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This class is a thorough demonstration of the steps and tools essential for being a printmaker in the BARN Printmaking and Book Arts studio. The instructor will take students through the process of setting up, press use, handling the inks, where to find materials, and cleaning up. The instructor will demonstrate all essential tasks and qualities necessary to feel comfortable using the studio and its equipment requirements.
This class is open to all who are interested in learning to be a printmaker, or for someone who just needs a refresher course or an introduction to printmaking at BARN. It is the required first step towards Fob Access and working independently in the Print & Book Arts studio. The next step is practicing during Guided Open Studios until skills outlined in the provided Checklist for Printmaking fob access can be demonstrated. You can sign up for the next Printmaking Guided Open Studio (12/15) here, or view the Print & Book calendar for future Open Studios.
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Instructor Bio: Virginia Davison began her artistic career in college as a painter. By graduation she had found her voice carving plaster. For the next 25 yrs, she carved alabaster and marble, but at the same time became an avid gardener, working the land around her two acre parcel on Bainbridge. After her two kids graduated college, she reinvented herself again by taking classes at Pratt in collage and printmaking. Her years since 2007 have been devoted to these art forms. She has shown her work locally at the Bainbridge Library, Grace Church, Blackbird Bakery, the Big Art Studio on Day Road and the BARN Bazaar.
This two-day workshop is the whole enchilada: type selection, type setting, paper selection, and ink mixing. Learn the basics of letterpress printing, its language, the tools, and the materials. Dive into the intricacies of the craft while working on BARN’s simplest press.
We'll start by scooting through letterpress details: working with type, locking up a form, and preparing a project for printing. This is a skills and techniques workshop intended to ready you to work on your own projects with confidence during monitored Open Studios.
Instructor Bios:
Instructors are Ellie Mathews and Carl Youngmann. Carl began setting type letter by letter in 1960; Ellie combines her experience as a designer with her willingness to explore the techniques of relief printing. Together, they operate The North Press in Port Townsend, where they focus on the production of poetry broadsides with occasional adventures into ephemera, posters, cards, and whimsies. Working as a team, they will share with you their passion for the craft while guiding participants step-by-step toward taking independent command of the process.
This guided open studio has a prerequisite. Please see below before you register.
This opportunity is for participants who have taken the Printmaking Essentials Class (held December 7th) and would like studio time with an experienced monitor available to guide and support as needed. This studio time is for skill development and practice and is not a formal class.
When an individual feels ready to work independently and gain member fob access to the studio, they can request an assessment with the Monitor. Evaluation sessions are based on the checklist provided in the Printmaking Essentials class. If you have any questions about this program, please contact the Print and Book Studio Lead, Amy Goldthwaite at printandbook.lead@bainbridgebarn.org.
This is a BARN holiday. Doors will be locked to members and non-members.
*This class has a prerequisite. Please see below before registering.
This class will aim you toward independent work on BARN’s tabletop C & P Pilot presses. You will become comfortable setting up a simple job (maybe a haiku?), locking it, proofing it, positioning, and printing final copies. You will explore the addition of a second color and the option of adding graphics. Along the way you’ll learn necessary care & feeding of the press to equip you to take advantage of the Print & Book Arts open studios. For BARN members, it will lead to the next steps in Letterpress Certification with fob access.
*Prerequisite: You will have needed to complete Letterpress: Taking the Plunge, or a previous BARN introductory class to Letterpress which introduced using the Pilot presses or by contacting the instructors for special permission. Classes such as: Introductory Letterpress, Letterpress 101, and Letterpress Boot Camp also meet the prerequisite. Please login to your BARN account and click on "My event registrations" to ensure you have completed the prerequisite before you register.
Instructor Bios: Instructors are Ellie Mathews and Carl Youngmann. Carl began setting type letter by letter in 1960; Ellie combines her experience as a designer with her willingness to explore the techniques of relief printing. Together, they operate The North Press in Port Townsend, where they focus on the production of poetry broadsides with occasional adventures into ephemera, posters, cards, and whimsies. Working as a team, they will share with you their passion for the craft while guiding participants step-by-step toward taking independent command of the process.
This class is for students who have completed the class Letterpress: Taking The Plunge. You will learn the intricacies and options of printing on BARN’s largest flatbed proofing press. You will set up a simple job, explore approaches in printing with multiple colors, adding graphics such as linocuts and/or polymer plates, become skilled with positioning and registration while becoming acquainted with safe operation of the press. You will also learn its care & feeding, which includes the responsibilities of clean-up.
Instructors are Ellie Mathews and Carl Youngmann. Carl began setting type letter by letter in 1960; Ellie combines her experience as a designer with her willingness to explore the techniques of relief printing. Together, they operate The North Press in Port Townsend, where they focus on the production of poetry broadsides with occasional adventures into ephemera, posters, cards, and whimsies. Working as a team, they will share with you their passion for the craft while guiding participants step-by-step toward taking independent command of the process. To contact the instructors, please click here.
