Learn to etch a credit card at Art Center Morro Bay
–Morro Bay Art Association will present a demonstration of dry-point etchings by accomplished artist and gallery owner Rosey Rosenthal on July 9 from 3-5 p.m. The class is free and open to the public.
Rosenthal earned a Bachelor of Art degree in Graphic Arts and Illustration from Pratt Institute. It’s difficult to express Rosey’s accomplishments without mentioning his wife and partner, Barbara. The Rosenthals are founding members of the Central Coast Printmakers Group of San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), originating 36 years ago. Rosey, his wife Barbara, Stevie Vorhees and Joan Sullivan operated The Baywood Gallery at the pier in Baywood, CA. Rosey and Barbara initiated the artist group SLAG, an artists’ cooperative located within the San Luis Obispo Creamery Building. The Rosenthals later opened “Art is for Everyone”, a gallery in Baywood Park serving the public for 9 years. They established a printmaking studio, “Granada Arts” in Los Osos, selling over 30,000 etchings and relief prints, where they have taught etching workshops since 1981. Barbara brought art to the San Luis Obispo public schools through the Santa Barbara Creative Project for nine years.
Participants of this demonstration should bring an old canceled credit or membership card with an idea for a 2 1/8″ x 3 1/4″ dry-point etching (see photo). Rosey will have a small etching press and tools needed to scratch designs into the plastic cards. He will give a quick overview and demonstrate how to scratch and print a card, then ink and print your completed etching (original print).
