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Getting Started in Letterpress

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Are you new to letterpress printing or do you live in an area that is far from tools and supplies? Join Michelle Wiebe as she explores traditional printing accessories and the dos and don’ts of improvising materials with your presses and projects. This interactive demonstration will cover the logic behind why we strive to use […]

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Michelle Wiebe

Michelle Wiebe is a Cochrane, Alberta based artist focused primarily on painting, printmaking and letterpress. Her work is characterized by simple subject matter rendered with bold colour and line work.  Michelle is also a passionate instructor with a deep love for teaching, she makes it her goal that students leave her class with quality work and the confidence to continue building their new skills. She is on the Board of Directors for Alberta Printmakers and learned the craft of letterpress printing and repair at Heritage Park, Calgary as well as the Canadian Museum of Making.

Facebook: Michelle Wiebe Art
Twitter: Michelle_Wiebe
Instagram: mw.artco

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  • May 7, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Fee: $50

Printing images and text with cyanotype

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Learn to make photographic prints from digital negatives using the water-based cyanotype process and UV light!

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Caroline Roberts

Caroline’s work explores our relationship with the natural world, particularly the world of plants. Working with photograms, her photographic installations play on well-established knowledge systems, such as the herbarium, the museum display, and the field guide. Often found hiking in state and national parks, her interest in landscape and the natural world is heightened by managing fifteen acres of wild, riparian forest in rural Texas.

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  • April 30, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
  • Fee: $145

Stay Sharp – Carving Tool Maintenance

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Join Michelle Wiebe as she guides you through the science and practice of maintaining razor sharp edges on your gouges. Having a properly maintained set of tools will result in greater carving accuracy, longer lasting blades, reduced physical fatigue as well as less chance of injury. Using a basic set up of easily made or […]

Instructor Bio

Michelle Wiebe

Michelle Wiebe is a Cochrane, Alberta based artist focused primarily on painting, printmaking and letterpress. Her work is characterized by simple subject matter rendered with bold colour and line work.  Michelle is also a passionate instructor with a deep love for teaching, she makes it her goal that students leave her class with quality work and the confidence to continue building their new skills. She is on the Board of Directors for Alberta Printmakers and learned the craft of letterpress printing and repair at Heritage Park, Calgary as well as the Canadian Museum of Making.

Facebook: Michelle Wiebe Art
Twitter: Michelle_Wiebe
Instagram: mw.artco

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  • April 30, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Fee: $50

Intermediate Letterpress: Platen

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Develop the critical practices and attention to detail necessary to successfully print on a platen press.

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Jessica Snow

Houston based printmaker and graphic designer, Jessica Snow, has been working with relief printing methods since childhood. She loves combining modern and traditional techniques to create images that reflect her curiosity about the world, our relationship to it and each other, and the stories we tell ourselves about that interplay. She is the studio manager for The Printing Museum and teaches courses in letterpress and relief printing.

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  • April 25, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - April 26, 2022 @ 8:00 pm
  • Fee: $120