Classes/Workshops 
CLASS AND WORKSHOP SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION
INKubator PRESS features a variety of classes and workshops throughout the year. Check back often for schedule updates and new offerings!
· Join INKubator PRESS for 6 months or 1 year and take 1 workshop or class free of tuition. Please see studio membership and information for details regarding membership.
To register for a class:
1. Download the registration form. (a fillable PDF; if you prefer a MS Word document, please email inkinfo@artsincubatorkc.org for the form)
2. Email the completed registration form to inkinfo@artsincubatorkc.org
3. Mail tuition to INKubator PRESS, 115 West 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108.
Summer Workshops: 2010
Letterpress in the 21st Century!
Use 19th century equipment to print mass quantities using modern digital designs. INKubator Press now offers classes featuring our Chandler and Price letterpress! Learn how to use our letterpress, how to set up a job, how to print, and most importantly how to plan for a project. If you are advanced, we also offer assistance in making your own design come to life. INK Press can offer instruction for any level of student, from the curious to the advanced designer. Anything is possible using these old school methods of production.
Letterpress 1: The Basics (offered monthly)
*Beginners Welcome!!!
Learn the basics about letterpress, its history and function. The benefit to using this type of printmaking equipment is to make mass quantities of prints. Think custom business cards, original postcards, thank you notes, stationary, or invitations. Hand printing is back in a big way, and we’ll help you become familiar with the process so you can learn how to plan your own project.
Letterpress 1 classes execute a pre-designed project that we will print from start to finish as a group. The results of your collective labors will be split within the student group for you to keep. Take home a unique printed card and send it to friends; show it off as your own “hand printed” print! If you’ve always wanted to learn how letterpress works, this is the class for you. If you’ve got bigger ambitions and know your way around Adobe Illustrator, make your own custom designs in Letterpress 2.
Letterpress 2: Advanced (by appointment)
*Prerequisites: Letterpress 1 or similar experience
Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Letterpress 2 delves into the finer points of press production with a private lesson to finish a project designed by you. Plan your own custom print job with digital designs printed on our Chandler and Price press. We’ll team you up with an experienced press operator and help you execute your own project; a one-on-one hands on experience. You get to be involved every step of the way, from the creating a design on Adobe Illustrator and ordering custom polymer plates, to planning your project, mixing the colors, and producing the final edition.
Learn the finer points of registration, color use, and how to troubleshoot while printing. Some computer/design experience is required for level 2 students, so we recommend you have a background in graphic design before taking this level of work on. If it’s your first print, we encourage 2 color designs. Simple is best as you get the hang of this fantastic production process.
Water Based Screen Printing: Beginners Workshop
Instructed by Christina Vantzou
E-mail Christina with questions.
Class Code: W31003
If you have little or no previous screen printing experience the Inkubator is offering a two day workshop to get you started. Once you have completed the workshop you will be equipped with the basics of the entire process and ready to print on your own. The class is also designed for anyone who has already been introduced to the process but needs a good refresher course. During the workshop you will learn how to print starting from a photo stencil. You will learn how to get your artwork ready to put on your screen, how to coat a screen with photo sensitive emulsion, expose it using a professional exposure unit, learn about different inks, and print on a vacuum table printing station. In the studio we will go over every step of the process with hands-on training and each student will produce a small edition two color screen print. Instructor Christina Vantzou is a professional artist based in Brussels, Belgium, was the first member of inkubator press, and has been printing small editions there since the opening of the print shop.
Some things you will learn about are a general overview of the screen printing medium, preparing artwork for screen printing, preparing a screen with photo emulsion, and using an exposure unit. In printing, you will learn about mixing inks, using screen printing mediums like transparent base and retarder, working with various screen printing papers and basic printing and registration techniques for a small format 2 color print.
Duration: 2 day weekend workshop
Dates: July 10th and 11th
Times: Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm
Tuition: $125
Enrollment: minimum 6 students
Prerequisite: No experience necessary
The Art of Relief Printing
Instructed by Chris Wallace
E-mail Chris with questions.
Class Code: W31004
This course will introduce students to relief printmaking with a focus on content and technique. Students will learn expressive carving techniques with both traditional and nontraditional tools and experiment with matrixes as well as printing and inking applications.
Relief is the oldest form of printmaking and is considered the foundation on which all mass communication was built. It is exremely versatile and its uses range from commercial design to high art. Students will learn how to use this technique and how to incorporate and apply it to their own work.
A breif overview of topics that will be discussed:
Tools & materials (types of wood, papers, inks and modifiers, sharpening tools), press vs. hand printing, printmaking with limited space and budget,
repairing cutting errors, signing and numbering prints, non- and less-toxic materials and practices,and resources for further study.
Duration: 2 Days
Dates: Thursday July 22nd, and Friday the 23rd
Times: 10am-5pm
Tuition: $130
Enrollment: minimum 6 students
Prerequisite: No experience necessary
