The Summer Art Institute (SAI) at Women’s Studio Workshop is a time for you to focus on your work, become energized and inspired, learn new skills, and meet a new community of like-minded artists. During our week-long workshops in papermaking, printmaking, and book arts, you’ll study at the heart of the Hudson Valley with instructors that are leaders in their field. Small class sizes offer you an opportunity to hone your abilities and have a transformative art experience.
Read more about SAI on our general information page, and check out this year’s list of classes below.
Workshops with ‘*’ are at capacity. Please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133 to be added to the waitlist.
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July 2024
Swappin’ Stories: Riso Books Made to Share with Ashley Hairston Doughty
Swappin’ Stories: Riso Books Made to Share – Ashley Hairston Doughty Dates: July 22 - 26, 2024 Studio: Multipurpose Room Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $125 Class limit: 6 Every person has a unique history—a collection of experiences that define our views of the world. Let’s share some of those one-of-a-kind stories with one another! In this workshop, you will work to build confidence and curiosity in exploring your own history, trajectory, and existence to a point where you…
Find out more »Pulp Paint Play (Second Section) with Claudia Borfiga
Pulp Paint Play (Second Section) – Claudia Borfiga Dates: July 22 - 26, 2024 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 During this workshop participants will learn how to make pulp paintings from start to finish! After learning how to form a base sheet, we’ll begin to build our imagery directly on top, inspired by sketchbooks or any reference images participants have gathered. Each participant will develop their personal palette of colored paper pulp to…
Find out more »Block in Hand: The Art and Craft of Fabric Printing by Hand with Yetunde Rodriguez
Block in Hand: The Art and Craft of Fabric Printing by Hand – Yetunde Rodriguez Dates: July 29 - August 2, 2024 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Yetunde Rodriguez brings her keen eye for shapes and patterns into this fun and informative workshop. She will teach you her unique approach to designing and printing surface patterns for printing by hand onto fabric. In this workshop, you will learn a variety of methods, from…
Find out more »Gestural Adaptations: A Print in Three Acts – Tara Sabharwal
Gestural Adaptations: A Print in Three Acts – Tara Sabharwal Dates: July 29 - August 2, 2024 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Using water-soluble inks, students will explore the possibilities of creating a set of one-of-a-kind prints using the same template. They will make a monoprint by adding paint and collagraph material (stencils, shapes cut out of various textured fabrics, foil, inkjet sheet, string, etc) directly on a sheet of plexiglass. After pulling…
Find out more »What’s still good about yesterday’s liberation?: Feminist Criticism and Construction in the WSW Archives with Jeanne Vaccaro
What's still good about yesterday's liberation?: Feminist Criticism and Construction in the WSW Archives – Jeanne Vaccaro Dates: July 29 - August 2, 2024 Studio: Archive Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $75 Class limit: 6 This workshop moves between two concepts: criticism and construction. What is criticism for, exactly, and how can it be harnessed to build movements on top of movements? Rather than think of criticism as destructive we will consider and practice forms of collective inquiry. Anchored…
Find out more »August 2024
Mokuhanga and Emakimono: Two Week Course in Woodblock Printing and Scroll Making
Mokuhanga and Emakimono: Two Week Course in Woodblock Printing and Scroll Making – Yoonmi Nam and Katie Baldwin Dates: August 5 - August 16, 2024 Studio: Intaglio and Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $700 - $2400 Lab fee: $150 Class limit: 12 In this two-week course, participants will immerse themselves in the process of learning Mokuhanga and Emakimono. Mokuhanga is Japanese-style water-based woodblock printing and Emakimono is the term for a horizontal Japanese handscroll with pictures. This workshop will be an…
Find out more »Paper as Textile, Textile as Paper – Amy Jacobs
Paper as Textile, Textile as Paper – Amy Jacobs Dates: August 12 - August 16, 2024 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350 - $1200 Lab Fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This workshop will explore numerous ways of combining textiles with handmade paper. We will use textiles as the basis for various creative techniques such as embedding, embossing, stenciling, blowouts, collage, and pulp painting. We’ll use high and low shrinkage pulps, including cotton, translucent abaca, linen, and flax to experiment with…
Find out more »Propagating Propaganda with Lois Harada
Propagating Propaganda - Lois Harada Dates: August 19 - August 23, 2024 Studio: Letterpress Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350 - $1200 Lab Fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Archives are often built from found materials — printed booklets, pamphlets, broadsides, and more. But who decides which of these important artifacts are created and produced on a scale wide enough to ensure their survival? In this course, we'll create objects and prints inspired by historical documents and propaganda. Through the commercial printing process…
Find out more »RISOGRAPH CAMP! with Kate Bingaman-Burt
RISOGRAPH CAMP! - Kate Bingaman-Burt Dates: August 19 - August 23, 2024 Studio: Multipurpose Room Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350 - $1200 Lab Fee: $125 Class limit: 6 RISOGRAPH CAMP! This workshop is a great place to start if you’re new to riso or want a refresher! We’ll dive deep into risograph history, an overview of how these machines work, the stencil-duplicator process, and the quirks and fun (sometimes unpredictable) outcomes of riso printing. The main focus of this class is…
