July Class Newsletter

We made it to Miami, we had a blast at our grand opening, and as promised, there are some big changes to announce. The first big change: this will be the last of the workshop newsletters. We will continue to send our regular monthly newsletter, but if you want to be the first to hear about workshops, sign up for one of our studio memberships! Studio membership is essential to our new studio rental process, and comes with a whole bunch of other wonderful benefits, including discounts on scheduled workshops, an invitation to members-only events, the opportunity to participate in our new annual print exchange, and of course, an early bird newsletter for events requiring an RSVP (and if you’ve read this far, then it’s likely you’re kinda into newsletters.)

If you want to learn a little bit more about membership, please read on and click through. And to kick off the program, we are offering a sweet discount on studio memberships for the month of July! Just use the code SIGNMEUP at checkout on our website.

Of course, the workshop newsletter was established to keep you posted on what we’re teaching, so if you make it to the bottom of this email, you will be rewarded with a glimpse at all of our upcoming workshops. We’re especially excited to offer a workshop for those of you looking to make a mock-up for a photo book, lead by guest artist Gabriela Gamboa.

Just a few moments from our Grand Opening pictured above.

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MAKE YOUR ART HERE: STUDIO MEMBERSHIPS

There are many benefits to our studio membership program, but it’s likely that the biggest draw would be this: renting studio time. If you are interested in using our presses, type, and other exciting equipment to make your own book and print projects, all you need to do is sign up for one of our four Studio memberships, take our Welcome Course, and then you can rent assisted or unassisted studio time for the next 12 months. Studio membership comes with tons of additional benefits, including discounts on scheduled workshops and members-only opportunities. Studio membership is now a requirement for all studio rental.

Though they share a common set of core benefits, each of these programs has a unique focus, and the additional benefits are designed to help you get the most out of your time at IS Projects, whatever your goals may be. There are four studio memberships:

• The Basic Studio Membership

• The Print Club Membership

• The Portfolio Development Membership

• The Premier Access Membership

Whichever membership you choose, you’re invited to our very first members-only event if you sign up!

Explore Studio Memberships

See what you get when you sign up with us. Sign up with the discount code SIGNMEUP before the end of July.

SHOP TALK

Shop Talk is a new quarterly members-only event, and the very first one is coming up on July 22nd, from 6:30-8:30PM! At this event, Studio Members will be invited to come to IS Projects with a couple of prints of their own. All participants will then have the opportunity to dig into one another’s practices, discussing printmaking from a technical perspective and getting new ideas from each other. This event will, of course, be accompanied by snacks and drinks… On the house!

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UPCOMING CLASSES

We are back to running workshops again! We have missed having folks in the studio for workshops and can’t wait to get started. Please remember, if the thing you want to learn isn’t listed this quarter, you have options. Just email brooke@isprojectsfl.com and let me know what you want to learn.

Thank you for reading, and hopefully, we’ll see you in the studio soon!

April Class Newsletter

If you have been following along with us over the last couple of months, you have likely heard that we will be moving the studio to Miami by the end of May. You may also recall that we planned to stop teaching workshops in March, but after polling you all in our recent Newsletter, we decided to offer four more opportunities to take some of our most beloved workshops before we go! If you would like to be a part of one of our final Fort Lauderdale workshops, don’t forget to use our discount code THANKSFTL when you sign up to receive 15% off. If you were hoping to schedule a private class, please reach out to us as soon as possible so we can get you on the schedule. Otherwise, we will see you in Miami!

What We’ve Been Up To This Month

In March, we lead a Teen Travel Journal workshop at the Society of the Four Arts Library in Palm Beach. This is one of our favorite workshops to teach and it was an absolute pleasure to have an opportunity to share it with this wonderful group of teen artists.

The Solarplate workshop lead by guest instructor Tom Paulius resulted in some fabulous prints. Participants had a fabulous time making prints from the photographic images they provided themselves.

We had a blast running the Mimosas, Marbling & Letterpress class. Everyone got to marble their own paper and set their own type to create totally unique posters. The mimosas were a delightful addition to this already very exciting workshop.

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February Class Newsletter

Those of you keeping up with us on social media and through our monthly newsletter have probably already heard the news that the studio will be moving by the end of May. This means that we will be stopping workshops after March in preparation for the big move, with plans to resume just as soon as we’re settled in the new space. We are close to finalizing some details on our new home and will share the news just as soon as we’re able.

