We have Two workshops coming up.
We are delighted to invite our community of educators and parents to an inspiring hands-on workshop at Branches Atelier on Saturday, November 22nd. The Art of Printmaking: Layers of Light, Texture, and Story.
Together we will explore the poetic art of printmaking — discovering how layers of light, texture, and story can deepen our understanding of children’s creative expression and our own.
This gathering is an opportunity to slow down, make with our hands, and reflect on the ways artistic processes nurture imagination, connection, and meaning in both home and school environments.
And for those eager to learn more about the Branches approach to environments, materials, and pedagogy, we also welcome you to join our Educator Tour on Tuesday, December 2nd, here at Branches Atelier.
✨ We look forward to learning, creating, and sharing with you! Please read on to register below.
🌿 Branches Atelier Workshop: The Art of Printmaking: Layers of Light, Texture, and Story
Presented by Patricia Hunter McGrath and Christina Bianchi
Saturday, November 22, 2025
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Cost $110 Includes a light breakfast
Workshop Overview
Join us for a full day of joyful experimentation and discovery through printmaking. In this hands-on atelier experience, participants will explore both the science and poetry of image-making — learning to create fascinating textured surfaces through print. Together we will explore: making our own gelatin plates, transferring photographic images with matte medium, and working with archival tissue paper prints to build layered, translucent compositions.
Through processes that balance inquiry, process and the unexpected, we’ll ask how materials can help us capture memory, tell new stories and work with layers as well as how printmaking becomes a language for transformation.
Together we will explore:
- 🌸 Making Your Own Gelatin Plates — learn to mix, pour, and experiment with surfaces that invite surprise and discovery. We will also experiment with premade plates.
- 📸 Create Photo Transfers with Matte Medium — lift and layer imagery in unexpected ways.
- 📜 Archival Tissue Paper Prints — create ethereal transparencies that invite new meaning when layered.
- 🎨 Layering, Composition & Color — explore how intention, accident, and curiosity meet on the printing surface.
As well as consider:
🪶 How can printmaking serve as a language of traces, echoes, and memory?
🪶 What stories emerge when we layer images, materials, and gestures?
🪶 How might transparent materials invite us to see both what is visible and what is hidden?
🪶 What happens when we shift from “making an image” to “listening to what the materials want to say”?
🪶 How do we know when a print is “finished”? Or is it ever?
What to Bring
- A few printed or photocopied black & white images (laser prints work best)
- Curiosity, playfulness, and a willingness to get your hands messy
Branches Atelier 100 Languages Educator Tour
Tuesday, December 2nd, 9am to 3pm 2025
$100 – Lunch included.
We are happy to welcome you to experience a day of observation and reflection and a focus on the use of the 100 Languages in our school.
During our time together, you will have a guided tour of our school, observe in our classrooms and meet with teachers, and facilitators to gain a deeper understanding of the culture of our school.
This tour will cover the following:
- How are the values of our school integrated through out the flow of the day?
- How do the teachers engage children through the 100 Languages during our inquiries?
- What role do reflection meetings play in the organization of the day?
- How are documentation tools used to support, uncover and develop children’s inquires?
- How are parents involved in our school?
- How are pedagogical team meetings used to uncover and support children’s learning?
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