Feb 25, 2025

Tuesdays

2:30-4:30pm

8 weeks

Instructor: Mari Gyorgyey

Instructor's website

Fee: $280 (incl many supplies)

Do you ever dream of spending two solid hours undisturbed doing art?  Learning fun techniques like gelli plate printmaking, Citrasol transfers, and collaging with mixed media?  Perhaps you’d like to combine writing, drawing, and painting – working with stencils, photos, and family keepsakes all together?  “Art in the Book” may be just what you’re looking for.  It’s a class that prioritizes process, creativity and play over creating the perfect finished piece.

This class will have weekly demos of printing with gelli plates, stamp carving, transferring zeroxes, citrasol transfers as well as comparing glues and art mediums. We will talk about selecting collage elements, textures, and writings in your book.

Supply List:  RAC will provide many of the supplies you need for this class including the journal you’ll be working with.  Below are just a few supplies you may want to have your own. 

All of the items listed below are just ideas. Think about what you would like to work with and bring it along with you.  No worries if you’re not sure what to bring. Mari will introduce you to a world of ideas and famous works of art which will serve as inspiration for the type of work you’d like to do.

  • “YES” glue, (available at Jerry’s Art Store)
  • Elmers Glue
  • Spray glue
  • Magazine and/or book clippings
  • Fabric scraps
  • A good pair of scissors.
  • 2 dimensional images to cut up – especially your unloved artwork
  • Scotch tape,masking tape
  • original photographs, copies of origInals
  • Interesting packaging material
  • Paper Scraps
  • Nostalgia items-children’s Art, journal pages
  • Paints, brushes, pencils, crayons
  • Trinkets
  • Old art
  • And whatever else interests you!

Mari Gyorgyey is best known for her nonlinear narrative art which flows into book arts, pen and ink drawings, paintings, computer imagery, and fine art etchings. She is not afraid to mix any of the techniques to communicate her theme.Mari’s approach can be described as figurative and expressionistic. Her quirky and satirical drawings has been compared to Philip Evergood, and William Kentridge and the pre-war drawings of George Grosz. Since earning her BFA from RISD, and MFA from UPENN, Gyorgyey has shown her work domestically and internationally with solo shows in Tapio Gyorgy, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary as well as Stamford, CT., U.S.A. She has won printmaking awards from UPENN, Dharma Silk Company, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, where she is a longtime member.