Frogman's Print Workshops

Tonal Intaglio

Marco Hernandez

Session 1:

June 29 – July 4

This course offers an exploration of both traditional and contemporary tonal copper plate etching techniques. Participants will be able to work with original hand-drawn imagery or digital designs; they will learn how to transfer their images onto copper plates using Pure Etch and True-Grain film and etch them with ferric chloride. In addition, demonstrations will also cover a range of approaches including aquatint, toner wash, white ground, and soft ground. Students will gain hands-on experience in creating and printing their own etched plates, ultimately producing an edition of prints to take home. Open to all skill levels, this course welcomes beginners as well as experienced printmakers looking to expand their practice.

Marco Hernandez is a Mexican Artist/Printmaker who currently resides in Kansas. He received his MFA from Kansas State University in 2015. After receiving his MFA, he was hired as an art instructor at Kansas State University, and he became the Printmaking area coordinator for one semester. In the fall of 2016, Hernandez was hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Print Media at Wichita State University. He is currently the Assistant Teaching Professor of Print Media and Foundations Coordinator.

Hernandez’s art, deeply influenced by his cultural background, reflects his optimistic commitment to a lifelong career as both an artist and educator. His work has been exhibited in many national and international exhibitions which include the International Print Center New York, Delta National, Americas: Paperworks/All Media, and the Atlanta Print Biennial. Hernandez’s work has been exhibited in several countries including Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Poland, and Croatia and has received numerous awards including purchase awards, merit awards, best of show, and solo show invitations. He has also received two artist fellowships and has attended several artist residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Zea Mays Printmaking, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

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Color Woodcut

Emily Legleitner

Session 1:

June 29 -July 4

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This course provides a comprehensive overview of color woodcut printmaking using oil-based inks and multiple blocks, from carving to printing vibrant, layered artworks. Ideal for both beginners and experienced printmakers, participants will explore methods for achieving rich colors and textures, including color gradation and layering techniques with ink modifiers. You’ll learn each step of the process from image preparation to the intricacies of registration and printing multiple layers, while developing your voice in woodcut relief.

Emily Legleitner is a Michigan based artist with an interdisciplinary practice focused in print media and installation. Her work examines auto-biographical experiences and emotions associated with anxiety, mortality, longing, and the human condition. Legleitner’s work has shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, winning notable awards and grant funding. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR), International Print Triennial Society (Krakow, Poland) and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan); represented by Philadelphia’s Print Center; and published in Art in Print (2019) and Printmaking Today (2017). Legleitner has an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta (2023) and a BFA in Studio Art from Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan (2019). Beyond her art practice Legleitner is an educator and curator; and Assistant Professor of Art at Saginaw Valley State University.

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Wood Engraving

Joanne Price

Session 1:

June 29 – July 4

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Wood engraving is your secret weapon for highly detailed images that retain the bold relief characteristics of woodcut and linoleum. This process is perfect for adding illustrations to holiday cards, artist’s books or broadsides or to create a stand-alone image. Students will get to know the tools, materials, printing process, and history of wood engraving through hands-on projects and demonstrations. And with a print exchange at the end of the workshop, you’ll find the perfect opportunity to start your own art collection! All skill levels are welcome.

Joanne Price is the founder of Starpointe Studio, specializing in wood engraving, letterpress, and book arts. Price is President Emeritus of the Wood Engravers’ Network (2014 – 2020) and an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers since 2017. Price also collaborates with letterpress publishers like Larkspur Press and October Press, doing book and broadside illustrations for authors, such as Wendell Berry, Barabara Kingsolver, Frank X Walker, and more. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has work in the collections of Yale University, Guangdong Museum of Art, St. Bride Library, Ashmolean Museum and many more.

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Monotype / Monoprint

Nick Satinover

Session 1:

June 29 – July 4

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Monotype is printmaking for the adventurous. It is a way to think through making, a call and response, a dialogue of materials and maker. This workshop will endeavor to showcase the variety of opportunities that monotype and monoprint offers, allowing participants to work both methodically and intuitively. Demonstrations will include additive and reductive processes, both with and without stencils. Printing with a press and without, painterly mark making and drawing-centric methods. We will learn about ink modification and simple yet effective registration for building complex images through layers. Participants will explore a variety of monotype procedures which can yield finished works or material for collaging.

Nick Satinover is an infinitely curious maker of things, currently residing outside Nashville, TN. He works across several media but is often found in the printmaking studio. He earned his BFA from Wright State University, Dayton, OH, and his MFA from Illinois State University, Normal, IL. He has been an artist-in-residence at Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium; Kala Arts Center, Berkeley, CA; In-Cahoots, Petaluma, CA ; College of DuPage, IL; and the Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. His work has been shown widely in juried, group, and solo exhibitions across the United States. He is an Associate Professor of Print Media at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, where he coordinates the studio art BFA degree. He shares a home with his twin boys, partner Brittany, and rescue animals. His work is represented by Manneken Press, Bloomington, IL.
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Box-Making / Book Arts

Jennifer Scheuer

Session 1:

June 29 – July 4

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In this workshop students will be introduced to constructing, covering and lining hand-made boxes. These boxes can be used as a structure for artist books, as part of an artistic practice, and to preserve objects and collections. Students will learn strategies for constructing forms with book board, and utilizing book cloth and decorative papers. The workshop will cover creating boxes with lids, a clamshell box containing a hard cover book, and a customized box. For the customized box students can bring in an object or small collection, strategies for compartmentalizing the box structure will be introduced.

