Workshop: photographic image editing for silk-screen printing
Date 19 and 26 Nov 2024
Price 55€ + 5€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (Seg) – (tintas e emulsão incluídos)
Schedule Tuesdays from 14h to 17h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop, participants will learn how to convert a digital photographic image into an image compatible with the silk-screen process. Using Photoshop, we will create monochrome photoliths that can be exposed onto a screen and printed onto paper or fabric.
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Silk-screen workshop: printing on t-shirts
Date 3 and 17 Dec 2024
Price 85€ + 8€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (Seg) – (tintas e emulsão incluídos)
Schedule tuesdays from 14h to 17h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop, participants will develop an image to silk-screen on a T-shirt. Compositions with images and text will be created and edited for textile printing. A small edition of T-shirts will be produced.
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Price 1st semester: 250€ +25€ (Enrol) + 2,50€ (Ins) / 2nd semester: 350€ +35€ (Enrol) + 2,50€ (Ins)
Schedule Mondays from 10h30 to 13h
Type semestrial
Program
On-campus classes.
Workshop where experiences and techniques are developed using traditional and alternative graphic processes.
Through individual and collective exercises, participants will explore the specific qualities of reproduction techniques such as drypoint, etching, aquatint, soft ground, linoleum, screen printing, monotype, colograph, photocopying, digital printing, among others.
Participants are encouraged to create series of prints or small author publications such as books, fanzines and editions.
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Printmaking studio: Open Access
Date 14 Oct 2025 to 19 Jun 2026
Price 1 session (2,5hours): 20€; 10 sessions 180€ + 0,75€ insurance; Ar.Co Students and former students: 1 session (2,5hours) 10€, 10 sessions 90€
Admission Interview
Schedule Tuesdays to Fridays from 10h30 to 13h and 14h to 16h30;(except October and March - only morning sessions)
Type occasional
Program
On-campus sessions (by appointment)
The printmaking studio is open on Tuesdays, by appointment, for students and people from outside Ar.Co, with the technical support of a teacher.
During open access hours, participants may the explore etching techniques, namely aquatint, etching, drypoint, soft-ground and Collagraphs, as well as planographic techniques such as lino print.
Access to open access studio time requires autonomy in printing practice and editions as well as a prior consultation with the teacher in charge. Candidates must book sessions with at least 24 hours in advance at the Almada office.
Ar.Co's printmaking studio offers regular workshops with specific technical exercises for participants with no experience in printmaking.
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Silk Screen Studio: Open Acess
Date 14 Oct 2025 to 19 Jun 2026
Price 1 session (2,5hours): 22€; 10 sessions 200€ + 0,75€ (insurance); Ar.Co Students : 1 session (2,5hours) 12€, 10 sessions 100€
Admission Interview
Schedule Tuesdays to Fridays from 10h30 to 13h and 14h to 16h30;(except October and March - only morning sessions)
Type annual
Program
On campus sessions (by appointment)
The Silk Screen Studio is open to students and people from outside Ar.Co. The studio allows the development of screen printing projects, with permanent technical support and by appointment.
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Printmaking Workshop: the line
Date 16 Out a 6 Nov 2025
Price 130€ + 13€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance) - materials included
Schedule Thursdays from 14h to 16h30
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes
Line drawing exercises in printmaking using different techniques such as drypoint and etching. Participants will explore the line in the representation of shape, volume and texture in drawing, looking at examples from artists such as Durer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Hockney and others.
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Price 130€ + 13€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance) - materials included
Schedule Tuesdays from 14h to 16h30
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes
In this workshop participants will learn to produce a print using linoleum. They will learn how to cut a drawing on the linoleum surface using specific cutting tools. Preparatory drawing exercises will be offered that explore high contrast imaging, the positive and negative, light, shadow, and texture.
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Printmaking Workshop: Colour and tone
Date 7 to 28 Apr 2026
Price 130€ + 13€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance) - materials included
Schedule Tuesdays from 10h30 to 13h
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
Exploring the use of tone and colour in printmaking using processes such as aquatint and soft-ground etching. Participants will explore tone through preparatory drawings with materials such as charcoal and ink, looking at light and shadow. Then they will produce soft-ground etchings and aquatints on copper.
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Printmaking Workshop: Collagraphs and Alternative plates
Date 5 to 26 May 2026
Price 130€ + 13€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Tuesdays from 10h30 to 13h
Type occasional
Program
on-Campus classes
The process of making collagraphs is experimental and does not require the use of acids or metals. Using packaging, fabrics, and other recycled materials, participants will create plates with textures and shapes that will serve for the production of prints with one or more colors.
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