Free Printmaking Program with Bill Brookover.

Make a monoprint and take it home! Bill Brookover shows you how, using non-toxic water-based inks. Participants will learn to add textures to drawings and to paint directly on gelatin printing plates using Akua Liquid Pigment inks to print on paper. Bill Brookover is a printmaker and photographer whose work is based in his training in design and architecture. Born in West Texas, he studied art and architecture at Rice University, historic preservation at Columbia University, and printmaking at Fleisher Art Memorial. His prints explore design, color, texture, and geometric structure. His photographs explore architecture, layered landscapes, history and urban streetscapes.

Brookover is a teaching artist at Fleisher Art Memorial, a community art center in South Philadelphia, where he has taught printmaking since 2010. In 2014 he began leading tours of Hidden Print Collections for Fleisher printmaking students. He volunteers at the Print & Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia building a digital catalog of the Fine Art Print collection. In 2014 he served as Independent Curator for Eugene Feldman Offset Lithographs, Print & Picture Hallway Gallery, at the Parkway Central Library. He serves as chair of the Exhibition Committee at Da Vinci Art Alliance, and is a member of Second State Press, Mt Airy Art Garage, The Print Center in Philadelphia, InLiquid, The Main Line Art Center, and Philadelphia Center for the Book.

This program is made possible through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Miriam Spector Endowment for the Humanities.