4-week Intro Intaglio Class with Ian Ruppenthal

This 4-week introductory course will familiarize students with etching, aquatint, and drypoint printing techniques. Students will learn to prepare their own copper plate for etching, and will feel comfortable in choosing intaglio techniques suitable to their artistic styles. Hard and soft ground etching will be covered in depth, as well as using a rosin box for aquatint, and printing an edition of etchings. By the end of the course students will be able to print confidently on an etching press, and leave the course with a firm foundation in intaglio.

Ian Ruppenthal is a printmaker and artist raised in North Carolina, and living in Brooklyn. Ian began making prints as an undergrad, and has since worked in a variety of printshops in both professional and academic settings. Ian is one of the founders of Pigeonhole Press, a small etching publisher in Chicago, completed an apprenticeship at Wingate Studio (Hinsdale, NH), and currently is the studio manager at Lower East Side Printshop. Recently his personal work concerns the interplay and breakdown of image and text, and the absurdity of life in the anthropocene.