Within the framework of the International Project, LITHOBAIRES ´09 will be developed, a project directed by Jeff Sippel, former Educational Director and masterprinter of the renowned lithography center Tamarind Institute of New Mexico, which will take place from July 22 to August 2, 2009.

Sippel is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis from United States. His experience in traditional lithography and water lithography has led him to hold exhibitions, workshops, conferences and demonstrations at many universities and in countries such as Germany, Mexico, Canada, Finland, Belgium, Bulgaria, India, Poland, Chile, South Africa, Venezuela , Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Colombia. He has worked in collaboration with more than a hundred artists from around the world. He helped organize and run the professional workshop in Lamspringe, Germany “Quensen”.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His work is part of the main private and public collections.

LITHOBAIRES will begin on July 22 with the opening of the exhibition New Wings / Nuevos Aires in which lithographs of the invited international artists will be exhibited. A series of activities are planned for the participating artists. The activities will conclude with a 5-day workshop in which Sippel will demonstrate graphic techniques that also include a time of personal experimentation on waterless lithography techniques which can be carried out in workshops that have an intaglio press. It is a workshop dedicated especially for art teachers and artists who wish to achieve the qualities of traditional lithography but who do not have the specific equipment to do so.