6-Week Printmaking Series

$180.00

Thursdays, October 8, October 15, October 22, November 5, November 12, November 19: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Prerequisites: None

Description: This six-week printmaking intensive invites participants to explore a wide range of printmaking techniques through playful experimentation, creative problem-solving, and hands-on discovery. Designed for beginners and curious creatives alike, the series emphasizes process over perfection and encourages exploration and surprise. While some of these techniques are also offered as standalone workshops at Remainders, this intensive introduces new approaches, materials, and conceptual frameworks, ensuring that even returning participants will experience something fresh. Using accessible, often upcycled materials, each session builds skills while leaving plenty of room for curiosity, creative freedom, and fun.

Week 1: Collagraph – By experimenting with duct tape, masking tape, metal tape, and other adhesive materials, students will explore how texture, line, and relief affect printed images. This approach offers a new take on collagraph for those who may have tried it before, focusing on surface variation and mark-making rather than traditional assemblage.

Week 2: Cyanotype Collage – Explore the cyanotype process by printing collaged images using light-sensitive chemistry and UV exposure. Working with photographs, objects, handwriting, and other collage elements, students will learn how light, transparency, and exposure time shape the final print. The session balances technical instruction with experimentation, resulting in striking blue and white prints that feel both scientific and magical.

Week 3: Mono-printing – This session focuses on additive and reductive techniques as a way to explore negative space and intentional mark-making. Participants will add and remove ink to build images through layering, wiping, and subtraction, discovering how absence can be just as powerful as presence. The emphasis is on process, experimentation, and embracing the uniqueness of each pull.

Week 4: Linocut – Participants will be introduced to linocut relief printing with a focus on subtraction—carving away layers of material to print a multi-colored image, all using the same block. Emphasis will be placed on planning, color choices, and how each carved decision permanently alters the block. This session invites you to slow down, work deliberately, and discover how bold, expressive prints can emerge from simple tools.

Week 5: Intaglio – This final session explores intaglio printing using upcycled containers as printing plates. Participants will incise, scratch, and texture the surface to create lines that hold ink, producing prints with rich detail and depth. This accessible approach introduces intaglio concepts without specialized equipment, offering a satisfying and experimental conclusion to the series.

Week 6: Screen Printing – Learn the fundamentals of screen printing using handmade screens constructed from upcycled fabric and embroidery hoops. This session introduces stencil-based printing and repeating imagery, while keeping the process approachable and tactile. The focus is on experimentation rather than precision, making screen printing accessible, flexible, and fun.

Materials: All materials provided.

Instructor: Jenny Lounibos

Jenny Lounibos is a lifelong crafter whose passion is giving new life to unwanted and discarded items. She attributes her ability to find new uses for old things to her mother, a former kindergarten teacher, who saved paper towel rolls, bottle caps and more to use as supplies for classroom projects. As the winner of the 2023 Craftcation Iron Crafter competition, Jenny learned that she can create under pressure, but prefers to craft as part of her mindfulness practice. Jenny is the owner of Crafty Earth Monkey LLC, a creative business where she sells her upcycled, thrifted, handmade, and punny items. As a facilitator and trainer, Jenny has led adult learners through everything from smoking cessation classes to corporate communications trainings, and scrapbooking and crafting workshops. With a background in theatre and improv, Jenny strives to create a fun and engaging environment to learn.

Return Policy:

You can cancel classes at https://remainders.org/my-account/classes/ at least 48 hours before class starts to receive a refund (a 20% cancellation fee applies).

Because we need time to fill vacant spots, there are no refunds with less than 48 hours notice.

If you have additional questions please email toban@remainders.org with your name and order number.