July 27th-31st from 9am to 1pm ($100.00) For children age 7-9 years old

Create colorful explorations of your scariest monster friend, or your coolest imaginary creature through the versatile medium of printmaking. While learning the process of making multiple-layered images with collage and unconventional mark making tools students will be encouraged to experiment with printmaking techniques. An emphasis will be placed on color and shape exploration and through stencils and relief in order to bring their monster creations to life. At the end of the course the students will compile their monster prints into an accordion style book to share with their family and friends. The class time will provide a full session for students to challenge their imagination as well as absorb new methods of image making.

Please send a packed lunch for your child each day. We will finish up the day by sharing our work with one another over lunch. Class size is limited to 6 students. All supply costs are included in the price of the workshop. If you have any questions please email morgan@as220.org. Sign Up here, on our online store!

The AS220 Community Printshop is located at 95 Mathewson Street in Providence, Rhode Island on the 2nd floor. To enter the building buzz 210!

Keeseh Studio is an amazing community resource that focuses on design and wood fabrication. Similar to your own Community Printshop, they offer workshops, shop access and a great group of folks who share a passion. They are celebrating tonight a one year anniversary, Friday the 19th, and also sharing their new CNC machine.

Letterpress $85.00 Saturdays, June 6th, 13th and 20th, 5pm-9pm

This course provides a quick, basic introduction to letterpress. Participants learn to ink the press, adjust pressure, adjust roller height, register and feed a sheet of paper, make an impression and then clean the press. Creating and using plastic plates in combination with metal movable type to create your own vision in letterpressed embossment. Participants must attend ALL THREE letterpress classes in order to be certified to use the letterpress during print time. No materials needed for the first class.

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Monday, June 1st - Saturday, June 27th 2009
Opening Reception June 1st, 6-8pm
Lectures begin at 6:30 PM

Providence Public Library
Special Collections Exhibition Hall
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903

Over one thousand glass plate negatives have long lain forgotten in the Special Collections of the Providence Public Library. Now a select handful of them will be hand printed and revealed to the public eye, possibly for the very first time. The project was conceived and curated by Agata Michalowska and was brought to bear through a close collaboration with local photographers working out of the AS220 Paul Krot Community Darkrooms. Around two dozen plates will be printed and exhibited along with a selection of glass negatives. The plates represent a wide range of topics including portraits of wealthy Rhode Island families, interiors of textile factories, and landscapes of New England. These glass negatives constitute a cabinet of wonders and a glimpse of a world long past.

You still have time to make that tshirt you've been meaning to. This Sunday from 1-5pm in the Printshop over at the Dreyfus building you can learn the basics of screen printing.

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An animated film by Elana Wetzner, an offshoot of her MFA Thesis book project Pantone 319, which can be seen here.

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Dear fellow bibliophile:

I am pleased to announce the launch of Occasional Nuggets, a modest but gratifying serial publication of bookish interest, each issue of which is intended to "bring to light a gem from the special collections of the Providence Public Library."

Our first issue (Spring 2009) features a set of four Japanese fairy tales written by Lafcadio Hearn and printed in Tokyo from 1898-1904, on crêpe-paper and bound in silk thread in the Japanese (accordion) fashion. The issue begins with a short introduction on Hearn's life and career, and a reprinting (including a few scans of the original illustrations) of one of the tales--The Boy Who Drew Cats, in which a young and sensitive boy is saved by his art. Also included is a bibliography of books by Hearn in special collections, and suggestions for further reading.

One of our generous volunteers, Meg Turner (RISD '08), a graphic designer and an instructor at the AS220 Community Printshop, scanned ornaments from the many specimen books in our Updike Printing Collection to design the cover. Two hundred covers were letterpress printed in red & black at the AS220 Printshop. The internal pages were printed in-house on PPL's laser printers, and so the work embodies printing technologies from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

WHO: Anyone interested in books, art, design, or telling stories with pictures!
WHEN: One night only! Monday May 4, 6:00-7:30pm
WHERE: Barnard Room, 3rd Floor, Providence Public Library (Central Library).
WHAT: Exhibition, opened with commentary, and a reception with light refreshments.

Presenting the work of RISD graduate students in graphic design, inspired by their explorations in special collections, and created for professor Bethany Johns' Visual Narratives course. Twelve stunning 3-panel poster projects and the student artists who created them will be introduced by professor Johns and Richard Ring, Special Collections Librarian.

Drypoint $35.00 Sunday May 3rd 1-5pm
In the Drypoint class basic mark making skills as well as the techniques and processes of an etching press will be taught. Participants will make direct marks into a copper plate using sharp tools to leaving lines for inks to sit in and then be transfered to paper by running it though the press at high pressure. Sign up with the AS220 online shop!

Intro to Silkscreen:2 weeks $65.00 Thursdays, May 14th and 21th, 5pm-9pm
This course provides a two week introduction to silkscreen. Participants will learn the basics of the photo-emulsion process, a variety of making ways to make positives, in addition to ink mixing, how to troubleshoot the process, registration and printing methods. Please bring all supplies listed below to the first class. Sign up with the AS220 online shop!

Monoprint $65.00 Saturday May 2th & 9th 1-5pm
Monotype is a singular (mono) image taken from a plate that is drawn or painted on. It is a combination of printmaking and painting. The results are highly original and cannot be replicated in a different process. Monotype allows a lot of room for experimentation and play. It is a great process both for painters who would like to begin working with printmaking as well as printmakers who would like to use a looser and more direct technique of image making. Monotypes can be executed on a variety of surfaces including metal, plastic, varnished cardboard and plexiglass. The inks can be oil or water-based. The image will be executed on copper plates which will allow the introduction of drypoint as another means of mark making. Sign up with the AS220 online shop!

T-Shirt Silkscreen $35.00 Sunday May 31th, 1pm-5pm
Student will learn the very basics of screen-printing 1-color images on t-shirts, using the photo-emulsion process. They will also discover the best methods for keeping t-shirts flat, using the proper ink for fabric, as well as how to properly set the ink into the shirt using the hot press or other at household methods. By the end of the class, students will have produced a wearable, 1-color t shirt. Sign up with the AS220 online shop!