For current HP co-op members: a space to share work, learn, build skills, and build community.
This class will center on the importance of giving and receiving community feedback to enrich the artists' visual and written work.
This course is an introduction to both printmaking and astrology. We will explore different planets in your personal birth chart to inspire and create works of art. Some of the print techniques we will be learning include monotype, drypoint, and relief.
In this workshop, participants will carve away the areas they want to remain white on a linoleum block. The image will be printed from the raised surfaces left on the block after carving. Relief printing is the oldest form of printmaking, and these prints are characterized by their bold contrast between light and dark areas.
Join us on May 17th for a family-friendly, garden-themed Free Ink Day!
In this workshop, a single block is carved and cut into separate pieces, inked individually, and reassembled for printing. This method allows for multi-color designs without the need for multiple blocks.
Water soluble monotypes are a form of printmaking that uses water-soluble crayons and watercolor paints. Participants use these materials to paint and draw on a plexiglass plate. The paints are allowed to dry and are then printed on an etching press using damp paper. Wet paper reactivates the water-soluble materials and results in a vibrant impression. This form of monotype is the form of printing we offer that is closest to drawing and painting.
This course is an introduction to screenprinting. You’ll learn how to create multi-layered screenprints from start to finish!
Participants will use water soluble materials to paint directly on a screen, then apply a transparent base to create unique monotypes.
Participants will use screenprinting ink to paint directly on a screen to create vibrant, painterly screenprints.
Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio.
In this workshop, participants will cut a simple design into contact paper (the adhesive vinyl used for lining shelves) and adhering it to a screen to create a stencil. This technique is great for bold and graphic designs.
In this workshop, participants will create textured printing plates using various materials, then ink and print them to produce rich, layered images.
Using a single plate, participants will create layered ,multi-color prints by strategically removing and re-inking areas of their design.
Reduction relief printing is a method to achieve a multicolor print using one block. Participants will create an image by drawing using two to three different colors. Using their drawing as a guide, they will alternate between printing a color and carving to show the layer beneath.
Participants will learn how to make unique blue cyanotype prints, from preparing the paper to exposing in light, then developing the image in water. This technique involves dried florals, fabrics, and other found objects to create a design.
Participants will use watercolor paints to paint directly on a screen, then apply a transparent base to create unique monotypes.
Participants will use water soluble materials to paint directly on a screen, then apply a transparent base to create unique monotypes.
Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio.
5-6pm
Please join us at Highpoint on Saturday, March 15 at 5pm for a gallery conversation with McKnight Fellows Grace Sippy and Fidencio-Fifield Perez. The conversation will be moderated By Teréz Iacovino.
About the guest moderator: Teréz Iacovino (she/her) is an artist, educator, and the Assistant Curator of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. As a First-Gen graduate working in academia her curatorial mission is to cultivate empathy for, give voice to, and take risks with underrepresented artists. Iacovino is the recipient of a Curatorial Research Fellowship Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is a 2024 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute Fellow. She is currently co-organizing Vaivén: 21st Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora (September 9 - December 6, 2025) with José López Serra, a multidisciplinary exhibition that gathers forty-three intergenerational artists of Puerto Rican descent working from the archipelago and its stateside diaspora over the last twenty-five years.
Within her own artistic practice, Iacovino's recent works function as a chain of unique installations, combining objects, text, and collage, that explore ways to process loss, map time, and negotiate familial history. Her current investigations explore familial estrangement within the Puerto Rican Diaspora coupled with an inherited colonial legacy spanning over half a century. She draws from objects and photographs that document these two intertwined histories, examining questions of authenticity and inheritance in relation to a diasporic consciousness.
Teréz Iacovino
TYhis event is made possible through the generous support of the McKnight Foundation. The McKnight Foundation is a family foundation based in Minnesota that seeks to advance a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive.
Join us on March 8th for a family-friendly, LEGO-themed Free Ink Day!
In this workshop, participants will carve a design on an easy-to-cut block. Participants color each area between the carved lines with ink, and transfer their design to paper using a baren.
For this class, students will create a drawing on frosted Dura-lar with paint markers (positives). Screens are pre-coated with a photosensitive emulsion, and the positives are used to expose an image on the screen. The unexposed emulsion is washed out, leaving the image on the screen. This is the most common form of screenprint, as similar methods are used for commercial screenprinting.
Curious about how Mezzotints are made? What even IS a Mezzotint?! This demonstration by printmaker Douglas Bosley will dive deep into the labor-intensive process of creating dynamic, high-contrast prints.
In this workshop, participants will cut paper stencils and can use certain found objects to build an image. After inking the stencils and applying them to a plexiglass plate, it is run through an etching press to create a unique, one-of-a-kind print.
This Valentine’s Day, give a gift that’s as unique as your love! In this romantic and hands-on workshop, you’ll create a one-of-a-kind portrait print of your partner using the traditional technique of drypoint intaglio.
In this workshop, participants will build designs using Lego dots and baseplates. The image will be printed from inking the legos with water based ink.
Class participants will donate one (or more!) of the prints they make in this class to Art 4 Shelter, an art sale fundraising event to benefit Simpson Housing Services.
In this workshop, participants will carve away the areas they want to remain white on a soft, easy-to-cut block. The image will be printed from the raised surfaces left on the block after carving. Relief printing is the oldest form of printmaking, and these prints are characterized by their bold contrast between light and dark areas.
In this workshop, participants will cut a simple design into contact paper (the adhesive vinyl used for lining shelves) and adhering it to a screen to create a stencil. This technique is great for bold and graphic designs.
This introductory course offers students a hands-on exploration of traditional intaglio printmaking, where they will learn to create detailed and textured prints.
Students will learn mono print methods using collagraph techniques, non-traditional objects, textures, and recycled materials to create imagery on a professional intaglio press with oil-based inks.
Build your own plates and learn about the unique and versatile form of printmaking called collagraphy, where the printing plates are made by hand.
Create a 1-2 layer screen print edition.
Students will learn to make carborundum collagraphs and create multi-color prints using watercolors mixed with gum Arabic.
This free workshop will cover the basics of applying to artist opportunities such as residencies, open calls, and fellowships: looking for opportunities, developing personal criteria for which to apply to, tracking deadlines, organizing application materials, and - most crucially - navigating rejections and cultivating resilience to keep applying. Following a presentation, participants will be invited to discuss and share their own methods, experiences and questions.
Carve a relief block and hand print multiple painted colors.
Print drypoint plates using relief roll color techniques.
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