WORKSHOPS

We offer year-round artist-led workshops at both of our community-access studios, the IOWA CITY PRESS CO-OP and the MEDIA ARTS CO-OP, and occasionally elsewhere! Workshops include introductory technical training in our print, book, and digital media studio areas; advanced, exploratory, and experimental approaches to a range of art practices; and professional development for artists.
Check out the ICPC and MAC portals for other learning opportunities including private instruction and outreach, as well as studio access.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Currently we are offering workshops both virtually and in-person.
Please check each workshop description carefully for the format, location, and requirements.

~ Check out the PS1 Yoga Collective’s weekly classes ~

Thanks to generous support from Hills Bank and community donors, all workshops are offered with sliding scale, pay-what-you-can registration, and All-Ages Art workshops are free!

CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY: If PS1 cancels a workshop for any reason, students enrolled in the workshop are entitled to a full refund or may transfer the full tuition to another workshop. If a student needs to cancel their enrollment in a workshop, they may do so until one week before the workshop is scheduled to begin. Students can request a full refund minus a $10 administrative fee or they may transfer the full amount credited to any upcoming workshop. Students wishing to cancel after the 7-day cut-off are not eligible for a refund or transfer of funds.

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

Letterpress: Intro to Letterpress • Printing Broadsides on the Vandercook • Intermediate Letterpress: Printing Books • Pressure Prints and Collagraphs on the Proofing Press • Image Making for Intermediate and Advanced Beginner Letterpress Printers • 1, 2, 3 Reductive Linoleum on the Vandercook • Activist Poster Printing

Silkscreen: Intro to Screenprinting • Intermediate Textile Screenprinting • Silkscreen Monoprinting • Screen Building • Print, Repeat: Designing and Printing Patterns on Textiles

Relief Printing: Intro to Relief • Epic Relief: Intro to Relief Printing from Start to Finish • The Agony and the Ecstasy: Linocut Printing for Beginners • Mokuhanga • Handmade Stamps: Making Objects that Make Images • Multi-color Relief Printing • Self/Portrait Variations: Mixed Media Relief

Intaglio: Intaglio Collagraphs • Intro to Intaglio • Copper Line Etch and Aquatint • Talking Lines: hard-ground etching and narrative • Drypoint

Other Print Techniques: Monotype Printing • Monotype and Watercolor Monoprint • Pronto Plate Lithography• Fried, Frenzied and Foiled: Printing Hot Stamped Foil • On and Off the Plate: Transferred Images in Printmaking • Cyanotypes • Metalworking for Printmakers • Anthotypes • Pre-Xerox Copying Technologies

Book Arts/Publication: Intro to Bookbinding • Un-Fine Binding: An Introduction to very Practical Book Binding • Side-stitch Bookbinding with Wraparound Case • Drum Leaf & Stiff Leaf Bookbinding • Clamshell Boxes • Longstitch Bookbinding: Design and Technique • Beyond Beginning Bookbinding: Bradel! • Basic Book Repair • Hardcover Bookbinding • Laced Paper Case Bookbinding • Zines! • Suminagashi

Drawing & Painting: Working with Found Visual Material: Research & Transfer Methods • Body Drawing • Drawing Experiments • Color Theory • Beginning Drawing • Outdoor Color Painting

Digital/New Media: Intro to Interactive Game Design • Intro to 3D Design • Projection Mapping with Isadora

Video & Film: Intro to Video Editing • Cameraless 16mm Film • Time-Based Methods • Create It in Post • 4K Camera Basics • Experimental Animation with Ebsynth

Audio: Field Recording • Improvised, Looped Live Music Production • Score Your Own Soundtrack

Outside/Inside: Intro to Making Natural Inks • Indigo Dye • Making Silkscreen Ink from Natural Dyes • Public Platform: Stencils and Street Art • Mindfulness and the Creative Process • Forage Against the Machine • We Know Who You Are, By What You Say: A bird listening workshop

Professional Development: Museum Standard Matting and Framing • Mural Methods & Materials • <Insert Words Here> Navigating form and generating excitement in proposal writing • Honing Your Conceptual Throughline

Performance: Embodying Totemic Personas • Intro to Social Practice • Shadow Puppets

Photography: Darkroom in the Digital Age

Generative: Creative Rituals • Your Notebook: “A Little Space to Fill” • Mindfulness and the Creative Process • Rabbit Holes and Treasure Troves

for kids:
Superhero Gear • Jelly Gelly Jellyfish! • Hail to Snail Mail • Lost Wolves • Handmade: Papermaking, Printmaking, and Bookbinding • Making Comics