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Advanced Risograph
Instructor: Arantza Peña Popo
Dates: Mondays, October 12 - November 16
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
This course is considered as the next step up from our Intro to Rsiograph class. Students will being working with the risograph, an eccentric tool for the independent press! Each participant will learn how to make art prints and printed ephemera using the machine's 4 vibrant colors, employing the spot color method and CMYK-ish techniques and more. Students will experiment with analog techniques using collage, markmaking and photography to practice layering colors and making work that pushes the possibilities of this mighty yet humble office printer turned artist tool. Intro to Risograph is not a requirement, anyone can register for this class, but it is preferred that you have some basic understanding and familiarity with the process!
Arantza Peña Popo is an illustrator, zinester and Ignatz Award-Nominated cartoonist who currently lives in Atlanta as a risograph technician and workshop facilitator at Posy Press at the Goat Farm She was recently the 2024-25 Fellow for the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. She has participated in artist residencies at Directangle and a fellowship at Business Insider in New York. She has exhibited her books and zines around the world at numerous independent fairs including Sprint Milano in Italy, Expozine Montreal, and Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair to name a few. She is the recipient of grants from the Printed Matter and Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair. She has also illustrated for various publications and organizations, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker and Washington Post. Her work is in collections like the School of Art Institute of Chicago’s Joan Flasch Collection, Barnard Zine Library and Stanford’s Libros Latinos Collection. Pena Popo’s comics work has been nominated for numerous Ignatz Awards and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. She has also exhibited her work at the San Francisco Center for the Book, Junior High Los Angeles, and Junction Arts Media in Vermont. She’s been invited as a guest of honor to Short Run Seattle and Expozine Montreal. Arantza is the founder of Soft Power Press, a collaborative small press that gives Black queer people in the South access to printmaking and book arts.
6-week class - $225 for Not Yet Members / $215 for Members / $260 for a Membership and Class Bundle
Intro to Screenprint
Instructor: Erika Ruvell Coleman
Dates: Mondays, October 5 - November 23
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
In this course, you will learn fundamental screen printing techniques from the ground up. The instructor will demonstrate and guide students in preparing hand-drawn and digitally printed art for photosensitive emulsion, creating stencils, preparing and exposing screens, and setting up to print both single-color and multi-color projects. Students will also be given the opportunity to explore different experimental techniques that can be employed with a print. This is a project-based course and students will be able to apply these techniques create a series of prints.
Erika Ruvell Coleman is a Screenprinter and educator from Los Angeles, CA, where she had been teaching the craft of Screen Printing since 2011. While studying manual Photography, Erika took her first screen printing class in 2004, changing the course of her life. She fell in love with the tactile nature of the craft. While completing her degree in Graphic Communications with a focus on Screen Printing, she worked as a studio assistant and printer at Modern Multiples, under her mentor, legendary Chicano artist Richard Duardo. From there, she spent many years as the Lab Assistant and later, Instructor of Screen Printing at Pasadena City College, in the very same print lab that changed her life. With a passion for teaching and community outreach, Erika thrives on sharing her love of printmaking with the masses.
8-week class - $300 for Not Yet Members / $290 for Members / $335 for a Membership and Class Bundle
Intro to Screenprint
Instructor: Erika Ruvell Coleman
Dates: Sundays, October 4 - November 22
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
In this course, you will learn fundamental screen printing techniques from the ground up. The instructor will demonstrate and guide students in preparing hand-drawn and digitally printed art for photosensitive emulsion, creating stencils, preparing and exposing screens, and setting up to print both single-color and multi-color projects. Students will also be given the opportunity to explore different experimental techniques that can be employed with a print. This is a project-based course and students will be able to apply these techniques create a series of prints.
Erika Ruvell Coleman is a Screenprinter and educator from Los Angeles, CA, where she had been teaching the craft of Screen Printing since 2011. While studying manual Photography, Erika took her first screen printing class in 2004, changing the course of her life. She fell in love with the tactile nature of the craft. While completing her degree in Graphic Communications with a focus on Screen Printing, she worked as a studio assistant and printer at Modern Multiples, under her mentor, legendary Chicano artist Richard Duardo. From there, she spent many years as the Lab Assistant and later, Instructor of Screen Printing at Pasadena City College, in the very same print lab that changed her life. With a passion for teaching and community outreach, Erika thrives on sharing her love of printmaking.
