Art instructor published
By JJ Ossola
IV Leader Staff
Francie Skoflanc, an art instructor at Illinois Valley, has
had a few of her works published in a new promotional brochure called Letting
Go, Printmaking: Photocopier Transfer and Monoprint.
Skoflanc’s images in the brochure are of Preservation Hall in
New Orleans, a door, and a tower in Italy.
Skoflanc said, “The Preservation Hall picture is so much more important now
after the destruction in New Orleans.”
The brochure is a three-year accumulation of works made in
workshops promoted by the University and College Designers Association and held
at Anchor Graphics in Chicago. The brochure is a collaboration of the UCDA,
Anchor Graphics, Jet and Monadnock Paper Mills.
Anchor Graphics is a non-profit print shop and gallery that
holds workshops and mentors students in the older printing styles with a master
printer’s supervision.
The participants take separated laser printed images,
photocopy them and enlarge the pixilation. The separate photocopies are then
rolled with CMYK inks and then applied to the print through a massive American
French Tool etching press.
Skoflanc said that she plans on working towards getting
college and high school students involved in future workshops.
“It is a really wonderful experience,” she said.
Skoflanc teaches a variety of graphic design classes in the
Mac Lab at IVCC.