Previous Workshops
PRONTO PLATE WORKSHOP
Learn a Lithographic Print method from PaperWorkers' own Liza Butts
Details: This workshop will be held on Saturday, July 18th, 2020 from 10am - 4pm. Pronto plates are polyester plates that can be printed with a laser jet or can be drawn on directly with a litho crayon or sharpie. The class will cover printing with multiple images, using a combination of drawing methods and photo methods, as well as preparing your images on the computer. There is a lot of opportunity to layer images in this process! This process is great for making cards and alternative photo prints!! Bring a flashdrive with images that you like. Registration is $90 - an $85 fee plus a $5 supply fee. Students should bring their own paper. Each student will receive 5 pronto plates. Email will be sent prior to class with more details.
About the Instructor: Liza Butts is a multimedia artist from Birmingham, Alabama. She studied visual arts at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and received her BFA in Studio Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Following school, Liza lived in New York City where she worked at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. There, her love of printmaking was ignited and she began making monoprints with textiles. Liza has exhibited prints at the Harnett Biennial of American Prints in Richmond, Virginia, and at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey.
monoprints WORKSHOP
Create Your Own Monoprints with Embossment
Details: This workshop will be held on March 7th and 8th from 10am-4pm both days. Students will experiment with fabric, plastics, and other textured materials to make monoprints with embossment. This class is great for those who like a flexible process and to play around with new materials. We will cover "ghost printing," mixing ink, printing with multiple colors, and doing multi-layered monoprints. This class will accessible to people with and without printmaking experience, so please join! Registration is $125 and please bring four (4) sheets of Rives BFK paper of any color. Ink will be supplied.
About the Instructor: Liza Butts is a multimedia artist from Birmingham, Alabama. She studied visual arts at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and received her BFA in Studio Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Following school, Liza lived in New York City where she worked at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. There, her love of printmaking was ignited and she began making monoprints with textiles. Liza has exhibited prints at the Harnett Biennial of American Prints in Richmond, Virginia, and at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey. |
one-color woodblock prints workshop
Learn Black and White Woodblock Printing from Artist Jane Marshall
Details: This class will take place on Saturday, February 29th, 2020 from 10am-4pm. Students will complete a simple black and white woodblock print. Jane will teach the processes of transferring the image, registration, carving, and printing. The design should be simple to be completed in one day. Students will carve a 6x8 shina plywood block and print onto hosho paper. Blocks, paper, and ink will be provided. Caving tools will be available for studio use. Registration is $95, click the link below to register.
About the Instructor: Jane Marshall has taught classes, workshops, lectured, exhibited, and served as artist-in-residence at several universities including Kansas State, Wisconsin, Cornell, Western Michigan, Albright College, Indiana State, and more recently at UAB. She was the first artist selected for a residency at Studio in the Woods in New Orleans. She collaborated on “Big Prints,” a project organized by Scott Stephens at the University of Montevallo that resulted in the production of three large-scale prints that were exhibited at several museums in Alabama. Her collaboration with Sue Gosin of Dieu Donne, NYC, on “Medea,” a large-scale artist book, was exhibited at and is in the collection of the New York Public Library.
Book Arts Workshop
Alternative Photography Process Artists Books from the Ground Up
Details: This workshop will take place on February 15th and 16th from 10am-4pm both days. Students will use environmentally-friendly cyanotype printing processes to create books from digital negatives. Shooting and editing images, book layout, making digital negatives, alternative photo printing and darkroom techniques, and simple bindings will be covered. The class may even hit the streets for a few shots! Registration is $125 not including materials.
About Pocket Knife Press (Christopher Davenport): I tell stories of ecology, place, and people through photographs, film, handmade paper, and the artist book. As a teaching artist, I lead courses in: Documentary and Conservation Photography, Image and Identity, The Art of Protest, Film and the Environment, Art & Ecology, and Environmental Research & Advocacy at The University of Alabama and Book Arts, Conceptual Arts, Fundamental Drawing, 2D design, and 4D Design (time-based contemporary art) at The University of Alabama in Birmingham.
color theory for printmakers by jane marshall
Learn the influences of color from PaperWorkers' very own
Details: Learn the relationships and influences of color from PaperWorkers' very own Jane Marshall. This workshop will take place on January 25th, 2020 from 10am-4pm. Registration is $55 - a $50 class fee plus a $5 supply fee.
