Monoprint
Workshop with John HitchcockMonoprint – Print City DEMO! (Images and Installation)
July 27-31, 2026
Limited to 8
Investigate the current trends of print media in contemporary culture and get the tools you need to make your own artistic statement using screen printing. This workshop focuses on developing ‘open plate images’ that leave room for layering in monotype techniques as well as low-tech stencil printing methods. Technical demonstrations cover beginning with your concept, building a matrix, adding a combination of hand dyeing, draw back into, manipulation of the surface, water-soluble markers, and hand-cut and other stencil methods. Each student creates experimental, unique prints and comes away from this workshop with a toolbox of new printmaking techniques.
John Hitchcock is the Truman Lowe Professor of Art and a Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant, Jerome Foundation Grant, and artist residencies at The American Culture Center in Shanghai, China; Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium; Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Venice Printmaking Studio in Venice, Italy.
What’s Included
Inks
Assortment of RIT dyes (for hand dyeing paper)
Plate making material
lots and lots of stuff
MakingArtSafely is a well stocked and tooled studio.
What to Bring
drawings, photographs, prints, sketchbooks, and images to use for compositions
Bring various types of paper and fabric to print on (see paper list below).
Apron/print shirt- keep your fancy clothes clean (we have aprons)
2 paint brushes, different sizes, for painting screen filler/drawing fluid
X-acto knife (sharp knife for cutting masks)
1 Decocolor Acrylic Black paint marker or Acrylic paint pens (various size tips used for drawing your plate matrix
Personal note pad and pencil
Workshop Itinerary
- Monday morning begins with students arriving at the studio between 9:30-10 AM.
- Daily instruction is 10 AM to 4 PM with the studio open to students between 9:30 AM and 7 PM. Exception is Friday when the workshop ends at 4 PM.
- Bring a lunch everyday except Wednesday when we go out Dutch for a late lunch. There is refrigeration for your food and drinks.