Materials Lab Workshop: Double Trouble—Screenprinting and Relief Printing with Carlos Hernandez and Bill Fick

We may generally think of prints as being made through a single process, such as screenprinting, etching, lithography, or relief printing. In fact, throughout the history of graphic arts, artists have harnessed a combination of processes to produce complex and varied images. One need only think of Kara Walker’s Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta, which combines offset lithography and screenprinting, or of Jasper Johns’s deceptively simple-looking Scent, which was printed from four aluminum lithography plates, four linoleum blocks, and four woodblocks.

Join Speedball artists Carlos Hernandez and Bill Fick to explore how two hugely popular printmaking methods can work together to create exciting graphic images. The workshop will include brief demonstrations of screenprinting and relief printing using rubber blocks. Participants will then have a chance to use prepared screens to print background images and to carve their own blocks to make color relief prints over these.

Hernandez and Fick have more than 60 years of combined printmaking experience and have exhibited their work across the globe. This workshop is part of the Speedball Roadshow, which has been touring the United States to spread the gospel of printmaking for several years.

The workshop will take place in the Materials Lab, Lower Level.

$20 materials fee. Registration is required and space is limited. Materials fee must be paid to confirm registration. Please email am_register@harvard.edu, stop by the admissions desk, or call 617-495-1440 to register. Minimum age of 14; no previous experience is required.