Classes
Intaglio with Ian Ruppenthal
4 Tuesdays, 6 – 9pm
October 29 – November 19, 2024
Fee: $425 including materials and 12 hours of studio time
This 4-week introductory course will familiarize students with etching, aquatint, and drypoint printing techniques. Students will learn to prepare their own copper plate for etching, apply hard and soft ground, use a rosin box for aquatint, and print an edition of etchings. By the end of the course, students will be able to print confidently on an etching press, and feel comfortable in choosing intaglio techniques suitable to their artistic styles.
Ian Ruppenthal is a printmaker and artist raised in North Carolina, and living in Brooklyn. Ian began making prints as an undergrad, and has since worked in a variety of printshops in both professional and academic settings. Ian is one of the founders of Pigeonhole Press, a small etching publisher in Chicago. He was an apprentice at Wingate Studio (Hinsdale, NH), and currently is the studio manager at Lower East Side Printshop.
Intro to Screenprint with Jeremy Ruiz
4 Mondays, 6 – 9pm
November 4 – 25, 2024
Fee: $425 including materials and 12 hours of studio time
Originally developed as a commercial process, this direct and dynamic medium is utilized by artists and designers alike. Learn the basics of silkscreen printing in this four-week course. Make hand-drawn or photographic imagery to print on paper. This course will cover basic image processing, color mixing, printing, and multiple layer registration.
Jeremy Ruiz is an artist living in New York. He graduated from SUNY Purchase College in 2015 with a BFA in printmaking and has worked as a printmaker in publishing studios with internationally acclaimed artists for nearly a decade. He started his career at Durham Press, later with Lower East Side Printshop as the Studio Manager, and is currently working at Two Palms Press in the silkscreen studio.
Expanded Blueprinting: Experiments in Cyanotype with Caleb Stone
4 Wednesdays, 6 – 9pm
November 13, 20, December 4, 11, 2024
(The class skips November 27)
Fee: $380 including materials and 12 hours of studio time
Intended for students unfamiliar with the cyanotype process or looking for ways to push their existing knowledge, this course will take an experimental approach to blueprinting privileging the haphazard and unexplored. We will explore various techniques for producing an image including but not limited to shadow printing, drawing, photography, and their combination. In addition, we will learn techniques for pushing cyanotype beyond the blue, using natural dyes to achieve browns, blacks, yellows, and maybe even reds. We will try printing on top of existing cyanotypes to create duotones, using cyanotypes to make other cyanotypes, and printing on materials beyond the traditional paper. Each student will come away from the class with knowledge of how to produce a traditional cyanotype as well as several techniques for pushing the process.
Caleb Stone is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY., Caleb has taught workshops at New York’s public schools, The New School, and 92NY. Alongside this, Caleb runs a bi-weekly critique group for emerging artists. Caleb holds a BA in Cultural and Media Studies from The New School.
Oil-Based Monotype with Rachel Burgess
2 Day weekend workshop, 12 – 4pm
December 7 and 8, 2024
Fee: $250 including materials and 8 hours of studio time
This two-day workshop will teach the basics of monotype printmaking with an emphasis on oil- based media. Participants will use a combination of oil paint, lithography ink and oil pastel to create unique, one-of-a-kind works. We will explore different mark-making tools, printing methods and paper types. Students will come away from the class with a basic understanding of monotype technique and of how it can be applied to their current artistic practice.
Rachel Burgess is an artist based in New York City. Her monotypes combine elements of oil painting, folk art and commercial illustration to explore the ways we tell stories about our lives. Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Art New England and The New York Times; recent exhibitions include Ortega y Gasset Projects, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the Janet Turner Print Museum. Burgess holds an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Art and a B.A. from Yale University.