Students will learn how chine-collé, a collage technique in printmaking that can at times give a three-dimension appearance to the prints. A demonstration will be given showing the participants how to print without the use of an acid to create images, including the engraving on alternate surfaces such a Plexiglas and acetate.

Students will be asked to create abstract and/or spontaneous imagery. During the workshop attendees will learn scribing, inking the plate,  mixing-up wheat-paste, adding chine-collé elements, registration and using the etching press. At the end of the workshop participants will have produced a small edition of prints.

The workshop will conclude by sharing examples of the work Shoshanna Weinberger has done during her time in the Space and Time Residency. By sharing and discussing her own work, which used the same techniques as the participants have learned, will allow a direct and personal connection with the community.

Saturday April 27th

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

All Ages

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Shoshanna Weinberger received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2003 and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995.

Living and working in Newark, NJ, since 2006, Weinberger’s work references her Caribbean-American background, which explores the complexity of heritage and the psychology of peripheral identity. She considers herself a visual anthropologist, cataloguing and surveying these experiences that ultimately question notions of assumed beauty norms and identity through ongoing serial works that result in abstract paintings, drawings, collage, mixed media, and sculptural installations.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous invitational group and solo exhibitions. Weinberger is a five-time participant of the Jamaica Biennial from 2006 to 2017 held in Kingston, Jamaica; and included in the 2013 Martinique Biennale.

Select solo exhibitions include: The Otherness of Strangefruit, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU, Jersey City (2018); Invisible Fruit: Stories of Camouflage from the Periphery, Project for Empty Space (2018); Allegories of the Invisible, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); Passing Between the Lines, Long Gallery, Harlem, NYC (2020); and Fragments of Perception, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2021) Select group shows include: Born In Flames, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Bronx Museum (2021); Emancipated Imaginaries, curated by AKAA, Manifestia, Lyon, France (2021); If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (2021); Black Beauty, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans (2021); Generations, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Lux et Veritas, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale (2022-2023).

A recipient of several awards, residencies, and grants that include: 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; 2015 Joan Mitchell Center, Artist Residency, New Orleans; 2016 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts; 2018 Project for Empty Space, Artist Residency, Newark, NJ; 2019 Dawn Scott Memorial Award, presented by the National Gallery of Jamaica; 2020 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation; 2021 City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund Grant; 2021, Newark Arts Four Corners Public Art Mural Commission.  Recently awarded: 2022 Fellowship from the NJ State Council of the Arts; 2022 McColl Center Artist Residency; 2022 Public Art Commission, New Terminal A, Newark Liberty International Airport; 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation for Visual Artists Grant; 2022 Newark Arts Renewal Grant; and 2022-2023 In Focus Fellowship, Jamaica Art Society. 

Held two-year appointment as the 2019-2021 McMillan Stewart Endowed Chair in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art; in 2022, Weinberger was invited as Adjunct Professor to teach Painting at Rutgers University-Newark Campus, Department of Art, Culture and Media. She has been invited as a Visiting Artist at University of Colorado – Boulder, this coming February 2023; and invited as a Visiting Artist at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO, this July 2023.