The Speedball booth will be busy from the conference's start to finish, and will have some of today's most renowned printmakers demonstrating their processes. Come by to talk relief printing with Bill Fick, screen printing with Carlos Hernandez, or learn about Akua Inks' newest product innovation straight from the inventor, Susan Rostow! We'll be giveaway...more » SGCI Printmaking Conference 2018
Play and improvise in this workshop as a means to generate ideas, expand visual vocabulary and put to use accumulated printed material. Collage is an art form all on its own, but it can be a vehicle to conduct experiments too. Collage can encourage visual surprise, allowing for chance moments to loosen up any art...more » Improvisation with Monotype Collage
This two-day workshop will walk you through every step of the encaustic collagraph method that Wagner pioneered. The approach taken to printmaking in this workshop is more from a painter's point of view. Here, you will get the chance to break all the rules of encaustic; using significantly less wax and minimal fusing or layering....more » Encaustic Collagraph Monoprinting at Fountainhead Art Space with Elise Wagner
Ron Pokrasso travels the world to teach printmaking. If you want to immerse yourself in ink for a week, or you need to take a giant leap with your artwork, this is the way to do it. This workshop is designed to bring together the contemporary intaglio platemaking process of Solarplate with monotype and collage...more » Solarplate & Monotype Workshops with Ron Pokrasso
Focused on relief monprinting, participants will use relief blocks to explore the unique properties of Akua Inks. The workshop will cover how to modify inks, offset images, use ghost prints and viscosity rolls, as well as registration techniques and chine colle. INSTRUCTOR: CATHERINE KERNAN TUESDAY, APRIL 17 THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 20 from 10AM-4PM CLASS SIZE...more » Relief Monotype with Catherine Kernan
Discover an approachable, non- toxic process for multiple layer printing! Using a combination of innovative printmaking materials, participants will create printmaking plates using hot wax on Yupo, a synthetic paper support. Wax is painted, stamped, textured, and scraped to produce a high and low plate surface which reveals all the subtleties of mark making in...more » Encaustic Collagraph – Wax, Washi and Yupo with Dorothy Cochran
In a sequenced series of prints, learn the basics of Akua soy-based inks. Starting with traditional techniques of additive, subtractive and trace monotype, move on to registration choices, approaches to color, ghost prints, the use of resists, and viscosity rolling. The emphasis is on modifying the inks and learning their unique characteristics. More experienced participants...more » Printmaking with Akua Inks & Catherine Kernan
Bill Fick of Supergraphic Labs and Carlos Hernandez of Burning Bones Press will demonstrate block and silkscreen printing. Fick will start the session with a woodblock print, and Hernandez will take over the demo by silkscreening on top of Fick's work. Each artist will offer expertise and help participants understand each printing style. The class...more » Printmaking Workshop with Outlaw Printmakers
Celebrate the opening of Outlaws of Print with live music, cash bar, and face time with the artists. Free with museum admission. Note: The parking lot by FWMoA will be full all day due to events at the Arts United Center. Plan ahead for alternative parking.
