The AS220 Pop-Up Gallery, located at 231 Westminster Street, Providence, RI. is opening tomorrow.
delicate shutter, new work by Maralie Armstong-Rial and Dana Dunham, will be on display along with work from members of the three Cottage Industries, the AS220 Community Printshop, Labs and Media Arts, and the Youth Studios. The opening reception is Friday, April 20th from 5:30-8pm and is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!
Featured Workshops!
The evening will consist of a demonstration followed by time for you to print. We may take a break over at the AS220 Foo(d) for dinner and drinks. Come with an open mind and willingness to explore.
This is a great way to get to know the Printshop.
Get a serious bang for your buck - as students will receive instruction in the basics of two printmaking staples!
Feel free to contact Allison with questions prior to class. allison.eleanor.bianco@gmail.com
Wednesdays, April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, 6PM-10PM
Letterpressed Wedding Invitations - $170
This four week workshop is designed to give you the skills, space, and tools needed to letterpress your own (or a relative's/friends's/client's) beautiful wedding or special event invitation! A birthday, anniversary, retirement, or any celebration deserves to be commemorated with invitations and stationery that will stun and delight party goers. The rich colors and inks, fine paper, and embossed type or imagery will surely make a wonderful impression on all invited.
You will learn how to ink up and make ready the press, adjust pressure and roller high, register multiple colors / plates, clean and care for the Vandercook No. 4 Letterpress here at the AS220 Community Printshop. Participants must attend ALL four letterpress classes in order to be certified to use the letterpress during print time.
Please bring ideas, samples, colors or Pintrest board links to the first class, we will spend the time designing and making a personalized materials list and get to know the letterpress process. If you would like to come as a couple, please be sure to register for two spots in the class!
Thursdays, April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, 6-10pm
Click Read More for a Complete List of Spring Workshops!
The Printshop is proud to feature a new class, Introduction to Drypoint and Silkscreen. This two part class will combine printmaking processes by first printing a line image on the intaglio press, and later adding color with the silkscreen process. Instructors Jesen Tanadi and Allison Bianco will co-teach for a top notch student to teacher ratio. The above image is a print done by Allison Bianco, titled Old Man of the Mountain. Students should come to class prepared with a black and white line image to work with.
Wednesdays, April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
$180.00
Contact Allison with questions about the class.
The AS220 Printshop is excited to help spread the word about two projects created by Monitor Members! Using Kickstarter as a funding platform, members Erik Ruin and Beck Lane are working towards producing two great projects.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
The AS220 Community Printshop was happy to host Visiting Artist, Amanda D'Amico this week. Owner of Tiny Revolutionary Press and Master Printer at the Borowosky Center in Philadelphia, PA, Amanda came to the shop to learn how to run our ABDick 9850 Offset Press capable of creating hundreds of prints in a matter of minutes. Under the guidance of Jacque Bidon, she completed a new artist's book titled Hollywood. In three days at the shop, she was able to print, cut, fold, collate and begin to bind her edition of 100 books.
If you are interested in being a visiting artist, please contact the AS220 Community Printshop Manager, Lara Henderson, at lara@as220.org
It has been a great year at the AS220 Community Printshop. We have been in the new space for a full year and recently expanded again into the shared Cottage Industries Office. Located off of the silkscreen area on the second floor, the office will open up new areas for collaboration, not only with the Program Leaders but also with the members of each cottage industry. We also welcomed a part-time staff person to the team this year, Brian Whitney, the Cottage Industries Assistant, who hails from Vermont with a background in Printmaking and Community Development. His printmaking specialty is in screen-printing and lithography.
In 2011, the printshop brought on 112 new members and taught 75 classes to roughly 450 people. We also started dynamic new programming, like the Cottage Industries Holiday Sale, an event we hope to make a yearly tradition. New classes were added to our offerings, classes like Fabric Repeat Printing and Advanced Letterpress that have become regularly offered classes. In January, we had our busiest month to date, with 195 printing blocks being used by the printmaking community.
