Teaching period: September 8 – September 12, 2025
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Teacher(s): assoc. prof. Jolanta Mikulskytė
ECTS: 3 ECTS
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 10
Level: BA /MA
Requirements: some printmaking experience recommended, contemporary visual art, drawing, photos, writing, composition, the concept of color expression and harmony.
Application deadline: 29th of June, 2025, 2nd of July, 2025 – confirmation for selected participants.
How to apply: Please send your motivation letter and portfolio (the main artistic field / artistic research, maximum 12 slides, *pdf) to jolanta.mikulskyte@vda.lt
Course description:
This is a stone lithography printmaking workshop.
The course takes place at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Graphic Laboratory, printmaking workshop. Lithography is a particularly auspicious form of creative expression, encompassing a wide variety of expressive forms: an expressive drawing method, a watercolor like treatment of color, the drawing of miniatures, the raster offset printing, the art of ink etc.
Stone lithography is one of the most popular and revered forms of fine art printmaking. Originally invented in 1796, this form of printmaking utilizes a limestone slab, made flat and smooth, and relies on the mutual repulsion of oil and water to transfer an image from the stone to the paper.
During the course the participants will be introduced to the specifics of the planography print: stone and offset lithography, also polyester lithography and mixed media; and its main technological image creation principles that separate it from other graphic printing methods. The students will be encouraged to use the plentiful and unique plastic expression opportunities offered by stone lithography.
During the printmaking process the students will be encouraged to experiment and use common as well as non-traditional means of lithographic image creation and search for their own individual artistic style.
It will cover all the basic steps involved, including graining and preparing the stone, drawing with a variety of materials, etching the stone, inking, and printing; to try phototransfer on the stone, or print an offset lithography (optional).
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).
Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).
In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact jolanta.mikulskyte@vda.lt
