Shop Hours: Tuesday 2pm-11pm, Wednesdays 2pm-11 pm, Thursdays 10am – 2pm
The First Annual Print Show!
Download the entry form and more information here! (pdf)
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New Classes!
All classes are $25.00/day
with a materials fee – usually $10
maximum: 7 students, minumum: 4 students.
To register: call (504) 571-7373 During office hours.
Sundays, March 14th, 21s
t, 28th 5-9pm
And by popular demand, Monday Evenings March 22nd and 29th (must attend first Sunday Class on the 14th.)
One Spot left in each day! call today!
Multiple Color Screen Printing (intermediate class) with Jean Cozzens Jean is a visiting artist, and only in town for these weeks.
Check out his work: www.secretdoorprojects.org
Take your screenprinting to the next level! learn how to register many colors/layers, use hand drawn films and manipulate transparancy for a maximum effect of color brilliance in your screenprints. Coat screens, prepare your layers, and learn tricks for registering to a hair.
for intermediate printers or ambitious and fast learning beginners.
Provided: screens, emulsion, proof paper, some ink, registration jigs.
Bring: an Idea or drawing to work from, special paper of your choice
for purchase: unmixed Speedball inks. Rives BFK, strathmore paper
Thursday March 18th 6-9pm With Meg Turner and Jean Cozzens
D.I.Y. Silkscreen Studio
love screenprinting and want it closer to home? this class will give you the designs and resources you need to set up a screen print studio in your own home! learn how to stretch a screen, where to order supplies and work collaboratively on building a professional quality Exposure Unit at a low cost!
Introduction to Lithography with Blake Sanders
Is totally full but will be offered again in April!
Saturdays Feb 27th & March 6th & 13th 1pm-5pm
check out his work at: www.blakeanthonysanders.com
Lithography was invented by Sennefelder in 1795 and took the art world by storm with its abilities to reproduce a fantastic range of subtle gray tones – exactly like a charcoal or ink wash drawing. Learn from Blake Sanders, art teacher at Tulane University the basics of plate lithography: using wax crayons and tusche washes to create your own beautiful editions on our giant lithography press. Must attend all three sessions! Will also cover: Photo-litho (making a plate from a transparency and Pronto-plates that you can make on your home printer or just with a pen!
Bring: a drawing or idea to work from
Provided: Inks, plates, acid, newsprint
For Purchase: Rives BFK, Japanese Washi Papers, Somerset Papers, more plates
This class will have a materials fee of $20 per person for plates/proof paper/a new scraper bar/lithotine
Every Tuesday and Sunday afternoon!: Drop in Screen Print Night! 6pm -11 pm tuesdays, 1-5 pm sndays Sliding Scale $5-20
Come With a Drawing on Acetate or a photocopy to coat with oil.
no registration required! just come by and do some printing, or bring a screen
and burn it to take home, experience not necessary! there will be two awesome
print shop monitors here to do a demo and give you a hand.
Provided: screens, emulsion, proof paper, some ink. 
Bring: Paper, shirts or your own screen.
for purchase: unmixed Speedball inks. Rives BFK
Of its four studios, The Louisiana ArtWorks’ Community Printshop is arguably its most beautiful! With twenty foot ceilings and huge windows along two walls there is abundant natural light. The shop has welcomed a new manager and is gathering a base of dedicated shop members to keep the shop open late, and humming with activity and classes.
Facilities: Screenprinting, Intaglio, and Lithography, relief printing
Shop Manager: Meg Turner
Want to join our biweekly meetings to talk about how the shop should run? e-mail Mturner@louisianaartworks.org to hear aboutt meeting dates!
Equipment Rental:
Etching, Lithography, Water-based Screen Printing, Relief Printing
We have: Two Takache Etching presses, Vertical etching tank with Ferric Chloride, plate cutter, one Takach Lihtogaphy press, Screenprint Vacuum Exposure unit, T-shirt press, Power washer.
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| Membership
Includes an orientation to the shop, and discounts on some materials. Mandatory for all renters except for drop-in tuesdays. |
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| $30 annual fee |
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| Monitor: volunteer three or four times a month in 4 hour shifts, for studio access during shop hours. (not including materials)
3 volunteer shifts + $20/month 4 volunteer shifts + $15/month |
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| Key Monitor : Volunteer three shifts, be available to open the shop to renters on off-hours. attend biweekly meetings, help fundraise and troubleshoot programming, in exchange for a key giving 24 hour access to the shop (not including materials)
$35/month |
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