Class Description

Spend a weekend creating one of a kind screenprints using a variety of techniques with water-based inks. Saturday will cover the screenprinting process, including creating positives through digital and analog means, screen exposure and preparing your print set-up. We’ll then demonstrate different ways to utilize your water-based inks, playing with blends, transparency and strategic placement on screen to achieve an array of effects, both painterly and graphic. Sunday will be a dedicated studio day where students have ample time to practice and build on these techniques to create a suite of their own unique prints. Additionally, we’ll create collaborative monotypes with a print from each of our screens to discuss and exchange at the end of the day. This workshop is great for beginner printers to get familiar with the process and gives experienced printers an alternative approach to image-making. About the instructor: Natalie Gaimari has been screenprinting professionally in specialty New York print studios for the past decade. She has a BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She has recently moved on from commercial production to focus on educating screenprinters of all ages and experience levels. In addition to Manhattan Graphics Center, she teaches screenprinting at the 92nd Street Y and mentors a screenprinting program at the Community Access Art Collective. *includes 4 hours of open workshop time. $200 + $15 Material Fee Members get 10% Use code MEMBER10 art: ©Fabio Henao Community Access Art Collective ©Bob Provost Community Access Art Collective ©Sheindy Weichman Community Access Art Collective