A WSW Artist-in-Residence Profile
By Steven Andersen
Your Honor, this inmate would like to request time to arrange her business.

And what business would that be, ma’am?
My baby. This inmate requests to go home to pick up my baby. After that I have no problem to be deported.

This is a pivotal moment in a life, rendered with [...]

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Hello out there New Havenites! There will be a show highlighting The Beinecke Library’s collection of Erica Van Horn’s (Seven Lady Saintes) work  January 13 -through March 27th, 2010.

“Throughout her career, Van Horn has woven together her methods and preoccupations into a common fabric of artistic practice and subject. Her interest in exploring the daily aspects of her [...]

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This week a recipe, of sorts, in honor of the arrival of some new friends- Process Yellow, Process Cyan & Process Magenta! Oh! how excited we are to meet you!
And how lucky we are to have Kyla here to give us a formal introduction:

Color Separation
for Silkscreen in Photoshop
Kyla Luedtke
Open Photoshop and open your image.
Under Image>Image [...]

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Our friend Laureen Griffin is part of this weekends Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST). Laureen came to the workshop early this spring to work in our silkscreen studio, you can read more about her textile printing technique using fiber reactive dye on her blog and see pictures of her working in the studio on our [...]

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Sheila Marbain was a master printer who specialized in screen printing. She opened her first studio in 1955 which specialized in collaborative projects with contemporary artists. In the early 1960’s she began incorporating photo screen techniques and took on projects for artists such as Lichtenstein and Oldenberg that required printing on three-dimensional objects. She worked [...]

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