Artist Christa Wolf to lead monoprint workshop

Christa Wolf, an artist and visiting fellow at Cornell, will lead a three-part workshop at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on monoprints and how to make them. The sessions will take place on three consecutive Sundays -- Oct. 31, Nov. 7 and Nov. 14 -- from 2 to 5 p.m. and are open to the public.

While many kinds of prints -- etchings, lithographs, woodcuts -- permit multiple copies, a monoprint is a special kind of print that is an edition of one. It is made by printing directly onto paper from a painting the artist makes on a sheet of metal or glass.

Under Wolf's direction, participants in the workshop will get to explore the museum's collection of monoprints and take part in hands-on studio lessons on the art of the monoprint. Each week will focus on a different monoprint technique, and participants will be encouraged to develop a visual theme that they can explore further using the various techniques. The class is directed toward painters and art students, from beginning to advanced levels.

Wolf, who grew up in Germany, has exhibited her unique monoprints, artist books and art installations in Europe and the United States. She studied art and English at the University of Münster and taught classes in art in Berlin for more than a decade before coming to Ithaca. She earned her MFA in printmaking at Cornell in 1996 and taught in the university's Department of Fine Arts this past spring. She has just returned from a trip to Germany, where she created an installation with the title "Unbleached Memories of a Place."

The cost of the three-session workshop is $65 for museum members and $75 for nonmembers. Supplies are an additional $15. The registration deadline is today, Oct. 28. For information and to register, call 255-6464.