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JAPANESE
WATERBASED WOODBLOCK
(MOKU HANGA)
with April Vollmer
6 weeks, Mondays 6-9 pm
September 20 – October 25
Fee: $395
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.
WATERBASED SILKSCREEN
with Roni Henning
6 weeks, 6-9 pm
Fee: $425
Session I: Wednesdays, September 22 – October 27
Session II: Mondays, November 8 – December 13
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 for printing on t-shirts.
Session I
Session II
MONOTYPE
with Sarah Nicole Phillips
6 weeks, Tuesdays 6-9 pm
October 5 – November 9
Fee: $395
This comprehensive workshop will introduce you to one of the most liberating forms of printmaking, with an emphasis on experimentation and creativity. Learn to create innovative one-of-a-kind prints using drawing, painting and collage. Explore color mixing, brushwork, ghost images, chine colle, stencils, and alternative tools to create unique prints. We will pull highly developed monotypes by hand and with the aid of a press.
*This course uses only Akua Waterbased non-toxic inks.
SOLAR PLATE ETCHING
with Sheila Goloborotko
6 weeks, Thursdays 6-9 pm
October 7- November 11
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 photoetchings 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 course uses only Akua Waterbased non-toxic inks

INTRO TO PRINTMAKING
with Lisa Mackie
6 weeks, Wednesdays 6-9 pm
November 3 - December 15 (no class November 14)
Fee: $425
This course provides a broad introduction to basic printmaking processes. Learn about intaglio techniques by creating a drypoint and etching, create unique prints with monotype, and carve wood 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 Arlen Austin
6 weeks, Tuesdays 6-9 pm
November 16 – December 21
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.
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April Vollmer conducts a Hanga
Woodcut class.

© Amy Kao 2007
Liminal #2
Linocut and screenprint, 20" x 22" image,
33" x 26.25" sheet

© Sheila Pepe 2004
E. 4th Near Bowery
Aquatint, etching, sugar lift, 11.75" x 11" image, 30.5" x 22.5"
sheet

© Ryan McGinness 2007
Untitled (Ice Cream Trees)
Unique screenprint, 36.75" x 27.50"
image and sheet
© Tomie Arai 2002
The Photographer
Solarplate etching, 8.25" x 5.75" image,
14.5" x 11.5" sheet

© Jackie Battenfield 2003
Morning Mist
Monoprint, screenprint, embossment, and collage
10" x 18 " image, 22.5" x 30.25" sheet

© Felix Plaza 2006
Calla Roja
Monoprint, 11" x 8.5" image and sheet
© Karen Cunningham, 2000
Hipster, NYC
Photo Collagraph, 30" x 22"
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