About the Instructor: Jane Marshall has taught classes, workshops, lectured, exhibited, and served as artist-residence at several universities including Kansas State, Wisconsin, Cornell, Western Michigan, Albright College, Indiana State, and more recently at UAB. She was the first artist selected for a residency at Studio in the Woods in New Orleans. She collaborated on "Big Prints," a project organized by Scott Stephens at the University of Montevallo that resulted in the production of three large-scale prints that were exhibited at several museums in Alabama. Her collaboration with Sue Gosin of Dieu Donne, NYC, on "Medea," a large-scale artist book, was exhibited at and is in the collection of the New York Public Library.
Mokuhanga: Water-Based Woodblock Printing
Learn Traditional Japanese Printmaking with Artist Katie Baldwin
Details: This workshop will take place November 2nd and 3rd, 2019 in Huntsville, Alabama. Learn how to achieve multiple colors in a woodblock image with perfect registration through the traditional technique of Japanese woodblock printing. This workshop will be an introduction to the printing process Mokuhanga, which uses water-based pigments (or sumi ink), a kento registration method, and hand printing with a baren. Participants will learn about tools, materials, as well as the carving sequence and printing methods associated with this process. One of the wonderful aspects of this process is that it does not require a press, or a large workspace! The class is limited to 10 participants and registration is $200 - a $150 workshop fee plus a $50 supply fee.
About the Instructor: Katie Baldwin is a printmaker and book artist living in Huntsville, Alabama. She has traveled internationally as an artist in residence. She was one of seven international artists selected in 2004 to learn traditional Japanese woodblock printing (Mokuhanga) from master carvers and printers at the Nagasawa Residency on Awaji Island, Japan. She has returned to Japan in 2017 and 2019 for the Mi-Lab Advanced and Upper Advanced Residency in Kawaguchi. Under her imprint, Queen Anne's Revenge Press, Baldwin produces artist's books and woodblock prints. Baldwin received her MFA in book arts and printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She served as the Victor Hammer Fellow at Wells College from 2011-2013 and is currently the Common Press Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville, where she teaches book arts and printmaking.
Cyanotype Workshop
Learn Cyanotype Printmaking from Colin Williams
About the Artist: Collin Williams is a Professor of Art and director of New Media concentration at the University of Montevallo. He received his MFA and BFA from the University of Houston, University Park. His teaching expertise spans a range of topics including digital photography and printing, animation, 3D animation, web media, mixed media, digital video and printmaking.
Linoleum Block Workshop
Learn Relief-block printing from Debra Riffe
Her studio practice is, exclusively, hand-printed relief prints of woodcuts and linoleum blocks. Creating impressions with rich, black, oil-based ink on bright white archival printmaking paper is her signature style. However, she is not oppose to, occasionally, utilizing color coupled with the unforgiving reductive "suicide" method. Her artwork is centered around themes of civil rights, environmental justice, food apartheid and images representative of working-class people of color.
Debra is a printmaking instructor and representative of Auburn University and the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (APAEP).
Solar Plate Workshop
Learn the process of Solar plate Etching
Details: This workshop will take place on Saturday, May 4th from 10am - 4pm with a break for lunch. Registration is $95, plates and supplies will be furnished. The goal is to create a print from a drawing and another print from a photo image. Students will learn to create prints using photo-polymer plates. These plates are relatively safe using only water to develop the image. Attendees will explore making images using drawing and mark making on acetate, as well as making images from digital photo files. Students should bring a thumb drive with a photo image they would like to create a print from. A laptop with photoshop or apple photos is suggested but the studio computer can be shared.
About the Instructor: John Demotte Received his BFA in 1987 from the University of Montevallo in photography and printmaking. Beginning his career in Washington, D.C., he worked on projects for the Phillips Collection, Capitol Hill Arts Center and the Washington - Moscow Arts and Cultural Exchange. Since returning to Birmingham in 1991, he has been with the Atchison Gallery/Village Framers, where he is now Vice President and Master Framer. A founding member of PaperWorkers Local, John has led workshops on Solar Plate photo-intaglio and cyanotype photo processes. John works mainly in photography and printmaking, specializing in photo intaglio and engraving with monoprint.
