Maryland Printmakers

Education News

By Linda Harrison-Parsons

I am teaching at Rosemont Elementary School in Gaithersburg. I have the 4th & 5th grade students, and am there every morning of the week.  The printmaking project was funded by the Gaithersburg Arts Council. It is the first time they have had a visual artist at their school. We have been making collograph plates, which we will print on paper that some of the print companies have donated for the project. The plates were constructed using recycled materials such as cereal boxes, corrugated cardboard, feathers, and material donated by a fabric store in Gaithersburg. The final project will be printed on material and sewed together in a quilt format. It will be mounted and displayed at the school. Maryland Printmakers donated the use of the Conrad printing press for this project.