Studio Shift

StudioSHIFT has some cool stuff planned for April! →
🫟 Sunday 4/12 - Our regularly-scheduled Riso 101 class (1 seat left!)
📘 Saturday 4/18 – We'll be at Bayside Library in VB, for Zine Fest from 12-4pm! Come join us for steam roller block printing, print making workshops, screenprinting, and more!
✨ Sunday 4/19 – NEW monthly Riso Open Studio, for anyone who has already taken Riso 101 to learn the basics!
📙 Sunday 4/26 – Our regularly-scheduled Make a Zine with Riso class!
Check out our website for more info, link in bio!

Join us on Thursday, March 26 in the Gordon Art Gallery lobby at 12:30 p.m. to help create a print run of collective relief posters! Posters will be created in honor of the artwork and legacy of Samuel Kahn and Norfolk’s ecosystem. Each attendee will be able to stamp a small carving block designed with either a local building, flora, or fauna creating a patchwork ecological map of Norfolk with other attendees.

We will be using plant-based ink pigments, recycled paper, and tools. All tools and supplies provided and no prior printmaking experience required. Attendees 12+ may participate in carving and everyone is welcome to stamp on the posters.

Free to participate. Pay-What-You-Can to keep carved blocks and completed posters.

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How is it already March?? We have a new class planned for this month!

💙 Cyanotypes 101 - Sat. 3/28
Learn rudimentary theory of photographic contact-prints, and practice paper-coating, negative preparation, exposure, “development”, and post-processing techniques. Students will walk away with 3 prints of their work.

We also have our regularly scheduled monthly classes:
🫟 Riso 101: Analog Techniques - THIS Sunday! 3/8
💻 Riso 102: Digital techniques - Sun. 3/15
📘 Make a Zine with Risography - Sun. 3/29

Sign up or learn more on our website! Hang in there everyone, spring will be here soon 🌸

We had a blast at yesterday's Riso Zine Workshop! Zines are a great way to explore pretty much any theme or idea. From zines about the history of zines, to comics about self-conscious spiders, to travel, super heroes, or even fish/crabs/illuminati rats—be the zine you wish to see in the world 🌎📙

You can join us at our next class, Riso 101 on Sunday 3/8 at 2pm! Find more info or sign up on our website!