Creating encaustic monoprints is a fun and experimental medium, and the flexibility of working with a hotbox and paint sticks can really encourage creativity. The quick and flexible nature of encaustic monotypes encourages participants to push boundaries and discover unique outcomes. During the workshops, participants can expect to focus on layering color and creating or using stencils.

Workshop participants will cut and print a small linoleum cut relief print.  Bring ideas, objects or images to create a drawing to trace and transfer to a linoleum block.  Participants will learn a variety of mark-making approaches with relief tools, culminating in a small linoleum cut print. 

This workshop will be a fun and easy way to get introduced to the basics of screenprinting.  Participants will learn how to create colorful images using a variety of stencil techniques on the screen, including hand drawn, paper stencils, and light sensitive emulsion for both photo transparencies and hand-drawn transparencies.  Attention will also be given to more painterly methods of image development with monoprinting. 

This 4-hour workshop invites participants to explore the experimental typographic techniques of Dutch artist H.N. Werkman (1882–1945). Werkman, a WWII-era printer and member of the avant-garde group ‘De Ploeg,’ created his radical ‘druksels’ by inking block letters directly and stamping them onto paper.

This workshop will teach participants to hand set type on a Vandercook proofing press to compose text to go alongside ornament, image cuts, or your own carved linoblock! Learn to operate the co-ops proofing press, explore their collection of type and printer cuts, and learn the basics of carving a mounted linoblock. Combine these methods and you can create flyers, bookplates, cards, and more... in multiples!

In this workshop participants will be introduced to basic bookbinding techniques that use the pamphlet as their foundation. Following a short series of basic exercises and demos, the workshop will culminate in the making of a hardcover book of the participant’s own design!