AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

This season at the Lower East Side Printshop we will offer instruction for Intro to Printmaking, Intro to Screenprinting, Relief Printmaking, and Intaglio techniques. Printshop courses are appropriate for artists, beginners, and everyone interested in exploring printmaking as a creative medium. Instructors are artists and master printers who provide technical expertise and guided support to help turn your ideas into beautiful prints. All tools, basic materials, and additional free studio hours are included with the class fee!

To Register: http://www.printshop.org/web/Learn/Classes/Catalogue.html

INTAGLIO
with Erik Hougen
6 weeks, Tuesdays, 6 – 9 pm
January 19 – February 23, 2016
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.

INTRO TO SCREENPRINTING
with Roni Henning
6 weeks, Thursdays, 6 - 9 pm
January 28 - March 3, 2016
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.

RELIEF PRINTMAKING
with Evan Bellantone
4 weeks, Wednesdays, 6-9pm
February 17 – March 9, 2016
Fee: $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.

INTRO TO PRINTMAKING
with Lisa Mackie
5 weeks, Tuesdays, 6 - 9 pm
March 1 – March 29, 2016
Fee: $350

This course provides a broad introduction to basic printmaking techniques and processes. Learn about intaglio techniques by creating a drypoint and an etching, delve into traditional monoprint and relief printmaking, and discover various screenprinting methods. We will also cover important trans-process printmaking techniques such as paper tearing, ink modification, chine colle, registration, and printing multiple plates.
* This class uses only Akua Water-based non-toxic inks.

JAPANESE WATERBASED WOODBLOCK (MOKU HANGA)
with April Vollmer
4 weeks, Thursdays, 6-9pm
April 14 – May 5, 2016
Fee: $275

Moku hanga, the traditional Japanese technique, allows you to print luminous colors with easy registration and without the use of solvents or a printing press. Learn how to transfer images, carve blocks and cut kento registration marks, make non-toxic waterbased inks from pigment, and print by hand with a baren. You will also learn to edition multi-color prints on kozo paper. This class is also suitable for those with previous experience in the medium.

To Register: http://www.printshop.org/web/Learn/Classes/Catalogue.html