Screenprinting Cards & Stationary (Wednesday)
Adult Class | Registration opens Tuesday, October 20, 2026 8:00 AM EDT
This screenprinting class is open to artists of all levels of experience and is designed around creating your own set of handmade cards and stationery. Beginners will learn the fundamentals of screenprinting while more experienced students can explore techniques for creating layered, colorful, and repeatable designs. We will cover a variety of screenprinting techniques, including screen stencils, block-outs, and color registration, with an emphasis on adapting these methods to paper goods.
What You Will Learn:
- Learn the fundamentals of screenprinting, including how to prepare and pull a screen with confidence.
- Explore a variety of stencil-making and block-out techniques for creating original designs.
- Learn basic color registration and how to print multiple colors in alignment.
- Create a collection of handmade cards and stationery, experimenting with one- and two-color designs.
- Understand the unique characteristics and possibilities of screenprinting through hands-on practice and examples of printed work.
- Develop ideas for your designs through sketches, reference materials, and examples of previous artwork.
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 your screenprint.
Supplies to be discussed:
- Protective gloves, such as dishwashing type or nitrile gloves
- Speedball Permanent Acrylic Screen Printing Ink: Recommend the CMYK process colors: Process magenta, process cyan, process yellow, plus black and white. Feel free to get any other colors you like, but starting with these will allow you to mix almost any color. Check the label to make sure it’s meant for paper (not fabric), water-based (not oil-based or plastisol), and permanent (not water soluble).
- Empty pint/quart lidded containers to mix ink colors
- A pad of Bristol Paper or 100lb cover stock paper, size 12x19” to 18”x24” 10-15 sheets per edition should be fine. Recommend purchasing from art stores such as Dick Blick or Artist and Craftsmen, or ordering from French Paper. Bristol paper comes in pads for convenience. Printmaking/archival rag paper works too as a nicer, pricier option.
- 18" X 24" newsprint paper pad
- Frosted mylar
- Roll of masking tape or painter’s tape, 3/4- inch to 1-inch wide
- Portfolio to hold paper and artwork: can be low-priced cardboard variety
- Storage for inks and class supplies: cardboard box, plastic box, or a sturdy bag
- Opaque black drawing materials, such as paint pens, micron pens, Higgins Black Magic ink
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Various sized brushes. Fine to use low-cost brands or brushes you already own
- Smock or apron
- Drawing fluid
- Screen filler
- X-acto knife
- Speedball Transparent Extender Base
Madeleine Conover
Madeleine Conover is a Chinese American adoptee and artist. Her images and sculptures explore her ideas of Asian American diaspora and her adoption due to China’s former one-child policy. Her recent work focuses on the subsequent discovery of her biological family and community building with adoptees. Conover was raised in Washington, DC by a single mother. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture and a BA in Studio Art and Sustainable Food & Farming from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Philadelphia, Western Massachusetts, New York City, and the Bay Area. She has participated in artist residency programs at Ceramics School, Directangle Press, Pyramid Atlantic Art Institute, Second State Press, Kala Art Institute, and Wassaic Project. Based in Philadelphia, she teaches printmaking and ceramics classes. She also recently started her own small risograph publishing press, Mad Dog Studio.