High Rolling Monoprints
Discovering The Applications For Monotype Prints And The Transfer Of Imagery
"Distant Illumination" by Heinrich Toh
Haiku Class
The History And Formal Guidelines of Haiku
About the Instructor: Terri L. French is an author, editor, and haiku poet living in Huntsville, Alabama. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation and is past Southeast Regional Coordinator for The Haiku Society of America. Terri is the former editor of Prune Juice Journal of senryu and kyoka and was recently added to the editorial team of the online journal Haibun Today. Her work has appeared in many online and print journals and anthologies. Click the link to view Terri French's full website. - www.terrilfrench.com/
AAMAL - All Artists Making A Living
A Three Part Plan To Financial Success As An Artist
About the Instructor: Benzle received his B.F.A. from Ohio State University in 1972 and his M.A. from Northern Illinois University in 1978. He is Professor Emeritus at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. Benzle maintains his studio in Huntsville consisting of his signature translucent, porcelain sculptural vessels and is represented by major museums and collections around the world including the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the White House Collection. Click the link to view Curtis Benzle's full bio and website. - benzleporcelain.com/
The “Three Part Plan” is a realistic method of using the average artist’s knowledge base, skills and studio to generate income throughout their career. The three “Parts” are designed to be constantly changing in terms of emphasis depending on market conditions and individual artist preferences and abilities. It is impossible to predict the order at which the “Parts” will develop. It can be said with confidence that attention to all three parts will result in a financially successful career as a visual artist.
Part 1 - Art Making Purpose: “Art Making” feeds your soul. Income potential: Art Making has profit potential but that potential is challenged by severe competition and a very limited market for serious art. The highest profit potential with art making comes as the artist ages. The other two “Parts” feed this long term income potential while addressing the short term need to generate immediate income. Topics Covered: Time management Marketing Determining your Market Guerilla Marketing Networking Press Release Imagery Basic Marketing “stuff” Social Media Part 2 - Production Purpose: “Production” addresses the price limitations in the “art market” and focuses on the artist’s ability to think creatively within specific parameters. “Production” focuses on designing a product that is affordably priced, has popular appeal and can be produced without extraordinary capital startup costs. Income potential: Production has unlimited, short to medium term profit potential. Depending on volume, Production probably has the greatest income potential of all these “Parts”. Production also has the capacity to help build a client base for “Art Making”. Topics Covered: Pricing Selling Festivals Galleries Designers Online sales Direct Mail Studio Gallery | Part 3 - Teaching Purpose: “Teaching” takes advantage of the value of the artist’s knowledge. Because Teaching is not object oriented, it provides security from being “knocked off”. Any well trained artist possesses countless skills that have real value to the large majority of the population who lack this training and knowledge. Income potential: “Teaching” has immediate income potential. Beyond the income generated from teaching classes, “Teaching” is the perfect vehicle to build a client base that will benefit both “Production” and “Art Making”. Topics Covered: Community Art Teaching Why do you teach? Financial benefit Market building Who do you teach? What do you teach? Teachable skill Where do you Teach? How do you teach? Transformation Method Structure Lesson plan Syllabus Curriculum Communication Verbal/Non-verbal |
Layered Printmaking With Xerox Transfers
Turn Your Drawings and Photos Into Lithographic Prints
Details: This workshop will take place Saturday, February 23rd from 1:30pm - 4:30pm at the Birmingham Museum of Art. In this class you will learn to turn your drawings and photos into print elements using a non-toxic paper lithography process using gum Arabic and litho ink. We will then combine these elements with printed textures. Once you learn the process, the combinations are limitless! Bring your favorite drawings and photos making sure they're high contrast; i.e. printed in black and white, not grayscale. Also remember to flip your images before printing because the final product will be a mirror image. Registration is $50 and includes all materials, click the button to register with the Birmingham Museum of Art or visit their website.
About the Instructors:
Mimi Boston has taken extensive classes and workshops in printmaking. She majored in Art History before earning her MBA and working finance. Her expertise in an array of print methods, including woodcuts, allows her to frequently combine these methods reflecting her interest in trees, flowers, and herbs. Originally from Virginia, she is pleased to be settled in her chosen hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
Enid Keyser majored in both Art and Biology. She managed a flow cytometry lab in her science career. In her art career, drawing and printmaking are her areas of expertise. The daughter of an artist, she was raised in New York City and currently resides in Birmingham. Her wide ranging subjects include birds, other animals, as well as abstract work.
Celeste Pfau teachesBotanical Monoprints
Each student will leave the class with their own unique artworks: 8x10in will be the largest size the class will work. Other smaller sized options will also be available.
All materials to participate will be provided by Celeste, however, participants can bring their own botanical / found materials: leaves, flowers, stems, lace, string, etc
$70/ per student. ( price includes fee for workshop and materials fee for printmaking paper).
Reductions Screen Printing with Matt Hopson Walker
In a reduction print the artist develops all colors from the same screen. The process starts with drawing a design into a new screen and printing the first color on each sheet of paper in the edition. Then the printmaker covers more of the screen with emulsion and proceeds to print the second color. Typically, one prints from lightest to darkest color and the process of drawing and printing continues for each additional color until the final layer is printed. After completion of the print, another edition can never be made as the screen has been almost completely filled during the reduction process.
