2025 Spring Courses
Intro to Screen Printing Course w/Bramwell Enan
Field of Grass (A) (Open Series) by Bramwell Enan Etched plaster, screen print, wood
Mondays, 6-9pm
April 14 – June 9
(8 classes, no class on May 19)
$380 (+ MPA membership*)
3 Spots Available!
Covering the basic how-to of screen printing and experimenting with some trickier techniques, this course covers the fundamentals for beginners and returning printmakers alike. Students will have the opportunity to create projects using analog and digital techniques, and will be introduced to special techniques including blended gradients, multi-colour registration, and mono print methods.
Bramwell Enan lives and works in Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Canada, making art where intuition meanders through play into form. Enan holds a BFA (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba and teaches printmaking at Martha Street Studio.
A Printmaker’s Three-Course Tasting Menu w/Jonathan S. Green
Jonathan S. Green, Dazzleberg, 2021, Intaglio
Wednesdays, 6-9pm
April 30 – June 18 (8 classes)
$395 (+ MPA membership*)
3 Spots Available!
In this course we will sample and dine on a trio of printerly delights. A starter of monoprint to amuse and excite the brain, relief printing on lino to savour, and a main of etching to really sink our teeth into. It will be great for the first timer to experience the expanse of print technique but also a time to refresh and play for others.
Born in Labrador City, Canada, Jonathan S. Green comes from Mikmaq, Inuit, and settler heritage (He/Him). Green earned an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta. He has hiked extensively through the Rockies and in Alaska. Most recently he sailed on a tall ship as part of the Arctic Circle residency.
Intro to Reduction Linocut Printing Course w/Desa Kalem
Saturdays, 9am-12pm
May 3 – 31 (4 classes, no class on May 17)
$220 (+ MPA membership*)
3 Spots Available!
In this four-class course, you will be introduced to tools and supplies needed for linocut printing. Desa will demonstrate how to create prints using a three-colour reduction method. At the end of this printmaking workshop, you will go home with your own edition of ten prints.
Desa Kalem is an artist and art educator. She graduated from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba in 2022. Her art has been shown in local and regional exhibitions.
Digital Image Essentials Course w/Alyssa Bornn
Alyssa Bornn, Untitled (knit slippers, beige carpet), digital composite image, 3D scans. 10” x 8”. 2020.
Saturdays, 10am-1pm
April 26 – June 21 (8 classes, no class on May 17)
$350 (+ MPA membership*)
1 Spot Available!
From picture to file to print, this course will introduce participants to the fundamentals of Photoshop as a practical and artistic tool. Participants will work primarily with digital photos (either from a dedicated camera or a cell phone) with some use of digitized images (such as scanned drawings, collage material, or film negatives) as they familiarize themselves with preparing, editing, and creating images for print or online display. This course seeks to balance technical basics with exploratory artistic output and is well suited to those with limited prior knowledge of digital workflows.
Alyssa Bornn lives and works in Winnipeg, MB. Her work is primarily centered around ideas relating to transference, failure, and the poetics of technical processes. She makes images and objects informed by an interest in early computing, textile production, domestic spaces, and optical phenomena.
2025 Spring Workshops
Screenprinting Basics w/Ali James
Ali James, Untitled, Screen Print 20″ x 26.5″ 2023.
Sunday May 25, 10am-3pm &
Sunday June 1, 10am-2pm &
Sunday June 8, 10am-4pm
$250 (+ MPA membership*)
6 Spots Available!
This three–day workshop will focus on the basics of screen printing and include an orientation to the specific equipment and spaces used at Martha Street Studio. Learn how to create stencils, prepare a screen, mix ink, and create a two or three layer screen print. Great for the beginner or to refresh your skills.
Ali James is a Winnipeg-based artist who uses screen printing and animation to produce vivid, layered and tactile works that explore human memory and emotion. Ali holds a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba.
The Magic of Solargraphy w/Sarah Crawley
Sarah Crawley, untitled, solargraphic image
Sunday April 27, 1-4pm
& a 4-hour session on a Sunday in October (TBD)
$135 (+ MPA membership*) fee covers both sessions
3 Spots Available!
Solargraphy is a magical photographic process that uses pinhole cameras to create ethereal colour images that reveal the movement of the sun through the sky over months of exposure. This two-session workshop will see the participants make their own pinhole cameras (on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!) which they will take home and install, leaving them to expose for 6 months! In the fall we will gather again to learn how to process the images made in the cameras. No previous experience necessary.
