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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, March 28th, 5:30-7:30 PM Join Robynn Smith, printmaker, and Michael Craine, inkmaker, for a fun and informative talk about ink, color and printmaking. Art, chemistry, history and design converge in this wide ranging demonstration/discussion. All this and a lovely British accent. Bring your curiosity and questions for this dynamic [...]
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 [...]