Screenprinting Messages (5 sessions)

Screenprinting Messages (5 sessions)

Adult Class | Available

All levels welcome.
5/5/2026-6/2/2026
6:30 PM-9:30 PM EST on Tue
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$205.00
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Screenprinting Messages (5 sessions)

Adult Class | Available

This five-week screen printing course explores how printed images and words carry meaning, emotion, and intent when multiplied and shared. Drawing from the visual language of posters, zines, textiles, and graphic ephemera, students will use screen printing as a tool for communicating ideas, personal, poetic, or political. Through hands-on demos, guided experimentation, and group discussion, students will develop a message-driven print project that considers audience, context, and impact.

This class is suitable for beginners and those with some screen printing experience who want to deepen their conceptual approach.

What You Will Learn: 
- Fundamentals of screen printing, including screen prep, exposure, registration, and printing
- How to translate ideas, text, and imagery into strong, printable designs
- Strategies for using typography, symbols, and image-text relationships to communicate meaning
- How color, scale, and repetition affect interpretation and tone
- Basics of printing on paper and fabric How to develop a cohesive message-based print series
- How to critique work constructively and articulate your visual intention

  • Start the term with these supplies:
    • Sketchbook/notebook, and something to write with.
    • Also, if possible, please bring any sketches or examples of previous artwork that you think could become ideas for silkscreen.

    Other supplies to be discussed:
    • Protective gloves, such as dishwashing type
    • Water-based Textile or Permanent Acrylic Screenprinting Inks, in 8-oz. containers [note: do not bring water-soluble inks — read labels carefully.] Definitely buy black, white, and the primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. You may, of course, buy any other colors you like.
    • Plastic pint- or quart-size containers with lids for storing mixed ink
    • Printmaking paper (archival rag paper) — at least 4 sheets, 22 X 30 inches  Recommended: Lennox and Arches 88 Silkscreen, or any smooth printmaking paper — such as Rives BFK, Arches Cover, Stonehenge, etc.
    • 18 X 24-inch newsprint paper pad
    • Roll of masking tape, 3/4- inch to 1-inch wide
    • Portfolio — may be low-priced cardboard variety
    • Storage for inks and class supplies: cardboard box, plastic box, or a sturdy bag

Justine Kelley

Justine Kelley is a Filipino-American, Philadelphia-based printmaker, illustrator, and designer. She is inspired by vibrant colors, emotions, and the accidents that happen during the art-making process. Most of Kelley’s work is hand-drawn, infusing it with an honest, intimate quality. Her illustrations aim to explore the social barriers that exist between people to create new structures of meaning and connectivity. Kelley likens her art-making process to cooking—she uses the resources she has to feed the people she loves. Her goal is to synthesize emotion as a raw material and use it to create a magic funhouse mirror which reflects the world back at itself.
https://www.justine-kelley.com/