Lifelong Arts Mixed-Media Printmaking Workshop Series

Studio instructors at The Ringling direct this multi-session instructional course for mature adults looking to master print processes without toxic solvents or industrial equipment. Working in the museum's education center, participants study relief printing, monoprinting, and collagraphy, taking compositional cues from European masterworks and decorative objects in the museum galleries. The curriculum moves methodically from matrix carving and brayer inking through hand-burnishing and paper registration. By emphasizing experimental layering, collage elements, and textural surfaces, the workshop provides technical footing for self-directed studio production while encouraging close visual analysis of master prints from the permanent collection.