Boot Camp for Printmakers – Lisbeth Firmin

July 23-26, 2009
Tuition: $600
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This workshop has evolved into an intensively creative workshop in which professionals and beginners alike produce an entire body of work. The first day will be spent painting outdoors producing several streetscapes/ landscapes, working quickly and loosely. Firmin will lead a demonstration. For the remaining three days, students will be in the print studio with access to the new Takach-Garfield large bed press!.  In the studio, Firmin will demonstrate her deductive monotype technique. Using their new paintings and working with their own subject matter, students will experiment with this technique and develop their own process. Everyone will produce enough work for an exhibition. Additional print time will be provided in the evenings.

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Lisbeth Firmin was born in Paducah, Kentucky in 1949. She is a contemporary American realist known for her urban landscapes. For over three decades her work has been in hundreds of solo and group shows across the country and internationally . In 2000, she left the city and bought an old storefront in the village of Franklin in upstate New York, where she paints everyday.

Firmin’s paintings are included in the 2009 Winter Issue, Stone Canoe Review, Syracuse University. She was cover artist for the 2008 spring issue of Epoch, Cornell University’s literary magazine and was the featured artist in the 2008 summer issue of the Gettysburg Review. Recent awards include a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for printmaking (Lily Auchincloss Fellow) and a Merit Award at

the 2007 Roberson Regional Art Exhibition, Binghamton, NY, juried by Philip Pearlstein. She was awarded a Community Arts Funding Grant, New York State Council on the Arts in 2007.

Firmin teaches several painting/printmaking workshops throughout the year at Great River Arts Institute, VT; West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, NY; North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC and Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, Cape Cod. She is also on the faculty at SVA in the continuing education department.