Workshop: Relief Printing

WORKSHOP

RELIEF PRINTING

Saturday, June 27th | 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Each participant will receive a 4 by 4 inch soft carving material and artist-in-residency Camilla Taylor will teach how to design a high contrast image, carve it, and stamp it. Then, the participants will use their stamps to create a large-scale pattern, collaborating with each other on layout and color palette to create a repeating pattern using their own carvings as the design motifs. Participants will go home with a collaborative print and their carving

Partial scholarships available by request to info@surelsplace.org. 

Biography:

Camilla Taylor (CA) was raised in Provo, Utah, and is based in Los Angeles, California. In 2025, they presented Unkindness at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles, an exhibition examining mystical transformation through destruction. The exhibition included a sculpture that survived the complete burning of Taylor’s home and studio in the Eaton Fire earlier that year, embedding material endurance and change directly into the work. That same year, Taylor was a ceramic artist in residence at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Residency and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Artist Fellowship. 

Working across glass, printmaking, metal, fabric, and other materials, Taylor’s practice investigates interiority, the uncanny. The mortal body recurs as a central motif, explored both as a literal form and as a site of seduction and repulsion. Works such as Unrelenting, a cast glass sculpture depicting a human foot subjected to the forces of frostbite, reflect Taylor’s interest in vulnerability, endurance, and the thresholds where the body and mind transform under pressure.

Taylor has been on faculty at UCLA and Occidental College, teaching sculpture, drawing, and printmaking.