We will be offering a smaller roster of classes in the month of October due to the pending move in the Mercantile Block Building right next door. To sign up, just click on the name of the class below.

Intro to Letterpress: 3 Weeks
Wednesdays, October 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

Intro to Silkscreen: 2 weeks
Thursdays, October 7th and 14th : 5-9pm
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. If preferred, bring some drawings, or computer generated designs to the first class.

Check back for November classes soon.

The first session of the Print Shop's August Intro. to Letterpress class is coming up This Thursday. Unusually, we've still got spots for this regularly-sold-out program! Learn how to imbue your words with the intense impression only letterpress can create! Walk away from three sessions with an excellent understanding of the technical and creative possibilities this beautiful piece of machinery will present.

This is the last Letterpress class before our big move, and if you've been thinking about signing up, consider that this class will not be offered again until Late October / November, once we've settled into our new shop next door.

If you've got words or images, cards or announcements, bookmarks, stationary, gifts, poems, or anything else you'd like to make analogue multiples of in a serious (or ebullient, or just hand-crafted) way, Sign up Today! Make an impression on someone with something wonderful at a very human scale.

Click here to head to our sign up page.

An eventful last week of July here at the AS220 Print Shop. This post has three foci. Okay now 4.

1. August Classes are filling. Click here to sign up for a class today! acquire some printmaking skills and create printed matter that matters. We offer great classes across diverse print disciplines, and the class sizes are small - which means participants get plenty of hands on experience and personal instruction! We're proud of our classes, presses, and teachers - just read this snippet from our last batch of class evaluations:

   "Overall Experience was spectacular. Instructor extremely knowledgeable and patient. Was able to cover a lot of info in a small amount of time. The only improvement would be more time... maybe by adding a fourth day."
   -From June Letterpress Class

Our classes cover a lot of ground! Register to make something analogue and beautiful!

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2. The Print Lottery is coming up and tickets are now available online. Excellent work continues to roll in. Every ticket purchased helps to support the shop and wins some incredible work, too!

We've recently received some incredible prints by Stefan Gunn, Keyholder Henry Brown, Lois Harada, and more. The Sneak Peek Below is a small glimpse of a dense and incredibly articulate c-print by Piotr Kaczmarek.

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1. Tamara Waite-Santibanez is the July A.I.R. for a few more days. The Print Shop is psyched to have her around and printing. Pictures below feature work she's printed here at the AS220 Print Shop.

1. Look at the Youth Studio Screen Printers in Action!

Today a package arrived at the Print Shop full of work from the wonderous 1026 in Philadelphia!

AS220 House Manager, Large-scale Linocut Phenom and Just Seeds Member Meredith Stern dropped off a work of her own, sneak peak below:

We're really impressed thus far with the quality submissions we've received for our 2nd Biennial Print Lottery. Come September, supporters of the Print Shop will have the opportunity to take home some fantastic prints and works on paper.

Click here to learn more about the 2nd Biennial AS220 Print Lottery, purchase a ticket, or see our roster of print-related events! Print Matters!

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On to the next one. August P-Shop classes are coming up! These are our last classes before the Mercantile-Block move, so if you were hoping to pick up a skill or two this summer, sign up today! Click here to visit our online store, where you can see and sign up for our complete roster of classes

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Click below to see the complete panorama from our most recent Third Thursday Screenprinting Session - where screen-printers with a bit of experience can come coat, shoot, and print a screen for only 5$ We have monitors around to help trouble-shoot and ensure success! The Third Thursday sessions are not a substitute for a class, but great for folks who've done this before!

Firstly, This isn't Jurassic Park and you don't need to say The Magic Word. If you'd like to sign up for a Printmaking Class in August, just click on the following link:

AS220 Community Print Shop August Classes.

Next, Visiting Artist-in-Residence Sanford Kogan will be showing new light-tapestries from 6 - 9PM this Friday, the 9th of July, at AS220's Empire Street Building / 3rd Floor AIR space. Sanford has arranged handwritten French legal documents from the 18th and 19th Century, combining these character-rich pages with light to emanate warmth.

Come see Sanford's new works from 6-9PM on Friday, July 9th at AS220's 3rd Floor AIR Space on Empire Street / Downtown Providence, RI.

Also, Because we'll be focused on the 2010 Print Lottery coming up in September. this is the last best chance for people to pop into a class before our move into the Mercantile Block and our brand new (much bigger) Print Shop. We're not going to be offering classes in September (to focus on the Lottery) or October (to focus on the buildout and setup of our new space (and Halloween)) So if you've been putting off the acquisition of some new skills, put-off no more.

