AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

We are excited to announce that our new Fall Class Catalogue is now posted on our website and ready for registration! To register, please visit our website: http://printshop.org/web/Learn/Classes/Catalogue.html

RELIEF PRINTMAKING
with Justin Sanz
6 weeks, Wednesdays, 6-9pm
August 15 – September 19
$395

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.

INTRO TO PRINTMAKING
with Lisa Mackie
8 weeks, Mondays, 6-9pm
September 10 – October 29
Fee: $520

This course provides a broad introduction to 3 basic printmaking processes. Learn about intaglio techniques by creating a drypoint and etching, create unique prints with monoprint and carve blocks for relief printing. Important techniques used in all printmaking processes, such as paper tearing, ink modification, chine colle, registration, and printing multiple color plates, will also be covered.
* This class uses only Akua Water-based non-toxic inks.

INTAGLIO
with Erik Hougen
6 weeks, Thursdays, 6-9pm
September 27 – November 1
Fee: $395

Discover the diverse possibilities of intaglio, which can be used to create detailed images with a wide range of tones, lines, and textures. Techniques include etching, dry point, aquatint, soft ground, spit-bite and more. You will work with copper plates using etching tools, learn to print on an intaglio press, and explore variations of color printing.

WATERBASED SCREENPRINTING
with Roni Henning
6 weeks, Tuesdays, 6-9 pm
October 2 – November 6
Fee: $425

Explore the wide range of screenprinting 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 table and exposure unit to shoot screens. Topics will include screen preparation, color separation for multi-plate prints, correct color mixing, registration, screen monoprinting, editioning, and basic methods of printing onto t-shirts.

SOLAR PLATE ETCHING
with Sheila Goloborotko
6 weeks, Mondays, 6-9pm
November 12 – December 17
Fee: $395

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.