Studio Access Training – Spudnik Press https://www.spudnikpress.org An affordable and approachable community print studio in Chicago Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:33:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.spudnikpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/monogram-09-100x100.png Studio Access Training – Spudnik Press https://www.spudnikpress.org 32 32 228766959 April 23 | Screenprinting Refresher & Authorization (4 Hours) https://www.spudnikpress.org/classes/april-23-screenprinting-refresher-authorization-4-hours/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:36:55 +0000 https://www.spudnikpress.org/?post_type=class&p=40935 Read more »]]> Note: Experience is required to take this refresher class.

This refresher & authorization workshop welcomes students with previous screenprinting experience who are feeling out-of-practice or fuzzy regarding the finer points of the process, or who have never printed at Spudnik before, and want familiarity with our facilities and offerings. Students should have already completed a one-day workshop or full class, although it need not have been at Spudnik. We also welcome printers that would like support working through a particularly complex project or reoccurring printing issue.

The class will review an assortment of skills such as selecting the best mesh count, applying the perfect coat of photo emulsion, troubleshooting and diagnosing exposure and printing issues, ink mixing, registration, and screen reclamation. Equally as importantly, we will address how to consider these technical factors and limitations when designing a project for printing.

During the workshops, each student will expose a screen, and work with peers to print a two-color image designed to hone nuanced printing skills. Students are welcome to bring specific questions about their next project.

To help build printing confidence at Open Studio sessions, students are invited to return within the week to put their freshly acquired knowledge to use. Through this workshop, students will not only brush up on old skills and become authorized to print at Spudnik, but are sure to walk away with new morsels of useful information regarding the art of screenprinting.

]]> 40935 May 10 | Design for Print: Thinking Through Color — Understanding Single Color Production with the Risograph https://www.spudnikpress.org/classes/may-10-design-for-print-thinking-through-color-understanding-single-color-production-with-the-risograph/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:08:37 +0000 https://www.spudnikpress.org/?post_type=class&p=41064 Read more »]]> Print is, at its core, a subtractive and sequential medium — color is built layer by layer.  For designers who have worked primarily on a computer screen, developing an intuition for how color behaves in print is about reorienting how you see. This workshop, led by designer and educator Amira Hegazy, digs into the thinking behind color separation: how an image is decomposed into its constituent parts, how printing inks interact, and how the relationships between layers are designed rather than assumed. The Risograph serves as the workshop’s primary teaching instrument — its single-color-at-a-time process makes visible what is often invisible in more automated digital print workflows, giving designers a direct, tactile experience of the logic that underlies every multi-color print process, from offset lithography to screen printing.

 

This is the first workshop in the Design for Print sessions with Amira Hegazy

This workshop series is built for designers and other digital image makers to translate their digital skills to physical making. We will take specific elements of the design process and decode them to print processes. We will highlight historical and theoretical elements that have woven through design practice from days of physical production to our digital workspaces. Expect to leave each workshop feeling more knowledgeable about your day-to-day design workflows and how to realize your designs through hands-on print practices at Spudnik Press. 

Amira Hegazy is a Chicago-based designer, printer, bookmaker and educator whose work lives at the intersection of print, publication, and community. This four-part workshop series is designed specifically for graphic designers looking to deepen their print knowledge — from file setup to finished object.

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