Guest Artist Workshops offer a bespoke way to explore a new skill or process.
Campfire’s curated workshops invite contemporary artists to share their practice through a casual, often interactive, artist talk, followed by a hands-on project relevant to their creative process.
Mirroring our broad interest in printmaking for its potential as an expressive medium, a visual language, a traditional craft, a mode of commercial production, and a tool for social engagement, topics range from the technical to the conceptual. Projects incorporate printmaking materials or processes, or topics of particular interest to those invested in printmaking and the multiple.
Tuesday, June 30
5:00-9:00 PMScreenprinting is an accessible community-building activity that can be used to promote an event, design and produce merchandise, or advocate for a grassroots cause. Screenprinting projects can integrate personal expression and bridge subjects like art, economics, and history.
Educators and community organizers are invited to join Campfire Printing Press founders, Angee Lennard and Colin Palombi, to learn screenprinting basics and various ways to structure their own print projects in a variety of settings. Drawing on real examples from student and community projects, the workshop supports participants in designing projects tailored to their specific teaching or organizing contexts.
Participants will gain hands-on experience developing easy-to-print images, setting up a print station, pulling prints on paper and fabric. Plus participants will be guided through troubleshooting and what to expect when printing “on site” with a large group of first-time printers.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants are authorized to reserve and check out Campfire’s portable screenprinting kits. The kits include everything needed to set-up a portable print station in a classroom or community space, including custom exposed screens.
Woodcut is one of the oldest—and most versatile—forms of printmaking. Artists and artisans have long used this process to print everything from textiles and books to grassroots political posters. With “the hand” clearly visible, woodcut prints remain wonderfully tactile and expressive in an otherwise very digital world.
This spotlight will look to contemporary and historical examples of woodcut prints: José Guadalupe Posada’s satirical political posters, Floating World Ukiyo-e prints from Edo period Japan, Edvard Munch’s experimental carvings, Helen Frankenthaler’s delicate abstractions, and more.
We’ll then carve and print a sample block to familiarize ourselves with various gauges and carving techniques.
5pm - Doors open
5:30 - Project begins
Process Spotlights are community print sessions curated around a particular process. Learn more about weekly community print sessions.
Part One: Sunday, August 9, 2:00-5:00pmPart Two: Wednesday, August 12, 5:30-8:30pmAnna Wagner is a self-described craftsperson interested in antiquated and lesser-known methods and techniques. One such technique is collagraphy, a versatile printmaking process that combines elements of collage, relief, and impasto painting to create rich dimensional prints.
Anna recently used this process to produce her largest print to date: a three-panel 8.5 by 12 foot print depicting a bison! Using gesso, modeling paste, crumpled newsprint, and wood glue on mat board, she created an image with juxtaposed textures that was then inked and run through a press. Other works probe the animal kingdom—both real and fantastical—for symbolic protagonists that evoke allegories of transformation, death, desire, and transcendence.
In this two-session workshop, participants will explore collagraphy through a range of non-toxic additive and reductive techniques.
The first session will look to Anna's practice as a departure point for exploring collagraph printing. Participants will then construct their own series of richly textured printing plates using everyday materials such as sand, fabric, and cardboard. The second session will focus on inking and printing. Through demonstrations and guided practice, participants will experiment with several approaches to inking and printing their plates.
Students will leave with a small variable edition of original prints and the know-how to continue exploring this versatile printmaking process.
Thursday, July 9
1:00–5:00 PMScreenprinting is an accessible community-building activity that can be used to promote an event, design and produce merchandise, or advocate for a grassroots cause. Screenprinting projects can integrate personal expression and bridge subjects like art, economics, and history.
Educators and community organizers are invited to join Campfire Printing Press founders, Angee Lennard and Colin Palombi, to learn screenprinting basics and various ways to structure their own print projects in a variety of settings. Drawing on real examples from student and community projects, the workshop supports participants in designing projects tailored to their specific teaching or organizing contexts.
Participants will gain hands-on experience developing easy-to-print images, setting up a print station, pulling prints on paper and fabric. Plus participants will be guided through troubleshooting and what to expect when printing “on site” with a large group of first-time printers.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants are authorized to reserve and check out Campfire’s portable screenprinting kits. The kits include everything needed to set-up a portable print station in a classroom or community space, including custom exposed screens.
Private Workshops
We are always excited to build out a custom experience for private groups of any age. Please email hello@campfireprintingpress.com to co-design an experience to meet your vision, be it an intimate creative retreat for friends or colleagues, a workshop for teens, or an art-inspired cocktail party.