Saturday-Sunday, September 6-7, 10 AM-5 PM

Registration Deadline: September 5

with Jenny Gover

Learn how to translate your photographs and drawings into painterly screenprints! Participants will create a multi-color or gradated print using a single screen painted by hand, with no need for computers or darkrooms. We will start with a photograph or tonal drawing and paint stencils directly onto the screen mesh to block out highlights, mid-tones, and shadows, ending up with a layered, painterly translation of the starting image.

This workshop will have in-depth demonstrations of printing techniques and setup, ink mixing, and paper registration — all the things you need to be able to print confidently at home. Participants should bring a photograph or drawing they would like to translate into a print. All levels of screenprinting experience are welcome!

We are grateful to Legion Paper for their partial sponsorship of this workshop.

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.