Sunday, April 27
10:00am – 12:00pm | ArtLab
Sliding fee of $5–$15 | Drop-in | Adults 18+

Join us this month as we explore silverpoint. Silverpoint is one of several types of metalpoint techniques where a drawing is made by dragging and etching a metal styli on a prepared surface.This traditional drawing method, used by Medieval scribes, has been employed by artists through the centuries and is still used today. Teaching artist Alexis Iammarino will share tips for drawing in silverpoint, techniques first learned from her father, artist Richard Iammarino.

About the artist

With a focus on youth mentorship, community-based murals, film, dance, and collaborative project design, Alexis Iammarino has led multiple large public art projects in the Midcoast and statewide. From 2016-2021 she served as CMCA’s ArtLab Lead Artist and Educator; she is a founding artist with Leaps of Imagination and Arts in Action; and is co-director at Interloc in Thomaston, Maine. She and her husband Scott Sell run Little Legs Co. a mural, publications and small film production company in Rockland. Her recent and on-going public history projects include donuts and bricks!! 

Header image: Richard Iammarino, silverpoint (detail). Courtesy the RPI Family Archive.