Introduction to Collage Printing
May 1 – May 22, 2025 | 1:30–4 p.m.
Location: Greene Family Education Center, Blue Workshop
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The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon open studio during the run of the class.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon open studio during the run of the class.
Printmaking provides artists with the unique opportunity to create multiple versions of a single artwork. This allows for a wider distribution of ideas and visual language while offering new ways to experiment with composition, color, and texture. In this class, combine collage and printmaking techniques to create collagraphs. Use collage materials to make your own printing plates with raised, textured surfaces, and learn both relief and intaglio methods to achieve a variety of textural effects.
- Week 1: Begin with an introduction to the class and an outline of the collage printing methods that will be explored. Create small plates by arranging cut and torn textured materials, and engage in an initial exploration of relief inking and printing methods.
- Week 2: Make an intaglio plate by incising a design into an otherwise flat surface. Then, practice intaglio inking and printing methods.
- Week 3: Develop a design to create a new printing plate, using different collage materials and cutting into their surfaces. Further explore inking and printing using relief and intaglio methods.
- Week 4: Create a small edition of prints from one of the plates you created in a previous session, choosing between relief or intaglio printing methods. We will conclude our time together with a reflection on our prints and a conversation about what we learned.
About Studio Classes
Studio Classes enable you to expand your art-making skills through guided, step-by-step instruction with expert teaching artists. Over multiple weeks, you will learn alongside other creative adults and delve deeply into the artistic process, explore new techniques, and build your practice.
This is an introductory-level Studio Class; it is designed to accommodate all levels of skill and talent. If you have never taken a drawing class before, this is a great place to start. You will learn new skills that you can carry forward and build on in your artistic practice.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
About Your Instructor
Jaffia Royes is a visual artist and art educator who lived and worked in New York City for seventeen years. As an educator, she has worked with various art organizations, museums, and schools and has taught artists of all ages, including portfolio development for those entering art and design colleges and universities. While Jaffia’s primary medium for over two decades has been oil painting, she began developing a body of work in clay a few years ago as a creative way to house her ever-growing plant collection. Her passions for art and plant life allow space for her to practice mindfulness, serenity, and self-care, which she brings into the classroom and hopes to encourage through her teaching.
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