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All classes are held from 10am-4pm with a lunch break at noon unless otherwise specified. Basic supplies are provided, but certain material costs will be in addition to class tuition. Class registration closes one week prior to class being held, classes which have not met enrollment minimums by that time will be cancelled. Students are requested to register early to avoid cancellation. For more information click here and email us
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Spring 2010 Class Schedule

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Solar-Plate (Polymer Gravure)

Katherine Brimberry
Saturday January 16th
9am-5pm

Tuition: $150 (plus paper and solar plates)
Maximum Enrollment: 6

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Polyester Plate Lithography

Veronica Ceci
January 23^rd

Polyester plates have revolutionized the way we think about lithography. Students can draw directly on the plates with a ball-point pen or Sharpie and go straight to printing with excellent results. These plates do not require the traditional process of lithography, making them a less-toxic approach. The translucency of the plate solves many of the problems often caused by multiple plate registration, which makes this class ideal for persons who have hesitancy moving into that area. They can be run through a copier, allowing you work from a Xeroxed matrix. These plates may be printed on both lithography and etching presses, making them especially versatile. They are also inexpensive and easily portable. This class is great for all levels and is repeatable.

Tuition: $150 plus plates and paper
Maximum Enrollment: 6

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Monotype

February 6th
Cheryl Finfrock

Monoprinting is a painterly, less toxic printing technique where each impression is unique. This versatile method is a great way to develop images, add color to already printed works and an easy introduction to some of the basic concepts of printmaking, such as the mirror effect and basic press operation. This class is suitable for all levels of experience.

Tuition:$150
Maximum enrollment: 6

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NEW
Advanced Solar Plate
9am-5pm
With Katherine Brimberry
February 13^th

Advanced solar Plate is for students who have taken our introduction to solar plate class or have worked with Solar Plate and wish to more fully explore the medium. Students may choose to work up to size 16x20” (one month advanced notice will be needed to order plates of any size over 8x10”) Needs and concerns of each student will be addressed. Advanced Solar plate will also work through issues that emerge when working with larger plates and when editioning. Each participant will be guided through the process of finding an RTP, and methods of editioning and curating will be introduced. Print techniques such as chin colle and a la poupee will covered as well.

Tuition $150
Limited to Six students

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Intro to Linocut Relief

Veronica Ceci
February 20^th

Learn the technique behind creating bold and dramatic prints in a class suitable for all levels of experience. Instructor will demonstrate design principles, carving techniques, inking and printing. Linoleum block can be printed with traditional or nontoxic water-based ink on a variety of paperweights or cloth. This class will also instruct on how to print your work at home without a press. These easily printed blocks make great cards, logo designs, illustrations, fabric designs and, of course, fine art prints.

Tuition: $150
Maximum Enrollment: 6

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February 27^th
Intro to Copperplate Etching
Teresa Gomez-Martorell

This class instructs in line-etching techniques using copper and, drypoint and liquid hard ground. This method explores the line and all the beautiful qualities of an etched line. Teresa will work with each individual and accommodate his or her skill level and artistic intent. This class is repeatable.

Tuition: $150 plus plates
Maximum enrollment:6

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Intro to Lithography
Veronica Ceci
March 6^th and 7^th

Lithography has the unique ability to express gradient tones true to the artist's hand. This process allows the artist to draw directly on the surface to be printed from using familiar materials. Veronica has come up with a foolproof introduction to this normally complicated process, utilizing aluminum plates and an easy to prepare etch. The first day familiarizes you with the process so day two can be focused on creating your personal masterpiece. Please note this class does include use of chemicals, and you will be required to wear gloves for protection during certain processes.

Tuition: $250
Maximum Enrollment: 4
Click Here to see more on Veronica’s Webpage

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March 13^th
Photopolymer Film
Teresa Gomez-Martorell

This unique process mimics the look of a true etching without using acid and utilizes less expensive zinc plates. Artists can create a new image on mylar with India ink or black acrylic paints or choose work from a photocopy of an existing image or photograph. Teresa will take you through the steps of plate preparation, film application, exposure and development all the way through printing your final image. This class is best for those with some printing experience.

