Verge Center for the Arts

A print, a painting, a MONOTYPE! The “painterly print” monotype allows you to be free and creative. Printing transparent layers of ink and unlimited techniques to your print will create an exciting, colorful and dynamic original print. Join us for an evening workshop exploring creative ways to manipulate ink, print and reprint. Allow yourself to be taken on a journey of ink and texture. Monotype has been a technique employed by artists for their personal enjoyment for centuries. It is immediate using the first printed piece and its “ghost” image. Again, the printmaking process produces the delight of the “accidental” meeting the experience of the expected. This class uses a variety of materials. A plexiglass plate will be our base and we will be mixing monotype black as well as using colors with transparent base mediums, different wipes, solvents, stencils, sprays, rags and other tools to create our images. Printed images will be on rag paper.

WHEN: March 26, 2026, 5:30-8:30 PM

WHERE: Myrtle Press inside Verge Center for the Arts

About the Teaching Artist

Howard Levine has been an active printmaker for the past fifty-seven years. Howard taught printmaking and drawing for Sierra College for almost twenty-five years. At Carriage House Press, Grass Valley he had students engaged in all processes: intaglio, relief, litho and monotype for over 45 years. Howard has a M.A. from San Francisco State with an emphasis on printmaking, mainly lithography. He also is a painter, drawer and for-site artist. After dismantling his long time studio and gallery in Grass Valley, CA. he and his wife moved to Sacramento and joined Myrtle Press.

Chanel Mace is a geometric abstract artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of organic sensation and structured space. Rooted in repetition and form, her compositions reflect a meditative response to physical and psychological environments. Working primarily with drawing, printmaking, and mixed media paper, she preserves the artist’s hand in every mark—inviting viewers into a layered process of navigation and reflection.

Originally from Sacramento, Chanel holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at Central Saint Martins in London. She completed a yearlong postgraduate residency at The Wrocław School of Printmaking in Poland. She then spent eight years living and working in Australia. While in Sydney, she was deeply involved in the local printmaking community, working out of The Workshop Arts Centre in Willoughby and serving as acting Secretary of the North Sydney Printmakers Association. After a decade abroad, she returned home to Sacramento, where she now works out of Myrtle Press and is a member of the California Society of Printmakers.

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