Current Exhibits Through June 30th
Janet Yagoda Shagam: All Catawampus - Christine Herman: Free Fall
Janet Yagoda Shagam
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Christine Herman
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Upcoming classes
Multi-plate Color Gravure
$258.00
Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16, 2018
Weekend workshop
Multiple Plate Gravure
This workshop provides an exciting opportunity to create beautiful limited edition prints using positive and negative plates, and multiple color plates. Utilizing Photoshop and printmaking you can turn an ordinary color photograph into an “out of this world” image. Gravure was introduced in the 1800’s as a way to reproduce photographic prints and is still used today. Prior knowledge of etching, photography and/or Photoshop is very helpful but not necessary.
This class is open to all, but it is recommended that students take the “Introduction to Gravure” class first.
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16, 2018
Class time: 10 AM - 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $ 240 + tax, includes two small plates, and all printing materials. Additional plates are available for purchase.
Instructor: Diane Alire, MFA
Innovative Approaches to Monotype
$258.00
Innovative Approaches to Monotype
Weekend workshop
August 18 & 19, 2018
In this special class, Mary will push you to experiment with many different monotype techniques! Monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints made by applying (and removing) inks with a paintbrush or a roller to a polymer plate and then printing the image onto paper. Additional layers can be created by applying another element to the plate and passing it through the press one or more times, resulting in rich, layered, complex prints. Inks can be wiped and scratched off, dotted on, applied or blocked with stencils and more. We invite the experienced and the inexperienced to join us in this creative, wild journey into the nearly infinite possibilities of monotypes…
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 18 & 19, 2018
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
Instructors: Mary Sundstrom
Photoshop for Artists
$215.00
Photoshop for Artists
Sunday Afternoon Workshop
August 5, 12, & 26, 2018
Beginning Session - August 5
Photoshop has become the industry standard for bringing analog artwork into the digital realm. Whether putting together a portfolio, a website, or creating prints to sell, knowledge of Photoshop is a must for today’s working artist.
In this course, you will learn the basics of Photoshop to archive your artwork. We will learn how to use this powerful tool to digitally preserve your art, perform color corrections, and prep your work for commercial and giclée printing. We will cover the best ways to display your work digitally as well as in print.
Some prior knowledge of Photoshop is helpful, but not required. Attendees must bring their own computers. It is preferred that you have Photoshop installed, but if not, we will assist you in downloading and installing a free trial version.
Intermediate Session - August 12
Learn how to use Photoshop as a tool for composition, design, and reference for your artwork. We will learn to use Photoshop’s vast array of tools including selection, layering, and masking to assist you at every stage, from planning to execution of your work. We will gather elements and combine them as digital collage, create references that can be scaled up or down, and more.
Some prior knowledge of Photoshop is helpful, but not required. Attendees must bring their own computers. It is preferred that you have Photoshop installed, but if not, we will assist you in downloading and installing a free trial version.
Advanced Session - August 26
Dive in to Photoshop as a tool for creating original digital paintings, collages, and more. Digital art, while quickly becoming the standard in commercial art, offers vast potential for studio artists as well. We will learn the basics of digital painting, color mixing, drafting and much, much more in this course.
Attendees should have a basic knowledge of Photoshop. Attendees must bring their own computers. It is preferred that you have Photoshop installed, but if not, we will assist you in downloading and installing a free trial version. It is also preferred that you bring a digital drawing tablet and stylus.
Class date: Three Sunday Afternoons, August 5, 12, & 26, 2018
Class time: 1PM-5PM
Class fee: $200 + tax
Instructor: Michael Ellis
Introduction to Raku Ceramics
$80.00
Introduction to Raku Ceramics
Saturday Workshop
June 9, 2018
Raku ceramics are known for serendipity, ordinary beauty and uses clay that is resilient and forgiving. This class will glaze premade bisque ware, fire the bisque ware and make and glaze new ceramics that the instructor will fire away from class (available for pickup the following week.) You will leave class with 2 fired pieces and drop by the following week for your other 2 pieces. Raku firings are magical as the teacher will take your red glowing ceramics out of the kiln and put into the reduction bin where they will create spontaneous glazes. No experience required for this class. All materials included.
Class date: Saturday, June 9, 2018
Class time: 10 AM - 2 PM
Class fee: $80 + tax
Instructor: Dan Noyes
Intensive Printmaking Immersion with Ron Pokrasso
$725.00
Intensive Printmaking Immersion with Ron Pokrasso
*This class is full* Please email us if you'd like to be placed on the waitlist in the event of a cancellation.
Week-long summer workshop
July 30 through August 3
Ron Pokrasso’s approach to monotype in combination with chine collé/collage and photopolymer platemaking will open your eyes and working process to a whole new range of possibilities.