After a successful year in the new space, we are adapting to the usage and needs of the shop. In order to maintain a sustainable model for the Printshop, membership prices have been changed. To view pricing changes, click read more.
On Tuesday, March 6 from 6 - 7pm, the AS220 Cottage Industries will host their monthly Open House.
Stop by the AS220 Community Printshop with a plain t-shirt or other material, and get your object customized with a silkscreen print in commemoration of the 1-year anniversary of the new Cottage Industry space. Then, visit AS220 Labs to meet members and see laser cutter demonstrations of a fold-up model of a cottage. They will also print objects on the new 3D Printer - you have to see for yourself to believe it! Come check out the paper cottage shown above, designed by Printshop keymember Adam Kelley.
We also welcome Brian Whitney, our new Cottage Industries Assistant, who hails from Vermont with a background in Printmaking and Community Development. His printmaking specialty is in screen-printing and lithography.
The AS220 Cottage Industries are located at the Mercantile at 131 Washington Street Providence, Rhode Island on the 1st floor. The Printshop's entrance is located at the back of the building on Lucie Way (Martha Street on GPS and computers); the shop's double doors are at the Northwest corner of the building.
Bobby Rosenstock, the Artist in Residence, will be having an open studio to display the work that he has made this month at AS220. Bobby, the owner of Just A Jar Press located in Marietta, Ohio, has completed an 11 color woodcut while at the Printshop. Please come by and see this print in person!
The show will be this Monday, February 27th, from 6-8 pm on the third floor of 115 Empire Street.
Introduction to Silkscreen
Thursdays, March 8th and 15th, 6-10pm, $85
This course provides a two week introduction to silkscreen. Participants will learn the basics of the photo-emulsion process, a variety of making ways to make positives, in addition to registration, and printing methods.
Laser Cut Acrylic for Printmaking Mondays, March 12th, 19th, 26th 6-10pm, $150
This workshop is a collaborative effort of the AS220 Lab and Printshop, will introduce the laser cutter as a printmaking tool to experienced and neophyte printmakers. James Rutter, Lab Manager, will show participants how the laser cutter and a software program can be used to prepare acrylic, wood, metal, and other matrix for relief and intaglio printing. At the Printshop, you will printing the prepared images on the etching press under the guidance of Leigh Waldron-Taylor. This is a great opportunity to learn what the laser cutter can do for you in your work.
Introduction to Letterpress Thursdays, March 15th, 22nd, 29th, 6-10pm, $130
This course provides a basic introduction to letterpress. Participants learn to ink the press, adjust pressure, adjust roller height, register and feed a sheet of paper, make an impression and then clean the press. Create and use polymer plates in combination with metal movable type to create your own vision in letterpressed embossment.
Advanced Intaglio: Aquatint Wednesdays, March 14th, 21st, and 28th, 6pm-10pm, $130
Students will be introduced to aquatint which is the most common method of creating tones in etching, from a very subtle and faint tone to deep darks. An aquatint can be etched into the entire plate (creating various tones or a single one) or to a chosen area. The technique of spit bite aquatint allows a soft, painterly mark.
Additional Offerings for the Spring
This month's open house print is from Andrew Oesch, Jori Ketten, and Nick Ferreira. The trio, from Amigos Publishing and the Carpenter Street Storefront, is teaming up to host the Reanimation Library at 186 Carpenter in March and April.
The Reanimation Library is a small, independent Presence Library open to the public. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of routine circulation and been acquired for their visual content. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles, and given new life as a resource for artists, writers, cultural archeologists, and other interested parties.
Help print the final layer of handset type on their collaboratively designed poster - detailing related workshops and events at the Carpenter St. Branch of the Library - and/or talk with the three organizers about ways to participate in this two month installation. Take a poster home at the end of the night!
The AS220 Cottage Industries are located at the Mercantile at 131 Washington Street Providence, Rhode Island on the 1st floor. The Printshop's entrance is located at the back of the building on Lucie Way (Martha Street on GPS and computers); the shop's double doors are at the Northwest corner of the building.
