North Carolina printmaker Scott Ludwig is Goldwell Museum's April artist in residence and will give participants the opportunity to explore digital media as a tool for creative expression in a workshop scheduled for April 25 and 26.

Starting with almost any image, Ludwig will demonstrate basic manipulations using a scanner and Photoshop for final printing in relief.

From there, the image will be output on an inkjet printer and then transferred to linoleum or a woodblock.

The image will then be cut and printed in the traditional manner, by press or by hand.

Ludwig's work as the artist in residence focuses on demonstrations of his hybrid printmaking. His technique applies digital or inkjet prints on hand-manipulated coatings and then applied to various types of papers which reveals the subsequent layers of etching and relief.

His work reflects observations of the "immense, arid landscape with extraordinary natural features and only scanty remains of human activity that is the epitome of geologic, rather than human, time."

Ludwig is a professor of art at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.

He has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Canada, Turkey and Cuba,

To reserve a space at the workshop, email goldwell@goldwellmuseum.org with the subject line "Workshop" with your name, address and phone number in the body of the email.