Screenprinting with Natural Dyes with Katey Rissi — Sep 13 - 14

Dates: September 13, 2025 → September 14, 2025
Times: Saturday 12-4 Sunday 12-4
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Workshop Description:
In this class, students will create a screenprinted print edition on paper, working with a palette of color made possible by materials foraged and grown. First, we will use drawing fluid and screen filler to create stencils on screens. Next, students will learn how to make screenprinting ink from scratch using natural dyes and seaweed thickeners and use those inks to create an edition of prints. The resulting work is entirely biodegradable, place-based, and beautiful!

About the Instructor:
Katey Rissi is a Pacific-Northwest-based printmaker, textile artist and educator. Her work explores themes of bio-regionalism, ecology, time, rewilding, and enchantment. In terms of process, she is focused on slow-making practices like analog/anachronistic image-making techniques, mending textiles, and making art materials out of things gathered and grown.

Katey holds a BFA in graphic design from Western Michigan University with a focus in photography and printmaking, and studied screenprinting at the Art Student’s League of Denver. She teaches art classes to both youth and adults, and has worked in program planning, as an elementary school art teacher, and as a teaching artist for the past 8 years. She is currently the class coordinator and print studio manager at Alchemy Art Center, a community art center on San Juan Island.

Required Materials:
- I will supply all materials