No prior printmaking experience is necessary. This workshop is very suitable for beginners.
Students will need to bring printmaking paper. All other supplies are included.
July 14 from 10-4pm.
Tuition: $85
Photo Intaglio with John Demotte
Students will need to bring printmaking paper. All other supplies and a handout will be included.
Students must also bring at least 1 digital photo image file on a thumb drive. If you have a laptop with photoshop or iphoto that would be helpful as well. Lunch will not be provided but we will take a break and go to one of the area eating establishments.
Enrollment is limited to 7 students
10:00 to 4:00 on July 21, 2018
Please send questions to Mimi at PaperWorkersLocal@gmail.com
Trace Monotype with John Klosterman
Trace monotype, or transfer drawing, is a method of transferring ink with the touch of a tool to the surface of the paper. This way of working is full of expressive possibilities. This printmaking technique allows subtle, immediate, mark-making without the need for a press.
You don’t need to know how to “draw”, just have a willingness to experiment. Students will explore several simple printing techniques, and receive guided instruction through demonstration and individual attention.
We will be learning how to modify inks to get a broad variety of qualities of line, from crisp to fluid. All levels of printing experience, from zero to advanced, are welcome.
Students should bring printmaking paper and a variety of tools for mark making. These could be anything from pointy (but not sharp) stylus type objects to broad tools like putty knives.
Tuition is $65
Saturday June 16, 2018 from 10am-4pm
Textile Monoprints with Orange Barrel Industries
Blake and Hannah Sanders of Orange Barrel Industries will lead a workshop introducing basic techniques for carving woodblocks, printing on textiles, assembling, and perhaps even some machine stitching and/or hand embroidery. Students will carve woodblocks and print, and then cut and sew colorful, unique monoprints. The finished product might not be magnificently crafted, it might be loose and expressive, or downright shoddy but fun.
In order to reduce their environmental impact, Blake and Hanna frequently use materials that would otherwise be discarded, screen printing and relief printing on various fabrics. This has the additional benefit that printing on a variety of colors and patterns quickly and easily adds visual interest.
This workshop is ideal for those who already have a print background and want to learn more about printing on alternative substrates, using fabric as a vehicle for monoprinting and improvisation, and being more ecological in their practice.
May 19 and 20, 2018 from 10:00am to 4:00pm both days.
Tuition: $90
In this class, students will learn about the different tools and materials used to design and create their own one-of- a-kind design from a linoleum block. No previous linoleum block carving experience is required.
Students will learn how to:
-transfer their design onto a block
-outline and cut the image
-select the proper cutting tools
-mix inks and apply with rollers
-print by hand and on the press
This class is suitable for ages 12+ (must be responsible with sharp tools!).
Please wear closed-toe shoes and clothing that you don’t mind getting ink on.
May 5 & 12 from 10-4.
$75 Per student.
Please send questions to Mimi at PaperWorkersLocal@gmail.com
Geometric Journals: Printing & Bookbinding Workshop with Lindsay Schmittle
In this two-day workshop, students will print layered compositions on etching presses selecting from the large geometric printing blocks carved by exhibiting artist, Lindsay Schmittle, and used in her The Printed Walk series (opening April 5th). On day two, participants will crop their prints to use as notebook covers as they learn basic bookbinding techniques to bind three journals.
April 7: 10:00 - 4:00
April 8 12:00 - 4:00
Tuition is $75
Supply List for students:
-bookbinding needle
-bonefolder
-2 binder clips
-x-acto knife & minimum 2 extra blades
-ruler (one with cork back is best for grip)
-pencil
-small cutting mat
Carborundum printing is an exciting form of collagraph where highly textured plates are made using carborundum grit (finely ground metal particles). This process lends itself to approaching print with a painterly perspective, the allowance of collage processes, and combining plates in unique and possibly collaborative ways. In this workshop, students will explore mark-making techniques and surface development, approaches to inking, and pulling finished prints. Come embrace this playful form of printmaking for a new experience or to add to your repertoire!
Mike Marks is an artist and printmaker based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Highpoint Center for Printmaking. He holds a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware. He has been the Director of Intaglio at Pickwick Independent Press and has taught workshops at various art centers across the country, including the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Deer Isle, ME.
