WORKSHOPS

We offer year-round artist-led workshops at both of our community-access studios, the IOWA CITY PRESS CO-OP and the MEDIA ARTS CO-OP, and occasionally elsewhere! Workshops include introductory technical training in our print, book, and digital media studio areas; advanced, exploratory, and experimental approaches to a range of art practices; and professional development for artists. Contact workshops@publicspaceone.com with inquiries.
Check out the ICPC and MAC portals for other learning opportunities including private instruction and outreach, as well as studio access.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

~ Check out the PS1 Yoga Collective’s weekly classes ~

Thanks to generous support from Hills Bank and community donors, all workshops are offered with sliding scale, pay-what-you-can registration, and All-Ages Art workshops are free!

CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY: If PS1 cancels a workshop for any reason, students enrolled in the workshop are entitled to a full refund or may transfer the full tuition to another workshop. If a student needs to cancel their enrollment in a workshop, they may do so until one week before the workshop is scheduled to begin. Students can request a full refund minus a $10 administrative fee or they may transfer the full amount credited to any upcoming workshop. Students wishing to cancel after the 7-day cut-off are not eligible for a refund or transfer of funds.

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

Letterpress: Intro to Letterpress • Printing Broadsides on the Vandercook • Intermediate Letterpress: Printing Books • Pressure Prints and Collagraphs on the Proofing Press • Image Making for Intermediate and Advanced Beginner Letterpress Printers • 1, 2, 3 Reductive Linoleum on the Vandercook • Activist Poster Printing

Silkscreen: Intro to Screenprinting • Intermediate Textile Screenprinting • Silkscreen Monoprinting • Screen Building • Print, Repeat: Designing and Printing Patterns on Textiles

Relief Printing: Intro to Relief • Epic Relief: Intro to Relief Printing from Start to Finish • The Agony and the Ecstasy: Linocut Printing for Beginners • Mokuhanga • Handmade Stamps: Making Objects that Make Images • Multi-color Relief Printing • Self/Portrait Variations: Mixed Media Relief

Intaglio: Intaglio Collagraphs • Intro to Intaglio • Copper Line Etch and Aquatint • Talking Lines: hard-ground etching and narrative • Drypoint

Other Print Techniques: Monotype Printing • Monotype and Watercolor Monoprint • Pronto Plate Lithography• Fried, Frenzied and Foiled: Printing Hot Stamped Foil • On and Off the Plate: Transferred Images in Printmaking • Cyanotypes • Metalworking for Printmakers • Anthotypes • Pre-Xerox Copying Technologies

Book Arts/Publication: Intro to Bookbinding • Un-Fine Binding: An Introduction to very Practical Book Binding • Side-stitch Bookbinding with Wraparound Case • Drum Leaf & Stiff Leaf Bookbinding • Clamshell Boxes • Longstitch Bookbinding: Design and Technique • Beyond Beginning Bookbinding: Bradel! • Basic Book Repair • Hardcover Bookbinding • Laced Paper Case Bookbinding • Zines! • Suminagashi

Drawing & Painting: Working with Found Visual Material: Research & Transfer Methods • Body Drawing • Drawing Experiments • Color Theory • Beginning Drawing • Outdoor Color Painting

Digital/New Media: Intro to Interactive Game Design • Intro to 3D Design • Projection Mapping with Isadora

Video & Film: Intro to Video Editing • Cameraless 16mm Film • Time-Based Methods • Create It in Post • 4K Camera Basics • Experimental Animation with Ebsynth

Audio: Field Recording • Improvised, Looped Live Music Production • Score Your Own Soundtrack

Outside/Inside: Intro to Making Natural Inks • Indigo Dye • Making Silkscreen Ink from Natural Dyes • Public Platform: Stencils and Street Art • Mindfulness and the Creative Process • Forage Against the Machine • We Know Who You Are, By What You Say: A bird listening workshop

Professional Development: Museum Standard Matting and Framing • Mural Methods & Materials • <Insert Words Here> Navigating form and generating excitement in proposal writing • Honing Your Conceptual Throughline

Performance: Embodying Totemic Personas • Intro to Social Practice • Shadow Puppets

Photography: Darkroom in the Digital Age

Generative: Creative Rituals • Your Notebook: “A Little Space to Fill” • Mindfulness and the Creative Process • Rabbit Holes and Treasure Troves

for kids:
Superhero Gear • Jelly Gelly Jellyfish! • Hail to Snail Mail • Lost Wolves • Handmade: Papermaking, Printmaking, and Bookbinding • Making Comics