Block Printing and Pattern Design on Fabric

Instructor: Andrea Emmons

Saturday: May 18

Time: 9am–3pm

Design and carve your own linocut block in this one-day workshop with artist and printmaker Andrea Emmons. Learn about and experiment with repeating patterns while carving your blocks and printing your completed designs on fabric. You’ll leave with an array of your own hand-printed bandanas and tea towels created from start to finish and the knowledge to continue printing on fabric at home. All levels are welcome.

Supplies and Equipment: Students are encouraged to bring their own carving tools if you have them. APS also has tools available. It’s suggested that students bring ideas and source material with them. All supplies are provided.

Andrea Emmons is a lifelong printmaker. She was introduced to printmaking by a high school art teacher in northern Vermont, who also took the class to the studio of Claire van Vliet to see the process of bookmaking and letterpress. Andrea was completely taken with the process, and studied printmaking in college in Burlington, VT and  Philadelphia. Her influences are often nature based or related to type and her love of letterpress. She has recently been working with repeat patterns, carving small blocks and hand stamping them on fabric. She has lived in the Atlanta area for 28 years and is an original founding member of the Atlanta Printmakers Studio.

Cost of all supplies are included in the workshop fees.

The workshop is full. Contact Kathy Garrou, if you’d like to be added to the waitlist.

Cyanotype: Printing with the Sun

Instructor: Terri Dilling

Saturday: June 15

Time: 10am–2pm

The cyanotype is a photographic process of 1842 and was one of the first photographic printing processes invented. It produces a blue photographic print that will interest both photographers, painters, and designers.

Two approaches will be explored during this one-day workshop. First, the technique of the photogram will be discussed. A photogram is an image obtained by the shadows of objects placed on photographic paper. You bring small objects: plants, leaves, feathers, string, lace, dried flowers, etc. The second process involves using digital negative (transparencies). You will learn to: prepare chemicals; apply emulsion on paper; tone prints with natural products to add different shades other than Prussian blue; and make a digital negative. At the end of the workshop, you will leave with your achievements as well as a printed summary of the technique and a list of supplies needed to practice.

Terri Dilling is an Atlanta-based painter and printmaker, and she's a previous APS Board Member. Terri’s primary printmaking mediums are monotype, screenprint and cyanotype. She received a BA from Indiana University, a BFA Georgia State University, and has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy. Travels abroad have been very influential on her work which explores the beauty and complexity of the natural world with a focus on its structures, patterns and cycles. Terri has received numerous grants and awards, and her work is collections around the world.

Cost of cyanotype chemicals and paper are included in the workshop fees.

THE TINY PRESS SESSIONS

The Tiny Press Sessions are a series of 3 to 4 hour stand alone workshops

Each Tiny Press Session will be a brief introduction to a technique for those who don’t have 8 weeks to take class.

REGISTERING FOR A CLASS OR WORKSHOP

Full payment is required to reserve a seat and guarantee enrollment for all classes and workshops.

Paying with cash or check: You can mail a check to APS with appropriate class information or with cash at the studio. Download Registration Form Here

Paying with credit card: Use the PayPal button below the class description to pay with a credit card. A 3% PayPal transaction fee has been added. Be sure to select the proper payment regarding membership status. You do not need a PayPal account. 

Contact Kathy Garrou  with any questions about classes/workshops.

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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 is available if student cancels within 48 hours 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.

Contact Kathy Garrou, Executive Director for more information or with any questions.

THE UNIQUE PRINT: A Monotype Workshop with Georgia Deal

Georgia Deal guided participants in creating monotype prints..

Monotypes are suited to both printmakers, painters, as well as the artist who wants to explore making one-of-a-kind images from their own drawings, photographs or even appropriated imagery. 

Lego Letterpress Day: Celebrate International Lego Day at Atlanta Printmakers Studio!

Bryan Baker introduced participants to setting type and printing on a flatbed cylinder press.

Celebrating International Lego Day at Atlanta Printmakers Studio! Participants learned how to build designs with Lego blocks and print a poster using a press. This creative technique combines play, design, engineering, and over 100-year-old Lego technology with innovative results!