Tuition: $150
Maximum Enrollment: 6

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NEW
Mezzotint
March 20^th and 21^th With Teresa Gomes-Martorell

Mezzotint is one of the most breathtaking traditional printmaking techniques, with a look that cannot be replicated by any other process. The beautiful velvety qualities in the inked areas and the amazing grey scale tones in the images by scraping and burnishing are well worth the time it takes to rock a copper plate. In this workshop, we will work in the traditional mezzotint way by rocking a plate with a mezzotint rocker as well we will experiment other alternative ways to rough a copper plate. The first day will be spent preparing the plates, and the second day will be spent finishing the images and printing.

Tuition: $250
Limited to four participants

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Encaustic Monotype

March 27^th
With: Maggie Jordan

Encaustic monotype is an innovative and contemporary printmaking technique.The process is expressive, fluid and painterly. This approach combines the ancient encaustic painting medium with the popular monotype process. To create imagery encaustic sticks are used to draw on a heated metal plate which melts the wax. Absorbent paper is laid over the heated wax drawing and burnished to transfer the image to the paper. This workshop will include demonstration, instruction, and personal assistance. Each participant should complete several prints during the class.

Tuition $150
Limited to six students

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Collograph

Veronica Ceci
April 10^th and 11th

The collographic method is a less-toxic approach to printmaking. Once learned, it is easy to create plates out of materials found around the home. This technique has the unique ability to translate actual textures into images. Instructor will show students how to carve and create value and richly tonal effects. The plate can be printed either as etching or as relief or as a combination of both. This is a great class to explore surface, texture and layering through printmaking.

Tuition: $250 (includes boards, inks, adhesives and solvents.)
Maximum Enrollment: 6

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NEW Bookbinding
With Angela Morales
April 17^th

This introductory level class will focus on the technique of Case binding. Case binding is the most common type of bookbinding - it's made up of pages folded into signatures, which are sewn together and attached to hard covers. The end result has a spine which is flat instead of rounded. These sturdy books have a myriad of uses, such as for sketch books, memory albums and gifts.

Tuition: $150
Limited to six participants

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ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS

Individual screen print tutorial with Beatrice Thomas

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Flatbed Forum
Mark L. Smith
First Weds of every month 6:30-9pm

Flatbed Forum is an informal, salon-style monthly meeting of art-interested professionals. Enrollment is limited so that dialogue is maximized. Often the group meets off-site: in the studio of an artist, home of a private collector, a museum or some other interesting site for art, architecture or design. Other meetings explore current Flatbed projects or visiting artists. This is a great opportunity to get to know your local art community and there is never a dull moment.

Tuition: $200 for all ten meetings (does not meet December and August)
Maximum Enrollment: 24 (average attendance: 12)
Enrollment is available any month.

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Individual Tutorials

Interested in expanding your knowledge in areas of lithography, etching and relief printing? Would you like to schedule a lesson that works with your schedule? Tutorials can be specialized for each request. These two-to-four hour sessions are available by appointment only and will instructed by one of the accomplished printers here at Flatbed Press.

Two-hour Tutorial: $125 plus materials
Four-hour Tutorial: $250 plus materials

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Individual Photoshop Tutorial
Neal Daugherty
By Appointment

Whether you are just getting started or working at an advanced level, Neal can make the photographic software of choice work for you. Each tutorial is specific to your needs. These two-to-four hour sessions are available by appointment only and can occur at Flatbed or at your office.

Two-hour Tutorial: $150
Four-hour Tutorial: $250

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Individual Critiques

Mark L. Smith, PhD, artist, art historian, teacher, curator, art writer and critic is available for individual critiques. Use his educated eye to help you find the strengths in your work and learn in which direction to move forward. A great way to kick start a return to professional art making for those who have been out of the loop, or to refresh the oeuvre of a dedicated creative.

