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June 2023
By Hand For Hand: Slab Built Pottery with Amanda Ellinger
Instructor: Amanda Ellinger Class Type: Four-week handbuilding class Skill Level: All Levels Time: Tuesdays, 5:00 - 7:00 pm Dates: June 13th - July 11th (No class July 4th) Make Up Date: July 18th This class is currently full. Please call 845-658-9133 or email [email protected] to be placed on the waitlist. Are you ready for an outdoor clay adventure?! Take advantage of the inspiring golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work…
Find out more »AT WATER’S EDGE: Printmaking Workshop at Rua Reidh Lighthouse, Scotland
This workshop is currently full. Please call 845-658-9133 or email [email protected] to be placed on the waitlist. Join WSW for an unforgettable art experience at Rua Reidh Lighthouse, at one of the most dramatic and remote locations on the north-west coast of Scotland. This printmaking workshop will be held from June 14 – 22nd, 2023, eight of the longest days of the year, when the light at the lighthouse doesn’t set until after 11 pm. About the Workshop In this…
Find out more »July 2023
Made In Water: Indigenous Papermaking, Histories, and Stories with Dakota Mace
Made In Water: Indigenous Papermaking, Histories, and Stories - Dakota Mace Dates: July 10 - 14, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This workshop will combine Indigenous histories and the social impact of paper within Indigenous communities. We will discuss Indigenous histories related to papermaking and cover readings from Indigenous scholars. This workshop will…
Find out more »Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric with Amy Cousins
Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric - Amy Cousins Dates: July 10 - 14, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This course will guide you through designing and screen printing a patterned textile. Participants will learn how to design a repeat pattern by hand and translate it into screen…
Find out more »Painting Prints with Kat Richards
Painting Prints - Kat Richards Dates: July 10 - 14, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you'd like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. In this five-day workshop, participants will combine painterly and alternative techniques while briefly delving into the history of monoprints. This course is ideal for artists of all skill levels that want to learn or add…
Find out more »Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers with Breanne Trammell
Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers - Breanne Trammell Dates: July 17 - 21, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 Together, we will engage with the hidden history and processes of the Provincetown Printers, specifically the under-known group of women at the vanguard of the white-line woodblock print. The white-line process is portable, affordable, and suitable for any skill level! We will inscribe woodblocks with…
Find out more »Ground Up: Using Natural Pigments and “Found Color” in Pulp Painting with Hannah O’Hare Bennett
Ground Up: Using Natural Pigments and “Found Color” in Pulp Painting - Hannah O’Hare Bennett Dates: July 17 - 21, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you'd like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This class is centered around building a palette of colored paper pulp which will be used in learning the reverse pulp painting technique. Colors will…
Find out more »Material as Metaphor: Book Objects with Aurora De Armendi Sobrino
Material as Metaphor: Book Objects - Aurora De Armendi Sobrino Dates: July 17 - 21, 2023 Studio: Bindery and Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Explore the timeless medium of bookmaking with the inclusion of painterly and graphic silkscreen images. Students will learn adaptable book-structures as well as silkscreen techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring a work…
Find out more »Gel Plate Printing with Holly Hughes
Gel Plate Printing - Holly Hughes Dates: July 24 - 28, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Gel plate printing is a super user friendly, kitchen table compatible printmaking technique with no need for a press. Fun, open to experimentation, great for travel, and very painterly - this is a method where artists…
Find out more »Papermaking: Images in Pulp with J. Leigh Garcia
Papermaking: Images in Pulp - J. Leigh Garcia Dates: July 24 - 28, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 Use stencils, spray bottles, squeeze bottles and more to create images with pulp! We’ll begin by learning the basics of European-style papermaking using abaca and flax fibers. These sheets will then be transformed with the addition of stenciled, painted, and collaged cotton linter pulp. The possibilities are endless when you combine these…
Find out more »Miniature Books and Tiny Libraries: Small Scale Bookbinding and Other Paper Based Miniatures with Imin Yeh