Using Akua non-toxic products Pokrasso will demonstrate numerous methods to working with inks and tools. A section on photopolymer plate making includes the preparation of your transparencies and concepts in how to best integrate repeatable imagery into unique compositions. He will guide you through registration methods to be able to use multiple plates with perfection. Using dry paper you will enjoy the immediacy of reworking the surface and the ease in coming back days later to works in progress.
You will learn how to think in layers, where many options become available in one or more impressions. While you have a monotype plate in the works you may decide to incorporate a background plate and perhaps a chine collé element or a photopolymer plate. With so many surfaces, your options will become endless and the mixing and matching of imagery will have the potential to move you into exciting new directions.
This workshop is kind of an overview of many of the different short classes presented at Remarque but with Pokrasso’s unique approaches interspersed with art making philosophies and combined into one intensive, enriching, eco-friendly week long art immersion.
This workshop is suitable to all levels of experience.
Ron Pokrasso has been an exhibiting artist, printmaker and educator for more than 40 years. He received his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1975 and has had over 50 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 175 group shows. His work is in public, private, and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad and is represented by several galleries nationwide as well as being featured in numerous books.
For 11 years Pokrasso owned and directed Graphics Workshop (gifted to The College of Santa Fe in 1993). He is an originator of the printmaking event “Monothon” and has been an ardent supporter of arts programs for youth. His teaching experience includes universities, museums, public schools and private workshops, as well as Artist Residencies in the U.S., Scotland, Ireland and Italy. In 2000 Ron Pokrasso received the Mayor’s Recognition Award For Visual Arts citing his artistic and educational contribution to the city of Santa Fe. Currently Ron Pokrasso operates the Galisteo Street Studio in Santa Fe, NM offering workshops and assisted sessions for artists in addition to creating and exhibiting his artworks.
Learn more about Ron Pokrasso by visiting his website, www.ronpokrasso.com.
Class dates: Monday through Friday, July 30 through August 3
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM
Class fee: $725 + tax
Early bird special! Register before April 1st and pay only $650 + tax
Instructor: Ron Pokrasso
Advanced Relief Printmaking
$258.00
Saturday and Sunday, July 7 & 8, 2018
Weekend Workshop
Learn advanced techniques of relief printmaking in this two-day weekend workshop with instructor Ren Adams.
In relief printing, the image is printed from a raised surface which was produced by cutting away non-image areas. This class covers several techniques including multi-plate and reduction printing. Artists will work with non-toxic water based inks and linoleum blocks.
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: Saturday and Sunday, July 7 & 8, 2018
Class time: 10 AM - 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax
Instructor: Ren Adams
Making Comics
$145.13
Making Comics
Afternoon Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, July 14 & 15, 2018
Join Harvey Award-nominated artist Michael Ellis for this exploration into what makes comics such a powerful medium for both visual art and storytelling. We will look behind the panels into the medium to learn how comics work and what distinguishes it from other forms of visual art and storytelling.
We will create our own comic stories, learning the basics of cartooning, panel and page design, as well as techniques for constructing and reproducing our comics. We will explore abstraction as it applies to sequential art and learn how to develop vibrant characters that inhabit rich worlds. Previous experience with cartooning is not necessary.
Class date: Saturday & Sunday, July 14 & 15, 2018
Class time: 1PM-5PM
Class fee: $135 + tax
Instructor: Michael Ellis
Graphic Memoir
$145.13
Graphic Memoir
Afternoon Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, July 21 & 22, 2018
The powerful medium of sequential art presents unique opportunities for memoirists. We will explore the rich visual language of comics and apply it to narrative structure, visual metaphors, symbolism and imagery in order to give physical form to memory. From recreating and interpreting the drama of major life events to reflecting on the quiet, spiritual episodes in our lives, comics can be an ideal medium for your stories.
Previous experience in creating comics is not required.
Class date: Saturday & Sunday, July 21 & 22, 2018
Class time: 1PM-5PM
Class fee: $135 + tax
Instructor: Michael Ellis
Monotype from Life
$139.75
Monotype from Life
Evening Workshop
Two Thursdays, July 12 & 19, 2018
In this workshop, we will use a variety of drawing, multimedia, and printmaking techniques to create expressive figure drawings from a live model. We will experiment with capturing the urgency and immediacy of a model using direct and indirect methods, as well as explore layering, altering, and manipulating the imagery via printmaking, multimedia and collage techniques.
Printmaking and figure drawing experience is not required, but please bring a sense of experimentation and adventure!
Class date: Two Thursdays, July 12 & 19, 2018
Class time: 6PM-9PM
Class fee: $130 + tax
Instructor: Michael Ellis
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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