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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.

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