APS schedules an ongoing rotation of classes and workshops, covering a variety of printmaking topics. Unless specified otherwise, classes are held at the APS studio. For more information, contact Kathy Garrou, Executive Director

To Register for Class: Download registration form and mail to APS. Because space is limited, payment must be received in order to hold your place.

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Upcoming Schedule:
NOTE: Letterpress classes have moved to Wednesday!

•Wed Afternoon Letterpress Class
•Wed Evening Letterpress Class
•Beyond Book Arts Basics Class
•Screen Printing Class
•Carborundum Collagraph Workshop



Wed. Afternoon Letterpress
Wednesdays, May 23 - July 11, 2012, 1:30-4:30pm
$250 APS members / $260 non-members / $285 become a member & register
Instructor: Margot Ecke

Letterpress is the traditional method of pressing inked words and images, cast in metal or polymer, or cut from wood, directly into paper. The letter forms leave their mark, adding a unique and sensuous texture to the page. In this class, you will learn the basics of letterpress printing - composing type, mixing ink, press set-up and printing on the Chandler & Price Platen and Vandercook presses. The class will start with a group project after which students will design and print their own small project such as a postcard, greeting card, business card, or broadside. Ink is provided by the studio, students will supply their own paper or cards. No previous experience is necessary.
The class will be taught by Margot Ecke, who received her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and her B.F.A. from Cornell University, as well as, the Professional Printing Certificate from the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico and her Certificate in Bookbinding at the North Bennett Street School in Boston. Her artists' books are shown internationally and her work is in the collections at the Getty, the New York Public Library, and the RISD Artists' Book Collection, among others.
Enrollment is limited to 6 students in order for everyone to have ample time using the presses. This class fills up quickly so mail your registration/payment early in order to hold your place.



Wed. Evening Letterpress
Wednesdays, May 23 - July 11, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
$250 APS members / $260 non-members / $285 become a member & register
Instructor: Margot Ecke

This class is covers the same information as the Sunday evening class. Enrollment is limited to 6 students in this class as well. This class fills up quickly so mail your registration/payment early in order to hold your place



An Edition of One: Beyond Book Arts Basics
Mondays, May 21 - July 9, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
$250 APS members / $260 non-members / $285 become a member & register
Instructor: Mariana Depetris

Book Arts celebrates the tradition of creating books as art. Books can become objects in their own right and structure. Usually in the book arts discipline we explore producing editions, but in this case it is also good to create a unique piece or “an edition of one”. This class focuses on the remarkable diversity of book constructions, exploring innovative alternatives to the familiar binding, in which a book's pages are attached to a single, central spine.
Students will review (or learn) bookbinding's basic vocabulary, the fundamental tools and their uses, then each student will design and create a uniquely engineered book and/or case. Participants will be encouraged to unleash their imagination and enhance the contents of their books by filling the pages with their own visions and thoughts.
Mariana Depetris is an Argentine artist who explores childhood impressions in her work examining traditional children games. Awards, residencies and collections include The Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Spain; the Valparaíso Foundation, Spain; the Centrum Frans Masereel, Belgium and Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She currently teaches at several local universities and art centers.



Screenprinting
Tuesdays, May 22 - July 10, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
$250 APS members / $260 non-members / $285 become a member & register
Instructor: Craig Cameron

In this course students will learn the basics of screenprinting. The instructor will demonstrate and guide students in preparing hand drawn art and digitally printed art for photosensitive emulsion; creating stencils; preparing and exposing screens, and setting up to print both single color and multi-colors projects. Students will also be given the opportunity to explore printing editions and creating monoprints. The instructor will provide a series of assignments that are centered on learning these techniques.
Most supplies are included, but students are required to provide paper and ink. Beginners are welcome, as well as those with experience. This class is limited to a maximum of 6 people to ensure that each student has ample one-on-one time with the instructor.
Craig Cameron, an Atlanta based illustrator and artist, will teach this course. He received his BFA from Georgia Southern University. Craig's principal printing processes are relief, screenprinting, and photosensitive plate lithography.



Carborundum Collagraph Workshop
Saturday, May 19, 10:00am-4:00pm
$100 APS members / $110 non-members / $135 become a member & register
Instructor: Teresa Cole


Collagraph is an amazingly versatile printmaking process, based, as its name suggests, on the construction of a collaged matrix to provide a printable plate. A wide range of materials and textured surfaces can be used in the process and plates can be printed either as intaglio or relief images, or as combinations of the two, leading to prints of astounding richness and strength. Students will be using carborundum (grains of silicone carbine, the material used to grain lithography stones) to create the textured surface. The image is limited only by the artist's imagination. The special quality of Collagraph Carborundum Printmaking is its suitability for a whole range of approaches: it can be graphic, sculptural, or painterly - whatever the printmaker wishes it to be. The workshop is perfect for seasoned printmakers and beginners alike.
Teresa Cole is a Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana where she holds the Ellsworth Woodward Professorship in Art. She earned a BFA in fiber arts from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore and received much of her early print education as a working member of Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen, Scotland. She completed an MFA in printmaking from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Ms. Cole shows both nationally, as well as, internationally.