2013 Instructed Workshops

2013 Open Studio Sessions

Our open sessions are single day commitments, with an unstructured style. Artists can work at their own pace, or ask the monitor to help them learn a new technique.

ETCHING:

Open etching sessions are Tuesday evenings, from 6:30 pm till 10:30 pm. There is a limit of 6 participants per session. Ink, newsprint, and acid are supplied by the shop, and printing paper is available for purchase. It's $25 per session, and we schedule in four week blocks. We can take payment by check or Paypal. These fill up fast, so email with interest early.

An experienced printmaker monitors the session and is on hand to teach artists new to the medium the basics or more advanced techniques, handle paper, and run the press.

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MONOPRINT:

Monoprint, often called the painterly print, is a print made by applying ink and stencils to a plexiglass plate and then transferring the image to a piece of paper. This workshop is open to the beginner to advanced level printmaker. Plexiglass plates, ink, newsprint, brayers, rags, and drawing tools are supplied by the shop. Printmaking paper is available for purchase. An experienced printmaker monitors the session and is on hand to teach artists new to the medium the basics or more advanced techniques, handle paper, and run the press.

Open monoprint sessions are every other Saturday, 10 am till 5 pm with a limit of 5 participants. The fee is $80, plus $10 for materials per day. We can take payment by check or Paypal.

The upcoming sessions are May 4th, May 18th, June 1st, June 15th, and June 29th.

Please email josephinepress@earthlink.net to register.

Very low toxicity

Beginner to advanced level

This  workshop creates an opportunity for its participants to  produce intaglio images on aluminum plate.  All participants will learn the process of drawing, processsing, and printing using low cost aluminum plates and a new, virtually non-toxic, method of etching.  Techniques to be explored are line etching,  creating tonality through the unique "self-aquatinting" properties of aluminum, and creative resist techniques.

Participating artists will learn how to prepare an etching plate, etch using a new and innovative system that is very low toxicity, and print an editioned etching.

To sign up for this class and make a deposit, please email Josephinepress@earthlink.net

Schedule:
Sunday, June 16th , 10:30-4
Saturday, June 22nd, 10:30-4
Sunday, June 23rd, 10:30-4
Monday, June 24th, 6:30-10:30 (additional printing day only, no instruction)

Cost: $295 per student and $30 materials fee.

8 students maximum, 4 students minimum.

LINOCUT REDUCTION

Linocut Reduction Workshop
Beginner to advanced

The artist Joseph Vorgity will be teaching a 4 session workshop on linocut reduction relief printmaking. Students will learn proper carving techniques, maintenance of carving tools, inking the linoleum using oil based relief inks and a brayer, printing a multi-color linocut using a press and editioning of a print. This is an excellent class for those who are new to relief printmaking or who would like to learn additional techniques within the medium

To sign up for this class and make a deposit, please email Josephinepress@earthlink.net

Schedule:

Monday, July 1st, 6:30-10:30pm
Sunday, July 7th, 10-4pm
Sunday, July 14th, 10-4pm
Monday, July 15th, 6:30-10:30pm

Cost: $325 per student and $30 materials fee.

8 students maximum, 4 students minimum.

Upcoming:

A collagraph workshop is currently being scheduled for the early summer

A papermaking workshop is currently being scheduled for the late summer

Josephine Press schedules instructed workshops and open work time sessions according to demand. If there is a medium or technique that you would like to learn, then please email us and let us know.