Printmaking Classes back at Lower East Side Printshop

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Intro to Screenprint with Jeremy Ruiz

4 weeks, Tuesdays, 6 – 9pm
April 9 – 30, 2024
Fee: $425 including materials and 12 hours of studio time

Originally developed as a commercial process, this direct and dynamic medium is utilized by artists and designers alike. Learn the basics of silkscreen printing in this four-week course. Make hand-drawn or photographic imagery to print on paper. This course will cover basic image processing, color mixing, printing, and multiple layer registration.

Jeremy Ruiz is an artist living in New York. He graduated from SUNY Purchase College in 2015 with a BFA in printmaking and has worked as a printmaker in publishing studios with internationally acclaimed artists for nearly a decade. He started his career at Durham Press, later with Lower East Side Printshop as the Studio Manager, and is currently working at Two Palms Press in the silkscreen studio.

Intaglio with Ian Ruppenthal

4 weeks, Thursdays, 6 – 9pm
April 18 – May 9, 2024
Fee: $425 including materials and 12 hours of studio time

This 4-week introductory course will familiarize students with etching, aquatint, and drypoint printing techniques.  Students will learn to prepare their own copper plate for etching, apply hard and soft ground, use a rosin box for aquatint, and print an edition of etchings.  By the end of the course, students will be able to print confidently on an etching press, and feel comfortable in choosing intaglio techniques suitable to their artistic styles. 

Ian Ruppenthal is a printmaker and artist raised in North Carolina, and living in Brooklyn.  Ian began making prints as an undergrad, and has since worked in a variety of printshops in both professional and academic settings.  Ian is one of the founders of Pigeonhole Press, a small etching publisher in Chicago.  He was an apprentice at Wingate Studio (Hinsdale, NH), and currently is the studio manager at Lower East Side Printshop.  Recently his personal work concerns the interplay and breakdown of image and text, and the absurdity of life in the anthropocene.