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‘Tis the Season to go Printing: Letterpress Holiday Cards
Instructor: Bryan Baker
Date: Sunday, November 24
Time: 10 am - 2 pm
Get a friendly introduction to letterpress while creating unique holiday cards using our collection of vintage type and image blocks. All levels are welcome!
Bryan Baker runs Stukenborg Press, a letterpress studio in Grayson, GA. He received his BFA in printmaking from Ohio University, and MFA from the University of Tennessee. He has taught classes and workshops at Arrowmont, Ox-Bow, Penland, The Arm (NYC), The Center for Book Arts (NYC), UT Knoxville, Clarion University, and the College for Creative Studies. Along with his teaching, he has spent many years as a production printer doing custom letterpress posters, ephemera, and stationery.
Cost of all supplies 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
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Contact Kathy Garrou with any questions about classes/workshops.
GIVE THE GIFT OF A CLASS
Buy a gift certificate for the APS class of your choice - or for a dollar amount! Let your creative loved ones experience a class or workshop taught by APS's community of professional artist-instructors.For more information contact Kathy Garrou, Executive Director
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.
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.
Previous Workshops featuring Local and Visiting Artists:
Viscosity Monotypes with Robert Brown
Professor Robert Brown introduced participants to the viscosity printing technique inspired by Krishna Reddy's work.
Hosted in tandem with the exhibition Krishna Reddy: The Mystery of Time and Becoming, this hands-on workshop revealed the secrets behind creating dynamic, multi-layered prints using overlapping hues to create rich, vibrant compositions. Robert Brown demonstrated the surprising ways inks of different viscosities (stickiness) interact with each other to build lively and complex prints.
Intro to Risograph with Dyanne Horgan
Dyanne introduced participants to the newest addition to our studio: Risograph Printing.
Topics will included technical aspects of printing Riso, color mixing, scanning, registration, and more. Participants made analog riso prints using the scanning function and their own source material.
Book Binding with Bryan Baker
Bryan Baker guided participants through the detailed and satisfying Ethiopian Multi-Needle Coptic Stitch.
During this single-session workshop, participants made their own small hardcover sketchbook with beautiful, exposed stitching on the spine.
Pattern Printing II with Andrea Emmons
Andrea guided participants in creating patterns using blocks they carved.
Students learned about and experiment with repeating patterns using relief blocks and printing completed designs on fabric.
Cyanotype: Printing in the Sun with Terri Dilling
Terri return to hold another of her fabulous Cyanotype Workshops in June 2024.
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.
Pattern Printing with Andrea Emmons
Andrea guided participants in creating patterns using blocks they carved.
Students learned about and experiment with repeating patterns using relief blocks and printing completed designs on fabric.
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.
DUE. (for Frank)
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.