Experimental Screen Printing

Class Description

This workshop introduces participants to experimental screen printing through layering via chine-collé. Participants will learn the basic principles of screen printing, including positive and negative space, stencil-making, ink application, registration, and printing on paper.

Students will experiment with hand-drawn transparencies, cut-paper stencils, found textures, and photographic imagery to create layered and expressive prints.

The workshop will encourage participants to approach screen printing as a flexible image-making process rather than focusing solely on traditional editioned prints. Through transparent and opaque inks, layering, registration and intentional misregistration, monoprinting, and chine-collé, participants will explore color, texture, repetition, and visual depth.

The materials fee for this class is $45. This is separate from the ticket price and is to reimburse the instructor for any tools or materials used in this class. This will be paid once, directly to the instructor at the start of the first class meeting. This instructor accepts Venmo or Cash.

Learning Objectives

• The session will culminate in a small series of 3 prints, with opportunities to create unique variations through layering, stencils, textures, and chine-collé.
• Participants will leave with an introduction to experimental screen-printing techniques and a series of prints developed through their own imagery and experimentation that they can continue in the future.

Instructor - Priyanka Kumar

Priyanka Kumar is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, printmaker, and educator based in the United States. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she worked as a Teaching Assistant and Graduate Instructor in the Printmaking Department.

Her practice moves between photography, printmaking, papermaking, and artist books, with a particular interest in transforming photographic images through experimental print processes. She works across monoprint, intaglio, photogravure, screen printing, image transfer, cyanotype, and other mixed-media techniques.

Kumar's teaching practice focuses on experimentation, material exploration, and expanding the possibilities of photographic imagery through printmaking. She encourages students to move beyond reproducing photographs and instead explore how images can be transferred, fragmented, layered, altered, and reimagined through different printing processes.

With a background in law, museum studies, photography, and fine art, Kumar brings a research-driven and interdisciplinary approach to teaching. She has experience teaching university and community-based workshops and is particularly interested in creating accessible, hands-on learning environments where participants can develop their own visual language through experimentation.

Your Ticket Includes

• We will provide screen, inks, paper, brushes, and glue.
• Access to A2's Screen Printing Lab and tools for the duration of the session.

Class Policies

Attire: Attendants should wear close-toed slip-resistant shoes (steel-toe work boots are ideal), long pants, and no loose-fitting clothing that could possibly get caught in machinery. Make sure to wear only natural fibers (i.e., cotton, wool, linen, etc) and bring reading glasses if needed for detailed work.

Learn more about our class and ticket cancelation policies Here.

Please email education@artisansasylum.com with any questions.

*Sales end 24 hours before the start of the class to allow the instructor and staff time to prep.