Coffee Lift Aquatint | Nadia Holcomb

Coffee Lift Aquatint | Nadia Holcomb

April 12, 2025

This course will explore the use of instant coffee as an alternative to the traditional sugar lift aquatint technique, a method practiced for centuries to produce painterly areas of tone. Over the course of two sessions, we will use a combination of coffee lift aquatint...

Kahn Family Fellowship Deadline

Kahn Family Fellowship Deadline

April 22, 2025

The Ink Shop Printmaking Center offers an annual Fellowship to a printmaker or book artist. The next Fellowship begins May 15, 2025 and ends February 15, 2026. The Fellow will be offered a stipend of $2000 and all the benefits and privileges of a Printmaker Associate. T...

Cyanotype | Jaden Demarest

Cyanotype | Jaden Demarest

April 26, 2025

Participants will learn the fundamentals of cyanotype printing using plant matter and other objects on an exposure unit, exploring cyanotype as a lumen-style photogram process. Cyanotype, also known as the blueprint, was discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1842. It is an...

The Ink Shop is sad to share the news that Fred Madden, Professor of English, photographer,  and long-time member of the Ink Shop Printmaking Center has died peacefully on December 6, 2021.

Fred was a multi-talented and creative artist. Visitors to the Ink Shop gravitate immediately to his work. Consistently brilliant and beautiful, Fred’s imagery is a digital form of impressionism that is both reflective and delightful. 

Fred has been a wonderful friend who has stepped up to help out in many ways. Helping annually with the Ithaca Artists Market with his humor and helping hands. Without fan-fare and with a warm heart, he made sure we knew his appreciation for Ink Shop and that appreciation is mutual.  He and his wife Taf have been the most incredible supporters of the Ink Shop for which we are forever grateful. 

We’ve lost a good friend and a beautiful light.