Adult classes, lectures, workshops, and events are planned to fit busy schedules and provide high-quality art experiences for learners at all career stages and interests!
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In this workshop, participants will cut a simple design into contact paper (the adhesive vinyl used for lining shelves) and adhering it to a screen to create a stencil. This technique is great for bold and graphic designs.
For current HP co-op members: a space to share work, learn, build skills, and build community.
This class will center on the importance of giving and receiving community feedback to enrich the artists' visual and written work.
In this workshop, participants will carve away the areas they want to remain white on a soft, easy-to-cut block. The image will be printed from the raised surfaces left on the block after carving. Relief printing is the oldest form of printmaking, and these prints are characterized by their bold contrast between light and dark areas.
Class participants will donate one (or more!) of the prints they make in this class to Art 4 Shelter, an art sale fundraising event to benefit Simpson Housing Services.
In this workshop, participants will build designs using Lego dots and baseplates. The image will be printed from inking the legos with water based ink.
In this workshop, participants will cut paper stencils and can use certain found objects to build an image. After inking the stencils and applying them to a plexiglass plate, it is run through an etching press to create a unique, one-of-a-kind print.
Curious about how Mezzotints are made? What even IS a Mezzotint?! This demonstration by printmaker Douglas Bosley will dive deep into the labor-intensive process of creating dynamic, high-contrast prints.
For this class, students will create a drawing on frosted Dura-lar with paint markers (positives). Screens are pre-coated with a photosensitive emulsion, and the positives are used to expose an image on the screen. The unexposed emulsion is washed out, leaving the image on the screen. This is the most common form of screenprint, as similar methods are used for commercial screenprinting.
In this workshop, participants will carve a design on an easy-to-cut block. Participants color each area between the carved lines with ink, and transfer their design to paper using a baren.
Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio.
Participants will use water soluble materials to paint directly on a screen, then apply a transparent base to create unique monotypes.
This course is an introduction to both printmaking and astrology. We will explore different planets in your personal birth chart to inspire and create works of art. Some of the print techniques we will be learning include monotype, drypoint, and relief.
This course is an introduction to screenprinting. You’ll learn how to create multi-layered screenprints from start to finish!
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