New Exhibits Opening June 1st

Janet Yagoda Shagam: All Catawampus -  Christine Herman: Free Fall

Janet Yagoda Shagam

Christine Herman

​Our May Shows are up through the weekend!

Origin:  etchings by Pamela Wesolek

Opens Friday, May 4, 2018 5:00 pm
Runs through May 26, 2018

Driveby: Paintings by Joy Coffino

​Opens Friday, May 4, 2018 5:00 pm
Runs through May 26, 2018

Upcoming classes

Multi-plate Advanced Gravure

$240.00

Saturday & Sunday, June 23 & 24, 2018
​Weekend workshop
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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, June 23 & 24, 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

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Drypoint Intaglio

$135.00

June 3 & 10, 2018 (Two Sunday Afternoons)

Drypoint Intaglio

This class is perfect for illustrators and people who love to draw who want to learn about printmaking. Drypoint is an acid-free, non-toxic intaglio technique that's been around since the 1400s, and it's still going strong. Images are incised into a plate using a sharp or hard-tipped tool, like an etching needle, creating lines and raised burrs that capture ink for printing. The plate is inked up like a traditional etching plate, and printed on a printing press, resulting in a beautiful, rich, image with bold lines. Various kinds of plates can be used, and we'll explore drypoint on copper, Plexiglas and aluminum.

We will cover common materials used as drypoint plates (plexi glass and metal), how to make marks, building and developing tones and lines, inking, wiping, and printing your plates. Existing printmakers may bring in etching plates from previous projects and learn how to add drypoint lines to them!

Class dates: Two Sunday Afternoons, June 3 and 10, 2018

Class time: 1 PM – 5 PM

Class fee:  $135 + tax, all paper and materials will be supplied

Instructor: Ren Adams, MFA​

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Advanced Relief Printmaking

$240.00

Saturday & Sunday, July 7 & 8, 2018
​Weekend Workshop
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​Learn advanced techniques of relief printmaking in this two-day weekend workshop with instructor Mike Kimball. 

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 & Sunday, July 7 & 8, 2018
Class time: 10 AM - 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax
Instructor: Mike Kimball
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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

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New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery

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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IMPORTANT NEWS: Our retail business hours have changed. We are now open  Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 10 am - 6 pm,  and also by appointment (please provide one day's notice via email--we'd love to meet with you!).​

Did you know we have art studios for rent?

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