Intro to Printmaking II with Julia Elsas

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INTRO TO PRINTMAKING I NOT REQUIRED*

4 Wednesdays, 6 – 9pm
July 8 – 29, 2026

Fee: $425 including materials and 12 hours of studio time

Recent graduates (after May 2025) and current students will receive a 20% discount. Please email info@printshop.org with your student ID to register with the discount.

Intro to Printmaking 2 is a course for beginners and/or those who want to brush up on their printmaking skills. Through copper plate line etching, soft ground textures and creating unique collagraph plates we will learn traditional and nontraditional methods for planning and printing an image. This class will cover paper tearing, setting appropriate printing press pressure, ink modification, registration, printing à la poupée, pochoir, stencils, texture and tone. It’s recommended that students come to the first class with a few ideas of line drawings and textures they want to explore. This class uses non-toxic inks and students are allowed 12 hours of open studio hours outside of class time.

Julia Elsas is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her art practice encompasses printmaking, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, installation and performance. Recent exhibitions and performances include Asya Geisberg Gallery, Available Items, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pasaquan, The Bo Bartlett Center, Isabel Sullivan Gallery and Jane Hartsook Gallery. Julia has been an artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. She was in the 2018-2019 inaugural cohort of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, a 2019 - 2020 Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Print Shop and a 2022 Artist in Residence at Obracadobra in Oaxaca City, Mexico.