A Trip to New York – From the Matrix to the Print

Can you imagine yourself in New York in the 1950s creating art alongside Joan Miró and Alice Trumbull Mason as part of Atelier 17?

By the hand of Julia Pelletier, in this workshop will look at Trumbull Mason's work Indicative Displacement and draw inspiration from her experimental spirit to explore the world of printmaking together. Using simple household materials such as paper, plastic folders and metal objects, we will create our own matrix - a kind of mould full of textures, drawings and personal traces - which we will then transform into a unique print by adding colours and our own personal touch of magic.

Julia Pelletier

Julia Pelletier is an illustrator, textile designer, and screen printer. She graduated with honors in Textile Design and specialized in Screen Printing at Central Saint Martins College in London in 2000.
She designs and prints fabrics for her own brand, Quepasajulia, a collection of printed home textiles. She collaborates as an illustrator and artist with publishers and magazines such as Planeta, Vanity Fair, and AD. Through motifs, textures, and colors, she transforms fabrics and papers into small paintings-living, moving spaces that surround the body or inhabit an environment.
Since 2006, she has been the director of Barcelona's International Illustrated Books Festival "Como Pedro por mi casa," while simultaneously working in the field of self‑published illustrated books.
She has carried out projects for the Teatre del Liceu, the Picasso Museum, La Pedrera, and the DHUB, among others. As an educator, she has worked with Les Ateliers du Carrousel at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Wallace Collection in London, the Lycée Français de Barcelona, and the bookshop La Central. She is currently a lecturer in printing and textile design in the Higher Degree in Fashion Design and module leader in the BA Fashion Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design.