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Repeat Pattern Screenprinting
June 1 @ 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
$350.00A 2-Day Workshop Intensive!
Saturday and Sunday, June 1-2, 10:30am-4:30pm
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About this Workshop:
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to screenprint your own design in a repetitive fashion onto a 44” x 72” piece of fabric (or paper). Working in a tag team fashion with large screens, you will pair up with another student to work together in learning how to design into a grid and carry out a sequence of a printed pattern.
Level: Intermediate – Introduction to Screenprinting on Fabric, or similar experience (6 hours) is recommended, but not required.
Registration closes May 24, 2024. Material fees are included with your registration to cover the supplies provided in class. Students may/will need to gather/purchase additional materials for class (see the materials list below). This list will also be provided with the registration confirmation email.
Sample images by Eliza Clifford
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $35 materials fee to cover the consumable materials provided in class, including ink, tape, newsprint, emulsion and cleaners. Students will also need to supply additional materials of their own, including:
- Fabric – two pieces 100% smooth cotton fabric, any color, around 44” x 72”
- Image(s) to work with* – more guidance will be provided at registration
- (optional) Personal silkscreen for fabric – approximately 23”x31” or similar (large enough for two letter-sized transparencies to fit). We recommend you bring your own if you want to keep printing your design after the workshop. Contact Pyramid if you’d like to purchase a 23”x31” screen to keep ($45).
- (optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras) or wear clothes that can get inky
- (optional) Notebook or sketchbook for taking notes
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Eliza Clifford is an arts educator, printmaker, and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland. Her work explores ideas of womanhood, mental health, gender, and how identities are constructed (and destructed) in modern day society. As a multidisciplinary artist, she experiments in a variety of mediums, including printmaking, book arts, design, alternative photography, natural dyeing, and quilting/sewing. Clifford has worked and taught at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, the Women’s Studio Workshop, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arts on the Block, and the Metropolitan Center for Visual Art (VisArts). She has been an artist in residence at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, the Remarque Print Workshop, and the Penland School of Craft. Clifford has been featured in exhibitions at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, the Washington Printmakers Gallery, the Baltimore Fine Print Fair, the Morgan Conservatory, the Torpedo Factory Art Center, and Kent State University. Learn more about her work by following her on Instagram @lavender_lizard_press.
“This was such a great and unusual class! I’ve been wanting to learn how to print repeat patterns for a while and this class was extremely well paced and well constructed. Eliza did a great job making sure that we understood the process, and the time we had was used very well. Everyone came away with great projects and it was fun to work collaboratively.”
—Previous workshop participant