Sarah Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials; she stubbornly clings to analog film and alternative photography techniques while also embracing digital processes in her recent investigations around vulnerability and personal loss.
Letterpress Cards and Carving w/Sean McLachlan
Saturday May 3, 1-5pm &
Sunday May 4, 1-5pm
$195 (+ MPA membership*)
4 Spots Available!
In this two-day workshop, students will learn the basics of creating folding greeting cards on our letterpress equipment using movable type, printers’ cuts, and pairing this with personal lino-cut graphics. Students can anticipate creating two card designs of up to two colours, with multiple prints of each.
Sean McLachlan is a Winnipeg based artist whose work blends traditional letterpress printing with digital technologies such as 3d printing and laser cut woodblocks. He is known under two other names, Printmonger Press for his personal letterpress studio, and Letter Peddler Press, the bicycle-mounted letterpress studio, where you can find him printing postcards with the public.
Collagraph Intensive Workshop
Sarah Ross-Thompson, Rock, Pebble, Stone, 2024, Collagraph
Wednesday July 16, & Thursday July 17
10am-4:30pm, both days, with 1/2 hour for lunch
$245 (+ MPA membership*)
FULL!
Learn the art of Collagraphy, a printing process in which materials are sealed to a rigid substrate to create plates, while exploring connections between tone and texture. As well as experimenting with plate building, inking methods such as surface rolls and stencils will be explored.
Sarah Ross-Thompson is a Fine Art Printmaker based on the west coast of Scotland, specialising in hand-inked collagraphs. Her printing plates are constructed from materials such as string, lichen, tissue paper and kitchen salt.
2025 Winter Workshop
Letterpress Cards and Carving w/Sean McLachlan
Saturday March 29, 1-5pm &
Sunday March 30, 1-5pm
$195 (+ MPA membership*)
2 Spots Available!
In this two-day workshop, students will learn the basics of creating folding greeting cards on our letterpress equipment using movable type, printers’ cuts, and pairing this with personal lino-cut graphics. Students can anticipate creating two card designs of up to two colours, with multiple prints of each.
Sean McLachlan is a Winnipeg based artist whose work blends traditional letterpress printing with digital technologies such as 3d printing and laser cut woodblocks. He is known under two other names, Printmonger Press for his personal letterpress studio, and Letter Peddler Press, the bicycle-mounted letterpress studio, where you can find him printing postcards with the public.
Want to register?
Please contact us by phone at 204-779-6253
- Course fees include basic materials and equipment.
- Course registration requires a valid membership.
- Class sizes are small to ensure a high standard of instruction.
- We require payment upon registration.
- Registration fees may be refunded upon request (less a 20% admin fee) up to the start of the second class.
- If a course is cancelled a full refund will be issued
If you have any questions or wish to register for a course or workshop, please contact us by phone at 204-779-6253 or email at education@printmakers.mb.ca
Our courses and workshops support new and experienced artists in improving technical skills in the art of printmaking and are delivered by professional artist-instructors. Courses and workshops are available to take year-round at our fully equipped 4,000 sq. ft. facility, and are offered in a variety of traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques. These include; screen printing (introductory and advanced), aluminum and copper etching, relief printing, digital darkroom, letterpress, lithography and more. In addition, we host specialty workshops in advanced techniques taught by local and visiting professional artists. While some exceptions may apply, our courses and workshops are intended for adults and are kept small to ensure a high quality of instruction.
Course and workshop information is available here or in brochures that are hand screen printed 3 times annually in spring, fall and winter by staff and volunteers. These are disseminated by mail to members and in person in Winnipeg at other artist run centres, local shops and organizations. In addition to information on available courses and workshops, each brochure features news and information about our upcoming exhibitions, artist talks, studio editions, local and national events.
All of our courses and workshops require varying levels of physicality. If you have concerns around the accessibility of our programs, please call or email so that we can discuss ways we can support you.
If you have concerns about the products used in our courses and workshops or are sensitive to certain chemicals, please contact us, or review the Studio Chemicals List here.
