All Levels
Printmaking Sampler
with Barbara Harder
Learn traditional or experimental printmaking processes while concentrating in one area or exploring many. Etch like Rembrandt, Goya, and Kentridge; monotype like Degas and Olivera; woodcut like Dürer and Frankenthaler; lithograph like Kollwitz and Rauschenberg. Be surprised and inspired while working in a supportive, creative environment.
Supplies: New Students: CAW supplies inks, solvents, oils, acid, hand cleaner, etc. If you have printmaking supplies or paper, bring them to class. You will buy paper, plates, and tools as needed. Continuing Students: If you wish, bring a project that you’re working on and any materials/tools that you own.
Notes: The class fee includes one additional print session per week, during a monitored Open Print Studio. Attendance at more than one print session per week costs an additional $25 for current students.
Tuesdays, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 3/13 – 5/29
12 sessions: $424; Early Bird price: $402.80 (Discount available until 2/9)
Monotype/Monoprint
with Maura Galante
Monotype is the most painterly and spontaneous printmaking process. We will experiment with a variety of textures, materials, and techniques to create unique, multilayered prints and combine traditional printmaking with digital, photographic, drawn, or painted imagery. We can also use relief and intaglio processes to create monoprints. Come expand and explore your visual horizons!
Supplies: New Students: CAW supplies inks, solvents, oils, acid, hand cleaner, etc. If you have printmaking supplies or paper, bring them to class. You will buy paper, plates, and tools as needed. Continuing Students: If you wish, bring a project that you’re working on and any materials/tools that you own.
Notes: The class fee includes one additional print session per week, during a monitored Open Print Studio. Attendance at more than one print session per week costs an additional $25 for current students.
Wednesdays, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 3/14 – 5/30
12 sessions: $413; Early Bird price: $392.35 (Discount available until 2/9)
Silkscreen
with Jonathan Weekes
Print images on paper, wood, metal, T-shirts, or most any flat surface. Great for multi-media artists. Beginners welcome.
Supplies: CAW supplies silkscreens, squeegies, emulsion, etc. You will supply paper and inks that you’d like to use.
Notes: The class fee includes one additional print session per week, during a monitored Open Print Studio. Attendance at more than one print session per week costs an additional $25 for current students.
Thursdays, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 3/15 – 5/31
12 sessions: $413; Early Bird price: $392.35 (Discount available until 2/9)
Water-Based Printmaking
with Flo Hatcher
Explore innovative print processes using safe, water-soluble inks. Develop a personal imagery utilizing woodcut/linocut, etching/drypoint, monotype/trace monotype/monoprint, collagraph, embossment, Chiné-colle, and other print techniques. Experiment with various plate supports, mark-making tools, approaches to image making, and print imagery with the artist book format. Open to all levels, and no experience is necessary.
Supplies: CAW supplies inks and necessary supplies. Students supply personal printmaking papers.
Notes: The class fee includes one additional print session per week, during a monitored Open Print Studio. Attendance at more than one print session per week costs an additional $25 for current students.
Saturdays, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, 3/17 – 6/2
12 sessions: $675; Early Bird price: $641.25 (Discount available until 2/9)
Intermediate + Advanced
Printmaking Lab
with Liz Pagano
Flexible monitored sessions for those experienced in intaglio, relief, silkscreen, and monotype methods. Preapproval required.
Supplies: Please bring your own rollers, plates, and paper to print on.
Prerequisite: The knowledge to work independently and safely in a print shop.
Mondays, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm, 3/12 – 6/4
No class 5/28
12 sessions: $429; Early Bird price: $407.55 (Discount available until 2/9)
Intermediate Printmaking
with Barbara Harder
Explore a variety of printmaking methods while learning innovative techniques that can be combined with drawing, photography, and digital processes. Inspire new approaches to imagery and expand your artistic horizons. Concentrate in one area or experiment with many, such as etching/intaglio, woodcut, linocut, monotype, monoprint, paper and polymer plate lithography, collagraph, silk aquatint, transfer prints, digital imagery, and Chiné-colle.
Supplies: New Students: CAW supplies inks, solvents, oils, acid, hand cleaner, etc. If you have printmaking supplies or paper, bring them to class. You will buy paper, plates, and tools as needed. Continuing Students: If you wish, bring a project that you’re working on and any materials/tools that you own.
Notes: The class fee includes one additional print session per week, during a monitored Open Print Studio. Attendance at more than one print session per week costs an additional $25 for current students.
Tuesdays, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm, 3/13 – 5/29
12 sessions: $560; Early Bird price: $532 (Discount available until 2/9)
Advanced Printmaking
with Barbara Harder
Give yourself studio time for personal and/or collaborative artistic investigation! Explore the benefits of printing in multiple layers with intaglio, relief, silk aquatint, paper and polymer lithography processes, mixed media, Chine-collé, digital, and experimental techniques. Analyze artwork, plan individual approaches, and explore exhibition opportunities while working in a supportive and stimulating environment.
Supplies: New Students: CAW supplies inks, solvents, oils, acid, hand cleaner, etc. If you have printmaking supplies or paper, bring them to class. You will buy paper, plates, and tools as needed. Continuing Students: If you wish, bring a project that you’re working on and any materials/tools that you own.
Prerequisite: Previous printmaking experience or strong artistic vision is required.
Notes: The class fee includes one additional print session per week, during a monitored Open Print Studio. Attendance at more than one print session per week costs an additional $25 for current students.
Wednesdays, 10:30 am – 3:30 pm, 3/14 – 5/30
12 sessions: $675; Early Bird price: $641.25 (Discount available until 2/9)
Open Studio
Open Print Studio
The Printmaking Studio is outfitted with four etching presses (bed sizes range from 28″ x 50″ to 36″ x 60″), a light exposure unit, and a separate room for printing editions. No instruction.
Supplies: Bring projects that you’re working on, along with the material and tools that you need.
Prerequisite: The knowledge to work independently and safely in a print shop.
Section A
Mondays, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 3/12 – 6/4
No class 5/28
Current students: $25; Nonenrolled students: $50
Section B
Fridays, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, 3/16 – 6/1
Current students: $25/session; Nonenrolled students: $50/session
Wintersession
Open Studio
Open Print Studio
The Printmaking Studio is outfitted with four etching presses (Bed sizes from 28” x 50” up to 36”x 60”), a light exposure unit, and a separate room for printing editions. No instruction. Current students in eligible print classes may attend one Open Print Studio per week as part of their class fee.
Note: Additional studio time varies per student’s enrollment status. Please contact the office for more details and to register.
Supplies: $25 charge for supplies.
Prerequisite: Printmaking knowledge to work independently and safely in a Print shop.