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Opening Reception, October 5, 5 - 8 pm
Special November Reception, November 2, 5 - 8 pm
Special November Reception, November 2, 5 - 8 pm
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Prints by Nationally Known Artists from all over the Country!
Upcoming classes
Cyanotypes for Beginners
$134.84
Cyanotypes for Beginners
The cyanotype process is a relatively easy, yet endlessly versatile photographic process. It can be used on a number of surfaces, including paper and fabric as well as glass and wood. The initial natural color is a beautiful deep blue, but through toning, the color can range to grays, browns and black. It can be used in combination with a wide range of other media. In this workshop, participants will learn the simple mixing of the chemical emulsion, explore various ways of making both photographic and non-photographic negatives, use some simple toners, and enjoy the process of exposing and developing their own images on paper and fabric. All participants will leave with enough emulsion to go home and make more cyanotypes on their own. No darkroom or special photographic experience is necessary!
About the Instructor: Adam Finkelston is an educator, artist, and publisher based in Kansas City. He has taught cyanotype and other alternative photographic processes to hundreds of students at the high school level, at the Kansas City Art Institute, and at public and private workshops in Kansas City, New Orleans, and St. Joseph, MO. He has shown his own artwork in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Mr. Finkelston is also the publisher of The Hand Magazine, an international journal for photography, printmaking and collage. The Hand Magazine celebrates and encourages the presence of the artist’s hand in reproduction-based processes.
Class date: October 13, 2018
Class time: 10 am - 5 pm
Class fee: $125 + tax, all paper and materials will be supplied
Instructor: Adam Finkelston
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Painterly Collagraphs
$161.81
Painterly Collagraphs
Two Sunday Afternoons, October 14 & 21, 2018
In this class you’ll discover methods for creating rich, expressive, painterly prints. By understanding how various acrylic gels and pastes will ink up, you’ll learn how to plan the “values” in your print. Unlike collagraphs created with mat board and collaged elements, this method produces a final plate that is very durable and that doesn’t require sealing.
We’ll also use Akua’s Carborundum Gel and fine carborundum grit – both of which can be used with stencils – and explore ways to make the results more expressive with random textural qualities and thin calligraphic lines. Both smooth and textured plates will be provided, allowing for more creative possibilities.
These painterly methods allow the printmaker to adapt the techniques to their own individual mark making, and doesn’t involve expensive materials to crimp your style!
Your instructor, Trish Meyer, is an experimental artist, printmaker and calligrapher with a background in graphic design. Visit her website at trishmeyer.com.
Class dates: Two Sunday Afternoons, Oct 14 and 21, 2018
Class time: 1 PM – 5 PM
Class fee: $150+ tax, all paper and materials will be supplied
Instructor: Trish Meyer
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Relief Printmaking
$258.90
Weekend Workshop
Saturday and Sunday, November 3 & 4
Learn the technique of relief printmaking in this two-day weekend workshop with instructor Mike Kimball.
All aspects of non-toxic linocut relief printmaking are covered: from tools, techniques, and printing to final presentation. In this class students from beginner to advanced will
complete a small edition of prints made from their own carved linoleum block.
In relief printing, the surface of linoleum creates the image, rather than the areas below the surface (as is the case with etching). The artist carves out their image using gouges and proceeds to roll ink onto the uncarved surface. Paper is laid over the block and the image is transferred using the pressure of a press or hand printed with a barin.
Relief was used as early as 500BC in Egypt to print patterns on fabric. Printing on paper did not come to Europe until the production of paper, around 1390. Basic relief printing was the basis for the Guttenberg press.
Class dates: November 3 & 4
Class time: 10 AM - 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax, includes most printing materials
Instructor: Mike Kimball
Photo-Encaustic Workshop
$258.90
Photo-Encaustic
Saturday & Sunday, November 10-11, 2018
Two Day Workshop
The process of adding melted beeswax and resin to photographs produces a rich alchemy of color and texture to create something new and often unexpected. Learn the basics of photo mounting on wood, wax application, pigments, collage, textures and more to three small panels per day. This course will cover studio basics, paper choices, encaustic pouring and painting, and other methods such as glazing, scraping, and photocopy transfer. Proper tools, studio methods and safety procedures will be discussed. All levels welcome.
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, November 10-11, 2018
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $ 240 + tax, all paper and materials will be supplied
Instructor: Carol Mell, Photographer
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Comic Creators' Workshop
$268.75
Comic Creators' Workshop
Evening Workshop
Five Thursday evenings, beginning August 2, 2018
*This class is ongoing, but new people are welcome to join! Contact us for a prorated fee!
This long-form workshop is for anyone who is working on a comic – from graphic novels to comic strips. We will cover essentials such as narrative structure, character development and environmental design, as well as learn how to use the unique aspects of comics as a visual and storytelling medium to give life to your story. Participants will share and critique work in a supportive, rigorous environment. All skill levels are welcome.
Have a comic that you're trying to get off the ground? This workshop can help. Join Harvey Award-nominated comic artist Michael Ellis for this series of workshops where we will critique, edit, share and support one another in completing that comic story. This workshop is an excellent way to get ongoing feedback for your projects. You don't have to have a comic in the works already - we can help you get started as well.
Class date: Thursday evenings, August 2, August 23, September 27, October 25, November 8, 2018
Class time: 6 PM - 8 PM
Class fee: $250 + tax
Instructor: Michael Ellis
Mokuhanga Printmaking
$129.45
Mokuhanga Printmaking
One-Day Workshop
Saturday December 15th
This class will be an introduction to Japanese Mokuhanga printing. This type of printing involves relief printing, stencil printing, and wood grain printing.
The paper used is washi and rice paper-thin Asian paper known for unique texture.
Japanese Mokuhanga printing is one of the oldest types of printmaking combing relief, stencils and wood grain. Images are transferred from the carved block to both sides of uniquely textured Asian washi paper using a hand-held tool called a baren. The earliest types of prints in China using this method were Buddhist prints; Mokuhanga printing was used to substitute laborious copying of texts and images.
Class date: Saturday, December 15, 2018
Class time: 10 AM- 5 PM (lunch break included)
Class fee: $120 + tax, all materials will be supplied
Instructor: Dan Noyes
New Grounds was one of the first completely non-toxic professional print workshops in the world. In business for more than 20 years, it is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to providing artists with press access, classes, exhibition opportunities and other printmaking related services.
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