Give the gift of PRINTMAKING! Classes at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Lots of folks have been buying these for themselves or for their arty friends and family members. Masks are also required in the studio.Д¬PC now offers GIFTCARDS in any denomination. The safety and wellness of both our students and faculty remains our highest priority therefore, CPC requires that all students be vaccinated and boosted for Covid 19. If group classes donвЂ™t fit your schedule, or if you prefer a more customized experience, private and semi-private classes are also available in all printmaking mediums. Choose from our very popular in-person, group classes, or check out our online bookbinding classes. Our teachers are all top notch, with years of experience helping their students learn and realize their projects. Our workshop has been educating the masses on the fine art of printmaking for close to 33 years, so we know what weвЂ™re doing. There are lovely limited-edition silkscreen prints available in the Print Club online store.Autumn is upon us! Celebrate the cooler breezes by rolling up your sleeves and slinging some ink. WeвЂ™ve really felt that since living and working here and the Somerville Arts CouncilВ in particular is such a uniquely committed and supportive organization, weвЂ™re excited to grow as a Somerville-based creative business.Д¬heck out LizвЂ™s screenprinting and installation work on her website.

Somerville kept being mentioned by friends and colleagues as a great area for supporting the arts and was home to a lot of creative people and groups. When my partner (a printmaker too!) and I were moving to Boston we were both extremely unfamiliar with the city and its different neighborhoods. Why did you decide to base your business in Somerville? IвЂ™ve been working on a really cool Somerville-themed design that I think our class members will enjoy printing on posters or bags (or both!) Because of the time constraints weвЂ™ll be coming with pre-prepared screens that class participants can choose colors and learn to screenprint themselves. The class is going to cover all the equipment required for screenprinting, what type of paints to use, what kind of screen mesh is appropriate for different projects and weвЂ™ll look at how stencils are made. What can people expect to learn in your Skillshare class? I also really enjoy visiting exhibitions of contemporary artists and looking at the specific choices they make about the display of their work and the gallery space as an installation their placement, framing or control of audience movement.ДЄ hand-pulled screenprint in The Grid, The Trellis series. I love to travel and find myself in unfamiliar environments. IвЂ™m inspired by incredibly varied things that I usually stumble across during my endless trawling through blogs and art books. After graduating I moved to New York вЂ“ perhaps an artist rite of passage and after working there for a couple of years began my MFA at Cornell which I finished this past May. Both my parents are in the design field (landscape architects) and so when I decided to go to art school at 18 it wasnвЂ™t contentious at all. It was always what I wanted to do but the pragmatist in me probably always assumed I would ultimately just be bringing my creative skills to some related field rather than directly focusing on a full-time art practice. It wasnвЂ™t until relatively recently that I became committed to the path of making art my career. I loved drawing and painting as a child, when I was about five I coined the term вЂњhard blockingвЂќ for my favorite, heavy-handed crayon technique. Did you dream of making art from a young age? Tell us about the artistic path you took, from childhood into adulthood. Pre-prepared screens will allow participants to pull a silkscreen print in colors of their own choosing on either a tote bag or poster paper. The class will talk participants through the process of silkscreen printing. She is also the creator of The Print Club Boston. LizвЂ™s prints and installations have been displayed in many shows throughout New York and her hometown of Sydney. She has refined her techniques studying in both London and Australia, recently having taken up resident in Somerville. Liz Corkery holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Cornell, where she largely focused in print media.

Silkscreen class