Pedagogy

From 2012 to 2017 I studied repeat pattern development by hand under the tutelage of Kathleen Knipple at Art Studio Fuji. Using various formulas, including the Susanne Nevelson tecniche, I learned how to create print families and print them manually. In 2017 I began to teach my own students at Laboratorio Firenze (ex Fuji Studios). From 2017 until 2020 I created a series of teaching primers using Florence, Tuscany and the Italian territory and vehicles to teach new ways of seeing and interacting with our created environment. Concepts of relationships and design building mechanisms were built into my courses. I also incorporated various printing techniques on alternative materials such as wood and leather. My objectives with teaching pattern development is to give my students a broad variety of elements for their tool box within the parameters of artisan printing. Having a strong base of interconnected tangible and non tangible skills opens many vehicles for the creative process.