One-Week Workshop w/ Artist Jane Davies | June 2-6, 2025
One-Week Workshop with Vermont Artist Jane Davies
The Visual Sentence: Printmaking and Collage
June 2-6, 2025 (Monday – Friday)
10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
at the Boise Art Museum
Ages: Adults
Workshop Fee
$975 BAM members (join today and save)
$1,100 non-members
Discover a whole new world of artistic possibility when you remove the boundaries of the canvas or substrate and string your pieces together like words in a sentence. You will make individual prints using the gel plate*, and OPEN acrylic paints on various papers. Each print is a part of a whole, not a whole image, and you can mix-and-match to your delight! You will make many prints in order to generate a plethora of possibilities when it comes to creating your sentences.
- Participants must bring their own supplies. | Supply List »
- A $20 cash fee per participant is paid to the artist on the first day of the workshop for the specialized supplies she provides.
- Some supplies will be provided by the Museum for use at the Museum during the workshop.
- Workshop includes 1 evening reception at a private home in Boise (optional).
- Workshop includes 1 guided walking tour of historic downtown Boise (optional).
Some Experience Required
This workshop is open to those with some experience with gel plate printing. Jane will review the basics briefly on the first day to establish a framework for going forward. You can find tutorials online at the GelliArts website and blog, or download her Monoprint Collage class here: https://janedaviesstudios.com/mono.html. Please come prepared.
*synthetic gelatin printing plate, available from various manufacturers. Jane recommends Gelli Arts or Gel Press, not Speedball.
Questions: Contact us at christina@boiseartmuseum.org or call 208-345-8330 x118
“Formal elements are my first and foremost source of inspiration. I can be moved by a simple combination of color and line, or the relationships of shapes and edges, or the interplay between pattern and scale. I look at colors, textures, and images out in the world as well: rocks, rust, surfaces affected by age, by marks of the human hand, by time and tides. But I also look at a lot of art in many mediums, and gorge myself on the infinite ways in which materials can be transformed into rich and expressive visual statements.
“In my own art practice, focus on process is an essential component of developing work that feels authentic and personal. My process involves a back-and-forth play between spontaneous, intuitive mark-making, and careful deliberation and intention: I think of it as letting things happen, and making things happen. I make a move, and then the painting reveals something new to respond to. Each move changes the whole piece and sets up a new set of challenges. It takes practice and continued effort to stay present to this dialog and not get carried away by the desire for a quick result or an easy resolution. It requires trust in my own intuitive responses, and a willingness to not know, to not have the route laid out like a road map.“
-Jane Davies
About the Artist
Jane Davies is a full-time artist working in collage, painting, and encaustics. She offers workshops at her studio in Vermont and nationwide, focusing on helping people to find a personal and playful approach to creating. Beginning as a potter in the early nineties, Davies gradually transitioned into freelance art, using painting and collage as her medium. For the past several years, she has put most of her efforts toward teaching, writing, and having fun making art. She is the author of three books on collage and mixed media, one on ceramics, and has one DVD on painting and collage techniques. Artist Website »
- Workshop participants canceling in writing prior to Monday, March 3, 2025 (3 months before the workshop), will receive a registration refund minus a $100 processing fee.
- No refunds or changes will be made after Monday, March 3, 2025 (3 months before the workshop).
- Regardless of the reason, cancellations impact costs related to registration, staff, instructor contract, materials, and other services and advance arrangements.
- If a workshop is canceled by the Boise Art Museum, students will be notified and registration payment will be refunded. (BAM memberships are non-refundable.)
