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What Printmaking Means to Me!

Printmaking blessed me at age 21 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after transitioning from Rhode Island back to Pennsylvania to start Art school.   I knew if I started I would never have to retire and I was committed to learn and keep learning.  I worked corporate America jobs to realize it wasn't for me so without portfolio in hand, I visited James Carroll at New Arts to get some advice.   Printmaking even more so, Printmakers spoke to me on a soul level and directly like Printmaking, I began my artistic journey.   I started training in Art after being raised in one family setting of Pennsylvania Folk Artists, I thought to try and teach myself Lithography from a book, onto an Aluminum Plate, and it fascinated me the longevity behind Printmaking, it was Science and Art and my life was in front of me and I had time to learn my craft well.   I was naive when I earned a year scholarship to study Printmaking in Kingston, England, and this changed my course of life forever.  Printmaking A
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From Paper to Metal

       MELISSA STRAWSER Art on Paper with Bronze & Copper Intaglio Sculpture/Chine Colle' Aquatint    Intaglio Sculpture Aquatint & Chine Colle' 'Energies' 'Light' Bronze Sculpture Appreciators and viewers often ask the Artist questions like What inspires you? or How long does it take to make a work?  I believe, the age of the artist is the amount of time it takes.  I'm always conceiving the idea, reality takes time; so it is unusual for me to say it takes me an hour or month or 10 years!  The visuals I aspire to collage and vice -versa fabricate into Sculpture find their way into my mind from my environment, to my travels, even from segments of conversations, text and family influences. I surround myself with great people always great art thinkers.  Many cultures see the growing spiral of life, the tree of life as we call it and sensory and healing aspects are constantly being experienced through your touch, smell, sound,
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Print Workshops by MelissaStrawser coming soon

Solarplate  Workshops Chine Colle' COMING SOON to JuxtaHub in Emmaus, PA Print Workshops Coming Soon 2024 More Info   About Melissa      WHITE CROW PAPER Doug Zucco in Fleetwood, PA White Crow Paper Studio by Doug Zucco and  Solarplates by  Dan Welden ,  thankful that my Grandfather introduced me to these two great friends! Dan Weldon's family ancestry discovered that on his Grandmother's side: they are, in-fact, direct descendants to the original founder of Ephrata Cloisters, Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in 1649 and was a German pietist mystic who lost both his parents to war before establishing the Ephrata Cloisters in 1732.  It is here, that the first Printing Press, was housed in America.  It ran the first English edition of the book, 'Martyr's Mirror', in Lancaster County under Dan Welden's relative,  Conrad Beissel.   Dan's last workshop in Pennsylvania, we held at the Ephrata Cloisters, check out his workshops on his Solarpla
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