Image credit: Ellie Mathews
This class is open to all who are interested in learning to be a printmaker, or for someone who just needs a refresher course or an introduction to printmaking at BARN. It is the required first step towards fob access and working independently in the Print & Book Arts studio. The next step is practicing during Guided Open Studios until skills outlined in the provided Checklist for Printmaking Fob Access can be demonstrated. You can sign up for the next Printmaking Guided Open Studio here, or view the Print & Book calendar for future Open Studios.
Join us for a non-technical exploration of letterpress. If you’ve ever been curious about whether this kind of printmaking is for you, here’s an easy way to find out. BARN has the equipment; all you’ll need to bring is your creativity. This introduction will expose you to the simplest form of relief printing: ink, paper, and the workings of a basic press. By the end of the session—through collaboration and individual expression, you’ll have an assortment of colorful prints to take home. And maybe even frame!
After taking this class you may be interested in furthering your skills by signing up for Letterpress: Taking the Plunge that begins on Wednesday, January 19th. Please click here to read more about this class and to register.
Letterpress image credit: Ellie Mathews
Bringing together BARN’s Print & Book Studio and Fiber Arts Studio, this two-part workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of screenprinting.
Screenprinting is one of the most accessible printmaking processes, and we will orient to the process in a way that makes it practical to replicate in a variety of settings. Screenprinting, or silkscreening, has a fairly short but incredibly rich history of use as a medium for surface design on textiles, as well as a printmaking technique on paper. We will discuss the history of the process, walk through the materials needed, learn how to expose screens, practice different techniques that can be used to create art to burn onto our screens, and, of course, print!
Students will leave this workshop with a screen burned with art of their choice as well as whatever they chose to print their art on.
Materials provided will include photo emulsion, printmaking paper, transparency paper, natural fiber fabric, and a zine (how-to guide).
Instructor Bio:
Katey Rissi says, "I am an artist, educator, medicine maker, and activist. My artmaking practice is interdisciplinary and I shift between printmaking, illustration, collage, natural sculpture, textiles, and photography. I am interested in ancestral skills and ecology and these often inform my work. Some themes I find myself returning to in my work include environmental grief, ancestor work, unsettling/decolonization, and what it means to be connected to community and place.'
Katey holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University with a focus in Photography and Printmaking.
This two-day workshop is a great introduction to Letterpress. It covers the whole enchilada: type selection, type setting, paper selection, and ink mixing. Learn the basics of letterpress printing, its language, the tools, and the materials. Dive into the intricacies of the craft while working on BARN’s simplest press.
Print Photo by Ellie Mathews.
This opportunity is for participants who have taken the Printmaking Essentials Class (held January 11th) and would like studio time with an experienced monitor available to guide and support as needed. This studio time is for skill development and practice and is not a formal class.
In this two-day workshop, you will learn to measure, score, cut, fold, and glue paper to construct boxes. On the morning of the first session, the class will do 3 warm-up exercises: 1) covering a piece of board, 2) covering an existing box, & 3) assembling a box tray from pre-cut pieces.
In the afternoon and during the second session, you will design and make your own boxes. Carolina will skillfully guide and coach each of you in constructing a box that is as simple or as complex as you choose.
These techniques can be used to recover a variety of existing boxes and in creating new ones. All materials will be supplied.
Instructor Bio: Carolina Veenstra is a bookbinder and artist. She has worked as a book conservator for forty years. When she isn't working in her studio, you will find her hiking in the Olympic Mountains or weeding the trails in her neighborhood.
Learn how to create direct and expressive images with this versatile form of printmaking. Apply ink on Plexiglass plates using brushes, rollers and rags, and then run the plate through an etching press to make one-of-a-kind images. Begin to master the technical aspects of monotype as you discover and explore what fascinates you. We will cover a wide range of monotype techniques designed to kick start your creativity and develop your skills as a printmaker.
This class is also being offered on April 13 & 14. Click here to register for that class.
Instructor Bio: Wendy Orville is an artist and educator who was born in New York and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. She received a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University and an MFA in painting from American University. Wendy’s monotypes have been exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art, the Bellevue Art Museum and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Her monotypes are featured in the book Singular & Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint. Wendy has taught at Pratt Fine Arts, The Henry Art Gallery, University of Indiana and numerous other venues. She is represented by Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington. “I was trained as a painter but I’m largely self-taught as a printmaker. I fell in love with the monotype process when I lived in Taos, New Mexico. Something happened when I started making monotypes that opened up a different part of me. I felt genuinely free to experiment and fail, trusting myself to follow the process anywhere it led.”
Read an article about Wendy in the Bainbridge Currents.
Visit Wendy's website here: wendyorville.com
Enjoy an afternoon of creative hands-on activities in BARN's 10 artisan studios. It's free, and open to all ages.
Many activities are planned in all 10 of our studios for this very special day. More information will be posted in March 2022.
Park: At BARN, or the adjacent Christmas tree lot. Parking also available at the First Baptist Church on North Madison, with a free Sweet Deal Mobile shuttle.
Festival of Trees Fundraiser!
More information will be posted in 2022