Individual 90 min critique session $125

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Instructor Information

Katherine Brimberry

Born and raised in the small town of Brownfield in West Texas, the daughter of a cotton farmer Brimberry early discovered a love of the arts and concentrated my studies in the visual arts as an undergraduate at Lubbock Christian College in Lubbock, Texas and Highlands University of New Mexico. At Highlands, she was introduced to printmaking as a medium and realized that those methods of making images fit my ways of working and thinking and graduated with a major and minor in fine arts. In 1979 Brimberry began attending the New Mexico State University at Las Cruces and was admitted to the masters graduate program in 1980. In graduate school, I studied with Spencer Fidler, who was instrumental in my choosing to concentrate graduate work in printmaking, specifically intaglio. In January 1983 Brimberry relocated to Austin and found a thriving artistic community to be a part of. Beginning in the fall of 1983, she became an adjunct instructor for Austin Community College and taught courses printmaking, drawing, design, and art history there until 1998. In the fall of 1989, Brimberry and Mark L. Smith founded Flatbed Press. Brimberry also worked as an adjunct professor at St. Edwards University from 1987 until 1993. In 1998 until 1999, she taught printmaking at Southwest Texas State University.

Veronica Ceci

More than half of Veronica Ceci’s life has been spent perfecting the art of printing. She found her start in high school as an apprentice for offset commercial lithography and continued into college, receiving a BFA in Printmaking from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Ceci received her Tamarind Professional Lithographer certificate in 2002. In April of 2004, Ceci came to Austin on a hunch and found work at Flatbed Press instructing classes and collaborating with artists to produce large scale multicolor lithographs. she has been instructing workshops in printmedia for over a decade. Her work has been featured at the International Print Center New York as well as on the cover of Be Which Magazine.

Cheryl Finfrock

Cheryl Finfrock creates monotypes and paintings on paper, canvas, and wood. Narrative expressionism, humor, and symbolism are central throughout her work. Recent exhibits span US and Europe including New York City, San Francisco, Austin, Berlin, Copenhagen, Montreal, Olomouc, Paris, and Sofia. Cheryl is a Trinity University graduate, native Texan, and San Francisco transplant. After 16 years in the San Francisco area, she returned to Austin in late 2006. She exhibits at Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, Monkdogz Urban Art in NYC, and enjoyed a solo exhibit “Stars Fall From the Dog’s Mouth” at the Carl Jung Center Gallery in Houston in 2008. Lessedra Gallery in Sofia will exhibited her first solo monotype exhibit in October of last year.

Teresa Gomez-Martorell

Teresa Gomez-Martorell is an artist printmaker from Barcelona, Spain who lives and works in Austin, Tx. Teresa Gomez-Martorell got her BFA in Barcelona and after graduating, she moved to France to study color etching in the Atelier 17-Contrepoint. She got her MFA at SMU, Dallas in 2007 and after graduating she moved to Austin to work at Flatbed Press. She has specialized in traditional etching techniques on copperplate. She has participated in national and international exhibitions, being a part of the US group of printmakers in the Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia.

Maggie Jordan

Maggie Jordan has been part of Austin's art community for nineteen years, seven of which have been focused on working with encaustics. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University. Jordan has an upcoming show at Bay 6 gallery.

Dr. Mark L. Smith is the co-founder and co-director of Flatbed Press. He is an artist who works in collage and mixed media. He also teaches the visual-arts careers course at UT-Austin, and specializes in the history of 20th-century American art. His resume includes experience as an independent curator, art writer, gallerist, and art consultant, as well as an art department chair and an associate dean. As an experienced teacher of both studio and art history classes, Smith is especially skilled in the art of the portfolio critique and in career development. His roles at Flatbed center on artistic quality control and on art marketing.

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