SIDEWALK PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP!
The Gowanus Studio Space presents
SIDEWALK PAPERMAKING: AN ALL-DAY WORKSHOP
SATURDAY AUGUST 28TH
12:00pm-6:30pm (with mid-day BBQ break)
Instructor: Akemi Martin
SUMMER SPECIAL!! $95 for non-members, $40 for members
Recycle old clothes to make your own paper!
Bar-Be-Que and PIE!
Bring your sunglasses and flipflops!
Papermaker Akemi Martin shares some D.I.Y. ingenuity to turn that old pair of jeans into beautiful sheets of cotton rag paper. You’ll learn advanced techniques to make watermarks and work with bright pigments while using old cotton clothing to make your own recycled paper.
We’ll tour our neighbor Pace Paper’s impressive studio where paper works are fabricated by Chuck Close, Donald Baechler, Jim Dine and many other well known contemporary artists. This workshop is an all day affair, but don’t bag-lunch-it. We have a mid-day sidewalk Bar-Be-Que planned, with plenty of veggie options and delicious PIE from our neighborhood pie and coffee shop, Four & Twenty Blackbirds.
This isn’t your kitchen-made construction-paper-and-blender papermaking, this is a chance to see how the pros do it. You will most likely get wet slinging paper pulp on the Gowanus sidewalk, so wear something you can get messy in! You’ll come away with beautiful, quality paper, and you’ll have a vat-load of fun!
Space is limited! Sign up today at GSSPAPERMAKING.EVENTBRITE.COM
OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, August 5th
4:00PM-11:00PM
166 7th Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Please join us at The Gowanus Studio Space for an Open House. If you have never seen the new space, or if you are curious to see our facilities and the work that comes out of our studio, please stop by!
The Gowanus Studio Space will open its doors for one evening on August 5th from 4pm-11pm for visitors, socializers and art appreciators to tour the 7,500 square-foot space. Our wood shop, printmaking studio and several of our members’ studios will be open to public view. Locally brewed BEER from Kelso of Brooklyn and PIE from Gowanus’ new sweetheart, Four & Twenty Blackbirds will be served. Our doors will be open all afternoon and all evening, so come around whenever you can.
JIGSAW WOODBLOCK WORKSHOP
08/07-08/08 12pm-5pm
>Learn techniques in the printshop AND woodshop!
>Create multiple-color block prints with one pass through the press!
>Let the blocks do the registration for you!
Handy with a scroll saw? Interested in printmaking? Even if you’re not so handy, we can teach you skills in the woodshop AND the printshop during this two-day jig-saw relief print workshop! A simple and fun process will yield intricate, high-contrast images. Leroy-Neimen Center trained printmaker Noah Breuer will help you perfectly translate your design to a beautiful, colorful print.
Sculptors, woodworkers, and 2-D artists alike will easily take to this multi-faceted process. You’ll use power tools to cut up wood blocks like puzzle pieces, ink each piece in a separate color and then reassemble to print! The result are perfectly registered, multi-color prints made with only one pass through the press! Learn the basics of relief printmaking, transfer techniques, embossing and more.
THIS WORKSHOP COMES WITH 10 HOURS OF FREE STUDIO TIME!
WEEKEND SILKSCREEN WORKSHOP
Saturday and Sunday
07/24-07/25 12pm-5pm
$200 for non-members or JUST $50 FOR MEMBERS!
Instructor: Dominick Rapone
>Learn to print on most any surface!
>Create your own posters, fine-art prints or T-shirts!
>Make multiples with a fast and easy printing process!
From band t-shirts to Warhol-inspired fine art, Silkscreen is undoubtedly the most popular contemporary form of printmaking. Over the course of this weekend workshop, you’ll learn to create bright, bold prints on just about any surface, and also see the ways this direct medium can be delicate and subtle. Fabric, plastic, glass, and many more materials can accept a silkscreen print. Think of the possibilities!
Whether you’re a beginner or experienced silkscreener, this two day class will cover the basics of silkscreen printing – coating a screen, shooting, prepping and registration – AND more advanced techniques like multiple-color process printing.
You will have plenty of one-on-one time with instructor Dominick Rapone, a School of Visual Arts printmaking instructor and Silkscreen guru. You’ll learn this accessible process from start to finish; leave armed with a supply list of what you need and where to get it; and with your own freshly printed t-shirts, posters or fine-art prints!
THIS WORKSHOP COMES WITH 10 HOURS OF FREE STUDIO TIME!
SIGN UP TODAY! at silkscreenatgss.eventbrite.com
Day Rentals NOW Available
Have a project you need to finish fast? Need space? Need printmaking or woodworking facilities in a pinch?
Use of our printmaking and woodworking facilities is just $45/day!
Email us at info@gowanusstudio.org for more information.