Jennifer Scheuer is a visual artist and printmaker based in Lafayette, IN. Scheuer is an assistant professor in the Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance at Purdue University. She is a recipient of the 2022 DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award through the Indianapolis Arts Council. Scheuer has attended artist residencies in California, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, Canada, Poland, and Germany. Scheuer received her MFA in Studio Arts: Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and attended the Tamarind Institute Printer Training Program. Scheuer has a long-held interest in paper sculpture and book arts, and the current focus of her creative practice is in the exploration of artist books and box-making. Her studio practice utilizes collections, archives, and research.

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Photolithography

Erin Wohletz

Session 1:

June 29 – July 4

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Photolithography is a form of plate lithography in which the artist draws positively onto mylar film, then exposes that image onto a photo-positive plate. Photolithography offers a similar range of value and print quality to traditional stone lithography with the added benefits of easy transportation and erasing during the drawing and printing process as well as the ability to draw your image right facing (non-mirrored). Demonstrations will include; drawing, processing, registration and printing for multi-layered photolithographic prints. Including exposures for drawing with colored pencil, rubylith, painterly applications, photographic films as well as utilizing physical objects for lithographic exposure. Additionally, this course will cover strategies for multi-process printmaking, and how to easily combine photolithography with intaglio, screen print, relief and monotype.

Erin Wohletz is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of South Dakota. Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada they received their BFA in Printmaking and Painting from the University of Nevada, Reno and their MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Erin Wohletz has participated in exhibitions across the United States including; Unfinished/ New Prints at the Print Center New York and Mid America Print Council Juried Members Exhibition at Kansas State University where they received Best in Show. Wohletz has participated in a variety of artist residencies including; Seacort Print Workshop in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Kala Art Institute in Berkley, California and the Morgan Paper Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. They also run the website TheFutureIsQueer.com, an online exhibition and index of over one hundred international LGBTQ+ printmakers.

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Stone Lithography

Michael Barnes

Session 2:

July 6-11

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Experiencing the seductive quality of drawing on a finely grained slab of lithographic limestone is like nothing else in the world! This class will explore the basic principles of processing and printing in black and white and color lithography from stone. Students will utilize a range of additive, reductive, and transfer drawing techniques, with both wet and dry media to produce finished works during the week. The medium of lithography will be introduced through demonstrations and presentations that will include topics of historical and contemporary developments in the medium, as well as discussion of the larger world of print media as it relates to the practice of art in general. This course is designed for beginning through advanced levels of students – no prior work in lithography, or printmaking for that matter, is required.

Michael Barnes was born in 1969 in Michigan of the United States. He grew up outside the small town of Ithaca, where his family lived on a wooded plot in the midst of farmland. This wooded plot contained a 19th century family cemetery where he spent much of his youth playing and fostering his imagination for later ventures in his artistic life. He went on to receive his BFA from Alma College, Michigan in 1991 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1996, both with a focus on Printmaking.

Michael developed a passion for the medium of lithography during his graduate studies at Iowa and has focused on this process for much of his work since. His research seeks to document and retain traditional methods of this fine art printing medium, while investigating means of integrating them with new media. His art has been exhibited and has received awards in venues worldwide. His research and artistry have taken him to such places as Germany, France, Serbia, Belgium, Italy, China, Estonia, Poland, and New Zealand, and he was recently supported by a Fulbright Specialist Grant. Michael now resides in St. Charles, Illinois, near Chicago, and is a Presidential Distinguished Research Professor and Head of the Printmaking program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
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Metal Engraving

James Ehlers

Session 2:

July 7-12

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In this workshop participants will learn the traditional method of line engraving. The burin (or graver) is used to carve directly into metal and produces a calligraphic mark that can create lines of varying widths. I will instruct on how to hold the tool correctly and discuss troubleshooting involved when first learning how to engrave. Safety issues related to hand engraving will also be addressed. Demonstrations on a variety of sharpening methods (jig and GRS sharpening hone) will be shown, and sample prints that illustrate a variety of interpretations of the technique ranging from beginner to technical masters will be available. Plenty of class time will be devoted to honing your skills, and a variety of mark-making exercises will be given before embarking on your image.
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James Ehlers was born and raised in Lake Charles, LA. He earned his MFA from the University of Florida and is a certified FEGA (Firearms Engravers Guild of America) Master Engraver. He joined Baylor University in the summer of 2024 to teach Two-Dimensional Design and Drawing. He previously worked at Emporia State University for 16 years where he served as Professor of Engraving Arts, Art Department Chair, and Interim Dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts. Since 2007, he has given numerous engraving workshops at various events including the Frogman’s Print Workshops (South Dakota), IMPACT Printmaking Conferences (Dundee, Scotland and Bristol, England), MAPC (Minnesota), and universities around the country. He has participated in group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Norway, Romania, The Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, and across the United States.

