Co-op Critique (Summer/Fall 2024)
For current HP co-op members: a space to share work, learn, build skills, and build community.
For current HP co-op members: a space to share work, learn, build skills, and build community.
This class is meant to create a safe space for Minnesota artists from racial and ethnic communities that have been underrepresented to share work, learn, build skills, and build community.
Are you a K–12 educator in the Twin Cities or nearby areas interested in bringing printmaking into your classroom? Join us for a free, engaging evening event to launch the 2024–2025 school year!
Use recyclable plastic plates, water washable oil based inks, and an etching press to make drypoint prints.
Participants will learn how to make unique blue cyanotype prints, from preparing the paper to exposing in sunlight then developing the image in ordinary water.
Create painterly monotypes using water soluble materials and an etching press.
This introductory course offers students a hands-on exploration of traditional intaglio printmaking, where they will learn to create detailed and textured prints.
Learn how to make prints using the cyanotype process, which produces rich blue prints with brilliant highlights.
Use water soluble media to create painterly screen prints.
This course covers advanced methods of working on copper to create fresh, dynamic intaglio prints with compelling mark-making. Techniques will include: multi-plate color, timed bites, “soap” ground, sugar lift, soft-ground textures and more.
Use carving tools to carve a relief block, learn the basics of pin registration, and print 2-3 layers by hand.
This is a four week introduction to creating surrealist drypoint prints using recyclable plastic plates, water washable oil based inks, and an etching press.
Work reductively with water soluble oil based inks to create rich monotypes using an etching press.
Use recyclable plastic plates, water washable oil based inks, water soluble crayons, and an etching press to make drypoint monoprints.
Print drypoint plates using relief roll color techniques.
Carve a relief block and hand print multiple painted colors.
Create a 1-2 layer screen print edition.
Build your own plates and learn about the unique and versatile form of printmaking called collagraphy, where the printing plates are made by hand.
Learn to use carving tools, hand carve a relief block, and print by hand.
Use contact paper and acrylic ink to print a small screen print edition.
Join Joel Garcia (Huichol) for a drypoint portrait workshop centered on storytelling and kinship. Participants will be able to create a 4x6 portrait of a loved one (human and non-human) and participate in a story circle sharing that special connection.
Gain an introduction to African American printmaking history through a two-day intaglio color drypoint sampler class.
This course will show you how to think in layers, mix colors, coat and expose a screen, and how to edition on paper.
Learn how to mix any color imaginable using oil-based printmaking inks
Learn the basics of polyester plate lithography
Relief printmaking is a reductive process in which you carve away the negative space to leave the impression of the positive image raised and ready to take on ink.
Carve a relief block and print with water soluble media using an etching press
Combining recently created prints, test prints, makeready and found imagery, students cut, tear, trade with others, and manipulate portions of existing collages to create new collages that expand the image-making process.
Create vibrant, layered monotypes using soft gelatin plates
Use water soluble media to create painterly screenprints
Learn a traditional approach to chine-collé using rice paste
Learn to create a sketchbook by utilizing a spiral binding machine and monoprinting techniques
Learn to screenprint on paper using hand cut stencils
Create painterly monotypes using water soluble materials and an etching press
Use carving tools to carve a linoleum relief block, learn the basics of carving, inking, and printing techniques.
Hand cut paper stencils and print using water soluble relief inks and an etching press
En este taller exploraremos y reflexionaremos sobre el complejo y desafiante viaje que deben vivir los animales en su migración, transformándolos en impresiones en linograbado (linocut) y uniéndolos en una pieza colectiva mediante la técnica Paste-Up.
Print drypoint plates using relief roll color techniques
Learn to print photographs with a rich range of tones using intaglio methods in this 6 week course
Use recyclable plastic plates, water washable oil based inks, and an etching press to make drypoint prints
Explore alternative printmaking techniques with visiting artists
Use carving tools to carve a relief block, learn the basics of pin registration, and print 2-3 layers by hand
Explore screenprinting with dry color pigments such as pastels, charcoal and/or graphite, etc. to develop imagery on paper and other substrates using hand-generated or photographic imagery.
Carve and print soft rubber blocks by hand to create bold imagery
Explore experimental printmaking techniques for monotype and the theme of memory.
Using variations on pressure, create atmospheric prints using an etching press
Capture and edition hand-drawn and expressive marks, shading, and texture
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