Join artist Patty Hudak for an immersive two-day intensive class focused entirely on mokuhanga printing techniques. This workshop provides an opportunity to refine printing skills while exploring advanced techniques in color layering, bokashi gradations, texture, and registration.
Participants will bring their own carved blocks and tools. Pigments, paper, and shared materials will be provided for experimentation. Through demonstrations and guided practice, students will discover how the natural grain of the wood, the rhythm of the baren, and sensitivity to water and pigment can create richly textured and nuanced impressions.
This is an opportunity to print deeply, with time for feedback, discussion, and individual guidance, in a focused and supportive environment.
About the Artist
Patty Hudak is a painter and installation artist whose work merges the Japanese woodblock technique of mokuhanga with contemporary explorations of nature, the supernatural, and human imagination. Trained in Japan, she teaches mokuhanga workshops throughout Vermont and collaborates with the international collective Mokuhanga Sisters to expand public awareness of contemporary mokuhanga practice.
Hudak studied Studio Art at Wellesley College (B.A., 1984), Biological Illustration at the University of New Haven, and continued her education at the New York Studio School and the Alternative Arts School. Recent solo exhibitions include Turning and Turning(SVAC, 2025), Gyring, Spiring (Minėmå Gallery, 2023), and Botanical Ornaments (T.W. Wood Museum, 2021). Her curatorial project The World Between the Block and the Paperwas named one of Seven Days’ Top Ten Vermont Exhibitions of 2022.
Her awards include the Vermont Creation Grant (2026), Second Prize from Hunterdon Art Museum (2025), and the Awagami Paper Award (2021). Her work is held in public and private collections internationally.
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Printing Intensive in Mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock Printing)
Saturday, 7/18 and Sunday, 7/19
10–4 p.m.
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