Adult Classes
Welcome to our current adult class offerings. As always, Highpoint’s goal is to offer classes that present a wide-range of techniques and teaching styles. Details for each series follows. Remember, join HP as a supporting member and receive a 10% discount on classes.
To Register: Call HP at 612.871.1326 or register by mail or e-mail us at info@highpointprintmaking.org to reserve a space. Payment by cash or check, due upon registration to hold your place in the class. If payment is not received, you may lose your spot to others who have paid. HP reserves the right to cancel any class if necessary. Students may cancel 7 days prior to class start date and will receive a refund minus a $10 administrative fee. Sorry, we cannot give refunds after a class has begun.
Upcoming Adult Classes:
HP Hosts Springboard for the Arts Workshops:
- Marketing for Artists
- Legal Considerations for Artists
- Recordkeeping and Financial Management for Artists
Highpoint is pleased to host a series of workshops in our classroom designed and presented by Springboard for the Arts. Springboard for the Arts’ mission is to cultivate a vibrant arts community by connecting artists with the skills, contacts, information and services they need to make a living and a life.
Incorporated in 1991, Springboard has supported the arts community with management and consulting services for more than 20 years. Springboard’s vision and commitment has gained national recognition as a model for professional development services to artists, arts organizations, and arts administrators.
Basic Intaglio
- Instructor: Sam Brown
- Age: 18+; All skill levels welcome
- Enrollment: Maximum 10, Minimum 6
- Dates: Wednesdays February 17th–March 24th, 6–9pm
and Saturdays March 13th and 20th, 10am–3pm - Cost: $325 (10% discount for Highpoint members)
This course introduces participants to a variety of basic intaglio techniques including traditional and contemporary methods. A variety of etching tools, papers, and printing processes will also be demonstrated. Learn to create images comprised of line, texture, and tone printed from copper plates using such things as hard and soft ground, aquatint, sugar-lift and more! Oil based inks will be used throughout the course. Class members will develop an image using these approaches. All experience levels welcome. Inks, tools, one copper plate and 2 sheets of 22" x 30" printmaking paper will be provided.
About the Instructor: Samuel Brown received his MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University in Bloomington in 2004 where he taught Drawing and Printmaking for two years. Before earning his degree, he lived and worked in the San Francisco bay area. There he interned for one year at Crown Point Press working closely with their master printers on various etching projects. While still in the bay area he worked with master printer, Larry Hamlin, at Mad Dog Press and as a studio manager, instructor, and artist-in-residence at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has exhibited both locally and nationally and is very excited to have the opportunity to be a part of Highpoint in the Twin Cities.
Lithography for Everyone
- Instructor: Cole Rogers
- Age: 18+; All who are interested welcome on Friday;
Saturday & Sunday for Intermediate to Advanced students - Dates:
Stone Lithography Lecture and Demo: Friday, March 5 from 6–9 pm; limit to 30 guests
Lithograpy Workshop: Saturday, March 6 from 10–5 pm
and Sunday, March 7 from 10–5 pm; limited to 12 students - Cost:
Friday Lecture only: $25
Sat. & Sun Workshop: $150
Entire package, Friday–Sunday: $160
Introduced 212 years ago, lithography has become one of the foremost print practices with it’s ability to produce a wide but subtle range of marks, values, and colors that give artists almost unlimited expressive potential. The list of artists engaged in making lithographs since it’s invention is encyclopedic, and contains many important works of the last 2 centuries.
The Friday lecture and demonstration — open to all who are interested — will present an overview of the history of litho and the opportunity to observe a printer with 25 years of experience process and print from a lithography stone. Lithography is all too often considered complex and mysterious, and this evening will dispel that with an emphasis on history, viewing prints and a seeing thorough demonstration of the process.
The Saturday & Sunday Workshop, appropriate for intermediate and advanced printmakers, will start with demos of the fundamentals, explain the chemistry behind the process, cover various lithographic techniques and focus on the student’s ability to use the medium effectively. Artists in the workshop will be encouraged to come prepared with technical questions to be them answered as the weekend progresses.
About the Instructor: Cole Rogers is a co-founder of Highpoint and HP’s Artistic Director and Master Printer. From 1995 – 2000 he was Printshop Director and Printmaking Coordinator at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he taught, shaped the curriculum, and advocated for the art of printmaking. Previously he was chief printer at AKASHA in Minneapolis, and a Senior Printer at Tamarind Institute in New Mexico. He earned his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio State University, and a Master Printer certificate from Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Highpoint Editions’ print publications created in collaboration with Rogers over the last eight years are represented in the permanent collections of many major museums, corporations and numerousprivate collections throughout the United States and abroad.
Springboard for the Arts Workshops:
Marketing for Artists
- Date: Tuesday, March 16, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
- Cost: $45/workshop or the whole series for $120
Register with Springboard online at www.springboardforthearts.org
or by phone at 651.292.4381
This session is devoted to identifying the right audience for your artistic output, positioning yourself, and developing marketing strategies and a marketing plan geared for that audience.
Legal Considerations for Artists
- Date: Tuesday, March 23, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
- Cost: $45/workshop or the whole series for $120
Register with Springboard online at www.springboardforthearts.org
or by phone at 651.292.4381
From protecting your intellectual property to choosing a legal form for your artistic business, an understanding of underlying legal principles will help you make smarter choices. This session centers on information about copyrights and contract basics regarding selling and licensing your work, as well as getting into business.
Recordkeeping and Financial Management for Artists
- Date: Tuesday, March 30, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
- Cost: $45/workshop or the whole series for $120
Register with Springboard online at www.springboardforthearts.org
or by phone at 651.292.4381
How does your actual income compare with your desired income? If working with numbers drives you crazy, we have clear, simple methods for setting up your financial books. Learn how Budgets and Cash Flow Statements help you plan for profit (it isn’t just whatever is left at the end.) Making accurate projections about what to expect allows you to plan for it and to prosper.