In the meantime, we would LOVE to see some familiar faces over the next couple of months and hope you all get a chance to visit us before we relocate. With that in mind, and to say thank you to our Fort Lauderdale audience over the last seven years, we are offering a discount on all our upcoming classes planned through March! Take a look at our offerings below and sign up using the code THANKSFTL at checkout for 10% off any class, course, print club or open studio on the Spring schedule.

If you have a private class you’ve been wanting to schedule or are planning renting studio time, please touch base with us ASAP. We have limited availability in our Spring schedule. So, let’s connect and realize that print, paper, book project while we still have the presses running.

What We’ve Been Up To This Month

Letterpress curious folks joined up last week for a handset letterpress Print Club demonstration. Using the above design, each student handset their own names to add to a two-color postcard.

One of our class highlights from this month has been our new four week course - Introduction to Bookbinding! Over the last three weeks, we have covered simple bindings like the pamphlet stitch and X-book, Japanese stab bindings, drum leaf binding, the lotus fold and accordion books. In our final week, we tackle the long stitch leather travel journal!

Did you know we run a staff workshop each month in order to test out new courses? This month staff members were lead through the pronto plate technique - a modern approach to lithography.

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VISITING INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT:

TOM PAULIUS

TD (Tom) Paulius is a printmaker from Orland Park, Illinois. Tom creates prints in various media, including woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, etchings, polyplate lithographs and solar plate photogravures. His solar plates prints focus on seascapes and nature, using photographs taken along the coast, the Keys, the Everglades and Big Cypress swamp.

Photo Etching: Solar Plates

Sunday, February 20th 10am - 4pm
Learn the basics of photogravure printmaking using solar plates. In this course, you will learn how to use the solar plate process for non-toxic photogravure printmaking. Students will learn what a solar plate is and how to prepare images to create a positive that is exposed onto the photosensitive polymer coating of a solar plate. They will develop their exposed plates in water to create photogravure plates in which the images are etched into the photopolymer on the plate. Students will walk away with a small edition of original prints.

NEW CLASS!

Interested in our 4 Week Portfolio Review Course?

Each session of this four-week course explores the work of one to two participants from the group with an eye towards supporting artists from all backgrounds seeking critical feedback. Taking the structure of a portfolio review, participants bring documentation of four works that relate to each other. The aim of each conversation is to discuss the work as a group, the individual pieces, and the way that they are presented.

Use the code TRYITOUT! at checkout
for 15% of this class.
Sign up>>

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December Class Newsletter

December is a time for reflection and, after over a year of being closed to the public, we’re feeling incredibly thankful for all the new connections we’ve made with local artists and the familiar faces that continue to visit the studio since restarting classes this Summer. If you’re looking to get more involved at the studio, be sure to check the website for our newly released winter schedule and visit the studio to pick up a winter flyer! We’ve developed some exciting new offerings including multi-week courses in Photographic Print Techniques, Intro to Bookbinding, Portfolio Review, and Intro to Artists’ Books.

What We’ve Been Up To This Month

Private Collagraph Printing Class

While certain techniques don’t always make it to the calendar as often others, we always have the option for a group of interested participants to schedule a private class. Here’s some shots from last month’s private collagraph class we ran for a group of artists!

Drink & Ink Date Night: Simple Book Binding

We have loved partnering with our neighbors, Small Wine Shop, on a monthly series of Drink and Ink Date Night classes that pair natural wine tasting with printmaking techniques. This month we held a simple bookbinding class at Small Wine Shop!

The biggest class highlight from this month was hands-down David Wolske’s Isotype printing class. The class kicked off a week-long residency for David, who is visiting from Texas. We cannot thank David enough for being so generous in sharing this technique with us.

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VISITING INSTRUCTORS SPOTLIGHT:

ROBYNN SMITH

Robynn Smith grew up in New York and resides in Santa Cruz, California. She is an internationally exhibiting printmaker and painter, and Professor Emerita, Monterey Peninsula College. Robynn is the founder of the annual international event, Print Day in May, and Blue Mouse Studios in Aptos, California. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. Notable solo exhibitions include Monterey Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art and Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Recent residency fellowships include L’AiR Arts Paris and Zea Mays Printmaking in Massachusetts.

