Intro to Printmaking with Julia Elsas
Register5 Wednesdays, 6 - 9pm
February 11 - March 11, 2026
Fee: $450 including 15 hours of studio time
This course provides an exciting introduction to a broad range of printmaking. Through monotype, intaglio, and relief techniques, we will learn traditional and non-traditional methods for planning and printing an image - applying ink, working with drypoint and cutting into wood and linoleum blocks. Topics also include paper tearing, appropriate printing press set-up, ink modification, chine collé, registration, and printing multiple plates. This class uses non-toxic inks.
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.