Find out more »What The F!?! – Fiber, Fabrics, Fusing, Facades with Jaz Graf
What The F!?! - Fiber, Fabrics, Fusing, Facades – Jaz Graf Dates: August 19 - August 23, 2024 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350 - $1200 Lab Fee: $100 Class limit: 8 How do materials collide and synthesize to convey our embodied and metaphorical stories? How might we translate old prints, drawings, and cloth scraps to enrich something new? We will use fibers such as mulberry, abaca, cotton, recycled materials, and fabrics as foundations for fusing, embedding, layering, and image…
Find out more »May 2025
MALLEABLE PRINT – THE LAST HURRAH: Printmaking Workshop at Rua Reidh Lighthouse, Scotland
This workshop is currently full, please call 845 658-9133 to be put on a 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 May 19 - 27th, 2025. About the Workshop Perfect for artists of all levels, this class will introduce you to versatile, low-tech printmaking techniques. We’ll explore the possibilities of collagraph, a cardboard…
Find out more »July 2025
*Material Memory: Texture Techniques in Papermaking with SR Lejeune
Material Memory: Texture Techniques in Papermaking – SR Lejeune Dates: July 7– July 11, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Use paper pulp to hold texture and surface! Beginning with technical basics such as fiber processing in the Hollander beater and sheet formation, participants will apply these skills to an array of non-traditional techniques that use papermaking as a recorder, both conceptually and materially. Approaching paper as a memory device, this…
Find out more »Remixing the Archive: Manipulating Digitized Images for Risograph with Corinne Teed
Remixing the Archive: Manipulating Digitized Images for Risograph – Corinne Teed Dates: July 7– July 11, 2025 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Risograph is a stencil duplicator that can quickly produce print editions with an array of colors and techniques. Through this one week intensive workshop, we will delve into the archive, using the risograph with digital drawing and photographic sources. We will review the basics of how the riso operates…
Find out more »*Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Casting with Paper with SR Lejeune
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Casting with Paper – SR Lejeune Dates: July 14– July 18, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 This experimental workshop will emphasize the unique nature of paper as a casting medium through a wide exploration of this material. Using experimental casting processes rooted in fiber properties and hand papermaking techniques, participants will learn to record dimension, texture, and surface with paper pulp. Beginning…
Find out more »*Broadsides, Ballads, and Fables: Letterpress Printing with Type and Image with Corinne Teed
Broadsides, Ballads, and Fables: Letterpress Printing with Type and Image – Corinne Teed Dates: July 14– July 18, 2025 Studio: Letterpress Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Collaboration between type and image is an essential aspect of letterpress printing. Whether working with proclamations, manifestos, poetry, or fables, letterpress is a powerful vehicle for getting crucial voices and stories out into the world. This course will explore the relationship between words and images in letterpress…
Find out more »Risograph Structures with Caroline Kern
Risograph Structures – Caroline Kern Dates: July 14– July 18, 2025 Studio: Silkscreen (Second Floor, located up one flight of stairs*) Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Is it a book? Is it a sculpture? Could it be both? Come learn the basics of Risograph while also experimenting with structure and form through folded paper! In this workshop we will go over the basics of the Risograph machine, a brief history of stencil duplicators…
Find out more »Building Edges in Monoprint with Tara Sabharwal
Building Edges in Monoprint – Tara Sabharwal Dates: July 21 – July 25, 2025 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 We will make monoprints, exploring lines and shapes to build a vocabulary of EDGES. Besides brushes we will use Inkjet sheets and mylar stencils for hard, sharp edges, remove ink with Q- tips and rags to make softer edges and collage material for perforated edges, scrape ink for dry, abrasive edges and…
Find out more »*Expressive Pulp Painting with Candy Gonzalez
Expressive Pulp Painting – Candy Gonzalez Dates: July 21 - July 25, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Through demos, embodied inquiry-based investigation and open studio time, participants will expand their papermaking practice by experimenting with contemporary pulp painting techniques. Participants will learn the mechanics of working with various fibers in pulp painting, to make pulp paints from start to finish and to build an expansive pulp paint palette. Participants will…
Find out more »*Printing to Infinity: Endless Silkscreen Repeats for Installation with Liz Castaldo
Printing to Infinity: Endless Silkscreen Repeats for Installation – Liz Castaldo Dates: July 21 – July 25, 2025 Studio: Silkscreen (Second Floor, located up one flight of stairs*) Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 In this workshop we will explore the endless possibilities of working with patterns, and learn how to turn small components into large scale wall installations, wallpaper, or even covering three dimensional objects. We’ll cover multiple methods to create repeatable patterns…
Find out more »*Combine, Layer, Overlap: Guided Monoprint with Tara Sabharwal
Combine, Layer, Overlap: Guided Monoprint – Tara Sabharwal Dates: July 28 – August 1, 2025 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Create a rich and multifaceted print, using one-off pre-printed rice papers as a launching point! After monoprinting a variety of marks, drawing, colors, script, or textures on your choice on several rice papers, we will add adhesive to them, converting them into Chine Collé sheets. We will then design monoprints with…
