Saturday, February 25, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone Not all printmaking techniques require a press! Take a day to learn some methods of printmaking that can be done in your home studio or even at your kitchen table. Do you love the direct fluidity of drawing? This...
Saturday, March 4, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone Viscosity monotype with Akua inks involves a loose, painterly, and often, thrilling exploration playing the edge between accident and control. Create subtle, spontaneous, one-of-a kind prints, using modified inks. Thick and thin inks resist each other in ways that...
Sunday, March 5, 10 AM - 5 PM with Maya Malachowski Bajak Hardground etching is the most basic method of creating a line drawing in a metal plate. Come marvel in the uniquely crisp printed line you get from this technique and begin your etching journey. In this workshop...
Wednesdays, March 8-29, 6 PM - 9 PM with Zoë Dong Combine drypoint and collograph techniques in this low-tech, eco-friendly four-week evening course. Transform the everyday tetrapak-brand beverage carton into a versatile printmaking plate that can record line and texture in experimental, playful ways. We’ll create line and ranges of...
Friday-Sunday, March 17-19, 10 AM - 5 PM with Liz Bannish Lithography is a longtime method of printing from a flat surface, using only the phenomenon of oil repelling water to produce an image. When done using wood, the prints can have unexpected and beautiful results, often showing the grain...
Saturday-Sunday, March 25-26, 10 AM-5 PM with Annie Bissett Mokuhanga, the traditional Japanese method of woodblock printing with watercolors, usually requires careful planning and precision, but this workshop introduces participants to the materials used in Mokuhanga— wood, water, pigment and rice paste — without the arduous process of carving and...
Saturday-Sunday, April 1-2, 10 AM - 5 PM with Annie Silverman Prints on Japanese paper that are waxed with melted beeswax become strong, translucent, flexible surfaces that welcome techniques like stitching, piercing and sewing. These prints can be used on their own or combined with other printed elements to invigorate...
Tuesdays, April 4-25, 10 AM - 3 PM with Joyce Silverstone Play and improvise in this workshop as a means to generate ideas, expand visual vocabulary and put to use accumulated printed material. Collage is an art form all on its own, but it can be a vehicle to conduct...
Saturday, April 8, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone Viscosity monotype with Akua inks involves a loose, painterly, and often, thrilling exploration playing the edge between accident and control. Create subtle, spontaneous, one-of-a kind prints, using modified inks. Thick and thin inks resist each other in ways [...]
Sunday, April 16, 10 AM - 5 PM with Larinda Meade Soy Wax Soft Ground is an impressionable, acid resistant, wax based medium which allows an artist to obtain delicate lines, subtle tones and direct object impressions through etching. This workshop will introduce you to how to make the soft...
Saturday/Sunday, April 29-30, 10 AM - 5 PM with Nancy Diessner This workshop is an introduction to working with Toyobo Printight plates, a photopolymer plate that is very sensitive to photo-based tonal imagery as well as direct drawing. In fact, the process is so versatile that it can accommodate nearly...
Friday-Sunday, May 5-7, 10 AM-5 PM with Jenny Gover This intensive workshop will teach you to how to create screenprints using a versatile photographic exposure process. We will start with digital photos, scanned drawings, and drawings done directly on mylar and transform them into multilayered prints. Participants will learn techniques...