Pastel Transfers for Monoprinting

Saturday, January 15th, 10am - 4pm
What happens when you run a pastel drawing through an etching press? Magic! Images transform and soften as they are run through the press multiple times. In this workshop we will use pastel drawings as the basis for monotype prints. This is a versatile technique that is great for monotype, for applying areas of color to a print without opening messy cans of ink and for creating soft, subtle ghost prints. It yields vibrant color on its own, and can be combined with many other printmaking techniques such as Solarplate, collograph, copper etching, woodcut, etc. to create rich layered prints.
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TOM PAULIUS

TD (Tom) Paulius is a printmaker from Orland Park, Illinois. Tom creates prints in various media, including woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, etchings, polyplate lithographs and solar plate photogravures. His solar plates prints focus on seascapes and nature, using photographs taken along the coast, the Keys, the Everglades and Big Cypress swamp.

Photo Etching: Solar Plates

Saturday, January 22nd 10am - 4pm
Learn the basics of photogravure printmaking using solar plates. In this course, you will learn how to use the solar plate process for non-toxic photogravure printmaking. Students will learn what a solar plate is and how to prepare images to create a positive that is exposed onto the photosensitive polymer coating of a solar plate. They will develop their exposed plates in water to create photogravure plates in which the images are etched into the photopolymer on the plate. Students will walk away with a small edition of original prints.
Sign up >>

NEW CLASS!

Interested in our 4 Week Photographic Print Techniques Course?

Use the code
TRYITOUT!
at checkout
for 15% of this class.

Sign up>>

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October Class Newsletter

WE’RE BACK!

The pandemic certainly forced us to get creative with executing our mission to share the love of print, book, and paper with current and future generations. Over the last year, we developed a series of donation-based virtual classes and at-home workshop kits, enabling us to expand our print community far and wide. We were so grateful to connect with our studio regulars while meeting folks from all over the United States and Europe. That said, we were more than ready to open our doors up this Fall in order to sling some ink and pull prints with you all in person again! So, it only makes sense that we restart our Class Newsletter in order to keep you in the loop on upcoming classes, share instructor spotlights, exclusive class discounts, and fun shots from the previous month.

If you’ve taken classes with us before, you may notice some changes. We’ve given our class page a bit of a makeover, kept the most popular classes on the schedule while adding a bunch of new techniques for both beginning and advanced printers, developed a series of private classes for parties and small groups, added A LOT more monthly open studio dates (including weekends!) AND expanded our team of teaching artists.

Check out what we’ve been up to and what to look forward to below!

Drink & Ink Date Night: Letterpress T-Shirts

It’s been a tough year for both meeting people and connecting with old friends. With that in mind, we wanted to create more social outlets for people at the shop. We’re really excited to be partnering with our neighbors, Small Wine Shop, on a monthly series of Drink and Ink Date Night classes that pair natural wine tasting with printmaking techniques!

DIY Teens: Foldable Books & Paper Dyeing

Know a teen interested in learning more about printmaking? Historically, we’ve only ever offered classes for adults but one of our new instructors has developed a monthly series for DIY teens!

Print Club: Monoprinting with Stencils

Print Club programming is back! We’ll be opening up enrollment for our 2022 Print Club Membership in November, so stay tuned.

4 Week Introduction to Printmaking (linocuts from week one)

A new batch of printers joins us in the studio every Thursday night this month to learn three fundamental printmaking techniques to build upon: linocut, intaglio and mono printing. Two weeks down, two to go!

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INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT: BROOKE FRANK

www.brookeelizabethfrank.com/

Brooke Frank is a painter based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She received her MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin (2019), and received her BFA in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University (2015). She has completed artist residencies at IS Projects, Art Farm, and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, as well as an arts administration fellowship at the Girls’ Club Collection. She currently teaches drawing and printmaking at Nova Southeastern University and Florida Atlantic University.

Brooke’s teaching specialties include Painting and Drawing, Book Arts, Image Transfers, Sketchbook Habits and Critique. Brooke will be teaching an upcoming Sketchbook Habits Series from November 1 - November 22nd.

SKETCHBOOK HABITS: A Workshop for Anyone

Sketchbook Habits meets over four Monday evenings in November on the following dates:

November 1st, 6:30-8:30pm
November 8th, 6:30-8:30pm
November 15th, 6:30-8:30pm
November 22nd, 6:30-8:30pm

Participants will arrive with a sketchbook and a drawing utensil of their choice. Other materials will be provided by the studio as needed. Each class will be an exploration of a single technique paired with a single prompt. Participants can expect to explore observational drawing skills, collage, acrylic medium transfers, and writing. Prompts may include: What do you see? Where can you find yourself in the world? What makes you want to make art? What do you need to work? There will be optional supplementary homework to do in between sessions.

For 15% off this course,
enter the discount code: TRYITOUT! at check out!

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