We’re pleased to be working with Windsor based artist and art educator Michelle Soulliè€re on her new project Up the Mesh Count: Screenprinting For D.I.Y. Musicians, funded by Ontario Arts Council and the City of Windsor Arts, Culture, & Heritage Fund. We will be teaching local musicians how to screen print their own promotional materials and how to build their own screenprinting equipment, and producing a how-to zine on screenprinting to be distributed locally. Windsor is about to experience a D.I.Y. screenprinting revolution!
More information will be made available shortly, including where you can sign up for the workshop sessions (taking place in April, June, and September of 2016).
The project is also hiring! We need a studio technician to work with us throughout the project, and an illustrator to help with the zine. You can check out the contract postings here: Up the Mesh Count Studio Technician and Illustrator Posting
Last night’s screenprint students printing their two-colour images:
You can pick up one of these limited edition screenprinted posters, designed by Joshua Babcock and printed at Levigator Press, for fifteen bucks tonight at the Arts Council Windsor and Region‘s annual members’ show reception. All proceeds go towards funding ACWR’s great programming and projects!
Posters are available in navy blue and in very limited numbers in lighter blue or minty green.
We collaborated with Nadja Pelkey to bring you these gorgeous baby hats in soft, comfy, hand screenprinted fabrics. They’re available now in our shop in three sizes: newborn, 3-6 months, and 6-12 months. If you have any babies in your life who have heads, they need these hats. Please especially take away the newborn size because they are too much like adorable finger puppets and it’s hurting our productivity.
Screenprinted fabric for a fun collaboration we’re working on!
Screenprinting some hand drawn embroidery patterns onto squares of twill and suiting fabric, for iron-on patches:
A friend of Levigator Press requested a patch of our Indigo Bunting screenprint for her pinstripe suit jacket, and we were happy to comply! We’ve got a few extra available too. They’re printed in white ink on black wool suiting, and the edges are finished off with a narrow serger hem in red thread.
We printed up some copies of our new Indigo Bunting colouring poster during our studio tour printing demos. This is the first print in our series of Point Pelee birds.
These 12″ by 19″ original screenprinted posters are now available in our shop or online through the Levigator Press Etsy shop.
Here is our shop sample all coloured in:
A few images from tonight’s screenprinting session. We had loads of fun and the students made some really great prints.
For those of you who wanted to take this class and couldn’t make it fit your schedules, we have the next session planned for November 2 & 9, Monday evenings, from 6:30 to 9:30. This is a popular class, so you might want to register early!
I’ve been plugging away at this amberlith cutting, which is going to be turned into a screenprinted poster that people can colour! It’s a slow process, but gratifying, and the end result is going to be worth it.
