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

Scholarship application deadline is August 15.
Regular enrollment begins October 2.