GET SCHOOLED: Spring 2010 Classes at Open Studio (May-July)

rosalyn — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:38:14 +0000

Spring 2010 Education Registration Starts Today!

8-Week Courses:
Cost: $270.00 + $50.00 materials fee
Water-based Screenprinting
Tuesday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
May 4 to June 22
Instructor: Geneviève Jodouin

Monday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
May 3 to June 28 (no class May 24th holiday)
Instructor: Shannon Gerard

Explore all the possibilities that screenprinting, a process derived from stencil printing has to offer. Learn about direct stencil methods, photo-based screenprinting techniques, inks and modifiers. Suitable for photo-based, hand drawn or computer manipulated imagery. Water-based inks are used in this course.

Lithography
Tuesday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
May 4 [...]

GET SCHOOLED: Mother’s Day Glam Tees Workshop (April 21 & May 1)

rosalyn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:37:30 +0000

Mother’s Day Glam Tees Workshop

Saturday – April 24 &
Saturday – May 1st

Central Eglinton Community Centre
160 Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario M4P 3B5
Tel: (416) 392-0511
Register in person, by phone or email: info@centraleglinton.com

The Mother’s Day Glam Tees Workshop is all about getting together to decorate Tees for Mom. This is a full day workshop jammed packed with great activities to unleash your creativity! You will learn a variety of techniques such as: fabric painting, photo transfer techniques, fabric glittering & stencilled, trendy [...]

GET SCHOOLED: Hand Painted Accessories @ TMC (April 10 & April 11)

jen — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:03 +0000

Two-Day Workshop: Hand Painted Accessories with Sharon Epstein
Saturday April 10 and Sunday April 11, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Textile Museum of Canada

Create a one-of-a-kind shawl or wrap inspired by the exhibition Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls. Local artist Sharon Epstein will lead participants in the process of polychromatic silk-screen printing to transfer intricate hand-painted patterns onto cloth. Co-presented with the Contemporary Textile Studio Co-op.

Members $120, Non-members $144, Full-time students $80. Materials $35.
Advance registration is required, class size is limited. To register, call 416-599-5321 x 2221.

Textile Museum of Canada

GET SCHOOLED: Classes at Colour Vie (March-June)

rosalyn — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:38:09 +0000

COLOUR AND TEXTURE WORKSHOP FOR QUILTERS (with Gunnel Hag)
March 27, 2010: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Unleash Your Creativity! In this workshop students will learn how to mix their own personal colour combinations in order to create useful and unusual textures. Students will experiment with the application of pigments to cloth by using brushes, foam applicators and scrapers. They will build a surface structure for fabrics from scratch. While using a variety of everyday implements and found objects (forks, potato mashers, pot scrubbers, bottle caps, you name it) they [...]

GET SCHOOLED: DIY Bride Wedding Invitations Workshop

toronto craft alert — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:59:13 +0000

A brand new workshop for the DIY BRIDE : Are you interested in letterpress printing your own wedding invitations and saving money? If so, this workshop is definitely for you.

Price:
$400

What does it include?
-2 three hours sessions on our C&P Pilot Platen press for you and a guest
- inks
-2 design consultations with me (that includes getting your image plate ready)
-2 polymer plates for your invitation and thank you card designs (additional cost for additional plates)

For bookings and more info please email me at

GET SCHOOLED: Winter 2010 Education Registration (January-April, opens: January 4)

rosalyn — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:31:52 +0000

Winter 2010 Education Registration Opens January 4, 2010

Please read thoroughly before you call to register or inquire. Our office is closed from December 20th and will not reopen until January 4, 2010. We are unable to take registrations or answer questions regarding the education program until January 4th. Registration is limited for all courses and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that we will not open registration until 11:00 AM on Monday, January 4th. Please do not call the office to register until after 11:00 AM [...]

GET SCHOOLED: Letterpress Workshop at Bookhou (December-January)

rosalyn — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:53:10 +0000

We will be holding letterpress workshops in our studio/shop. The workshop will introduce you to letterpress printing on a C & P Pilot platen press. You will be able to make your own stationary or cards using wood and lead type – as well you will be able to carve your own lino block or use the ones we have pre-carved. No experience required.

class limited to two people

class dates:
Sunday December 13, 11-3pm
Saturday January 16, 11-3pm
Saturday January 23, 11-3pm

price: $120

a non-refundable 50% deposit is required to [...]

VENDOR CALL: Queen West Art Crawl “Independent Press” (show: Sept. 19 & 20)

toronto craft alert — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:12:44 +0000

The Queen West Art Crawl is pleased to announce that we are currently seeking submissions for ‘Independent Press’. This new section of our Parkdale Crafters Market is focused on casting the spotlight on Toronto’s left-of-centre independent publications.

This includes, but certainly is not limited to; zines, comics, silk-screened posters, show posters, t-shirts, and print-based art in general.

Table spaces are available for $25 for both days. You will be provided with a six foot table and a chair and your selling and display space will be limited to your table. The [...]

CRAFTIVISM: $2 drawings for the love of print (Until March 11, 2009)

becky — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:46:48 +0000

Please not that due to the amazing and overwhelming success of this drawing drive, Rosemary limited this offer to those who had forwarded her their donation receipt by 12pm EST Wednesday March 11!

$2 drawings for the love of print!, originally uploaded by Rosemary Travale.

As a result of Sheridan College’s 2009 BAA Illustration grads losing the funding for their graduate print book, the students launched For the Love of Print – a fundraising campaign to raise the necessary dough. Enter local illustrator/artist,

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GET SCHOOLED: Letterpress Workshops @ KOZO Studio (December 2011- February 2012)