Wood Block Printing

I've always loved the look of a wood block print but today in surfing around I found this project that took place in Maine last year.  There are a series of four or five of these videos so you can watch more if you wish. Of course it doesn't even begin to compare to the last 'Possom Post, but I'm doin' what I can here.  I'm only one woman...

The Old Brunswick High School (in use from 1937-1995), in Brunswick, Maine, will be demolished in May of 2009. In advance of its demolition, Advanced Printmaking students from Bowdoin College, together with Anna Helper and Andrea Sulzer, carved two classroom floors in the high school as gigantic woodcuts. Each floor was printed by hand in sections and then drymounted together to create the final 20×30 foot images.


And it continues:


OK, the chain of thought started a few hours ago when my friend Linda Behar sent me some pictures of a show at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine by an artist named Anna Hepler.  Her featured sculptural piece, below-taken from her blog, is called The Great Haul and it's made of stitched plastic.  Amazing in scale.  Make sure and go to her blog (click on her name above) to see some of her other installations.  Oh, the big floor printmaking project is done by her students from Bowdoin.  Watch for her work!  But first, here is the Sebastian Smee review as it appears in the Boston Globe this morning.