Maximalize Your Prints: Variable Editions in Silkscreen – Elizabeth Castaldo

Dates: August 10 – 14, 2026
Studio: Silkscreen
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300
Lab fee: $125
Class limit: 6

In this silkscreen workshop we will explore ways to bring variety and spontaneity into printed editions. In variable editions, each print features imagery that is repeated, but with some alterations from print to print. Using silkscreen, which allows us to create editioned multiples relatively easily, we’ll mix things up, going over several ways to print variations on images and then layering them up to create multi-layered colorful unique prints and variable editions.

You’ll learn the silkscreen printing process from start to finish and then experiment with several ways to bring unique and varied elements into your prints. We will go over how to use paper and vinyl stencils, masking fluid, double exposure, and monotype techniques which will allow us to alter the images on the screen as we are printing and approach the printing process in an intuitive and spontaneous way.

By using personal drawings or photos, we will cover ways to prepare images for silkscreen using both analog and digital methods. We will go over approaches for composing multiple color prints, registration methods, color mixing, and layering image, pattern and color in the same print.

Depending on your goals for your work, we will make at least one small variable edition or several unique prints over the course of the week.

This concept will be contextualized with examples by artists working with variable and layered imagery and examples from the WSW collection.

This workshop takes place in our silkscreen studio located on the second floor, up a flight of stairs. There will be some periods of prolonged standing.

This workshop is currently in the week-long members-only registration period. Registration will open to the public on February 4th.