AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Upcoming Courses at the Lower East Side Printshop!
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Intro to Screenprinting
with Roni Henning
6 weeks, Thursdays, 6 – 9 pm
January 28 – March 3
Fee: $425
Explore the wide range of techniques in this versatile medium. Screenprinting allows you to easily print hand-drawn, photographic, and digital images on paper, fabric, and other surfaces in a variety of colors. You will create stencils and learn to use a vacuum press and exposure unit to develop 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 and other objects. 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
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
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 collé, registration, and printing with multiple plates.
* This class uses only Akua waterbased non-toxic inks.