​Come See Our May Shows!

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

Estate Planning for Artists

$40.00
Estate Planning for Artists
Evening Workshop
​May 24, 2018

​This class will provide ideas, forms and instructions on how artists can document and organize their body of work into an Estate.
  • Documenting and cataloging your work
  • Estate Tax issues
  • How to organize your Estate for an executor
  • The importance of legal documents (Wills, Living Wills,etc)
  • Organizing correspondence, ephemera
  • Intellectual property issues
  • Placement of work in public/ private collections
  • Maintaining exhibition of work​

​This 2.5 hour class will provide you with ideas on how to organize and document your estate, handouts, an E Book and documents to begin organizing your estate and resources for future planning.

​Dan Noyes has been an instructor at UNM Continuing Education for ten years. He has taught photography and art history classes. 

​He was motivated to teach this class after handling the estates of family members and seeing the varieties of ways that artists choose to plan their estates. 

​This class is about planning for the future and shows artists how to craft their own legacy.​

​image source: Flickr user n0thing
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Class date: Thursday evening, May 24, 2018
Class time: 6 PM - 8:30 PM
Class fee: $40 + tax
Instructor: Dan Noyes
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Gelli Printing Workshop

$120.00
Gelli Printing Basics (and a little beyond)
One-Day Workshop

Never printed? Don’t have a press? Worried about making the wrong mark? No problem. Gelli plate printing is a no-stress process that allows beginners a means to create an array of fabulous patterned and textured monoprints in no time. At the same time, seasoned printmakers can revel in its portability, versatility and move quickly into creating complex artworks.

A gelli plate is a squishy slab of a gelatin-like substance. The gelli print process involves rolling or painting ink or acrylic onto the surface and then stamping, stenciling or masking areas into the color to produce a monoprint (a unique, one of a kind print.) The piece can be further manipulated with layers of color and additional marks. We will learn how to layer color and use stencils and masks. We will also create our own tools and masks from easily accessible and inexpensive items including credit cards, kitchen items, foam, leaves, and many other materials. We will create stacks of rich, complex, and innovative works of art. You will also receive insight into how to rescue “failed” prints and further uses for your patterned papers. 

Class date: Saturday, May 26, 2018
Class time: 10 AM- 5 PM (lunch break included)
Class fee: $120 + tax, all materials will be supplied
Instructor: Micaela Seidel
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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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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 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?

Hours

Thurs., Fri. & Sat. 10 - 6
Other days by Appointment

Telephone

505-268-8952