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Calling all visual storytellers/songwriters/poets and lovers of moving pictures! Come make a Crankie with Lucky Platt.
Join Lucky for a hands-on program on the crankie—a unique moving panorama storytelling tool! Originating in the early 1800s, the crankie is a classic storytelling form created from a long illustrated scroll wound around spools and turned by hand with a crank.

In this workshop artist Lucky Platt will provide an introduction to the art form and its possibilities for expression and performance, story development through storyboard exercise, and time to create. Participants may choose to take the workshop with the intention of making their own crankie, or, as the form lends itself to collaboration—pairs or families may choose to work on one piece together. We will take a 30-minute break for lunch. All materials included—just bring your ideas!
*Note: Finalizing the artworks will likely be completed outside of the timeframe of the workshop, although it is possible to explore the form at a small scale within the timeframe.

BONUS: Crankies are often performed with poetry, spoken narrative, song, and more and workshop participants will have the optional opportunity to present their crankie as part of The Crankie Matinee, a new event for the Belfast Poetry Festival.

About the instructor: Lucky Platt is a visual artist and children’s book creator originally from northeast PA. She studied writing, painting, drawing and printmaking at Vassar College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Complutense City University of Madrid and has enriched her craft through study at the Maine Women Writers’ Collection, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, SVSLearn, SCBWI, Highlights Foundation and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, among others. As a beloved extension of her studio practice, Lucky has led art and writing workshops for children and adults, most recently through Waterfall Arts, Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, SCBWI New England, Waterville Creates and Maine Media Workshops. Find out more about Lucky and her work at www.luckyplatt.com/solucky

What is Community Print? These are 3-hour blocks of time with a studio artist present to give you a chance to start a new printmaking project or finish something you have started. They are held in the Kennedy Press, our state-of the-art printmaking studio where we have all the equipment you need to drop in and work independently on your printmaking project, share ideas, develop techniques, experiment, and help us build a lively community around printmaking! Community Print is great for folks who have taken one of our classes and want more time at the press, they are great for folks who learned printmaking in college but their skills have lapsed and they need a refresher, they are great for folks who have printmaking experience but lack the equipment to make prints at home. Join us and feel the power of printmaking!

Drop-in rates are $20 for a 3-hour session. Students currently enrolled in Waterfall Printmaking classes can purchase tickets for $10—a 50% discount! Maximum 5 artists during Community Print.

About the Studio Monitor:

MF Morison hails from the west coast where she was primarily known as a metalsmith, apprenticing under Stieg Gusterman (Georgetown, CO) and Thomas Schlicting (Amsterdam). Using acid etch in many processes, she continued to explore this medium, resulting in attending S.F. Art Institute, studying printmaking under the tutelage of Michi Itami. While in SF, MF also worked out of U.C. Berkeley Open Studio and Fort Mason Print Department. Upon her arrival to Midcoast Maine, MF shelved printmaking for a time until she became aware of the Waterfall Arts Printmaking Studio. Since then she has been consistently enthralled and engaged with printmaking, primarily working with copper plate intaglio etching with use of embossment and chine colle.