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May
11
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

Second Saturday All Ages Art: Repeating Patterns

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

MAY: Repeating Patterns

Learn the simple trick to creating a seamless pattern similar to what you see on gift wrap, fabric and wallpaper.

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVP (encouraged but not required)

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors

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Jun
5
to Jun 19
Workshop

Self Produce Your Band or Musical Project

with Dan Miller
Wednesday June 5 & June 19, 6-9pm
at PS1 Close (538 S Gilbert)
$10-$120

This workshop will give you the tools and knowledge to record and release your music, whether you plan to record yourself or rent out studio time, you will learn all the steps in the process and gain a basic understanding of all elements in music production. The first workshop will focus on preproduction techniques, such as composition, arrangement, and recording techniques. The second workshop will focus on post production, including mixing, mastering, and distribution. The concepts in this course will be applicable to any production style e.g digital vs. analog, various software, or genres.

Registration deadline: June 4

open to teens & adults 14+


*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $112 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.

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TEACHING ARTIST:
Dan Miller is a musician, recording engineer, mixing engineer, and filmmaker. They have been making recordings since they got their first Yakbak at age 5. Most recently they opened the Vault Recording Studio in West Liberty, Iowa.

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Jun
6
to Jun 27
Workshop

Regenerative composition: expanded literature tactics

with Nicolás Gerardi
Thursdays June 6, 13, 20, & 27, 6-7:30pm
HYBRID: at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert, Main Hall) and on Zoom
pay-what-you-can: $5-$125

Regenerative Composition: expanded literature tactics is a theoretical and practical workshop in which we will review works and theories about electronic literatures and cyber poetry pieces and make our own experiments inspired by these readings.

  • Session I: Tensions between image and word

  • Session II: Assemblies and projections.

  • Session III: Technology, Colonialism and Afrofuturism.

  • Session IV: Ancestral discussions, current problems.

Registration deadline: June 5

open to ages 18+

co-presented with Porchlight Literary Center

*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $112 is the true cost of the workshop. We encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford. If you have a higher income or access to resources, pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.

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TEACHING ARTIST:
Nicolás Gerardi (Venezuela, 1989) is a multimedia writer and researcher. In 2012 he was part of the Experimental Curatorial Workshop with his exhibition Dynamics of Appropriation: Anthropophagy in the 2.0 era at the Centro de Arte Los Galpones (Caracas). In 2013 he organized together with Ionee Waterhouse the digital art encounter Señal Abierta at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas. In 2016, he twice organized the multimedia event Live Cinema that integrated poetry reading, with the revitalization of film archive and electronic music in real time. In 2019, he presented his piece Límite y Frontera at the Andrés Duque Cinema, as part of the Bogotá Young Art Salon. From 2019 he has been dedicated to conceptualize, design and print and artist books under the publishing house Limo (s)Ediciones del Caribe. Through this house he self-published his first work in book format, the photo poetry book Uy,uy,uy,uy,ur,ur,ur,ur (2019). With his project Poemas Unicode he was selected to be part of the II Jornada Internacional de Poesía Visual, at the Universidad Federal Fluminense (2023). He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Iowa and is preparing an immersive exhibition about his own experience as a migrant and refugee.

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Jun
8
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

Second Saturday All Ages Art: Rubber Stamps

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

June: Rubber Stamps

Design, carve and print your own original stamp.

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVP (encouraged but not required)

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors

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Jun
9
to Jun 30
Workshop

Intuitive Filmmaking

with Clare Kinkaid
Sundays June 9, 16, 23, 30, 6-8pm
at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert, Cloud House)
pay-what-you-can: $5-$120

Workshop participants will learn the ways to make a film without a budget, script or most 'industry standards' and learn it can still be everything they desire and possibly even more.

We will learn how to plan around what is available, make connections with people 'artist to artist' rather than 'director to actor', explore the inherently exploitative aspects of cameras and a male dominated industry, have (virtual) guest speakers who practice intuitive filmmaking & make our own videos start to finish!

Registration deadline: June 7

open to ages 18+

*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $120 is the true cost of the workshop. We encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford. If you have a higher income or access to resources, pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.

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TEACHING ARTIST:
Clare Kinkaid trained in commercial filmmaking and achieved success locally, but became fed up with the rules of the industry, financial hoops and sexist enviorments. She decided to part ways from that path to travel & pursue her experimental dreams. Clare practices intuitive filmmaking; focusing on the relationships between everyone involved, the inherit exploitative power of the camera, accessibility and challenges what narratives look like in the modern age. 

