Honoring Krishna Reddy’s lifelong commitment to pedagogy, process, and public access to the arts, Print Center New York and EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (EFA RBPMW) are co-hosting a series of hands-on workshops in conjunction with both organizations’ spring 2025 exhibitions on the artist.

Join acclaimed artist Michael Kelly Williams for this immersive single-session, all-levels workshop on collagraph viscosity printing. Collagraphy is an additive plate making process that lends itself to viscosity techniques. Free from acids and grounds, it incorporates assembled materials to create rich, textured surfaces on the printing plate. Participants will use rollers of different densities to apply ink onto their plates. The plates are then printed on an etching press with dampened paper, allowing for dramatic embossment. 

Reddy worked primarily by carving metal plates using flexible shaft tools and his process was informed by a deep interest in sculpture. Michael Kelly Williams is a former student of Krishna Reddy. In 1980, Williams attended Reddy’s color print atelier at New York University and learned viscosity techniques firsthand. The two developed a friendship and Williams later assisted Reddy with printing in his Soho loft studio.