Please note that Museum Members receive 10% off the price of tuition. Advanced registration is required. Please call (713) 522-4652 to register.

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Intermediate Letterpress: Platen

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Develop the critical practices and attention to detail necessary to successfully print on a platen press. Building on knowledge and skills gained in Beginning Letterpress, students will build their confidence to create letterform-based designs using hand-set type. This class is a pre-requisite for all Advanced Letterpress classes. Successful completion of both Beginning and Intermediate Letterpress […]

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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 9, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Fee: $120

Cork Journal with Fabric Lining

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In this beginner level class, we will line the cork with cotton fabric and use the versatile long stitch binding to create a three signature journal.

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Missy Bosch

Missy earned her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Houston with a personal focus on found object collage and assemblage. Her fascination with ephemera led to her interest in book arts and box making, including creating a hand-made book that is on permanent exhibition at the UH Library’s Special Collections Rare Books Collection. Missy is an active member of the Houston Book Arts Guild and produces tools to aid other bookbinders. Her current work can be viewed on her website (missyboschstudio.com), Facebook (Missy Bosch Studio) and Instagram (@missyboschstudio).

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  • April 9, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Fee: $115
  • Adults

Printing books on the Riso using Adobe

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DATES (This workshop will be held in four parts):April 5: 6:00 – 8:00pmApril 12: 6:00 – 8:00pmApril 19: 6:00 – 8:00pm April 26: 6:00 – 8:00pm All times are US/Central time zone In this four-week course we will cover the process of printing a saddle-stitch book using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. Students will make a book that uses text and […]

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Gaby Hurtado-Ramos

Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is an artist, printmaker, and illustrator. She is a 2020 Fall artist-in-residence at the Printing Museum in Houston and an art instructor at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Art League. Gaby majored in Studio Art at Oberlin College and teaches workshops in a variety of digital, printmaking, and bookmaking techniques. Before moving back to her hometown, Gaby was an artist-in-residence at an art collective space in Providence, Rhode Island and a print studio monitor at the Drawing Studio in Tucson, Arizona. Gaby’s work has exhibited in community spaces as well as traditional art galleries. She specializes in screenprinting and relief printing, and has books and zines in multiple private and public collections. Her illustration collaborations include work for ProPublica, the Highlander Research and Education Center, the Tucson Jewish History Museum, and Girls for Gender Equity NYC.
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  • April 5, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • Fee: $185
  • All Levels

Perfect Linocut Registration

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Interested in expanding the variety of color in your print images? Michelle Wiebe will guide you in the secrets of planning and executing multiple block prints lots of color. She will show you how to design and transfer your image to multiple blocks so that they are placed in correct alignment and using a table […]

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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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  • April 5, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Fee: $50

Decorative Paste Papers

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Paste paper is a fun and playful way to make gorgeous papers with designs and patterns. It’s like finger-painting for adults! A specially prepared paste is mixed with paint, and spread over a paper. Using tools like your fingers, scrapers, sponges, a wood graining tool, stamps, bubble wrap, designs are made into the paste. After […]

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Cori Austin

A woman in love with paper, Cori Austin has been an art journaler, handmade book artist, sketchbook artist, calligrapher, and mixed media artist for a long time. She is at home in the wild, and camps every summer for several months as she explores the US and Canada. Color is her thing, and she loves taking plain papers and turning them into colorful paste papers and gelli prints so they can be used in her books and art journals. Cori hosts a monthly art journalers’ gathering at Mendenhall community center for anyone who is interested.

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  • April 2, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Fee: $85