Friday-Sunday, December 8-10, 10 AM-5 PM with Nancy Diessner Learn to make and print multi-plate photopolymer images! We’ll be focusing first on the technical process of making high quality, tonally sensitive photopolymer plates and prints, but we won’t be stopping there! Once your plates are made you’ll learn how different [...]
Saturday-Sunday, January 6-7, 10 AM - 5 PM with Tina Stevens Design a pattern repeat from monoprints and send your designs out to be digitally printed on fabric! All types of artwork can be used for textile design (both hand-done and digital) and made into repeating patterns. Today’s digital printing [...]
Group Workshop: Wednesdays, 10-5 at Zea Mays: January 10, February 7, March 6, 2024 Individual Zoom sessions: to be scheduled—one each month for 30 minutes with each participant with Nancy Diessner This class is a new incarnation of the Photopolymer Project workshop series. These workshops are designed to meet the [...]
Saturday-Sunday, January 13-14, 10 AM-5 PM with Maya Malachowski Bajak This workshop is an introduction to two of the most foundational and versatile processes in etching: hardground and aquatint. Hardground etching is the most basic method of creating a line drawing in a metal plate, and aquatint is a way [...]
Friday-Sunday, January 19-21, 10 AM-5 PM with Annie Bissett Mokuhanga (literally “wood print”) is a term for the ancient Japanese technique of watercolor woodblock printing—an environmentally friendly low-tech process that can be done at home at any scale and that combines well with other media. This workshop will introduce [...]
Saturday, January 27, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone Spend a day making marks, textures and lines, while exploring monotype drawing methods to approach making a plate with repeatable elements. Instruction will highlight how to make and print a drypoint plate with time to practice intaglio wiping skills. [...]
Saturday-Sunday, February 10-11, 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 [...]
Tuesday-Friday, February 20-23, 10 AM - 3 PM with Zoë Dong Turn your passion into posters and learn how to screen print! In this 4-day workshop, students will explore the history and power of the printed political poster. They will learn screenprinting techniques, research a topic and create original printed [...]
Saturday-Sunday, March 2-3, 10 AM-5 PM with Rich Turnbull Have you ever thought about turning your prints into books? Or going beyond a simple book structure and venturing into 3-D? Then this workshop is for you! Learn to push the boundaries of artists’ books in this two-day workshop by experimenting [...]
Thursday-Sunday, March 7-10: Thursday 4-7 PM, Friday/Saturday 10 AM-5 PM, Sunday 10 AM-2 PM with Catherine Kernan Carving woodblocks can fix an image, setting it up for repetition. Woodblocks can also be used in a dynamic way that yields unexpected results without reducing or re-cutting the blocks. Combinations of woodblocks [...]
Saturday-Sunday, March 16-17, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone The term collagraph stems from the Greek, “colla” being derived from the verb “to glue”. Typically, a collagraph is composed of layers of materials that are glued or attached to a substrate. In this workshop, students will explore making [...]
Saturday-Sunday, March 23-24, 10 AM-5 PM with Liz Chalfin Chine collé is the process of concurrently printing and adhering a thinner sheet of paper onto a thicker backing sheet, allowing one to use more than one kind of paper within one image while providing an ideal impression surface and a [...]