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Intermediate Screenprint
Instructor: Erika Ruvell Coleman
Dates: Sundays, May 11 - June 29
Time: 4 pm - 7 pm
In this course, students will expand upon their screen printing skills and focus on manipulating and preparing artwork for screen printing applications. We will be focusing on digital file preparation of images that contain tonal shifts (shadows, highlights, etc) using multiple methods, including high contrast conversions, halftone dots, and four color process. We will also be exploring how to maximize your printing using transparency. Your artwork can contain a mix of solid print areas (hand drawn or otherwise) and photographic images. Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator is useful, but not necessary.
Erika Ruvell Coleman is a Screenprinter and educator from Los Angeles, CA, where she had been teaching the craft of Screen Printing since 2011. While studying manual Photography, Erika took her first screen printing class in 2004, changing the course of her life. She fell in love with the tactile nature of the craft. While completing her degree in Graphic Communications with a focus on Screen Printing, she worked as a studio assistant and printer at Modern Multiples, under her mentor, legendary Chicano artist Richard Duardo. From there, she spent many years as the Lab Assistant and later, Instructor of Screen Printing at Pasadena City College, in the very same print lab that changed her life. With a passion for teaching and community outreach, Erika thrives on sharing her love of printmaking with the masses.
Intro to Screenprint
Instructor: Aaron Artrip
Dates: Mondays, May 12 - July 7
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Join Aaron Artrip as he walks you through the basics of screen-printing on paper. This 8-week course will meet once a week and will provide a basic introduction to screen printing using water-based inks. This course will show you examples of screen printed art work, how to draw with screen printing in mind, coating/exposing screens, setup/registration, pulling ink, and a few experimental applications as well. Bring your curiosities and questions and try to stump Aaron's screen-printing wizardry.
Aaron Artrip is an American Musician and Artist located in Atlanta, GA. He holds a BFA and MFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking. Aaron had been printmaking since 2009 and shown work across the southeastern region in over 55 shows, and has presented experimental printmaking techniques twice at Southern Graphics Counsel International (SGCI). Aarons work takes many forms including drawings, prints, sound recordings, installations and performances. He is currently working on a series of cyanotypes using UV light controlled by sound to generate visual images based on sound waves.
Experimental Print
Instructor: Kiara Gilbert
Dates: Tuesdays, May 13 - July 1
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
This course serves to expose students who already have a working knowledge of traditional print practices to alternative and innovative print methods to add to their practice. Students should leave the class feeling confident in layering various print methods, pushing materials to create different effects, and creating their own ink.
Kiara Gilbert (they/them) has predominantly spent their life between North Florida, and Georgia. The artist explores how emotional landscapes are shaped and perceptions of history are misinformed by colonized narratives surrounding the past. Growing up black and queer in the South has given them a reverence for the culture and beliefs that enslaved people cultivated and the ability to center black diasporic perspectives in their life and work. Through the use of print media and sculptural installations, they create scenes that speak on feelings of frustration, love, listlessness, and ancestral loss. They have been a recipient of the Six Creative Grant, the Janice Hartwell Award in Printmaking, a 2019 participant in the Humanity in Action Berlin Fellowship, and a Mint Leap Year Fellow from 2022-2023.
Intro to Intaglio
Instructor: Sasha Schilbrack-Cole
Dates: Wednesdays, May 14 - July 2
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
In this class we will learn the basics of the Intaglio family of printmaking processes. We will be focusing on using copper as a matrix to print etchings, but we will also touch on using plexiglass and discuss the use of other metals. The main goal of the class is to have a thorough understanding of the three main ways to make a mark in a plate: drypoint, line etch, and aquatint. By the end of the class you should have a love for copper and a solid framework to make your own prints.
Sasha Schillbrack-Cole is a printmaker, tattoo artist, illustrator, and musician currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia in 2013. He has taught at APS since 2016, as well as teaching stints at Emory University, and other studios around the state. He has exhibited print work both locally and nationally, and currently tattoos at Sparrowhawk Studio. He finds joy in the repetition of mark-making, rich wood-grain, and oppressively loud music.
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CANCELLATION POLICY
For cancellations made at least 10 days prior to the first class/workshop, we will refund 100% of the full tuition minus a $10 administrative fee, or give 100% credit towards a future APS class to be used within the following 3 months. For cancellations made with less than 10 days notice, you will receive a 50% refund. No refund or transfer to another class can be made if student cancels within 48 hours of the beginning of the class/workshop unless we are able to fill your spot from a waiting list.
APS reserves the right to cancel any class because of low enrollment; you will be notified and your class fee will be refunded.
Located in Hapeville just south of downtown Atlanta, APS offers the community classes in a wide range of techniques, utilizing equipment available in our printmaking studio. The small, hands-on classes foster creative exchange with instructors and fellow students, and all classes are led by professional artists actively working in Atlanta’s print community, as well as, talented visiting artists. Choose a class that explores a new interest, or refines previous experience. Both beginners and advanced professional artists will find classes at appropriate skill levels. On the occasion that a class requires some experience, we will note that in the course listing. Class sizes are limited so that each student will receives quality-individualized instruction. Please read on for detailed descriptions of classes and workshops, pricing, and instructors’ biographical statement listed below.
Aside from our regular schedule of classes and workshops, we are also happy to provide demonstrations and workshops for adults or children throughout the community. Learn more about custom workshops in our outreach programs.
If an 8-week courses is too long a commitment, please consider registering for one of our short format Tiny Press Sessions .
The Tiny Press Sessions are a new series of 3-hour stand alone workshops.
Each Tiny Press Session is $75 APS Members / $85 Non Members / $110 Register & Become a Member