Join us for a fun and creative 2-hour printmaking workshop designed for parents and children to explore the art of Tetra Pak printmaking! Using recycled Tetra Pak cartons as printing plates, you'll learn how to emboss, ink, and transfer stunning images onto paper. This eco-friendly technique creates rich textures and beautiful prints while promoting sustainability and artistic expression.
This workshop is a fun family printmaking class. We will be painting stenciled mylar plates with water-based inks to create subtle and intricate monotype prints. This process allows you to paint quickly onto the mylar plates, then transfer the ink to dampened paper using an etching press. You will learn about ghost images, which can achieve wonderful effects with immediate results. This technique is completely non-toxic and the fee covers participation for 1 parent and elementary school age child.
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. The Fellow may teach workshops and/or edition for other artists (for which one could be paid additionally as an independent contractor). The Ink Shop will provide technical advice, guidance, and assistance in production and use of equipment. For the month of February 2025 the Fellow will have the opportunity to present a Solo show.
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 iron-based photographic process developed in the early days of photography. The cyanotype is typically an image rendered on paper in various shades of blue. As an entry-level workshop, this class will introduce participants to this accessible and creative process. Lumen prints, including cyanotypes, are created by placing objects on light-sensitive paper and exposing them to UV light, producing delicate and often unpredictable tonal variations. The workshop will conclude with a session on transforming prints into paper dolls.
Reaching Into the Lake is a series of etchings intertwining the real and imaginary. It is an act of noticing-things often missed– corners in stairwells, lingering hands, and dreams forgotten by the morning. To reach-into a lake is to extend a hand to something new, see one’s own reflection and the way it is broken up by-ripples, and come out different. Likewise, this selection of prints can act as a reflecting pool for the-viewer to consider their own life and memories, and leave a little bit different.
Silk screen printing is a fun, nontoxic printing process that involves both photo and handmade stencils. This workshop will introduce you to the fundamentals of silkscreen printing using digital+handmade stencils, photosensitive emulsion, and a UV Light exposure unit.
Copper plate etching is a process where a polished piece of copper is processed with either engraving or an acid bath with the intention of creating grooves and lines to hold ink. Ink is applied to the whole plate, then carefully wiped down leaving the ink the grooves and lines. The plate is then ran through the press with a sheet of damp paper for the final print.
A hodophile is a lover of travel, a wanderer, a walker, a restless spirit: someone who travels to escape, walks to think, and wanders to learn about the world but moreover to repeatedly discover oneself. The works in Hodophilia are inspired by physical and psychic journeys: navigating labyrinthian footpaths on the island of Skopelos, Greece; climbing the sun-scorched hills of Santa Cruz, CA; and hiking in New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains.
With Cash Prize up to $500! The 23rd Mini Print International is a juried exhibition of prints no larger than 4”x4”. A maximum of four (4) original prints in any […]
The 23rd Mini Print International is a juried exhibition of prints no larger than 4”x4”. A maximum of four (4) original prints in any traditional or contemporary graphic process, including […]