8-week class - $300 for Not Yet Members / $290 for Members / $335 for a Membership and Class Bundle
Crash Course in Letterpress
Instructor: Bryan Baker
Dates: Sundays, November 1 - November 22 (4-weeks)
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
In response to the requests for an abbreviated introductory level letterpress class that, we have outfitted a stunning 4-week offering to round out the end of your year! During this class you will learn letterpress from the ground (or rollers) up, but you will be required to prove your competency post-session before utilizing the equipment on your own. It is our recommendation that you follow up this course with one more round of a 4-week class to get you super comfortable with the equipment before trying it solo!
Bryan Baker runs Stukenborg Press, a letterpress studio that has recently moved to Grayson, GA. He received his BFA in printmaking from Ohio University, and MFA from the University of Tennessee. He has taught classes and workshops at Arrowmont, Ox-Bow, Penland, The Arm (NYC), The Center for Book Arts (NYC), UT Knoxville, Clarion University, and the College for Creative Studies. Along with his teaching he has spent many years as a production printer doing custom letterpress posters, ephemera, and stationery.
4-week class - $150 for Not Yet Members / $140 for Members / $185 for a Membership and Class Bundle
Relief Printing
Instructor: Jamaal Barber
Dates: Tuesdays, October 6 - November 24
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Relief printmaking is an extremely versatile medium used for centuries to produce prints. Blocks can be carved in multiple materials and printed on multiple surfaces. This class will explore the basic parts of relief printmaking, from design to carving and printing images. Students will be encouraged to experiment with more advanced techniques and develop personal imagery. Beginner and Intermediate students encouraged!
Jamaal Barber is a creative, imaginative soul born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking, making it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed-media prints illustrate the new Folio Society special edition of The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead. Jamaal recently participated in the MTV/Smithsonian Channel art competition show The Exhibit. He has also worked for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America, and Emory University.
8-week class - $300 for Not Yet Members / $290 for Members / $335 for a Membership and Class Bundle
Intaglio - Aquatints
Instructor: Sasha Schillbrack-Cole
Dates: Wednesdays, October 14 - November 18
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
This is an intaglio class focused on the process of aquatints. This is a course designed to be a “part two” session for folks who are comfortable with line etching. Students will expanding on all they have learned to focus on finding the depth of shadows through the beloved medium.
Sasha Schilbrack-Cole is a printmaker, tattoo artist, illustrator, and musician currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia in 2013. He has taught at APS since 2016, as well as teaching stints at Emory University, and other studios around the state. He has exhibited print work both locally and nationally, and currently tattoos at Sparrowhawk Studio. He finds joy in the repetition of mark-making, rich wood-grain, and oppressively loud music.
6-week class - $225 for Not Yet Members / $215 for Members / $260 for a Membership and Class Bundle
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CANCELLATION POLICY
For cancellations made at least 10 days prior to the first class/workshop, we will refund 100% of the full tuition minus a $10 administrative fee, or give 100% credit towards a future APS class to be used within the following 3 months. For cancellations made with less than 10 days notice, you will receive a 50% refund. No refund or transfer to another class can be made if student cancels within 48 hours of the beginning of the class/workshop unless we are able to fill your spot from a waiting list.
APS reserves the right to cancel any class because of low enrollment; you will be notified and your class fee will be refunded.
Located in Hapeville just south of downtown Atlanta, APS offers the community classes in a wide range of techniques, utilizing equipment available in our printmaking studio. The small, hands-on classes foster creative exchange with instructors and fellow students, and all classes are led by professional artists actively working in Atlanta’s print community, as well as, talented visiting artists. Choose a class that explores a new interest, or refines previous experience. Both beginners and advanced professional artists will find classes at appropriate skill levels. On the occasion that a class requires some experience, we will note that in the course listing. Class sizes are limited so that each student will receives quality-individualized instruction. Please read on for detailed descriptions of classes and workshops, pricing, and instructors’ biographical statement listed below.
Aside from our regular schedule of classes and workshops, we are also happy to provide demonstrations and workshops for adults or children throughout the community. Learn more about custom workshops in our outreach programs.
If an 8-week courses is too long a commitment, please consider registering for one of our short format Tiny Press Sessions .
The Tiny Press Sessions are a new series of 3-hour stand alone workshops.
Each Tiny Press Session is $75 APS Members / $85 Non Members / $110 Register & Become a Member
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