MCC and Dehn Foundation Sponsor Visiting Artist Talk: Printmaker Matt Brown

Manchester, Conn. (February 16, 2017) – The Adolf and Virginia Dehn Foundation visiting artist series at Manchester Community College continues with printmaker Matt Brown on Tuesday, February 21 from 1 to 2 p.m. Brown will present a slideshow on Japanese hanga/ukiyo-e woodblock printing in the  SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium on the college’s main campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Brown worked as a builder and cabinetmaker before turning to printmaking full time in 1995. He is self-taught in the method, which is a non-toxic approach developed during the 18th and 19th centuries using rice paste, pigments and water.

Brown holds a degree in the visual arts from Harvard University. He is a contributing member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and the Boston Printmakers Society. He exhibits and sells in galleries in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, and he also teaches annual workshops at the Concord Art Association, Concord, Mass.; Snow Farm, Williamsburg, Mass.; Jackson Design Studio, Jackson, New Hampshire; and his own shop in Lyme, New Hampshire. For more information, visit www.mattbrown.biz.

The Dehn Foundation was established by Virginia Dehn to promote the arts, and it is now administered by Virginia’s niece and nephews whose father, Frederick Lowe, Jr., served as Manchester Community College’s first president. The foundation has generously supported the MCC visiting artist program for several years.

MCC offers a credit-bearing course in printmaking, which can be taken as an elective or as part of an associate degree program in visual fine arts. Topics covered include materials, design and techniques for monoprinting, intaglio, relief, planographic and serigraph. Visit the website.