PRINTMAKING CLASSES

  • Location: Lower East Side Printshop, 306 West 37th Street, 6th floor, New York, New York, 10018, US
  • Deadline: Mar 4 2014 at 12:00AM
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PRINTMAKING CLASSES

The Printshop’s classes are open to beginners to discover the world of printmaking, artists interested in exploring new techniques, and avid printmakers too. Our instructors are accomplished artists and experienced master printers who offer technical expertise and creative advice to help turn your ideas into beautiful prints. All tools, basic materials, and additional free studio hours are included at no cost!

Visit our website http://printshop.org or call 212-673-5390 for registration. And, visit us for a studio tour before signing up.

INTRO TO SCREENPRINTING
with Roni Henning
6 weeks, Thursdays, 6-9 pm
January 16 – February 20
Fee: $425

Explore the wide range of techniques in this versatile medium. Silkscreen allows you to easily print hand-drawn, photographic, and digital imagery on paper, fabric, and other surfaces in a variety of colors. You will create handmade and photographic stencils and learn to use a vacuum press and exposure unit to expose screens. Topics will include screen preparation, color separation for multi-screen prints, correct color mixing, registration, screen monoprinting, editioning, and basic methods of printing onto t-shirts. Artists should bring ideas and/or images to the first session.


INTAGLIO
with Erik Hougen
6 weeks, Tuesdays, 6-9pm
January 21 – February 25
Fee: $395

Explore the rich and incredibly diverse possibilities of intaglio printing. This course aims to provide students with a strong command of essential intaglio techniques as well as an overview of historical and contemporary approaches to the medium. We will work through five fundamental intaglio processes: hard and soft ground etching, aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite. While learning these fundamental techniques, you will develop two or three images and discuss issues in contemporary art with specific emphasis on printmaking. You will work on a copper plate with etching tools, and print on an intaglio press, as well as explore variations of color printing and chine collé.

RELIEF PRINTMAKING
with Justin Sanz
4 weeks, Wednesdays, 6-9pm
February 12 – March 5
$275

This course will introduce you to various methods of creating woodcut and linocut prints. This direct and versatile process is one of the oldest methods of printing. Learn how to prepare wood and linoleum blocks, carve images by hand, apply ink with rollers, and print by hand and on the press using oil based inks. Also covered will be methods for creating images with multiple blocks and colors, reduction printing, and alternative techniques.

SOLAR PLATE ETCHING
with Mark Herschede
4 weeks, Thursdays, 6-9pm
February 27 – March 20
Fee: $275

Solar plate is the safest and quickest method for creating photographic imagery in etching. Also known as photopolymer etching, this is an easy and innovative way to create intaglio and photo etchings without the use of acid and other harmful chemicals. Hand-drawn, photo-based, or digital images are exposed onto light-sensitive polymer plates, which are developed in water and printed on an etching press.
*This class uses only Akua Water-based non-toxic inks.

COLLAGE / ADHESIVES
With Justin Israels
March 3 – March 24, 2014
4 weeks, Mondays, 6-9pm
Fee: $275

This intensive workshop will de-mystify the world of adhesives. We will learn about and how to use traditional and modern adhesives with a focus on selecting the right adhesive for the right material and application. If you are collaging or mounting to paper, wood, metal, or cloth we will personalize and devise a glueing system that works for your practice.

INTRO TO SCREENPRINTING
with Roni Henning
6 weeks, Tuesdays, 6-9 pm
March 4 – April 8
Fee: $425

Explore the wide range of techniques in this versatile medium. Silkscreen allows you to easily print hand-drawn, photographic, and digital imagery on paper, fabric, and other surfaces in a variety of colors. You will create handmade and photographic stencils and learn to use a vacuum press and exposure unit to expose screens. Topics will include screen preparation, color separation for multi-screen prints, correct color mixing, registration, screen monoprinting, editioning, and basic methods of printing onto t-shirts. Artists should bring ideas and/or images to the first session.