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.
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July 2023
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: 7 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. 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…
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 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 printed yardage. Each participant will begin with their own visual interests, whether they be abstract, narrative, botanical, etc,…
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 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 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…
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 This class is currently full. If you’d like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected] or call 845-658-9133. 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…
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…
Find out more »July 2024
Motivational Intaglio with Shelley Thorstensen
Motivational Intaglio – Shelley Thorstensen Dates: July 8 - 12, 2024 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Each morning, Shelley will begin the workshop with a series of demonstrations including printing and color usage. She will cover stencils, a la poupée, chine collé, viscosity, multiple plates, relief, collage, and digital media. Using participants’ current work and ideas as a catalyst, Shelley will work with everyone individually to discover what aspects are vital to their…
Find out more »Murals Are For Everyone: Exploring the Arena of Civic and Public Artwork with Shelby Rodeffer
Murals Are For Everyone: Exploring the Arena of Civic and Public Artwork – Shelby Rodeffer Dates: July 8 - 12, 2024 Studio: Outdoor Patio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 Murals: art where everyone is the audience! In this workshop, we will discuss the differences between public art, social art, and civic art, and the nuances of making work that lives outside. Different methods of mural installation will be explored, and—as a group—we will create a…
Find out more »Demystifying the Pop-up Book with Colette Fu
Demystifying the Pop-up Book – Colette Fu Dates: July 8 - 12, 2024 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Movable books were originally created to illustrate ideas about astronomy, fortune telling, navigation, anatomy of the body, and other scientific principles. Most commercial pop-up book publications today are geared toward children, but pop-up book structures can be used to make engaging works of art for any age- from greeting cards to animations to kinetic sculptures.…
Find out more »The Power of Electro-etching with Maggie Oakes
The Power of Electro-etching – Maggie Oakes Dates: July 15 - 19, 2024 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $125 Class limit: 7 In this non-toxic workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of safer intaglio, specifically electro-etching methods and explore its endless possibilities. Participants will gain a working knowledge of the science behind electro-etching, safely preparing and etching their metal plates as well as maintaining a non-toxic work environment. Workshop will cover the following processes: electro-line, electro-tint, experimental…
Find out more »Writing for the Screen(print) with Gaby Hurtado-Ramos
Writing for the Screen(print) – Gaby Hurtado-Ramos Dates: July 15 - 19, 2024 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 6 In this workshop, we will be playing with the possibilities of hand-drawn stencils and text in screenprinting. Through exercises and demos in simple book forms and drawing techniques tailored for exposing to a screen, participants will make a variety of prints involving writing and mark-making. We will look at examples of artists’ books, zines, and…
Find out more »Pulp Paint Play with Claudia Borfiga
Pulp Paint Play – Claudia Borfiga Dates: July 15 - 19, 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 work from.…
Find out more »Malleable Print with Tatana Kellner
Malleable Print – Tatana Kellner Dates: July 22 - 26, 2024 Studio: Intaglio Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 8 Explore the possibilities of collagraph, a cardboard or plastic plate matrix that offers unlimited opportunities for creating rich linear and textural prints. In this week-long workshop participants will be introduced to a variety of intaglio as well as relief techniques, including drypoint, carborundum aquatint, silk aquatint, textural relief printing, and a variety of multiple printing and collaging…
Find out more »Image/Text with Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas
Image/Text – Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas Dates: July 22 - 26, 2024 Studio: Silkscreen Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350-$1200 Lab fee: $100 Class limit: 6 Starting at YES, this silkscreen-based workshop will explore the potential of text to become image and image to become text – ever expanding the potential for symbols and signifiers to transform. Students will learn the basics of producing silkscreen prints with hand-cut and digital stencils. There will also be an emphasis on building transparent layers and variable editions…
Find out more »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…
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