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Apr
27
10:00 AM10:00
Workshop

Raised Bed Building workshop

Join Hannah and the PS1 CARETAKERS
for a hands-on raised bed building workshop

Bring your curiosity and end the day burlier, with more friends, and peace in your heart knowing you built the garden beds that will nurture veggies at PS1 for years to come. 

  • no previous woodworking experience required

  • wear your work clothes and close-toed shoes

  • safety glasses and tools provided 

free ~~ advance registration required:

This workshop is made possible with funding awarded from the Wellmark Foundation, which provided funds to help PS1 develop an edible garden at our Close House location. These grant funds also made it possible to receive guidance from Backyard Abundance, whose carefully laid designs got us this far. 

This workshop marks the beginning of the planting work taking place across the west side of the yard. Interested in getting involved in the garden this summer? Let us know! email kalmia@publicspaceone.com. 

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Apr
13
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

Second Saturday All Ages Art: Fun with UV Resin

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

APRIL: Fun with UV Resin

Use it as a gloss coat for tiny collages or make small pendants.

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVP (encouraged but not required)

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Mar
9
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

Second Saturday All Ages Art: Shrinky Dink basics

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
• Kum & Go

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

MARCH: Shrinky Dink basics

Make shrink plastic charms, pins, pendants and more!

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

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Mar
6
to Mar 27
Workshop

Broadsides: Creative and Independent Techniques

INSTRUCTORS

Dana King is a multi-media artist whose practice embraces papermaking, poetry, photography, and artist’s books. In their process, they combine scholarly research, intuitive praxis, and a sense of humor. Motivated by empathy and curiosity, Dana approaches their work as an artist and a teacher with kindness. A current MFA Candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, Dana has taught Book Arts and Alternative Screen Printing at the Center for the Book and Public Space One and has edited and produced independent zines and chapbooks using Xerox and Risograph printing. Dana has shown work and curated exhibitions in Ohio and Iowa, and their work can be found in national and international publications, including Oranges and Sardines and Photo Trouvée Magazine, as well as online and in broadside form at Prompt Press. Dana is a member of Public Space One and the Iowa City Press Coop and loves every dog.

Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She works as the managing editor at Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press, an ongoing poetry broadside project. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught classes in literature, creative writing, and book arts for the University of Iowa and Iowa City Poetry. Her work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Second Factory, Asphalte, and elsewhere. Her debut book of poems, Green for Luck, is forthcoming from EastOver Press (spring 2024). You can read more at Margaret’s website which is margaret yapp dot com / instagram @bigbabymarg

workshop presented in partnership with Iowa City Poetry

tuition: $100 (includes all materials)
tuition assistance is available

Have you ever wanted to make a broadside of your own writing? Or of somebody else’s? A broadside is basically a fancy word for poster — and broadsides have historically been used as a way to cheaply disseminate writing! There are infinite ways to make a broadside — one-of-a-kinds and editions — and in this four-session class, participants will design, develop, and print at least two of their own broadsides.

We’ll experiment with digital and analog forms of print and image making, with a special focus on technologies that are affordable and accessible from home. Possible activities include: carving our own stamps, linocut, xerox transfers, collage, trace monotype, cyanotype, tracing, rubbings, gelatin printing, and stencils. We’ll also do a crash course on digital design using Microsoft Word and other accessible programs, and learn the very basics of typography and design. We’ll experiment with printing on both digital printers and hand presses. Participants should expect to walk away from this course with at least one digitally-printed broadside and at least one hand-printed broadside, as well as the knowledge and confidence to continue making broadsides on their own following the course.

This class is open to all levels of writers and artists — lessons will be catered to participants’ interests and ideas!

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Feb
10
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

Second Saturday All Ages Art: Lego dots printmaking

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
• Kum & Go

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

FEBRUARY: Lego dots printmaking

Featuring The Provisional Press

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVP (encouraged but not required)

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Jan
13
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

Second Saturday All Ages Art: Souped Up Sock Puppets

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
• Kum & Go

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

JANUARY: SOUPED UP SOCK PUPPETS
A twist on a classic.  Come create your own character using the woodfish method.

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVP (encouraged but not required)

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Nov
11
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

All Ages Art: Drawing from Observation

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

NOVEMBER: DRAWING FROM OBSERVATION

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVPs encouraged (but not required):

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Oct
14
11:00 AM11:00
Workshop

All Ages Art: Stitching

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

OCTOBER: STITCHING
learn & practice some basic stitches & free form embroidery

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVPs encouraged (but not required):

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