Artist Demo: Monotype with Collage – Creative Off-Press Techniques with Paula DeSimone

March 19, 2025
Wednesday 10:30am - 12pm

Join us on Wednesday, March 19th for an Artist Demo with Paula DeSimone!  The monotype process is an exciting way to create unique prints. This demo will dive into the creative process of how one-of-a-kind prints are created on rice paper threw off-press (manual) techniques. Reductive techniques as well as found materials will be incorporated to create interesting imagery. Examples of monotypes will be showcased including monotypes with collaged elements as a means of creating colorful, complex compositions.

Image: Paula DeSimone, Haiku I, 2024, monotype with collage, 30 x 24 inches

Paula DeSimone, artist, author, and educator, is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Ms. DeSimone has over thirty years of experience in arts education and has taught at such prestigious institutions as RISD – Continuing Education, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Attleboro Arts Museum, the DeCordova Museum, and Danforth Art School FSU.

​She is a current member of the Cambridge Art Association as well as the Monotype Guild of New England. Ms. DeSimone has authored numerous instructional texts available worldwide. Her work is held in distinguished hospital and corporate collections, including Children’s Hospital – Boston, Newton Wellesley Hospital, and U-Mass Memorial, as well as private collections internationally. She is represented by L’Attitude Gallery, Newbury St, Boson, MA.