Offering Printmaking Classes and Workshops in Metropolitan D.C.

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Discover Graphics Atelier, located in the Torpedo Factory Art Center, offers printmaking courses and workshops in collaboration with the Art League. It also provides facilities in which advanced students and proven printmakers can pursue their art in a supportive environment. Incorporated as a 501(C) 3 non-profit educational institution, Discover Graphics is the brainchild of two experienced printmakers and teachers, Penny Barringer and Allen Kaneshiro. Drawing on their experience at the National Museum of American Art and on the generosity of friends, they opened the printshop in the Torpedo Factory in 1983. Since then numerous printmakers in various media have used it as their choice of studio. Regular instruction has been offered in stone and plate lithography, in relief printmaking, in collograph, in monotype, and in the multiple possibilities offered by the whole range of etching and intaglio techniques. With it's 25th anniversary year in 2008, Discover Graphics continues to operate under the direction of Penny Barringer, who assumed complete responsibility for the atelier and its programs upon Kaneshiro's retirement in 2003.
Discover Graphics Atelier, a great place to explore the world of fine art printmaking.

Register for Winter classes and workshops

Registration begins December 12, 2011
Classes start January 9 - Classes End March 11
(Register with the Art League at www.theartleague.org)

Upcoming Classes and Workshops at a Glance

Instructor Workshop/Class Date/Time
Penny Barringer Intermediate/Advanced
Intaglio Techniques
Winter (8 weeks)
Thurs 7:00-10:00
Penny Barringer
Harriet Lawler
All Levels
Introduction to Monotype Printmaking
Year round
(see classes)
Nancy Aldrich-Wolf Begining/Intermediate
Etching and Intaglio Techniques
Fall•Spring (5 weeks)
Thurs 11:00-4:00
Pam Day Begining/Intermediate
Etching and Intaglio Techniques
Fall•Spring•Winter (9 weeks)
Tues 7:00-10:00
Nancy Aldrich-Wolf Begining/Intermediate
Etching and Intaglio Techniques
Summer starts July 5 (5 weeks)
Thurs 11:00-4:00
Pam Day Begining/Intermediate
Etching and Intaglio Techniques
Summer (6 weeks)
Tues 7:00-10:00
Penny Barringer

 Linoleum Cuts
 Workshop   with Penny Barringer

Students delve into the fascinating relief printing process
that doesn't require a press to print. Linoleum is an easy
to cut alternative to wood.

A $20 lab fee covers all supplies. Limit 8 students

The workshop will be held in:
Discover Graphics Atelier, Inc, Studio 202
in the Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N. Union Street
Alexandria ,VA

For more information call the Art League School at
703-683-2323 or Penny at 703-548-0186. You can
also email Penny at pennybarringer@verizon.net.

$160 Sat - Sun Mar 3 - 4, 2012
10:00am -3:00pm

WPA artist
 Monotype
 Explorations

   with Penny Barringer

Explore the techniques used by Degas, Sargent,
and Prendergast. Subtractive, addititve, color
blending and painterly techniques will be the
focus of the workshop.

Lab fee $20

$160 Sat - Sun  March 24-25   10:00am – 3:00 pm

Penny Barringer
Torpedo Factory website sign up for classes online

Print Methods Taught at Discover Graphics

   Lithography

Lithography, from the Greek words for stone and writing, was invented by Aloys Senefelder in 1796, who originally called his invention "chemical printing" because the process is based on the antipathy of grease and water.

   Etching/Intaglio

Intaglio printmaking refers to all those methods of etching or engraving on metal plates, usually copper or zinc, where the grooves retain ink while the upper surface is meticulously wiped clean. The two major techniques are direct engraving and acid-bath methods.(more)

   Monoprints

Monoprint is a similar process to monotype which also yields a unique print, it differs from monotype, however, in that some part of the image is produced from a repeatable matrix or plate executed in one of the other printmaking processes. (more)

   Collography

Collography is a technique whereby the necessarily uneven surfaces of a print matrix are created by collaging various materials onto the plate. The most common method is to generate a matrix on either a cardboard support or a plastic plate. (more)

   Linoleum Cut

Linoleum cut (or linocut) is the fascinating relief printing process that doesn't require a press to print. Linoleum is an easy to cut alternative to wood.
Experienced printmakers may apply to be Affiliated Artists and work during open studio time. A monthly or daily fee is charged which covers most supplies needed for quality printmaking.

To apply contact Penny Barringer at
703-549-1381 or pennybarringer@verizon.net
Summer open studio hours:
Mon, Weds, Fri, 10:00 am --10:00 pm
Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun -- 10:00am -- 6:00pm

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