A Benefit for Gowanus Studio Space

Saturday, May 18th
9pm – 3am

166 7th Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn

http://robotspringowanus.eventbrite.com/#

$10 in advance, $15 at the door

Scenery and photos by Family Band Traveling Photo Booth

Performances by:

New York Bike Dance
DJ Longfellow
DJ Chew Rocks

Beer by Kelso

All proceeds directly support the Gowanus Studio Space

Photo Litho with Beka Goedde

4 Tuesdays 5/21-6/11
7-10pm
$295 ; $245 for members

This 4-week course will cover the basics of photolithography while exploring techniques using photo plates.  Photosensitive aluminum plates are exposed to UV light and developed with simple chemistry.  You will be able to make beautifully tonal photolithographic prints, from drawing in pencil and ink on tracing paper or films. In four weeks, Beka will cover preparing your images and drawings, preparing paper for printing, exposing and developing photolitho plates, basic photolitho inking techniques and also printing in layers.
Sign up here:  http://photolitho2013may.eventbrite.com/

Simple Signature Stitches with Shannon Kerner

Wednesday 6/19, 7-10pm
$65; $35 for members

This course will start by learning the simple signature stitch.  As soon as students start to get this stitch, they’ll learn how to make the books larger with more stitches.  Learn to make multiple signature books using a variety of materials for covers.  Bring in materials you may want to use (a leather scrap you’ve been save for years, for instance).  Bring a cracker box in to practice on.

Sign up here:  http://signaturestitch2013june.eventbrite.com/#

Intro to Wood Shop with Jason Pickens

Saturday 6/22, 10am-6pm with 1 hour break
$195 ; $95 for members

Come learn about using the wood shop at Gowanus Studio Space.  You’ll learn from Jason Pickens, our talented furniture designer and fabricator.  http://www.jasondpickens.com/

Sign up here:  http://woodshop2013june.eventbrite.com/

Collagraphs with Noah Breuer

4 Mondays 7/1-22, 7-10pm
$195; $145 for members

A Collagraph is a collage-based way of creating an image for printmaking. Collage materials are glued to a rigid substrate (such as mat board or wood) then varnished and sealed to create a printing plate. This plate (or matrix) can then make many impressions using both relief and intaglio printing methods.

Students receive instructions on plate preparation, and demonstrations in both relief and intaglio printing processes. Prior printmaking is experience is beneficial, but by no means necessary. Beginners welcome!

What you bring:

• Design ideas
• collage materials
• fine printing paper (described in detail during the first class)

What we provide:

• plates
• varnish
• cleanup materials
• printing ink
• proofing paper

Students will be allocated 12 hours of studio access to be used during the run of the class or within 3 months after the end of the class (schedule permitting)

Register now! http://collographs2013july.eventbrite.com/#

Intro to Digital Photography with Nikki Arendt

4 Wednesdays 8/14-9/4,  7-10pm
$145; $95 for members

This is an intensive introductory course that will help the beginning photographer to find what inspires them and give them the technical knowledge to make strong images. We will cover composition, basic lighting (daylight and studio), the various uses and trades for photography (careers, hobby, fine art) and taking portraits. We will learn how to control your digital camera manually with f-stops, shutter speed and iso so that you have more control over the image you are taking. We will look at famous photographs in order to be inspired and to learn from them. Nicole Arendt has taught video courses at the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and photography at the University of Texas at Dallas.

www.nicolearendt.com

This course requires the student to have a digital camera with the option for manual controls. A DSLR is preferred but not mandatory. This class won’t require any outside supplies other than this.

Register now! http://digiphoto2013aug.eventbrite.com/#

Silk Screen with Beka Goedde

4 Tuesdays 9/10-10/1, 7-10pm
$195; $145 for members

This class will cover the essentials of silkscreen: the properties of a good film positive, how to prepare and expose a silkscreen, and how to print. No previous silkscreen experience required! For the final class, bring a shirt and/or totebag to finally print the t-shirt you’ve been dreaming about.

Course fee includes the purchase of a silkscreen for you to keep (and take home), so come with projects in mind. Email instructor with 2 image and film will be ready on the day of the class. Image size max 8 x 10” Send 2 images to be printed. Images can relate to each other for two-color print or be separate images.

What we provide:

• Silkscreen (for you to then take home! 20 x 24” $2)
• Ink
• Proofing paper
• 1-2 film positive(s)??
• 3 hours of Studio Time after the duration of the class*

What you bring:

• Extra paper to be discussed after first session.
• Clothes appropriate for a print studio and wet ink (and an apron)
• Film positives ready

 Register now! http://silkscreen2013sept.eventbrite.com/#

Intro to TIG Welding with Allen Slamic

4 Wednesdays 9/11-25, 7-10pm
$195; $145 for members

Tungsten Inert Gas [TIG] welding is an arc process that uses a non-comsumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld. The weld area is protected from atmospheric contamination by an inert shielding gas. A filler metal (rod) is normally used in the welding process. TIG welding is commonly used for welding thin sheet metals, aluminum, stainless steel, magnesium, and copper alloys. TIG welding provides greater control over the look of the weld than other types of welding processes. This type of welding is typically used when welds will be highly visible.

This class will teach you the basics of TIG welding. We will focus on welding steel for practice. Aluminum and stainless steel will be introduced after a considerable amount of practice with steel. Students should have a small project in mind, no larger than an average night stand or small stool. The materials fee will cover practice metal and basic TIG supplies, but students are encouraged to bring their own materials for their individual projects.

Allen Slamic is the co-founder of ALEXALLEN STUDIO; a Gowanus Brooklyn based architecture and design studio. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture where he received his Master in Architecture degree in 2007. His studio’s latest project, the Lightbracket, received the ICFF Studio Award 2013 and debuted at ICFF this year.

Register now! http://tigwelding2013sept.eventbrite.com/#

Monoprinting with Angela Conant

4 Wednesdays 10/2-23, 7-10 pm
$195; $145 for members

Establishing a Web Presence for Artists with Libby Clarke

2 Wednesdays 11/6 and 13, 7-10 pm
$95; $65 for members