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Intro to Screen Printing taught by Diana Eicher
January 5, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
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IN PERSON with 1 hour break for lunch. Teens 16+ are welcome in this class!
This class will provide an overview of screen printing with water-based inks. Beginners as well as previous screen printers are both welcome! Haven’t screen-printed since college but want to get back to it? This class is the perfect opportunity to refresh your skills. Learn low-tech ways to create images on screens without a screen printing exposure unit. Foundation skills will be demonstrated and taught like how to make images that can translate easily to a screen print, color mixing, overprinting with transparent colors, multiple color printing, and registration techniques. We will use waterbased non-toxic inks that can be easily washed out of the screen with water. We’ll be printing on paper, using wax paper stencils, and then move on to experiment with two color printing. After this class, you will be able to screen print on your own at home ! No previous experience necessary.
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Diana Joanne Eicher, received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawaii, and her BA in Painting from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Diana studied painting in Italian at the Accademia di Belle Arti, in Venice, Italy and aluminum plate lithography at Tamarind Institute. Diana is the Director of the Printmaking and Papermaking Studios at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and oversees with the studios for books, intaglio, letterpress, lithography, papermaking, photogravure, screenprinting, and woodcut. Eicher has taught at the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, The Ox-Bow School of Art: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Textile Center of Minnesota, and the University of Hawaii. Diana has been a teaching artist for Speedball Art Products and Akua Printmaking Inks. Diana had a solo show of her work, “To Shanghai: Recent Work by Diana Eicher” at Donghua University in Shanghai, China that included 70 works of art. Her most current project is a “Glossary of Printmaking Terms in English and Chinese” that took her 10 years to write and was published by Donghua University Press, Shanghai, China. Eicher has presented 12 papers, lectures, and exhibitions, in the United States and internationally and has exhibited her work in over 98 group and solo exhibitions.
dianaeicher@me.com
612-877-0903