Letterpress: Six Word Stories

Letterpress: Tis’ the season to go Printing!

Bryan Baker introduced participants to setting type and printing on a flatbed cylinder press.

These small sessions highlighted typesetting and the primary operation of the studio’s flatbed cylinder proof presses. These workshops were open to all levels of printmaking experience and was perfect for a quick taste of what letterpress involves.

Learn Moku Hanga with John Amoss

John shows students how to carve and print using this traditional Japanese technique!

“Moku” is the Japanese word for wood, and “hanga”, means print. Simply translated as “wood print”, outside of Japan the term “moku hanga” refers specifically to woodblock printmaking utilizing traditional Japanese materials and methods.

Make a Crankie with Jessica White

Jessica show students how to make their very own crankie!

Crankies are illustrated scrolls contained in boxes on dowels with attached handles. These scrolls are “hand cranked” to create a moving panorama, inviting the viewer to experience the images like watching a movie.

Reductive Screenprint with Stephanie Smith

Stephanie led students in making some impress prints!

This fast, direct, nontoxic, and low-tech screen printing method uses Screen Filler and water-base ink to create a stencil with which to print your image.

Papermaking with Plants taught by Robert Thompson

A very informative workshop making paper with Robert!

The cyanotype process has been around since 1842 and was one of the first Participants will spent the day exploring the entire process from processing the plant materials to making the finished paper – experimenting with many papermaking techniques – debossing, embedding and layering. 

Cyanotype: Printing with the Sun with Terri Dilling

Another fun day making cyanotypes with Terri Dilling!

The cyanotype process has been around since 1842 and was one of the first photographic printing processes invented. It produces a distinctive blue print that will interest photographers, painters, and designers.

Master Class: Encaustic Workshop with Mariana Depetris

Two full days of woking with wax!

Encaustic’s first precedent was in Greece to seal ships. This ancient technique was also used in the Greco-Roman Fayum portraits of mummies. The beeswax and Dammar resin used in encaustic techniques create transparencies and depth, encouraging exploration with the concept of layering and incisions.

Letterpress Lego Printing – Two Sessions one for Youth and one for Adults

What a fun day playing with legos!

Participants are invited to work and play together to create designs with Lego bricks and APS will help everyone print their designs using our Vandercook presses to create an exciting poster to take home.

Painting with the Press: Explore abstract letterpress printing with Chris Fritton

Thanks Chris Fritton for returning to hold another fun filled workshop in the new studio!

Participants created one-of-a-kind, expressionistic prints that can serve as the backgrounds for other prints, or stand alone as abstract works.

The Itinerant Printer Meet and Greet: Pop up shop and exhibition

People stopped by the studio and meet Chris Fritton (The Itinerant Printer) from Buffalo, NY! Shop Chris's collection of printwork, learn about letterpress printing and hear stories from his adventures traveling the road.

Cyanotype: Printing with the Sun with Terri Dilling

Thanks Terri Dilling for holding two very popular cyanotype workshops during the summer of 2021!

The cyanotype is a photographic process of 1842 and was one of the first photographic printing processes invented. It produces a blue photographic print that will interest both photographers, painters, and designers.

Rust Prints with Lauri Jones

May 18, 2019

Thank you Lauri Jones for sharing your knowledge and guiding students through the steps of creating rust prints!

Rusty metal is a very interesting way to print on paper and fabric. Learn how to create rich, earthy images through contact printing with rusty objects. This workshop will appeal to your inner artist and scientist by introducing the simple formulas and experimental processes for a unique mark-making experience that works beautifully on both paper and textiles.

Pull and Pour with Tom Huck

February 17 & 22, 2019

Tom "the evil head" Huck was in the studio! It was a chance to share a beer and hear first hand about his inspirations, prints, and Evil Prints press. Participants carved then pulled their own print while talking with the artist in the informal and creative setting of the Atlanta Printmakers Studio.

Tom Huck of Evil Prints Press: Huck is best known for creating large-scale woodcuts acting as both satirical narratives and social criticism."My work deals with personal observations about the experiences of living in a small town in southeast Missouri. The often Strange and Humorous occurrences, places, and people in these towns offer a never-ending source of inspiration for my prints. I call this work 'rural satire.'"

