This is a 3-week crash course for students, at any experience level, who either want to learn silkscreen printing, or simply need access to our print studio facilities to make a project.
Silkscreen printing, also called “screenprinting” and “serigraph” involves creating a stencil on a stretched mesh screen and forcing ink through one side of the screen to the other and onto a surface. Our surface will be paper, though it’s possible to print on wood, glass, textiles and more.
Students will learn the entire hand-made (computer free) silkscreen printing process, using our state-of-the-art equipment to “burn” hand-drawn stencils into screens and use those to transfer images to paper.
Students will also learn the fundamentals of layer-based image making, where a design is broken into separate colors to be layered on top of each other.
All students will receive materials to print a limited edition of ten 9x12” silkscreen prints with two layers of color.
Each mini-term is 3 consecutive weeks. Classes cannot be divided across sessions.
