Holiday Sale at the Graphic Arts Workshop

Ten printmakers – 5 from the Graphic Arts Workshop and 5 from the California Society of Printmakers – are teaming up for a Holiday Sale at the Graphic Arts Workshop on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, 2013.

A wide variety of original fine art prints, cards, and other items will be on display and available for purchase. Participating artists: Alice Gibbons, Mary Huizinga, Gloria Morales, Gail Morrison, Kitty Wehrmeister, Joan Finton, Barbara Rogers, Maryly Snow, Lila Wahrhaftig, and Linda Yoshizawa.

The event is free, and all are welcome! 

The Graphic Arts Workshop is located at 2565 Third Street (on the Muni T line), #305, in San Francisco’s up-and-coming Dogpatch neighborhood. On Friday, December 6, 2013, there will be an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The sale will continue Saturday, December 7, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

In addition, on Saturday there is a giant “warehouse sale” half a block away. Four blocks of 22^nd Street will be closed so neighborhood businesses and others can showcase and sell their wares (Third Street and intersections will remain open). 

Hope to see you there!

Come Join the California Society of Printmakers Centennial Book Launch Party

California Society of Printmakers (CSP) invites members of the Graphic Arts Workshop to attend our centennial book launch party at the SF Center for the Book this coming Thursday, Nov. 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The gorgeous books will be for sale, and you can avoid the $10 shipping and handling fee by purchasing your copy in person. And the Graphic Arts Workshop is cited in Art Hazelwood's essay on pages 17-19, 23, 25, 28, 30, and in Sylvia Solochek Walters' essay on page 116.

Book sales, reception, exhibit, 6 Vandercook presses running a centennial keepsake printed by the attendees.

The book, California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913-2013, is 300 pages long with 387 reproductions, a preface, a foreword, 7 essays, 8 appendices, a glossary, bibliography, and 2 indexes. The book was published in a limited edition of 400 copies.

Hard bound copy $65

Soft bound copy $50

Books are available online at http://www.caprintmakers.org/publications/csp-centennial-book/

Open Studio Was A Success

The Graphic Arts Workshop has its fall Open Studio on Nov. 1-3. It was a great success. The event drawn over 200 enthusiastic visitors and some of them are buyers. Many are interested in the artists' work and about the workshop as a whole. There were many interests in becoming a member and participating in our printing class offers.

Here are photos of the event. Participating artists were Lise Currie, Eddie Lee, Cynthia Milionis, Gail Morrison, Andrey Semyonov and Barbara Stikker.

Interested in learning about line etching?

al line etching by Rembrandt

A three-session class introducing the process of line etching using hard ground on zinc plates may be held at GAW in December on Monday evenings  - the 2nd, 9th and 16th - from 6:30 to 9:30. This class would be geared towards those with no printmaking experience who would like to understand the basics of etching. 

 The class would run with a minimum of 4 students, a maximum of 6, and will cover all the steps of creating a hard ground line etching, from applying the ground and drawing the image through printing and some basic ways to apply a single-colored background to the image. The $120 class fee includes all materials - a zinc plate (4"x6", or 4"x4"- depending on your design, ground, solvents, acids, inks, paper etc.)

About solvents: the GAW is not a non-toxic printmaking environment; people with chemical sensitivities should know that although there is ventilation for the acids and solvents and gloves are provided, oil based inks will be used, and mineral spirits are used in the shop for clean up.

Again, this is a class for people with no etching experience who are curious about the process. And yes, if you want to make your design into a card, that's possible too! For any questions or to sign up please email: gawprintclass@gmail.com 

Open Studio at the Graphic Arts Workshop

The Graphic Arts Workshop has been a hotbed of fine art printmaking in San Francisco since 1954, and is opening its doors during the first weekend in November as part of San Francisco’s Open Studios.

In contrast to today’s world of technology, many of the techniques used at GAW are centuries-old, although most have modern (and less toxic) refinements. They include etching, woodcut, linocut, letterpress, monotype and monoprint, lithograph, screenprint, and endless combinations and variations.

A wide variety of prints of many types and price-points will be on display and available for purchase.

In addition to seeing the art and hanging out with the artists, this is a great opportunity to get an inside look at a working fine art printmaking studio, and find out how etchings and other prints are created.

Participating artists: Lise Currie, Eddie Lee, Cynthia Milionis, Gail Morrison, Andrey Semyonov and Barbara Stikker.

Open Studio hours: Friday, November 1, 2013: reception 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday, November 2 & 3, 2013, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Roadworks Printing Festival!!

GAW artists Alice Gibbons and Gloria Morales will be sharing a table at the San Francisco Center for the Book's 10th anniversary Roadworks festival this Sunday. From 11 to 4 on the 29th, a team of printers will be printing 3 x 3 foot linocuts with a steamroller on Rhode Island street, offering tours of SFCB and mini-workshops, and of course there will be food and artist vendors!
More info on the SFCB Roadworks page.
Here's a quick look at some of the work Alice and Gloria will have at their table:

Gloria Morales "Ramaje"

Alice Gibbons "Firehouse in Dogpatch"

Where to find printmaking classes in SF this Fall.

