For Current Members Only! Join us for an evening with full access to the type shop! Letterpress Happy Hour is the perfect way for you to practice your type-setting and printing skills. A Letterpress Associate will be on hand to answer questions and offer guidance, but not to offer instruction. Press reservations are available on…
For Current Members Only! Let's get print-happy! Need an inexpensive way to practice techniques or work on your project in the studio? Want to meet other local screenprinters and see what they are working on? Screenprint “Happy Hour” is a hands-on, open studio session providing space to work and access to supplies (including the darkroom)…
For Current Members Only! Join us for Bookmaking “Happy Hour,” an open studio session where book makers receive guidance from one of Pyramid’s Book Arts Associates on their personal bookbinding projects and have full access to the bindery equipment: paper guillotine, board shear, book presses (standing and backing), and the Kensol gold foil stamper. Each…
Hispanic Heritage Poster- Summer Internship 2022 This internship is a partnership between the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission – Prince George’s County Department of Parks & Recreation (M-NCPPC) and the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. OBJECTIVE Student artist interns, ages 13/14-18, will learn the process of silkscreen printmaking from idea and design development through production…
Grab your flippers and chart a course for Pyramid Atlantis—a sea-themed party-slash-fundraiser that explores Pyramid’s inky depths. Splish-splash in our studios while making waves on paper, inking up fish, printing with a clamshell press, and more. Guests will explore a Life Aquatic art exhibition and a silent auction full of buried treasure while receiving treats…
A 2-Day Virtual Workshop! – Join us for this fun and relaxing two-session workshop (now 1.5 hour each due to popular demand!) in which students will learn all the basics of block printing.
For Current Members Only! Join us for an open studio "Happy Hour!" Members will have full access to the print shop to work on projects, print, and practice honing skills. A Printmaking Associate will be on hand to answer questions, help you set the press, and offer guidance—but not to offer instruction. Happy Hour assistance…
A Virtual Workshop! – A simple, single sheet of paper contains infinite possibilities, and in this workshop we will learn a variety of structures created by simply folding and cutting.
A 3-Day In-Studio Intensive! – Learn about the science behind electro-etching, safely preparing and etching metal plates as well as maintaining a non-toxic work environment.
An In-Studio Workshop! – Join us for this Make+Take and walk away with your very own pack of elegant handmade paper.
An In-Studio Workshop! - Turn letters into art in this workshop inspired by the Dutch artist W.H. Werkman.
A Virtual Workshop! – Do you find triangles tricky or tantalizing? Join us to learn/make two triangular-shaped, folded structures.
A 2-Day Virtual Workshop – Build your own frame loom and get weaving!
A 4-Day In-Studio Workshop! – Learn the basics of stone lithography, including graining, principles of drawing, etching, printing, and troubleshooting.
A Virtual Workshop! – Express yourself using various papers, prints, drawings and more to personalize your very own "junk journal"!
An In-Studio Workshop! – Come join us for this playful letterpress printing workshop where participants will create a Lego design to print on the Vandercook press.
An In-Studio Workshop! – Learn about the history of German decorative paste papers then put the techniques into action creating your own decorative paper.
A Virtual Workshop! – In this 3-hour online intensive, you will learn best practices in cutting techniques, explore folded forms, and how to use premade stencils to cut patterns out of cardstock or your own handmade paper.
A Members-Only Workshop! – Current members are invited to join us for a fun evening experimenting with colored wax and book forms.
An In-Studio Workshop! – Join us for a one-day, hands-on introduction to the history and basic techniques of creating marbled paper.
A 2-Day Virtual Workshop! – This class offers the perfect way to expand your mixed media repertoire by creating an array of one-off prints using acrylic paints and inks on gel plates and exploring other monoprinting techniques that do not require plates.
The Pyramid Atlantic Screenprinting Associates are crucial to keeping the studio and darkroom thriving, relevant, and dynamic. This work-exchange associate position offers a unique opportunity to engage with Pyramid's creative community, and work alongside professionals in a sharing/collaborative environment. In exchange for volunteering 12 hours a month for Pyramid Atlantic (10 onsite, 2 offsite), the…
A 5-Day Virtual Workshop! – Join us for a journey of discovery in both media as well as mindful play in this popular workshop with Priya Vadhyar.
A 2-Day In-Studio Workshop! – Join us to explore a variety of methods in combining papermaking techniques with collage to produce finished pieces of art.
For Current Members Only! Join us for an evening with full access to the type shop! Letterpress Happy Hour is the perfect way for you to practice your type-setting and…
For Current Members Only! Let's get print-happy! Need an inexpensive way to practice techniques or work on your project in the studio? Want to meet other local screenprinters and see…
For Current Members Only! Join us for Bookmaking “Happy Hour,” an open studio session where book makers receive guidance from one of Pyramid’s Book Arts Associates on their personal bookbinding…
An In-Studio Workshop! – Learn the basics of bobbin lace and how to draw with fiber and yarn.
A 2-Day Virtual Workshop! – Discover lumen prints, a camera-less photographic process where you will create unique photographic images using black and white photographic paper, objects, and light.
