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Our newest workshops are now posted on the AS220 Online Shop, sign up today! You can also download the whole list of springclasses here.

Remember to bring your own artwork on acetate. Also any specific ink / paper / fabric. We'll provide the screens, emulsion, printing bases, exposure unit, and monitors for guidance. This is a great way to get re-familiar with the screen printing process. Only $5.00 per screen!

And a bit of random fun. While digging through the photographic history of the shop, we stumbled into some pictures of our friend Anna Lynett helping to build out the shop. Anna was recently a contestant on Project Runway's 7th Season, and did some excellent (and print inspired) work on the show. We're proud of her!

Don't delay, we have one spot left in Intro to Silkscreen and one in Intro to Letterpress. Sign up online in the AS220 Shop!

Letterpress $85.00 Saturday, February 13th, 20th and 27th, 1pm-5pm 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.

Intro to Silkscreen: 2 weeks $65.00 Monday, February 15th and 22nd, 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. If preferred, bring some drawings, or computer generated designs to the first class.

There is no excuse, don't have crappy business cards. Sign up today for our newest Printshop workshops.

We've still got spaces left in a Letterpress class that begins tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd at 5pm. This is an excellent opportunity to learn Letterpress printing, and you'll be using a a modified C.I.A. technique to press a secret message! Take advantage today of this rare chance to slip into a letterpress class without waiting. Sign up today.

we've also got a handful of exciting changes we're rolling out this month.

If you're a by-the-block member at the shop, we're dropping the price of a block of time for the month of February. it's going to be 15$ a block, or two for $25. That's 8 hours of printing time for 25$. Full steam ahead!

Refer a friend - If your friend lists you as a referal on their new membership, we'll see that when we process their new account, and credit you with a free block of time. Sign up your friends! Then come print with them!

Also starting this month, every third Thursday (thats 2/18/10), from 5-9, it's open screenprint sesh! That means anyone with some screen-printing knowledge is welcome to come in, coat, expose, and print a screen. All for 5$ - no membership required.

You are expected to bring your own image, paper (or fabric). We've got leftover inks, but if you have a specific color in mind, pick it up before you come! You do not have to be a shop member, but this program is first come, first serve, with up to 6 people printing at a time.

We'll have monitors on hand to help people stay on track and overcome hurdles - but this is not a class. If you've never screenprinted before, sign up for our regular 2 week intro class but if you have an idea of what your doing, and this all sounds good to you, please visit the specific page we've made for this program, so you know you'll be totally prepared.

Quick Recap!

1. Open House tonight! February 1st @ 6 PM. See the Offset in Action!

2. Secret Cinnamon 2 Session Letterpress Class Starting Tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd @ 5 pm.

3. February "We Love You By-the-Block Members" Discount. The special prices are 15$ for 1 Block, 25$ for 2. Thats 25$ for 8 Hours of Print Shop Time!

4. Refer a Friend. If your friend writes you down on their new membership as a referral, you get a free block of printshop time, or a free month as a monitor! Tell people about the shop. Sign 'em up, and then print as team!

5. Thursday Night Open Screenprint Sessions! Starting this Thursday, the 4th of February, at 5pm. Bring $5 per small screen and your design(s) on Acetate ready-to-shoot, and we'll get to work coating, shooting, and exposing a screen for print.

We've got so many things doing for the month of February. Come print!

Learn about the AS220 Community Print Shop. Take a tour of the facilities, learn a bit about how we operate and what we provide. See the new 2 Color Offset Lithography Press running full steam and making multiples en masse. Sign up for a class. Ask questions, bring work to share and discuss. Meet other printmakers, and more!

Angee Lennard is visiting from Chicago, where she founded and operates Spudnik Press. Her residency in Providence has been spent exploring notions of progress, technology, perspective and generational divide. With a series of lovingly mezzotinted copper plates printed in subdued hues, her subjects - once the shape of things to come- take on an awkward, intimate, and painfully familiar tone.

Join us this Thursday as we celebrate Angee and her dedicated effort, a sizable collection of new work created at the AS220 Community Printshop. She will also be periodically giving demonstrations of the mezzotinting process she used to create most of her prints. If you met Angee this month, come say farewell! If you haven't met her, this is your chance!

Thursday the 28th of January, 5 - 7pm. Location: 95 Mathewson Street. Downtown Providence. Food and Beverage and Prints and Demos!

Currently we are in the process of getting the press set up and running. Just like all the other equipment in shop, we will soon offering classes. Once safely trained to operate the press, a membership will allow you easy access to the shop to produce your own work. In addition to the new press we also have a Baumfolder 714 folding machine, perforator and saddle stitch / stapling machine. Now is the time to start laying out that sweet 'zine you've been dreaming of.

This print typifies Zornoza's characteristic use of intricate line-work, elaborate ornament, and combined imagery based in ornate textile patterns, varied mythology, and the natural world. Unlike her past work, however, this print incorporates her distinctive style within a bold geometric motif. A heavy circular mandala divides the piece into six triangular frames, housing the alternating designs within like small vignettes. Five shades of ochre and red lend warmth and subtlety to this incredibly complex design. The print is available through our online shop.

On deck first is our January Drypoint Class. Learn to make direct marks into a copper plate using sharp tools. Then, using an etching press, you will amplify and multiply your marks, transferring them into paper in the process.

Then, early February, We're running our first ever Secret Valentines Letterpress Class. Using a technique used by the CIA and modified for Letterpress, we're going to be printing hidden messages. Be the envy of your homeroom (or workplace), as everyone will want you as their valentine! Or just treat a special someone to a super-sweet hand-printed treat.

To sign up for either class, visit our Online Store

James is a world-builder, weaving lonely narratives with estranged teens and lovingly-rendered, mass-manufactured anonymous objects. My mother might say, "he has a knack for color." James generates material endlessly, making videos, music, drawings and installations. AS220 and the Community Print Shop are proud to present the remnants of his residency. New Years Eve Eve.

Participants will get a great introduction to screen-printing, from start to finish, learning the skills needed to produce your own holiday gift-wrap in the process. Friends and family members will love having hand-made work wrap their gifts, and participants will have a story to tell about the new skills they've learned. Participants are strongly encouraged to show up with a sketch of your design for printing onto acetate - or a printout onto an 8.5" x 11" transparency. also, bring in an assortment of cheap fun paper to print onto. Rolls of newsprint. left-over scraps, large colored construction paper - all of these are going to be good for your own gift wrap. If you have any questions please email jay@as220.org

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