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August 2022
Slow Looking: The Printed Multiple in the Public’s Eye
Slow Looking: The Printed Multiple in the Public’s Eye - Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo Dates: August 15 - 19, 2022 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $300-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 Click Here for Materials List Slow Looking invites participants to create printed work inspired by and based in the spaces, people and communities that surround their lives. Through storytelling, daily site rituals, public art, and installation, we will be asking questions such as: What does it mean to make work in…
Find out more »Collagraph Combo
Collagraph Combo - Sue Oehme Dates: August 15-19, 2022 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale $300 - $1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 Click Here For Materials List In this weeklong workshop, participants will spend the first 2 days creating various collograph matrices including silk aquatint, paper collograph, carborundum aquatint and drypoint, with demos and guidance from the instructor. We will work with either 8 x 12 or 12 x 12 sizes to keep registration simple. These finished plates will…
Find out more »Oral Histories and Alternative Fibers: Experimental Papermaking – Kelly Taylor Mitchell
Oral Histories and Alternative Fibers: Experimental Papermaking - Kelly Taylor Mitchell Dates: August 22 - 26, 2022 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale $300 - $1200 Lab fee: $90 Class limit: 8 Click Here For Materials List This experimental papermaking workshop will center oral histories that the participating artists are carrying, seeking, or working to decipher. These oral histories may be tied to family, place, or relationships. Through sketching and writing, these narratives will be abstracted and communicated with alternative and…
Find out more »The Book Art Dummy
The Book Art Dummy - Alisa Banks Dates: August 22 - 26, 2022 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale $300 - $1200 Lab fee: $90 Class limit: 8 Click Here For Materials List This workshop will focus on the development of original content to create a dummy for a book arts project. A dummy is a mockup or model of a book and is created when a significant portion of the project has been resolved. The dummy functions as a general…
Find out more »Inky Explorations with Letterpress Printing
Inky Explorations with Letterpress Printing - Stephanie Carpenter Dates: August 22 - 26, 2022 Studio: Letterpress Tuition: Sliding Scale $300 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 Click Here For Materials List In this workshop we will explore letterpress printing and a variety of experimental inking techniques that will help you create stunning, one-of-a-kind prints with depth and dimension. Working with both traditional and contemporary approaches to creating relief prints, participants will use a variety of materials such…
Find out more »October 2022
Handbuilt Vases with Taussen Brewer
Instructor: Taussen Brewer Class Type: Four-week handbuilding class Skill Level: All Levels Time: Mondays, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Dates: October 10 - 31 Make Up Date: November 7 Are you ready for an outdoor clay adventure?! Take advantage of the inspiring golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work on our new and improved studio, our ceramic program is setting up camp on the back deck outside of the silkscreen studio!…
Find out more »November 2022
Silkscreen Printing on Clay with Ruth McKinney Burket and Lora Shelley
Instructor: Ruth McKinney Burket and Lora Shelley Class Type: One-Day Workshop Skill Level: All Levels Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Dates: Saturday, November 19 This class is currently full. Please email [email protected] to be placed on the waitlist. For over five years Ruth McKinney Burket and Lora Shelley have been using silkscreen to collaborate on playful bowl designs for the WSW Chili Bowl Fest. They will be co-teaching this Saturday workshop and sharing what they’ve learned about silkscreen printing…
Find out more »June 2023
By Hand For Hand: Slab Built Pottery with Amanda Ellinger
Instructor: Amanda Ellinger Class Type: Four-week handbuilding class Skill Level: All Levels Time: Tuesdays, 5:00 - 7:00 pm Dates: June 13th - July 11th (No class July 4th) Make Up Date: July 18th This class is currently full. Please call 845-658-9133 or email [email protected] to be placed on the waitlist. Are you ready for an outdoor clay adventure?! Take advantage of the inspiring golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work…
Find out more »AT WATER’S EDGE: Printmaking Workshop at Rua Reidh Lighthouse, Scotland
This workshop is currently full. Please call 845-658-9133 or email [email protected] to be placed on the waitlist. Join WSW for an unforgettable art experience at Rua Reidh Lighthouse, at one of the most dramatic and remote locations on the north-west coast of Scotland. This printmaking workshop will be held from June 14 – 22nd, 2023, eight of the longest days of the year, when the light at the lighthouse doesn’t set until after 11 pm. About the Workshop In this…
Find out more »July 2023
Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric with Amy Cousins
Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric - Amy Cousins Dates: July 10 - 14, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 For student material list click here. This course will guide you through designing and screen printing a patterned textile. Participants will learn how to design a repeat pattern by hand and translate it into screen printed yardage. Each participant will begin with their own visual interests, whether they be…
Find out more »Painting Prints with Kat Richards
Painting Prints - Kat Richards Dates: July 10 - 14, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 For student material list click here. This class is currently full. If you'd like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. In this five-day workshop, participants will combine painterly and alternative techniques while briefly delving into the history of monoprints. This course is ideal for artists of all skill levels…
Find out more »Re-paper: Breathing New Life into Discarded Paper with Mikayla Patton
Re-paper: Breathing New Life into Discarded Paper with Mikayla Patton Dates: July 10 - 14, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 For student material list click here. Through recycling and repurposing, we will utilize papermaking as a way to rethink and revive “waste”. Let’s explore the power of handmade paper! Participants will learn a wide range of handmade paper techniques from processing recycled materials into pulp, sheet formation, and image production like embossment,…
Find out more »Building Big! Techniques for Large Scale Handbuilding with Kayla Noble
Instructor: Kayla Noble Class Type: Four-week handbuilding class Skill Level: All Levels Time: Wednesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm Dates: July 12th - August 2nd Make Up Date: August 9th Are you ready for an outdoor clay adventure?! Take advantage of the inspiring golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work on our new and improved studio, our ceramic program is setting up camp on the back deck outside of the silkscreen…
Find out more »Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers with Breanne Trammell
Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers - Breanne Trammell Dates: July 17 - 21, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 Together, we will engage with the hidden history and processes of the Provincetown Printers, specifically the under-known group of women at the vanguard of the white-line woodblock print. The white-line process is portable, affordable, and suitable for any skill level! We will inscribe woodblocks with…
Find out more »Ground Up: Using Natural Pigments and “Found Color” in Pulp Painting with Hannah O’Hare Bennett
Ground Up: Using Natural Pigments and “Found Color” in Pulp Painting - Hannah O’Hare Bennett Dates: July 17 - 21, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you'd like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This class is centered around building a palette of colored paper pulp which will be used in learning the reverse pulp painting technique. Colors will…
Find out more »Material as Metaphor: Book Objects with Aurora De Armendi Sobrino
Material as Metaphor: Book Objects - Aurora De Armendi Sobrino Dates: July 17 - 21, 2023 Studio: Bindery and Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Explore the timeless medium of bookmaking with the inclusion of painterly and graphic silkscreen images. Students will learn adaptable book-structures as well as silkscreen techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring a work…
Find out more »Gel Plate Printing with Holly Hughes
Gel Plate Printing - Holly Hughes Dates: July 24 - 28, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Gel plate printing is a super user friendly, kitchen table compatible printmaking technique with no need for a press. Fun, open to experimentation, great for travel, and very painterly - this is a method where artists…
Find out more »Papermaking: Images in Pulp with J. Leigh Garcia
Papermaking: Images in Pulp - J. Leigh Garcia Dates: July 24 - 28, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 Use stencils, spray bottles, squeeze bottles and more to create images with pulp! We’ll begin by learning the basics of European-style papermaking using abaca and flax fibers. These sheets will then be transformed with the addition of stenciled, painted, and collaged cotton linter pulp. The possibilities are endless when you combine these…
Find out more »Miniature Books and Tiny Libraries: Small Scale Bookbinding and Other Paper Based Miniatures with Imin Yeh
Miniature Books and Tiny Libraries: Small Scale Bookbinding and Other Paper Based Miniatures - Imin Yeh Dates: July 24 - 28, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen and Bindery Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This workshop will cover traditional bookbinding and book structures but on a tiny scale. Students will learn multiple book-binding techniques, utilize one color printing (screenprinting, digital, and/or xerox) in addition to hand drawn content to create an original miniature artist book. Our artist books…
Find out more »Dots for Days: Screenprinting for Photographers with Meg Turner
