The PCANZ 2025 Summer School programme is now open for expressions of interest!

An exciting, immersive week of printmaking and connecting with printmakers from around the country.

This year we are thrilled to have two international tutors (from Australia and Canada) alongside our tutors from around Aotearoa.

Not a member of PCANZ? To join us to register for Summer School, click here.

Choose from the 7 options - 2 x 4-day courses or 4 x 2-day courses and/or the open studio with accommodation and meals all on site.

Workshops: 4-day $410 or $396, 2-day $205 or $198

Workshops are on Monday, Tuesday, then again on Thursday, Friday leaving a free day on Wednesday to explore Hamilton's galleries, cafes, sight see, etc.

*There will be an extra cost for materials specific to each workshop. You will be informed with workshop confirmation.

There is a small extra cost for the international tutor workshops.

Accommodation and meals: $615

Waikato Diocesan for Girls Hostel, 660 River Road, Chartwell, Hamilton 3210 from Sunday 12 - Friday 17 January 2025. Your booking is an all inclusive cost to cover 5 nights, 5 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners. Specific diets are available on request, some extra charges will apply.

Scholarship:

The Gary Tricker Summer School Scholarship is now open for applications. To learn more or apply, click here.

Scholarship applicants should also book via the form below, to ensure a place in the workshop/s of their choice.

Summer School 2025 programme:

Summer School Workshop and Hostel Bookings: BOOKINGS VIA THE FORM ARE NOW OPEN. Click on the button below:

**PLEASE NOTE: When you submit your booking by clicking on the ‘Submit’ button, there will be an automated message confirming that your form has been sent. Please make sure you see this. If not, please try again. Also please be patient when bookings first open, there will be others booking at the same time and this may cause issues as well. Please be assured that all bookings are automatically recorded at exactly the time and in the order they are placed.

Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 January

Vancouver BC based mixed media artist Brigitte Potter-Mael will guide participants through every step of her own woodcut-intaglio technique. This two-day intensive workshop will involve a unique preparation of a wooden matrix, use of wood-cutting/carving knives. Oil-based printing inks will be used.

The process is known as woodcut-intaglio, because it involves carving and cutting in the making, plus an intaglio (as well as etching and drypoint) method of wiping the inks in preparation for the printing.

Participants will create images printed from wooden plates that would combine mark-making using a set of carving knifes to create lines, along with the use of water-based media and brush work to create textures.

Brigitte studied stone lithography and woodblock printing as part of her BFA at the University of Concordia, Montreal, and graduated in drawing and printmaking in April 1983.

Summer School 2025

The PCANZ 2025 Summer School programme is now open for expressions of interest!

Cancellation policy - Cancellations of the 50% deposit will be refunded less 15% administration fee until early November. Cancellation of full payment after 20 November - there will be no refunds unless in exceptional circumstances (at the discretion of the Executive).

3. Brigitte Potter-Mael: Woodcut Intaglio - $205