Speaking of the Print Lottery, We've started to receive our first prints / works on paper, Including some work from Peter Lutz (The First Donation) and Lilli Carré. Donated work will soon be appearing on our Flickr Account, so that you can easily see what your support might take home in exchange.

Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Penland's focus on excellence, its long history, and its inspiring, retreat setting have made it a model of experiential education. The school offers workshops in books and paper, clay, drawing and painting, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, wood, and other media. Penland sponsors artist residencies, a gallery and visitors center, and community education programs.

Printshop Manager, Morgan Calderini and glass artist, Nicole Chesney will be teaching a Printmaking workshop July 25th through August 10th at Penland. Vitreography is a printmaking technique using thick sheet glass as a matrix. Daily demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for applying vitreography to their own work. Demonstrations will include chine collé, multiple-plate registration, working reductively, monoprinting, editioning, carving, engraving, and sandblasting. From painterly to graphic, vitreography offers endless approaches to artists of all disciplines and levels of experience.

Visit Penland's site to sign up!

Air Horn! The AS220 Community Print Shop is pleased to announce our 2nd Biennial Print Lottery! A series of print-related events spread out over the month of September 2010 culminates in a massive lottery of over 200 prints / works on paper.

The AS220 Community Print Shop's 2nd Biennial Print Lottery has its own site. Click here to learn all about the lottery, see the full roster of events, purchase tickets, and more!

And, serendipitously, after our print-related festivities in September, we'll begin our big move into the Mercantile Block building. More air horn!

But before all that, we'll still have a handful of productive months in our current, cozy home. If you're feeling the desire to develop a skill-set this summer, check out our online classes for July.

Alongside our Screen Printing and Letterpress classes (which still have a few spots) we're trying a new, longer and more in-depth Intaglio class - Introduction to Drypoint.

In this 3 session class, participants will get in-depth, guided experience creating a beautiful copper-plate matrix, inking up plates, setting proper press pressure and preparing your fine-art papers. Students will join a great tradition of printmakers and see their work and lines printed with rich, beautiful inks - this process will amplify your artwork's emotional effect.

I will be presenting three artist's books based on three different artifacts from the Special Collections. This body of work was made possible with the support of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

The project is composed of The Book of Time, The Book of Senses and The Book of Passing. Each is a subjective visual reinterpretation of a historical record. I am interested in the moment of translation: what remains of the original source, what is lost and the distortions that occur in the process.

The exhibition is a celebration of the rare books and fascinating objects housed at the Special Collections of the Providence Public Library. They document the multitude of ways in which the human mind came to understand and describe the world. The past is a mirror of the present. We share the same fundamental questions; it is the point of view that changes.

These books and objects are a source of wonder. I invite you to see the ways in which they inspired me.

-Agata Michalowska

The New York Times today has a very interesting article about how constant exposure to information via the internet is fundamentally re-wiring our ability to focus and filter information. You can read the article by clicking here.

The good news? I know of an antidote. Printmaking. The art of multiples requires mental discipline, teaches focus, and rewards patience. These powerful processes force you to consider something in depth and hone your ability to become a laser beam.

Come by 95 Mathewson at 6PM tonight, Monday the 7th. Learn all about the shop, the people who print here, our array of beautiful presses, inclusive membership options, jam-packed classes and more.

Printmaking makes patient people. Come practice patience and print!

If you're hoping to pick up a creative skill or two in June, or interested in the art of multiple-making, consider the following:

Intro to Screen Printing - Monday, June 14th and 21st from 5-9PM Learn how to Screen Print colorful flats layers of ink onto paper or fabric - or translate that graphic drawing into an ideal image for this fast, flexible printmaking process. This two-session class will cover screen selection, prep, and coating with photo emulsion, creating an image well-suited for screenprinting, exposing our screens, printing technique, multiple-color printing, registration, halftone images, and more. A very full 8 hours total. Only 1 spot left!

Intro to Offset Printing - Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 1st - 17th, 5 - 9PM

Come learn how to run the ABDick 9850 Offset Press - A commercial press capable of creating hundreds of prints in a matter of minutes. Publish your own colorful 'zines, newspapers, fliers, single-page artists' books, multiple-page book projects, and more. Only One Spot Left!

T-shirt Screen Printing, Saturday June 26th, 1-5PM Want to quickly learn the basics of screen printing and walk away from a 4 hour class with some hand-printed t-shirts? sign up for this class, design something nice and graphic, learn how to expose a screen and print up a small storm. Participants, bring your own fabric or t-shirts to print on, and we'll aim to make this basic class as productive as possible.

If you're interested in a class but June doesn't work for you, check out our July class schedule, too!