Dots for Days: Screenprinting for Photographers - Meg Turner Dates: July 31 - August 4, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. A crash course in large format silkscreen printing for photographers. Learn the magic of 4 color separation to create full color hand-printed photographs in the same CMYK halftone dot method that magazines are printed.…
Find out more »Handmade Paper and Encaustic with Laura Moriarty
Handmade Paper and Encaustic – Laura Moriarty Dates: July 31 - August 4, 2023 Studio: Papermaking and R&F Tuition: Members $775, Nonmembers $825 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 7 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Join WSW in collaboration with R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston as we explore combining handmade paper and encaustic. During the first two and a half days, participants will work in WSW’s…
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Collagraph & Embossment/Debossment with Rie Hasegawa
Collagraph & Embossment/Debossment – Rie Hasegawa Dates: August 7 - 11, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Collagraph is a basic method of printmaking using collage materials such as fabric, strings and gesso to create a plate without the use of acid or any solvents and print from a variety of textures. It could be…
Find out more »Paper, Thread, Movement with Bhavna Mehta
Paper, Thread, Movement – Bhavna Mehta Dates: August 7 - 11, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $90 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This workshop combines handmade paper and cotton thread in a unique process. Inspired by rhythm and abstraction, we will use various mark-making and pattern-making techniques to prepare textures and images with colored cotton thread on Solvy.…
Find out more »Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric Sec. 2 with Amy Cousins
Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric Sec. 2 - Amy Cousins Dates: August 7 - 11, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This course will guide you through designing and screen printing a patterned textile. Participants will learn how to design a repeat pattern by hand and translate it into screen printed yardage. Each participant will begin with their own visual interests, whether they be abstract, narrative, botanical, etc,…
Find out more »Garden Vessels with Taussen Brewer
Instructor: Taussen Brewer Class Type: Four-week handbuilding class Skill Level: All Levels Time: Mondays 5 - 7 pm Dates: August 7 - 28 Make Up Date: September 11 Are you ready for an outdoor clay adventure?! Our ceramics classes are back! Take advantage of the inspiring evening golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work on our new and improved studio, our ceramic program is setting up camp on the back…
Find out more »Books that Move: Volvelles, Die Cuts, and Fold Out with Hannah Moog
Books that Move: Volvelles, Die Cuts, and Fold Out - Hannah Moog Dates: August 14 - 18, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $90 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. In this workshop students will explore how interactive elements can be used to hide, reveal, and transform images to aid a narrative. The class will investigate how these interactive elements…
Find out more »Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Techniques in Paper Casting with Sarah Rose (SR) Lejeune
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Techniques in Paper Casting - Sarah Rose (SR) Lejeune Dates: August 14 - 18, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Using experimental casting processes rooted in fiber properties and hand papermaking techniques, students will learn to record dimension, texture, and surface with paper pulp. Beginning with technical…
Find out more »Pressing Stories: Folding Prints as Narratives with Andrea Narno
Pressing Stories: Folding Prints as Narratives - Andrea Narno Dates: August 14 - 18, 2023 Studio: Relief Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 During this workshop, we will explore how printmaking can serve as our visual language to narrate stories and express ourselves. We will pair relief printing with the long standing tradition of do-it-yourself zine making. After looking at a large variety of examples and brainstorming together, each student will design and carve a linocut…
Find out more »Riso Power: A Socially Engaged Introduction to Risograph Printing with Mary Tremonte
Riso Power: A Socially Engaged Introduction to Risograph Printing - Mary Tremonte Dates: August 21 - 25, 2023 Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 10 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. What is riso? How can we use this tool to agitate, educate, and organize? Learn all about the risograph and how you can harness this stencil duplicator’s power for artist publications, posters, prints, and…
Find out more »September 2023
Surface Sampler with Susan Siegrist
Instructor: Susan Siegrist Class Type: Four-week handbuilding class Skill Level: All Levels Time: Tuesdays 4 - 6 pm Dates: September 5 - 26 Make Up Date: October 3 Are you ready for an outdoor clay adventure?! Our ceramics classes are back! Take advantage of the inspiring evening golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work on our new and improved studio, our ceramic program is setting up camp on the back…
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