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Maurice Kahn
Rm. 389
3:00pm to 8:00pm, Monday February 8, 2010
Part 1: Working with non-toxic screen inks, 3 to 6 p.m.
Part 2: Making a screen-printing unit, 6 to 8 p.m.
Presented by the Printmaking program
Maurice Kahn, South African and Israeli printmaker and art educator, studied at the Fine Art Department of the University of the Witwatersrand and the College of Higher Education in Johannesburg. After graduating, he taught at the Johannesburg College of Art, the University of Natal and was Head of the Department of Fine Arts at the Durban-Westville University. His printmaking studios in Johannesburg and Durban became the focal point for leading artists in South Africa, among them Cecil Skotnes, Cecily Sash and Andrew Verster.
In the mid seventies he left South Africa for Israel to become a senior lecturer, teaching printmaking at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
Maurice’s increasing awareness of the health risks involved in using toxic materials prompted him to research ways of reducing such dangers. Following years of “trial and error”, he eventually formulated a workable serigraphic technology and methodology, solving the problems related to starch decomposition
and decay. By so doing, he was able to eliminate the use of both environmentally damaging oil-based and water-based PVC screen-printing inks from his own studio and from the studios at the Bezalel Academy.
Maurice Kahn’s research is ongoing. His purpose is to disseminate this valuable research and through objective feed-back from faculty, artists and students that he meets world-wide, continue in his efforts to make our studios safer places in which to create and study.
Rm. 389
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, Ontario
Free