Don Gorvett & Sean Hurley

Reduction Woodcut

Nationally recognized printmaker Don Gorvett and his assistant Sean Hurley will teach a “One Week One Credit” course on “The Reduction Woodblock Print” at Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk from February 25-28.  Gorvett, a master of the reduction woodcut print, recently spoke about his work at the Louis Graves Library in Kennebunkport.  Gorvett and Hurley will teach participants in the Heartwood course how to create their own reduction woodcut prints, a fascinating technique that involves cutting an image into a block of wood in layers so that each layer prints a color - After that color is printed, the layer is carved away.  As the layers are printed and cut away, the original woodblock print is destroyed.  

Gorvett’s work is in the collections of the Currier Museum of Art, and the National Geographic Library in Washington D.C., the Portland Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and the Cape Ann Historical Association.  Hurley, a talented printmaker, has exhibited his work in New Hampshire galleries, as well as at the Boston Printmakers Student Biennial.  His work is currently being shown at Gorvett’s new gallery, Piscataqua Fine Arts in Portsmouth.

Wade Zahares

Story/Book Illustration

Award-winning children’s book illustrator  will also teach a new course in “” on Tuesday afternoons (1:00-4:00), January 7 – May 2.  Zahares, a member of the Heartwood faculty, has illustrated six children’s books.  His first book, “Window Music,” was recognized by Time Magazine and The New York Times as one of the best picture books of 1998.

Berri Kramer

 Book Arts

Exploring the art of book binding and design is the subject of Heartwood founder 3 ½ week intensive “” course.  Participants will design, illustrate, and bind their own books in this course offered January 7-29.  Several Heartwood faculty members will teach “The Alphabet Project,” in which participants choose a medium (drawing, painting, ceramics, 3D, or photography) to explore through an image or a sequence of thought, as they create 26 pieces of art in that medium and explore the essence of “seeing.”  “The Alphabet Project” takes place January 30 - February 22.

Heartwood will offer a variety of community classes this winter, beginning January 14. Class offerings include “Watercolor for Beginners” with Dennis Rafferty, “Watercolor II” with Carl Schmalz, “Glass Beads/ Lampworking” with Sarah Cox, “Jewelry & Metalsmithing” with Alice Carroll, “Ceramics: Wheelthrowing” and “Ceramics: Raku” with Scott Tubby, “Beginning Drawing” with Margaret Cummings, “Story Illustration (Pastel)” with Wade Zahares.