CLASSES
Both novice and advanced printmaker will find DPW printmaking classes that accommodate and challenge their skill level. Class sizes are kept to a minimum in order to facilitate individual instruction.​​​​​​​​​​​
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INTRODUCTION TO RELIEF PRINTING: LINOCUT​
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May 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2025
6pm - 9pm
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Instructor: Taryn Walker
Fee: $370 + tax
Skill level: Beginner to intermediate
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Maximum number of student: 8​​
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Course Description: Dive into the centuries-old world of relief printmaking by learning how to transform and deconstruct your drawings into multiples with the help of carving tools and a printing press. A process that Phil Sanders in Prints and Their Makers describes as "[providing] us with a rare window into an artist’s studio practice, thinking, and process."
This workshop is suitable for those new to printmaking or printmakers who would like to get experience using a printing press. In this course, students will become familiar with a printmaking studio, and learn how to transfer their drawings onto various surfaces, linoleum carving and inking techniques, image registration, and setting up and pulling prints on a printing press. Students will conclude the course with their very own edition of prints.
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Materials: Instructor can provide a 6x8” lino block and carving tool at a cost of $35 (or you can bring your own), plus some extra inks, graphite transfer paper, tracing paper, etc. for use during the class. Students will need to bring a 6" brayer, printmaking paper, sketchbook, and drawing tools. Full supply list will be provided upon registration. ​
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​Bio: Taryn Walker is an award-winning queer, interdisciplinary mixed-Indigenous artist of Nlaka'pamux, Syilx, and European ancestry currently based in the unceded territories of the xwmÉ™θkwÉ™yÌ“É™m, Skwxwú7mesh, and SÉ™lÌ“ílwÉ™taɬ Nations. Their work explores themes of futurity, spiraling time, utopia, tenderness, playfulness, healing, and cycles of life and death through drawing, printmaking, installation, video, and sound.
In 2018 Walker graduated from the University of Victoria's BFA program with a Major in Visual Arts and a Minor in Art History & Visual Studies. In December 2024, Walker completed their MFA at Simon Fraser University in Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts.
Walker’s work has been presented in spaces, residencies, and events across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Notable recent achievements include receiving the SSHRC award (2023), and a printmaking research residency at the University of Tennessee Knoxville which included mentorship with Koichi Yamamoto (2024), and teaching the course Methods & Concepts: Printmaking at SFU during the Fall term (2024).
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INTRODUCTION TO PRINTMAKING​
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May 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2025
6pm - 9pm
Instructor: Joanne Brown
Fee: $370 + tax
Skill level: Beginner to intermediate
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Maximum number of student: 8​
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Course Description: Techniques will include relief, collagraph and monotype printmaking with Akua soy-based nontoxic inks. Paper and blocks for carving will be provided. Carving tools and brayers will be available for use. This course is designed for absolute beginners as well as intermediate printmakers. You may be new to printmaking or returning to it after a while.
Week 1: Introducing relief printmaking; participants will create relief prints with Styrofoam plates and print a small edition. Carving wood and linoleum will be demonstrated and materials and tools will be made available. Students may sign out a set of carving tools to borrow for the duration of the course.
Week 2: Participants will arrive with carved blocks or they will complete carving. Proofing and editioning of prints will then be done.
Week 3: Collagraph Printmaking in relief style will be introduced and demonstrated briefly. Participants will have an opportunity to create a quick dry collograph prints using pipe duct tape and objects. Participants may begin a collograph plate using cardboard and glue and may take this home to dry or to complete.
Week 4: Collagraphs and Monotype prints. Collagraph print editions can be printed. A brief demonstration of 3 types of monotype printmaking will be done and the rest of the time can be spent experimenting one or more of these.
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This course is designed for absolute beginners as well as intermediate printmakers.
You may be new to printmaking or returning to it after a while.
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Materials: All Materials Included!
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​Bio: Joanne Brown is an experienced printmaker with an extensive teaching background. She has taught art in the community, as well as in schools and colleges. She has a BFA from Emily Carr School of Art and an M Ed from UBC. Her studio practice is primarily printmaking with woodblock lino monotype printmaking and mixed media prints. To view her website see: jobrownartist.ca
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Please register online, in person or via phone during our regular gallery hours. You can also visit here or our Facebook page for updated course information and availability.
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PAYMENT OPTIONS
VISA, Master Card, or Debit.
WITHDRAWALS
With more than two weeks notice, DPW will refund fees minus a $30 administrative fee. With less than two weeks notice, DPW will refund fees minus a $50 administrative fee.
CANCELLATIONS
Courses may occasionally be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment or unforeseen circumstances. Should DPW cancel a course, we will issue a full refund or credit.
