WINTER 2020

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Button Factory Arts

Waterloo, Ontario

Short mokuhanga workshop

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Saturday, Jan. 25 & Sunday Jan. 26th

1:30-5:30 (2-day workshop)

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For information and registration

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SUMMER 2020

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Southampton Arts Centre

Southampton, Ontario

Telephone: (519) 797-5068

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2 day course July 9/10

4 day intensive July 11-14

(More details to come).

 

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OCTOBER - NOVEMBER

Button Factory Arts

Mokuhanga workshop 

Thursdays, October 3rd -November 21, 2019

Please contact Ali Brenner at the Button Factory

for registration information.

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History of mokuhanga

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Waterbased woodblock printing originated in China but was adpated for spreading Buddhist images in Japan. In 18th, 19th century Japan the artform became secular and artists who may also have worked as kimono designers designed images for publication on paper. These became known as ukiyo e, or "pictures of the floating world". With graceful line, beautifully designed figurative images, artists such as Utamaro or Kunisada depicted actors and courtesans who inhabited the fragile underbelly of society. Later, artists such as Hiroshige and Hokusai also created wonderful landscapes often depicting notable travel locations in Japan.

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In the 1980's there was increasing interest in the medium still being practiced by artisans and a few artists in Japan. International artists travelled to Japan to learn from these practitioners and the medium has gained in popularity in the printmaking world. Today after first grasping and practicing the basics of the medium, the print artist can run with it. Mokuhanga still employs Japanese tools such as the baren (disk for applying pressure) the printing brushes (marubake), as well as making use of beautiful hanga washi papers from Japan.

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For more information go to Contemporary mokuhanga.

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Last update October 21, 2016