Category: Printmaking & Letterpress

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Spring Short Session Printmaking & Letterpress

Letterpress – Spring Short Session
April 27 – May 2, 2025 (4 studio days)
Bryan Christopher Baker
Variable Array, Meticulous, Hooray!

This is a letterpress workshop with no letters. Instead we will focus on making pattern-based prints on the Vandercook presses using custom-made, type-high shapes. Students will design and produce modular components capable of versatile arrangements and exciting permutations. Not only will the multiples of each shape be of perfect printing height, but every piece will be finished and trimmed to uniform pica lengths and widths to allow for the easy creation of new patterns using traditional letterpress spacing materials. In addition to individual print editions, collaborations will be encouraged for students interested in sharing their special components. We will make these components by cutting wood, plastic, and metal with small table saws and various hand tools. The workshop is open to all levels, but a high level of patience for making exact measurements is a must. 

Studio artist: teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Ox-Bow (MI), Center for Book Arts (NYC), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Signal Return (Detroit), The Arm (NYC), Clarion University (PA), College for Creative Studies (Detroit). 

stukenborgpress.com | @stukenborgpress

Regular enrollment begins October 15.

Bryan Christopher Baker, Batch 007, letterpress print, oil-based ink on paper, 15 x 19 inches
Bryan Christopher Baker, Batch 007, letterpress print, oil-based ink on paper, 15 x 19 inches
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Spring Short Session Drawing and Painting

Painting/Printmaking – Spring Short Session
April 27 – May 2, 2025 (4 studio days)
Jeffrey Hirst
Screenprinting and Encaustic

This workshop will cover the process of screenprinting with pigment sticks, tinted gesso, and ink onto and under encaustic surfaces. We will cover basic encaustic processes: mixing and applying paint, fusing, scraping, and working with transparent and opaque color. A simplified approach to screenprinting will make the process easy to grasp as we unite printed elements with painted surfaces. Students will create images incorporating multiple passes from fixed screenprinting stations along with freeform printing approaches. Together we will explore how painting and printmaking can overlap and influence one another. All levels. Drawing and painting studio.

Studio artist and co-founder of Catalyst Art Lab; teacher of encaustic and printmaking workshops in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Ireland; fellowship and five residencies at Ballinglen Arts Foundation (Ireland); exhibitions: Minneapolis Institute of Art, McLean Projects for the Arts (VA), MicKinney Contemporary (Dallas), Bienal Duoro (Portugal); representation: Addington Gallery (Chicago), Brandt-Roberts Galleries (OH); work in numerous private collections. 

jeffreyhirst.com | @jeffreyhirst

Regular enrollment begins October 15.

Jeffrey Hirst, Trace, encaustic with screenprinting on shaped panel, 41 x 31 inches
Jeffrey Hirst, Trace, encaustic with screenprinting on shaped panel, 41 x 31 inches
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Fall Weekend Printmaking and Letterpress

PRINTMAKING – FALL WEEKEND
OCTOBER 18 – 21, 2024
Heinrich Toh
The Layered Monotype

In this all-level, beginner-friendly workshop, we will explore printmaking applications with layered monotypes. This easy, intuitive process has endless possibilities that will help you learn to work with color, shapes, and composition while printing on an etching press. Our goal will be to create complex, luscious layers filled with painterly brushstrokes, marks, repeated patterns, impressions, and embossments. We will skillfully use found objects like cardboard, doilies, bubble wrap, dried flowers, and leaves. Get inspired and create one-of-a-kind prints. All levels; a love of puzzle-solving recommended. 

Studio artist; teaching: Kansas City Art Institute (MO), Arrowmont (TN), Penland, Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA), Oklahoma Fine Art Institute at Quartz Mountain; exhibitions: Lawrence Art Center (KS), Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle), Bellevue Art Museum (WA); collections: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (MO), Albrecht-Kemper Museum (MO), Truman Medical Center (MO), University Hospital of Cleveland, American Century Investments.

heinrichtoh.com | @heinrichtoh

Heinrich Toh, Help Me to Decide, monoprint and paper lithography on Rives BFK paper, 27 x 27 inches
Heinrich Toh, Help Me to Decide, monoprint and paper lithography on Rives BFK paper, 27 x 27 inches
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Fall Short Session Print and Letterpress

LETTERPRESS – FALL SHORT SESSION
SEPTEMBER 22 – 27, 2024 (4 STUDIO DAYS)
Brad Vetter
Lasers and Letterpress

Walking the line between analog and digital, this workshop will explore new technologies and techniques in letterpress printing with a focus on using the laser engraver. Our duty as a new and developing generation of letterpress printers is no longer just to communicate, but also to expand the conversation, push on its limitations, and see what new things are possible in this centuries-old medium. Students will make posters using antique type and presses in collaboration with the studio’s laser engraver to discover exciting new approaches to letterpress printing. Letterpress and Photoshop/Illustrator experience will be helpful, but this workshop is open to all levels. 

Note: Students should bring a computer if they can; contact the studio operations manager if you are enrolled and are unable to bring a computer: studio_operations@penland.org

Studio artist; teaching: Miami University (OH), Northern Illinois University, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (WI); exhibitions: Danish Museum of Media, University of Akron Fine Arts (OH), University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (TX); publications: Low-Tech Print, Uppercase Magazine, Wood Type Evolved; clients: Nike, Snoop Dogg, Chevrolet, Chris Stapleton.

bradvetterdesign.com | @bradvetter

Brad Vetter, Noah Kahan Show Poster, letterpress, 22 x 13 inches
Brad Vetter, Noah Kahan Show Poster, letterpress, 22 x 13 inches