White-Line Woodblock Print With Darrell Smith

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Thursday October 10 – Friday October 11, 9:30-1:30

2 sessions | $180 for members $200 for non-members

Dive into the history of white-line woodblock printing as an original American art form originating in Provincetown. 

This two-day workshop will cover examples from Blanche Lazzell, Grace Martin Taylor, Mabel A. Hewit, and Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, and students will be able to view original prints from the PAAM collection. 

Students will also learn the step by step process of white-line including image transfer to a pine board, carving a simple matrix with an X-acto knife, and the initial paper printing stages with watercolor pigments. Participants will transfer an image to a board using graphite transfer paper, carve v-shaped grooves, attach printing paper, and begin the printing process with boxed water-colors.

ABOUT THE TEACHING ARTIST

Darrell Smith was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. After retiring from practicing radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he took a white-line woodblock printing class at the Provincetown Art Association Museum (PAAM). Kathryn Lee Smith (no relation) was his first teacher, and she learned the technique from her grandmother Ferol Sibley Warthen, who learned from Blanche Lazzell.

Smith’s work has been shown in open and juried exhibitions at PAAM and at The Provincetown Commons. His first solo show was in April 2023 at the Provincetown Commons, with another solo show at the Wellesley Free Library in May 2024. In August 2022 he was featured in a show at the Julie Heller Gallery East in Provincetown. In 2020, one of his prints was selected by the jury for the 50th annual Trail of Tears Art Show held in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Smith is an exhibiting member of the Wellesley Society of Artists.  He completed the Teaching Artist Development Program at PAAM in 2022.

Website: smithprovincetownprints.com