Chine Collé - Collage - Backing Techniques (4 classes) - Berkeley, CA 2020

This workshop is designed for printmakers and painters who work on paper and wish to expand their skills in the processes of Chine Collé and backing techniques. Learn how to add layers of Japanese Gampi paper to highlight the most delicate lines and aquatint textures, bringing a more vivid and velvety quality to your impressions. Wed, May 18, 25, Jun 1, 8 • 6:30-9:30pm $45 materials fee paid to instructor on first day of class Instructor bio: Golbanou Moghaddas is an Iranian narrative artist based in San Francisco. She moved from Iran in 2008. She has an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK, and an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. She is a winner of the Best of British Illustration 2011 and the illustrator of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings published by Granta Publication, UK. In 2012 she was awarded an MFA fellowship from San Francisco Art Institute, which brought her to the west coast. In the Bay Area, she has worked with Master Printer Paul Mullowney. She is a recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award in 2013, Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship 2016, and Kala Art Institute Fellowship 2017-18. Her work was recently selected for the New Program Winter 2018 at International Print Center New York. She has exhibited at renowned venues including the Museum of London, Kensington Palace and Bankside Gallery in the UK, as well as SOMarts Cultural Center, Skylight Gallery of San Francisco Public Library, Kala Art Institute, Richmond Art Center, San Francisco Center for the Books, Arc Gallery, and The Peninsula Museum of Art in the USA. Golbanou has taught at printmaking at SFAI public program and Central Saint Martins undergrad level in London. She’s currently an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center For The Arts.