Sundays: Make and Print Instant Silkscreens Workshop [Adult]

Attention artists! Create your own silkscreens for use in a wide variety of artistic applications. Using riso film and black and white photocopies, the thermo-fax method allows for intricately detailed images as well as highly graphic designs to be transferred to the screen in a matter of seconds. We will design and prepare our images and create the screens in the morning and in the afternoon we will print them. Paint, ink, dye, discharge agents and glue are a few of the mediums that can be screened onto t-shirts, fabric, paper, ceramics, or wood. Materials fee includes 3 pieces of thermofax film.

Materials: Pencil; black pens or markers; sketchpad at least 9”x12”; glue stick; scissors; Duct tape; X-acto knife; found objects with which to create images: these may include junk drawer stuff, plastic lace, keys, non skid pads, leaves, window screen mesh etc.;high contrast photocopies of possible images for screens to fit one of two sizes: full size; 7”x 9” and half size; 3 “x5”. These should be only black and white and are best if done in photoshop and have no gray tones. Drawings, designs, text from newspaper or any other black and white images. 

About the Teaching Artist
Judy Langille is a nationally acclaimed fiber artist and experienced art educator, who has received grants from the Geraldine Dodge Foundation. She has taught at a variety of levels, including K-8 in several New Jersey and New York school districts, college level at William Paterson University and adults at the Newark Museum and West Windsor Arts Council. Judy has received numerous surface design awards for her quilt art and hand dyed fabrics and has had many pieces accepted at the most prestigious shows, such as Quilt National, Visions, and Art Quilt Elements. She has had her work published in numerous publications, most recently in the Surface Design Journal where she co-authored an article called, “One Cloth, One Fabric: Whole Cloth Composition.” February of 2009 she was the Artist of the Month on www.jerseyarts.com. She continues to work in her studio, show her art and teach workshops. She is also an enthusiastic member of the docent association of the Princeton University Art Museum. Aside from leading tours, she runs the Art for Family Program at the museum and other programs for children. See Judy's work at: http://www.judylangille.com/