4-week Intaglio Workshop

Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to announce an intaglio print class suitable for beginners. This 4-week introductory course will familiarize students with etching, aquatint, and drypoint printing techniques. Students will learn to prepare their own copper plate for etching, apply hard and soft ground, use a rosin box for aquatint, and print an edition of etchings. By the end of the course, students will be able to print confidently on an etching press, and feel comfortable in choosing intaglio techniques suitable to their artistic styles. This class meets 4 Thursdays at 6 -9pm from April 18th - May 9th.

This class is led by Ian Ruppenthal, Studio Manager at LESP. Ian began making prints as an undergrad, and has since worked in a variety of printshops in both professional and academic settings. Ian is one of the founders of Pigeonhole Press, a small etching publisher in Chicago. He was an apprentice at Wingate Studio (Hinsdale, NH), and currently is the studio manager at Lower East Side Printshop. Recently his personal work concerns the interplay and breakdown of image and text, and the absurdity of life in the anthropocene.