Miniature Books and Tiny Libraries: Small Scale Bookbinding and Other Paper Based Miniatures - Imin Yeh Dates: July 24 - 28, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen and Bindery Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This workshop will cover traditional bookbinding and book structures but on a tiny scale. Students will learn multiple book-binding techniques, utilize one color printing (screenprinting, digital, and/or xerox) in addition to hand drawn content to create an original miniature artist book. Our artist books…
Find out more »Dots for Days: Screenprinting for Photographers with Meg Turner
Dots for Days: Screenprinting for Photographers - Meg Turner Dates: July 31 - August 4, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. A crash course in large format silkscreen printing for photographers. Learn the magic of 4 color separation to create full color hand-printed photographs in the same CMYK halftone dot method that magazines are printed.…
Find out more »Handmade Paper and Encaustic with Laura Moriarty
Handmade Paper and Encaustic – Laura Moriarty Dates: July 31 - August 4, 2023 Studio: Papermaking and R&F Tuition: Members $775, Nonmembers $825 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 6 Join WSW in collaboration with R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston as we explore combining handmade paper and encaustic. During the first two and a half days, participants will work in WSW’s papermaking studio, using cotton, kozo and other natural ArtFarm fibers. Students will be encouraged to develop a series of works…
Find out more »August 2023
Collagraph & Embossment/Debossment with Rie Hasegawa
Collagraph & Embossment/Debossment – Rie Hasegawa Dates: August 7 - 11, 2023 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. Collagraph is a basic method of printmaking using collage materials such as fabric, strings and gesso to create a plate without the use of acid or any solvents and print from a variety of textures. It could be…
Find out more »Paper, Thread, Movement with Bhavna Mehta
Paper, Thread, Movement – Bhavna Mehta Dates: August 7 - 11, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $90 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This workshop combines handmade paper and cotton thread in a unique process. Inspired by rhythm and abstraction, we will use various mark-making and pattern-making techniques to prepare textures and images with colored cotton thread on Solvy.…
Find out more »Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric Sec. 2 with Amy Cousins
Seamless Textile Printing: Designing and Printing Patterned Fabric Sec. 2 - Amy Cousins Dates: August 7 - 11, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 - $1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. This course will guide you through designing and screen printing a patterned textile. Participants will learn how to design a repeat pattern by hand and translate it into screen…
Find out more »Books that Move: Volvelles, Die Cuts, and Fold Out with Hannah Moog
Books that Move: Volvelles, Die Cuts, and Fold Out - Hannah Moog Dates: August 14 - 18, 2023 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $90 Class limit: 8 In this workshop students will explore how interactive elements can be used to hide, reveal, and transform images to aid a narrative. The class will investigate how these interactive elements can be utilized to create playful, emotionally resonant work that creates life in inanimate objects. Students will learn a variety…
Find out more »Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Techniques in Paper Casting with Sarah Rose (SR) Lejeune
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Techniques in Paper Casting - Sarah Rose (SR) Lejeune Dates: August 14 - 18, 2023 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 Using experimental casting processes rooted in fiber properties and hand papermaking techniques, students will learn to record dimension, texture, and surface with paper pulp. Beginning with technical basics such as fiber processing in the Hollander beater and sheet formation, students will apply these skills to…
Find out more »Pressing Stories: Folding Prints as Narratives with Andrea Narno
Pressing Stories: Folding Prints as Narratives - Andrea Narno Dates: August 14 - 18, 2023 Studio: Relief Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 8 During this workshop, we will explore how printmaking can serve as our visual language to narrate stories and express ourselves. We will pair relief printing with the long standing tradition of do-it-yourself zine making. After looking at a large variety of examples and brainstorming together, each student will design and carve a linocut…
Find out more »Riso Power: A Socially Engaged Introduction to Risograph Printing with Mary Tremonte
Riso Power: A Socially Engaged Introduction to Risograph Printing - Mary Tremonte Dates: August 21 - 25, 2023 Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 10 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. What is riso? How can we use this tool to agitate, educate, and organize? Learn all about the risograph and how you can harness this stencil duplicator’s power for artist publications, posters, prints, and…
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