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Mokuhanga with Japanese Scrolls

Raluca Iancu

Session 2:

July 7-12

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In this workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock printing) and how to frame their prints as traditional Hanging Scrolls. The course covers carving, printing, including bokashi (color gradation), and the kento registration technique, with step-by-step demonstrations. We will explore historical and contemporary examples of color layering and other unique printing methods, while encouraging experimentation. By the end of the week, students will create an edition of mokuhanga prints, with the option to exchange with classmates, along with one completed hanging scroll.

Raluca Iancu is currently an Associate Professor in Art & Visual Culture, Printmaking, at Iowa State University (ISU). She earned her MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking, from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her BFA in Printmaking from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Recent awards include a 2025 Art Project grant from the Iowa Art Council, a 2024 Bridging the Gap Interdisciplinary Grant (ISU), and a 2024 Polster Teaching Award from the College of Design (ISU).

Her work investigates disaster, memory, and vulnerability, primarily through printmaking, book arts, printed objects and time-based media. She is interested in how our relationship with technology can simultaneously enhance our lives, while it can also leave us vulnerable. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues including the International Print Center of New York (NY), the Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), the CICA Museum (Korea), the Bradbury Art Museum (AR), the Art Institute of Boston (MA), and the Hunterdon Museum (NJ), among others. She has been an artist in residence in the United States, at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences (GA) and the Vermont Studio Center (VT), among others; and internationally at Art Print Residence (Spain), the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts (Poland), St Michael’s Printshop (Canada), Studio Kura (Japan), BetterPress Lab (Italy), and, most recently, MI-LAB (Japan).

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Linocut

Kill Joy

Session 2:

July 6-11

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In this Linocut course, participants will be introduced to historical and contemporary relief and learn how to create bold graphic images with greater control and fluidity. Techniques for image transfer, tool care, and carving will be shared as will techniques for color mixing, ink modification, registration, and printing. All experience levels are welcome.

Kill Joy is a Filipino American artist, printmaker, and muralist. The West Texas native’s work blends mythology, folklore, and social activism to explore themes of environmental justice, land stewardship, and diaspora struggles. After studying printmaking at the University of North Texas and living in Mexico City, she developed an artistic style rooted in Mexican murals and street art, creating large-scale collages and murals with strong, graphic aesthetics. Her work often involves community-led campaigns, workshops, and puppet theater, and advocates for environmental justice and Indigenous land stewardship..

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Water-based Screenprint

Nathan Meltz

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July 7-12

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Screenprint has a robust history, from a stencil-based media used for industrial image-making, to being integral to social movements of the 20th century, to being an indispensable medium of contemporary art. Utilizing screenprinting processes, this workshop will start with an overview of basic image-making techniques and multi-color print production and then move onto a deeper dive into experimental and advanced methods. Participants will receive individualized instruction that may include fine-tuning raster or vector digital graphics to eschewing the computer for total analog practices, like novel screen filler reductions utilizing a ceramic atomizer, making painterly positives, and successfully incorporating gradient printing into their art. In additional to water-soluble monoprinting, participants may explore printing with alternative substrates, meaningful transfer media that isn’t ink, 3-D forms, and wearables.

Nathan Meltz received an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison before earning his MFA from the State University of New York at Albany. His print-based art has exhibited internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and scores of international exhibitions, including the 6th Egypt International Print Triennial and the 2024 Taiwan International Print Biennial. He has received multiple awards, including from the Trois-Rivieres Printmaking Biennial in Canada, Manhattan Graphics Center in NYC, and Art and Print Magazine. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

A lifelong screenprint scholar and enthusiast, Meltz founded the Screenprint Biennial in 2014, a combination of symposium and exhibition with the mission of highlighting hybrid, innovative, and passionate uses of the screenprint medium in art. The most recent biennial celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the Janet Turner Museum of Print in Chico, CA.

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Color Intaglio

Cameron York

Session 2:

July 6-11

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This intaglio intensive will explore the expansive nature of copper plate etching. Participants will learn techniques such as sugar lift, marbling, spit bite, creek bite, spray paint aquatint, plate cutting and shaping, as well as printing color layers with various monotype techniques and stencils! In this course, participants will be encouraged to experiment and dream up new possibilities for their personal print practice. By the end of the week participants will have a varied edition of prints and an even deeper love of copper plate etching.

Cameron York is a Southern California native who began her printmaking journey in her childhood bedroom, carving linoleum blocks and printing them on whatever surface she could get her hands on. In high school she interned at a local letterpress print shop where endless hours of sorting type helped solidify her passion for printmaking. Cameron then went on to pursue a BFA Fine Art in printmaking and painting at Sonoma State University. She began studying copper plate etching and was forever changed. She rode the copper wave to the University of Iowa where she received an MA as well as an MFA in printmaking with a secondary emphasis in sculpture. She is currently Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Mesa College.

Cameron has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the International Print Center New York, the Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition in Illinois, and Guardino Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She has also participated in artist residencies nationally and internationally such as The Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, Cow House Studios in Ireland, and In Cahoots in California.