Visit the The Brandon Free Public Library to see Morgan Tartakoff's artwork on display upstairs, from her Little Pebble Printshop. Morgan is a relief printmaker living in Brandon who does reduction woodcuts, both on paper and on fabric. The show includes woodcuts, linoleum prints, prints with added fiber stitching, tools, and blocks, with both the largest and the smallest prints she’s ever made.

Morgan explains the history of her printmaking:

"Reduction woodcuts are a printmaking technique developed in rural China where every color of a print was carved from a single block of wood. Traditionally you start carving your block by cutting out every detail you want to remain the color of the paper. Next you ink the block with the lightest color of your image, and print it on paper. Then you carve out of the block all the details you want to remain that lightest color, print your next darkest color and so on until your image is complete. My reduction woodcuts have between 3 and 12 colors. This process of carving and printing essentially ‘reduces’ the block to nothing as you build up your image on paper. Unlike many other types of printmaking, Reduction Woodcuts can’t ever be reproduced because the block is essentially “destroyed” in the process of printing. This technique of printmaking is different from the traditional thought of Japanese Woodcut where each color is carved on a different block and then inked and layered together on paper to create the final image."

On display through the end of March.

For more information and pictures of her process check out Instagram/ Facebook @LittlePebblePrintshop