Medium: Collagraph
Collagraphy is a printmaking process created by Glen Alps in 1955 in which materials are applied to a rigid material, like paperboard or wood, then inked with a roller or paintbrush and pressed by hand or with a printing press. Any number of materials can be added to the block. Different materials, like fabric, bubble wrap, leaves, threads, and wallpaper, hold different amounts of ink, resulting in both different textures and varying shades.
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Header Images
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Mili Thibodeau, Scan, collagraph, rust, and photo transfer, 2012.93.1.
Bruce Thayer, Humpty Dumpty, collagraph with mixed media, 1982, 2022.19.12.
Jeff Kraus, Untitled, etching, collagraph, and monotype, 2011, 2011.115.2.
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Enrico Baj, Catherine Marie de Lorraine Duchesse de Montpensier, collagraph, 1967, 2002.0146.1.
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Ruth Roelofs, Untitled, collagraph, 1973, 1999.847.1.
Jeff Kraus, Untitled, etching and collagraph, 2010, 2011.28.3.
David Shapiro, Cusp, collagraph on handmade paper, 1988, 2002.024.1.