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Mokohanga for beginners will span over two weekends and involves over 24 hours of instruction, 10 hours of guided open studio with Hiroki and an additional 10 hours of studio time at Honolulu Printmakers. The course structure will allow ample time for image ideation as well as in-depth instruction in the printing technique. Course cost includes the material fees.

This exciting printmaking intensive focuses on mokuhanga, a water-based Japanese woodblock printmaking method. This unique process involves hand carving and is environmentally friendly. The class discipline is to create a dialog between storytelling and a relationship with color, form, and space as a narrative in a diptych or long format. The students compose and recompose prints to create complex images printed from beautiful shina wood onto traditional Japanese mulberry paper.

Dates: Thursday, May 18th 5:30pm - 7:00pm- Artist Talk( Free - open to all)

May 20 + 21 and 27 + 28 from 10:00am - 4:00pm

May 23 + 24 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

May 25 + 26 10:00am - 3:00pm (optional)

Our Juror and Workshop Instructor - Hiroki Morinoue

Born in 1947, in Holualoa on the Island of Hawaii, Hiroki Morinoue received his BFA degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in 1973. Traveling to Japan in 1976 through 1982, he studied sumi brush painting with Koh Ito Sensei and Japanese woodblock printmaking, Mokuhanga with Takashi Okubo Sensei.

Morinoue's work is represented in the collections of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, The Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, Neiman-Marcus in Honolulu & Chicago, Verizon Hawaii, Achenbach Foundation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The National Parks, Maryland, Ueno No Mori Museum, Tokyo, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. and many private commissions and collections.

In 1996 he was designated a Living Treasure of Hawaii by the Honpa Hongawanji Mission.