Panel: Collecting Prints: Why, How and What
- Date: Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 pm in Highpoint’s Galleries
- Cost: Free for Highpoint members. Non-members: $15
Join Highpoint for an intriguing panel discussion and conversation about collecting prints. Prints are often the first fine art acquired by people beginning to collect. Prints are more affordable than other art forms, easier to store and display, and can be purchased through a variety of sources. The panel features: Tom Rassieur, the John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and Marc Schwartz, a collector of prints for over 30 years. Several Twin Cities print collectors will take part as well.
The panel will offer insight into their personal approaches to collecting, and will have advice for both new and seasoned collectors.
About the panel:
Thomas Rassieur joined the Prints and Drawing Department at the Minneapolis Institute for Arts in 2009 as the John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings. He holds a M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and B.A., Princeton University. Prior to the MIA Rassieur was the Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Curatorial Assistant, Prints and Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art. His specialty/area of interest is prints and drawings. Honors and professional associations include: Samuel F. B. Morse Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Print Council of America trustee, American Association of Museum Curators, Curators of Dutch Art.
Marc Schwartz has been collecting editioned works on paper for over 30 years. His collection of over 200 works starts with iconic images from the 60’s, and provides a 50- year survey of established artists that have shown a commitment to the print medium. In 2008, Marc received the Distinguished Collector Award by the International Print Center New York. He has been featured in Art News; has spoken extensively on collecting prints at NYU, Sotheby’s, and the Brooklyn Art Museum, among others. He is on the Board of Trustees at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and is an active or emertis member of various print committees at MOMA, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Chicago Art Institute and the Detroit Institute of Arts where the Print Galleries bear the name of the Schwartz Family. Finally, Marc is Acting Chair of Art Detroit Now, a grass roots initiative comprised of 60+ arts organizations that are committed to increasing awareness of contemporary art in metro-Detroit.
Screenprinting: Welcome to Squeegeeville!
- Instructor: Brian Hartley Sago
- Age: 18+; All skill levels welcome
- Enrollment: Maximum 10; Minimum 6
- Dates: Tuesdays April 13th–May 18th, 6pm–9pm
and Saturdays May 8th and 15th 10am–3pm - Cost: $335 (10% discount for Highpoint members)
This class provides an introduction to the stencil process also known as “silkscreen” or “serigraphy.” Images are created by pushing ink through a screen mesh with a squeegee. We will begin with the photomechanical process and later explore hand-made stencils. The class will guide you through the hands-on, step-by-step process of making screenprints.
Classroom discussions will include viewing sample screen prints by other artists and a brief overview of screenprinting history. Students will also learn editioning techniques. There will be an optional portfolio exchange where participants can exchange prints with others in the class. Class fee includes inks, equipment, basic tools, mid-sized screens and instructional/technical support. Students purchase paper and, optionally, screens for larger sized projects.
About the Instructor: Brian Hartley Sago is a printmaker who works primarily in screenprint and intaglio. His prints are inspired by historical research, blending both antique and modern printmaking techniques. He has taught printmaking to children and adults for a dozen years and presently teaches at the Blake School. For more information about Brian, see his website at hartleysago.com
Artist Talk: Chloe Piene
- Date: Thursday, May 20, 7:00 pm
- Location: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pillsbury Auditorium
- Free and open to all
The primacy of experience, and of the body as the site of that experience, has long been core to Chloe Piene’s practice. Her drawings have consistently engaged in an erotic game that treats the body as a fluid and endlessly complex Faberge egg; unveiling it’s intricacies layer by layer, unraveling it’s contiguities until it exists as an object in a state of impossible phase transition, simultaneously solid, gas, liquid; bone, blood and breath; lymph, methane, hair and tooth; all solids melting, all emptinesses potential sites of manifestation. Known for the scope and power of her line, Piene’s work has been called brutal and delicate; figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic.
Chloe Piene was born in 1972 and spent her early years in New York State. She received a degree in Art History at Columbia University and studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London. She began drawing when she was very young and has since championed it as a major medium. Most recently her sculptures made of wax and plasteline were exhibited in Paris and Basel. Her drawings, sculptures and video installations have shown nationally and internationally in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Carré d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, and the Kunsthalle Bern. She was part of the 2004 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art and recently exhibited in two person shows each with Hans Bellmer and Willem Dekooning. Her work is included in public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Centre national d’art et de culture George Pompidou, Paris and the Sammlungen Hoffman and Burger in Berlin. She lives and works in New York City. Piene has been working at Highpoint Center for Printmaking on a series of etchings and lithographs. Her new prints will be released by Highpoint Editions in 2010.
This talk is part of Free Third Thursday at the MIA. On the third Thursday of every month experience the MIA’s diverse art collection through unique programs, drinks, and live music.
(Excerpted from an essay by Lee Triming for Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, December 2009)
Adult Class:Intaglio and Chine Colle Master Class
- Instructor: Brian Shure
- Dates: Monday–Friday June 7th–11th 10 am–4 pm and Saturday 10 am–2 pm
More information coming soon.
Want to propose a class to Highpoint?
Highpoint Center for Printmaking invites printmaking instructors to submit adult class proposals to take place in Highpoint’s new, expanded facility at 912 W. Lake Street in Minneapolis. Classes will take place at Highpoint and should be based on traditional printmaking methods including lithography (stone, plate or photo), intaglio (etching, solarplate, or collagraph), relief, monoprint, or screenprint. More info available here.