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 [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, April 15, 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, 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 [...]
Saturday, May 13, 10 AM-5 PM with Julie Lapping Rivera Woodcut is a wonderfully direct and accessible form of printmaking, which yields a range of imagery from bold and simple to detailed and textural. The process of bringing an image to life through carving is both soothing and meditative. Because [...]
Saturday, May 20, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone Image by Jan Johnson Spend a day exploring how to create interesting edges, textures, lines and forms from paper to a final print. This workshop will focus on a variety of ways to use stencils in monotype. [...]
Sunday, May 21, 10 AM - 5 PM with Kevin Pomerleau This workshop is an introduction to the process of etching and printing an aquatinted plate, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than hard lines. Used properly an aquatint can add texture, depth, or even flat planes of tone to your etching. Using the Zea [...]
Saturday, June 3rd, 10 AM-5 PM with Carolyn Muskat Pronto Plates (or Smart Plates) are thin polyester printing plates that offer many options for the artist, including delicate line drawings to bold graphic marks to small photo-montage elements. A form of lithography, these plates are inexpensive and relatively easy to [...]
Wednesdays, June 7, 14, 21, and 28, 10 AM-3 PM with Tate Klacsmann Relief printing in which the final image is made by the raised portions of a block can feel intimidating, because once material has been removed, it’s gone for good. Have you ever wanted advice or feedback as [...]
Friday-Sunday, June 9-11, 10 AM - 5 PM with Joyce Silverstone Delve into color theory applied to monotype printmaking! This workshop will use exercises that will stretch how you see color in the world and experience the prints and paintings of artists that use color at the core of [...]