Photo Screen Printing
October 19, 2024 @ 10:00 am - October 20, 2024 @ 5:00 pm
$320.00
Image by Sallie Ketcham
Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20, 10 AM-5 PM
with Jenny Gover
Learn how to transform your photos and drawings into multilayered screen prints!
Participants will learn techniques for digital image preparation in Photoshop and then move on to making photo positives from oiled photocopies, printed transparencies, or drawings and paintings done directly on mylar. Once the images are ready, we will coat screens with light-sensitive emulsion and expose them in the darkroom to create stencils for printing. With screens in hand, we will move on to learn printing techniques and paper registration.
This workshop will allow participants to experiment with multiple techniques in the darkroom and refine their printing technique. The first day will be devoted to the technical side: image manipulation on and off the computer and learning the ins and outs of the darkroom. As you become comfortable preparing positives and exposing screens, we will focus on composing layered images, printing technique, and color mixing.
All levels of screenprinting experience are welcome! No computer experience necessary.
Jennifer Gover is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Northampton, MA. Jenny received a BA in art history and visual arts from Columbia University, and an MFA in graphic design from Boston University College of Fine Arts. She has worked as an interactive and graphic designer for companies including the former cultural touchstone, MySpace.com. She taught printmaking at Springfield College and currently teaches screenprinting and mentors artists at Zea Mays. Jenny works primarily in screenprinting and intaglio. Her artwork has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally and is represented in the Zea Mays Flat File.