Find out more »*Place and Identity through Papermaking with Candy Gonzalez
Place and Identity through Papermaking – Candy Gonzalez Dates: July 28 – August 1, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Explore your relationship to place and identity through papermaking with native plants! The workshop will start with the exploration of plants native to the Hudson Valley and learning to make paper with native plants. Participants will build on foundational knowledge through demos, collective inquiry-based investigation, foraging, and open studio time. Throughout…
Find out more »*Ink, Paper, and Thread: Artist’s Book Editions with Liz Castaldo
Ink, Paper, and Thread: Artist’s Book Editions – Liz Castaldo Dates: July 28 – August 1, 2025 Studio: Silkscreen (Second Floor, located up one flight of stairs*) Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Make your artist’s book dreams a reality in this silkscreen-focused workshop. We will go over how to make several book structures by hand including one page books, accordion books, pamphlet bindings, flexagons and drum leaf bindings. We’ll make one collaborative zine…
Find out more »Street Art as Protest: How To Make Wheat Paste Posters with Symone Salib
Street Art as Protest: How To Make Wheat Paste Posters – Symone Salib Dates: July 28 – August 1, 2025 Studio: Multipurpose Room & Outdoor Patio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $100 Class limit: 8 This course introduces the art of wheat-pasting posters in public spaces, focusing on both technical skills and creative expression. Participants will learn how to design, create, and install posters using wheat paste, a sustainable and accessible method for public art. The course…
Find out more »August 2025
*Windows, Wells, and Walls: Stencils and Masking in Handmade Paper with Katharine DeLamater
Windows, Wells, and Walls: Stencils and Masking in Handmade Paper – Katharine DeLamater Dates: August 4 – August 8, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 In this all levels papermaking workshop, participants will learn how to make paper using a variety of fibers and incorporate stenciled imagery using hand-cut stencils and pigmented pulp paint. We'll begin with the basics of sheet-forming and an overview of the stenciling process to create a…
Find out more »Non-Toxic Printmaking: Kitchen Lithography, Watercolor Monotype and More! with Rie Hasegawa
Non-Toxic Printmaking: Kitchen Lithography, Watercolor Monotype and More! – Rie Hasegawa Dates: August 4 – August 8, 2025 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Traditional printmaking involves use of a variety of toxic chemicals to make ink-receptive and non-image areas receptive to water and ink-repellent. This course will introduce several alternative planographic printing techniques such as kitchen litho that is an alternative way of lithography using common materials you have at home…
Find out more »*Photo-based Screenprinting: Light and Shadow with K Sarrantonio
Photo-based Screenprinting: Light and Shadow – K Sarrantonio Dates: August 4 – August 8, 2025 Studio: Silkscreen (Second Floor, located up one flight of stairs*) Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Immerse yourself in the incredible world of halftones! The halftone process translates continuous shades and tones into patterns of dots, allowing screenprinters to create a rich stencil from a photograph or any 2D image. We will start the week with single color prints…
Find out more »*Topographic Language: Embedding and Collage in Handmade Paper with Katharine DeLamater
Topographic Language: Embedding and Collage in Handmade Paper – Katharine DeLamater Dates: August 11 – August 15, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Layer textile, photographic, and other soft collage elements, concurrently building a narrative alongside the development of your handmade paper artwork! In this all levels papermaking workshop, participants will learn how to make paper with a focus on translucent abaca and flax fiber to best highlight their personal embedded…
Find out more »Drypoint with Chine Collé: Multi-Color and Layer with Rie Hasegawa
Drypoint with Chine Collé: Multi-Color and Layer – Rie Hasegawa Dates: August 11 – August 15, 2025 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking technique in which an image is scratched into a metal or plastic plate. The scratches produce a “burr”: a raised portion of metal or plastic that catches and holds ink while the smooth portions of the plate can be wiped clean. With the help…
Find out more »Stencil to Screen: Unlocking the Power of Print with Tyanna Buie
Stencil to Screen: Unlocking the Power of Print – Tyanna Buie Dates: August 11 – August 15, 2025 Studio: Silkscreen (Second Floor, located up one flight of stairs*) Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Let’s get experimental! Discover silkscreen’s flexibility, exploring the inherent cross-connections and expressive possibilities of photomechanical digital processes, hand drawn stencils, found stencils, mark-making and monotypes. Participants will be prompted to push the boundaries of the processes while creating new ways…
Find out more »*Contemporary and Experimental Marbling with Maisie Broome
Contemporary and Experimental Marbling – Maisie Broome Dates: August 18 – August 22, 2025 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab Fee: $150 Class limit: 10 Take a playful and contemporary approach to the ancient technique of marbling! Participants will explore the vast potential of marbling and experiment with materials while familiarizing themselves with the process's unique relationships to movement, imagery, and scale. The workshop will give participants the technical knowledge for making a marbling bath, preparing materials,…
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