 GAW artists occasionally offer classes in the workshop, but there are other places in the city to try your hand at printmaking. Whether you're just intrigued by the process, took a class a long time ago and always wanted to get back into it, or are already working with printing but want to learn a new medium, here you can pick up some new printmaking skills! (there are many places in the East Bay too, but these are just adult classes in SF) :

Although classes have already started, we have to mention City College of San Francisco. Great facilities, great teachers, evening and weekend classes in every media except lithography. Other art schools and universities often have continuing education art classes, especially in the summer, but nothing beats CCSF's prices.

These organizations have shorter classes going on in the Fall:

San Francisco Center for the Book near Potrero Hill, has lots of classes in letterpress on Vandercook and platen presses, photopolymer platemaking, and occasionally a wood engraving or solarplate class. Also many classes in bookbinding.

Sharon Arts Center: in Golden Gate park and also in the Mission, Sharon Arts has short workshops in screenprinting and relief printing (and just about every other non-print art process you could want to try).

Mission Cultural Center

Has an etching/monoprinting class, and screenprinting classes for paper and for textiles. Some classes are drop-in, so you don't have to sign up for a whole series.

Root Division: Various classes are held in their studios on 17^th Street in the Mission. Relief printing and screenprinting are the current offerings for Fall. They have other art classes, as well as teaching and professional practice workshops.

SOMARTS

Home to Chrysalis Studios: monotype and linocut classes with Katie Gilmartin.

Also, some local artists teach classes in their studios:

Ink Paper Plate Press: group classes in letterpress printing; woodcut and linoleum relief printing, right nearby in Dogpatch at Sirima Sataman's beautiful studio. I believe there might be a monotype day once in a while too.

Hilary Williams and Mike Kimball teach screenprint classes in their space at ARC studios, in SOMA. Scheduled classes or you can set up a private workshop for groups of 4 people.

3 fish studios used to be our neighbors on 3rd Street but they have moved to the outer sunset, where they still offer a friendly welcome anytime they're around, AND linoleum-block printing classes.

And lastly, (for now) if you get really ambitious, you can make prints on handmade paper by taking a papermaking workshop at 1890 Bryant in Rhiannon Alpers' studio. Also learn how to use any kind of carved wood or linoleum block to create your own watermarked sheets of paper.

GAW offers studio membership to artists who already have printmaking experience, but there are lots of resources out there for aspiring printmakers to try. Look for more posts as we discover new things!

Hundreds of Printmakers, Hundreds of Prints! One Weekend Only!

The Graphic Arts Workshop will host the only west coast showing of the Brooklyn-based Arthouse Coop's 2013 Print Exchange project.

Hundreds of printmakers from around the world (including 4 from the Graphic Arts Workshop) have each contributed a print interpreting the theme, The Drive Home.

The prints will be on display Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 26-28, 2013, from noon until 5 p.m. each day. The Graphic Arts Workshop is located at 2565 Third Street, #305, San Francisco, 415-285-5660.

There will be printmaking demonstrations on Saturday, July 27, from 2 to 4 p.m.

The prints are currently traveling across the country on board the Mobile Library with the Sketchbook Project, a traveling library of artists’ sketchbooks, which will be on display at the nearby Center for the Book (375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, 415-565-0545) on the same weekend: Friday, July 26, from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday, July 27, from 2 to 8 p.m., and Sunday, July 28, from noon to 6 p.m.    

Graphic Arts Workshop members showing at the Printmakers

Toru Sugita Summer Workshops

Etching & Aquatint

Sat & Sun 6/1 & 2

10 am ~ 6 pm

Graphic Arts Workshop

2565 3rd St # 305, San Francisco, CA 94107

Tuition $150 & material fee $30

Inquiry

Introduction to Wood Engraving

Sundays 6/23 & 30

10 am ~ 6 pm

Arts Benicia

991 Tyler St, Benicia, CA 94510

Tuition $150 & material fee $30

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This Summer DVC Offers Many Art Classes including:

ART109 Monotype & ART116 Stencil & Screen print

Instructor: Anthony Ryan

6/17 ~ 7/25

MTWTh 12:45 ~ 5:00 pm

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SFMOMA Artists Gallery Exhibit, January 2013

Please check out the two current exhibits happening at this time for Pete Villasenor

Rockridge Branch Library
5366 College Ave., 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA

"Oakland Library Artists Go Public"
FANTASTIC Art Exhibit in various mediums
Friday Mar 29, 2013
Library hours: Tues - 12:30 pm - 8; Wed & Thur 10 am - 5:30  pm; Fri noon - 5:30 pm
Sat 10 am - 5:30 pm
Performance and opening on Saturday Mar 16, 5:45 pm - 8:30 pm.

Cafe Arrivederci
11 G Street
San Rafael, Ca
Exhibit until Mar 28, 2013
I will be talking about my work at the next Art Salon happening Mar 18 starting at 6 pm (There is a $10 cover charge for this event which will include other speakers).

My email is petervillasenor@yahoo.com
Thanks!
www.mesart.com/pvillasenor

Please save the date for the Puerto Alegre Show. Gloria Morales, one of the Graphic Arts Workshop member is one of the artist in this show.

546 Valencia Street between 16th and 17th Streets.