These workshops were arranged in conjunction with Emory’s exhibition Rival Cuts: Process and Technique in Prints by Tom Hück & Albrecht Dürer.

Reinventing the Wheel, Handmade Paper with Texture and Collage with Katy DeMent

February 23-24, 2019

Was a pleasure having Katy back in Atlanta for the workshop!

Participants learned about traditional paper making while exploring more modern paper making techniques with color, surface design, texture, and composition while creating sheets of handmade paper from recycled and natural plant fibers.

Is this Letterpress?: Inkwipes & Abstract Expressionism

December 1, 2018

Thanks Chris for showing students a nontradional way of printing on the Vandercook!

He is most widely know for his project The Itinerant Printer, where he visited over 130 letterpress print shops throughout 2015-2017. The project is about reviving that sense of adventure in printing, along with the analog sharing of information. It’s about going out into the world, seeking work based on your skill set, making something with your hands, and delivering that object to someone. It’s about an exchange of ideas, of techniques, of information, of style, and of the consummation of all those things: prints. Fritton's two years traveling throughout America resulted in a coffee table book that features photos all of the prints, printshops, and people from his journey.

Make A Crankie with Jessica White

June 9-10, 2018

Thanks Jessica White for instructing a very enthusiastic group of students in making crankies!

Crankies are a part of a rich history in visual storytelling through scrolls, or moving panoramas. In the Appalachian region, larger crankies, often candlelit from behind, have been used by traveling musicians who scroll through images that depict the ballads as they sing, almost like a hand-made movie.

Jessica C. White works as a studio artist, teaches workshops at Asheville BookWorks, is an adjunct professor of papermaking and book arts at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, and is the co-founder and co-director of Ladies of Letterpress. Jessica is in several public collections, including the libraries of Yale University, Stanford University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Cyanotypes with Terri Dilling

June 23, 2018

Thanks Terri for exploring the various ways to make cyanotypes with workshop participants!

The cyanotype (blue print) was one of the first photographic printing processes invented and will be explored in various ways during this one-day workshop. The instructor will provide paper already prepared, which will be exposed in the sun and rinsed in water.

Terri Dilling is an Atlanta-based painter and printmaker, and she's previous APS Board Member. Terri’s primary printmaking mediums are monotype, screenprint and cyanotype. She received a BA from Indiana University, a BFA Georgia State University, and has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy. Travels abroad have been very influential on her work which explores the beauty and complexity of the natural world with a focus on its structures, patterns and cycles. Terri has received numerous grants and awards, and her work is collections around the world.

Wood Engraving with Todd Anderson

March 3, 2018

Many thanks to Todd Anderson and his grad students Mandy Ferguson and Allison Johnson for a wonderful workshop!

Todd Anderson was born in Rochester, Minnesota. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MFA from the University of New Mexico. Anderson worked in the collaborative printmaking field where he earned the title of Master Printer. For the last decade he has worked as a university professor. Anderson resides in South Carolina where he maintains an active studio while serving as the director of printmaking at Clemson University.

Reductive Relief Printing with Katrina Andry

March 11-12, 2017

Katrina’s work explores the negative effects stereotypes have on people of color. Where stereotypes are typically used to help us normalize our surroundings by categorizing groups of people, the byproduct of stereotypes is that they also create arbitrary differences between people. Stereotyping establishes an arbitrary set of societal norms/rules that benefit the majority while it disenfranchises other groups of people. Katrina’s work challenges stereotypes placed upon people of color (the Other), that once had scientific research qualifying them, and how these ideas or stereotypes have become a part of how we see each other, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Diffusion Relief Printing & Screenprint Flocking with Cynthia Thompson

March 11-12, 2017

Cynthia Nourse Thompson is currently Associate Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Book Arts + Printmaking and Studio Arts at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Previously, Thompson served for twelve years as Professor of Book and Paper Arts at Memphis College of Art and the Chair of the Fine Arts Department. Thompson has also been visiting faculty at University of Georgia’s study abroad program in Cortona, Italy; the prestigious Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy; and the University of Arkansas Rome Program in Rome, Italy teaching both papermaking, book arts and printmaking.