Find out more about Mike's work at mikemarksarts.com
Enrollment is limited to 7 students
Tuition is $75
Please send questions to Mimi at PaperWorkersLocal@gmail.com
Students should bring: Printmaking paper, X-Acto Knife/blades (anything else that will cut or perforate mat board surface), cheap and/or well abused brushes, any tapes they may have on hand i.e. masking tape, packing tape, duct tape, etc.
Students should have some idea in mind for a print and should come with an open mind and be ready to experiment as well.
intro to Solarplate etching
with John DeMotte
This workshop will introduce techniques used to make photographic and drawn images on a photo-sensitive polymer plate. Attendees will learn how to create a positive transparency image from both a photo file and from a drawing that will be used to make a Solarplate intaglio plate. This process is both relatively easy and non-toxic.
Supplies and a handout will be included but you must bring at least 1 digital photo image file on a thumb drive. If you have a laptop with photoshop or iphoto that would be helpful as well. Lunch will not be provided but we will take a break and go to one of the area eating establishments.
Enrollment is limited to 7 students
Tuition is $75.00
Copper Plate Etching
with Michael Merry
MOKU HANGA with Richard Stockham
This workshop introduces the materials and methods of Japanese style woodblock printmaking.
June 24, June 25, July 15, and July 16, 2017 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day.
$150 includes tuition and materials including paper sufficient for 10 to 15 prints, 2 woodblocks, horsehair brush, rice paste, and pigments.
Basic Monoprint workshop
PaperWorkers Local is offering a beginning mono print class taught by printmaker and glass artist Mimi Boston. This class is open to learners of any level from absolute beginner and up. Making monoprints is a fun and easy way to try your hand at printmaking and familiarize yourself with the basics. No specific tools or complicated techniques are required. A huge variety of one-of-a-kind images can be made in a short time with an equally huge variety of possibilities for personal expression.
Students will learn to use a press and work with ink. They will make images using a range of methods, from making marks by hand to inking found objects, and will be able to experiment toward developing methods of their own.
Students only need to bring paper to print on. All other materials will be provided. However, students will want to collect materials with interesting textures that can be inked and run through the press. These need to be flat materials such as cloth, textured papers, and so-on.
Tuesday November 17th from 9:30 AM until 12:00 Noon. There are only 6 seats available. Tuition is $40.
Cyanotype Prints
This workshop will demonstrate the cyanotype process including how the make the emulsion and coat paper, and 3 ways to create images(photograms, drawings, and digital negatives).
You will need to bring a digital image and if you have a laptop with photoshop please bring it.
All the rest of the supplies will be provided and we will be taking a lunch break.
Saturday, August 27 at 10 AM - 4 PM
Linocut Printmaking
We are excited to offer this opportunity to learn this printmaking method from an excellent local artist. This workshop is suitable for beginners. The first day we will learn to carve the linoleum and then we will have a week to work on our projects. We will come back on the 15th and 16th to print. The class will be limited to 8 people so respond quickly to reserve your spot.
You can see Debra's work and read more about her at debrariffe.com.
Aug 8, 15 & 16 from 6:00-8:30 each day.This workshop is $100 and the student will also purchase materials.
Come Make a Book: For Kids 10+
Saturday, June 25 at 10 AM - 3 PM |
Collographic (Textural) Print Workshop
This is a fun and easy way to try your hand at printmaking and familiarize yourself with the basics. No specific tools or complicated techniques are required. A huge variety of one-of-a-kind images can be made in a short time with an equally huge variety of possibilities for personal expression. The collographic method can be used to create complete images or can be incorporated into other kinds of prints and mixed media work. Collographs are created by printing textures from found objects and from nature. Plates can be made to print from but the objects can be printed without a plate. This class is open to learners of any level from absolute beginner and up.Students only need to bring paper to print on. All other materials will be provided. However, students will want to collect materials with interesting textures that can be inked and printed. These need to be flat materials such as cloth, textured papers, etc.
Tuition is $40.00 and is limited to six participants.
The workshop is on Monday June 20th from 5:30 PM until 8:00 PM.
Tintype Workshop with Frank Hamrick
This workshop has passed.
This one-day workshop will offer a unique opportunity to learn about the historical tintype photographic process as well as create a one-of-a-kind portrait. We will have a backdrop with lighting set up and each participant will be able to create a 4"x5" tintype image of themselves. Participants should bring an apron to protect clothing during the dark room segment of the workshop.
Saturday 4 June 2016
9:00am to 5:00pm, with a 1 hour lunch recess
3815 Clairmont Ave. Birmingham, AL 35205
Workshop limited to 8 spots
$125 per person