Digital Prepress for Printmaking
with teke cocina | 3 sessions
12 spots left
Description
This workshop will provide tools to printmakers –or any artists with some print experience– for preparing digital files for print previews and color separations; maximizing print studio time and saving on the guesswork. These skills can also be combined with other, less limiting digital art techniques to create intentional, complex digital assets and artworks. Primarily working in Adobe Photoshop, artists will learn workflows and file making best-practices to prepare prints or images from photos. Illustrations, found images, patterns, or whatever their practices encompass. Simple digital tools like Adobe Scan or phone cameras will be used to draw from existing works or composite found objects, textures, and materials. Taking into consideration common paper sizes for maximum output, paper color’s effect on ink color tones, lost area from registration techniques, and more, this workshop is best suited for the working artist where time in the studio can be challenging, but time on the computer is readily available. An excellent course for those artists looking to improve their prepress workflows, printmakers without convenient and consistent access to studio equipment, or anyone looking to create complex digital artwork with printmaking’s processes and layering methodology. About the instructor: teke cocina (he/him) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist specializing in printmaking and book arts. Working primarily through iterative series, cocina’s work navigates a wide range of imagery—from the queering of historical biblical “heroes” and hagiography—to contemporary pop-cultural phenomena like television, video games, comics and cartoons, generating a constellation of objects that investigate the fluid boundaries between perception, illusion, and identity, or between affection, closeness, and violence. cocina earned his BFA from the University at Buffalo and his MFA from Purchase College, SUNY. Since 2023, he has been recognized on the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. He currently serves as a Printshop Technician at Parsons, The New School for Design, where he also provides faculty instruction. He recently served as a guest instructor at the Lower East Side Printshop, further embedding in the New York print community. He is thrilled to provide this Instagram: @teke.jpg Website: www.tekecocina.com
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Cancellation Policy: In the event that you need to cancel your registration of the class or workshop, we ask that you please inform us as soon as possible, allowing us to give your spot to another person. We agree to provide you with a full refund if your cancellation is no less than 7 calendar days prior to the first date of the program; if your cancellation is closer in time than 7 calendar days to the first date of the program, then, any deposits or payments you have made are non-returnable. In the event that PHA needs to cancel a class or workshop due to PHA’s own reasons (for e.g., teacher emergency) your payment for the program will be refunded in full. If you are unable to attend a class or workshop for your own reasons, you will not be refunded for that portion of the program. Full payment for the class or workshop is required before your registration is considered complete. Health and Wellness Policy: If you are sick, we ask that you please refrain from attending in consideration of the health and safety of your fellow classmates. Please note that all of our classes and workshops are designed to be hands-on, and make-up classes are not available. Masks will be available at the front desk and in the classroom for your use.
Contact Details
Powerhouse Arts, 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA
718.522.1400
learning@powerhousearts.org