Akua® Printmaking

March 19 + 20 / 10am to 5pm In this workshop we will cover the various ways of handling Akua Intaglio Inks to make your prints look their best. We will practice mostly monotype methods on Petg plastic plates, but bring your plates that hold intaglio or relief information to the workshop and we will...more » Akua Intaglio Ink Best Practices with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

In this workshop you will learn how to make a monotype print with Akua Kolors. Explore the painterly qualities of monotype using Akua Kolor and Akua Intaglio water-based inks while working with Julio Valdez. We encourage you to take inspiration on the exhibition's theme of Resilience and Uncertainty while creating your monotypes! Space is limited,...more » Non-toxic Printmaking Monotype Workshop with Julio Valdez

April 12, 19, + 26, Three Tuesdays Series / 10am to 5pm During this workshop, students will explore making monotype transfer drawings and carborundum collagraph plates. Transfer drawing is a great way to loosen up and refresh your appreciation for the marks and shapes of the natural world. We will employ these “sketches” to provide...more » Carborundum Collagraph Tuesdays with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

Learn how to print from the textures of wax. Elise Wagner will guide you through her unique printmaking method she innovated which brings together techniques characteristic to encaustic painting with that of collagraph printmaking. A collagraph is a collaged printing plate where typically various fabrics, organic material, string, or flat objects are inked and printed...more » Encaustic Collagraph Printmaking: Merging of Mediums with Elise Wagner

May 6 - 8 / 10am to 3pm Traditionally, monotypes are printed from a smooth substrate, with no repeatable marks on the plate. During this workshop, we will explore using monotype methods to approach printing a plate with repeatable elements. Teaching will highlight how to make and print a drypoint plate with time to practice...more » Drypoint and Color with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

June 2 - 5 / 10am to 5pm Play, improvise and learn how to print monotype and relief images that move across the page, working either abstractly or figuratively. Draw, compose and collage a series of prints either vertically or horizontally with fluid overlaps to tell a story and create a visual poetic line. Carve...more » The Viewer Becomes a Traveler: Making Scroll Prints with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

Price: $550 workshop cost includes materials (except paper), and dinner + 3 lunches. Modifying and controlling the viscosities of inks yields results that cannot be achieved any other way. Taking advantage of the ink interactions allows the development of multi-color prints from a single plate, and naturally leads to sequences of related images Understanding the...more » Intention and Surprise: Printmaking with Akua Inks with Catherine Kernan

Summer Mark-Making Lab  Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio June 18 + 19 / 10am to 5pm Participants will explore beautiful drypoint mark-making: Scratch, sand, and abrade the surface of a plastic plate to create an image that can be wiped with tarlatan which allows those burrs and kicked up plate material to hold ink. Petg plastic...more » Summer Mark-Making Lab with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone

Price:$999 + Tax Turn high contrast images into relief woodcuts without touching a carving tool. Your images will be pre-carved by a CNC machine and ready to use upon arrival. More blocks can be carved during the workshop, and hand carving can be added. We will ink and print the blocks in a wide variety...more » CNC Intensive Play with Blocks and Inks with Catherine Kernan