Beginners Screen-printing
Short course
Learn how to transform your art into a commercial collection of physical prints and enhance your creative potential.
- Develop your confidence in a print studio.
- Build your portfolio for professional commissions.
- Create a commercial collection of physical prints for print fairs, open calls, upcoming stalls and Christmas markets.
Learn the fundamentals of screen-printing in this ten-week course with professional artist Kelsey Cruz-Martin. During this course you'll discover how to create your drawings and transfer your images onto a screen to produce a series of prints that'll explore techniques including drawing, mark making, cut outs and stencils.
You’ll experiment with opaque and translucent inks to produce a series of layered screen prints that will enhance your printing skills and confidence.
This course is designed for artists and small businesses looking to turn their art into a business, side hustle or produce prints to promote their existing business. Beginners Screen-printing is open to complete beginners or acts as a refresher for those who have previous experience.
“This screen-printing course creates exciting opportunities for local, emerging artists who want to develop their professional portfolio for future commissions and exhibiting opportunities. This short course will provide practical skills to enhance creative potential, building upon a community of printers that contribute to a supportive network of artists.”
Kelsey Cruz-Martin, Technical Demonstrator in Screen Print, Bath School of Art, Film and Media
Overview
This course will take place at Locksbrook Campus.
The next course starts:
- Wednesday 19 June for ten weeks, 6pm - 9pm
This short course costs £359 per person.
All materials for this course will be provided except for paper. Paper of various sizes can be purchased at Locksbrook Campus.
You’re advised to wear scruffy clothes as the print workshop can be a messy place.
Meet the team
Kelsey Cruz-Martin is a multidisciplinary artist working across writing, sound, sculpture, and print. She creates large-scale immersive installations and intimate listening environments. Kelsey has worked as a Technical Demonstrator in Screen Print at Bath School of Art, Film and Media since 2018.
Kelsey’s work is driven by experiential knowledge, her Mexican heritage, cycles, voice and the relationship between language and the body. Her work attempts to disrupt perceptions of the interior/exterior, public/private, human/non-human forms through the visceral power of repetition, ritual, and sacred objects. In 2022, she was awarded the Developing your Creative Practice fund by Arts Council England.
Kelsey recently had a solo exhibition titled A Flowing Body of Snake at SHIFT in Cardiff.
Terms and conditions
Read the terms and conditions for taking part in this short course.
Contact us
If you'd like a bespoke course created for your company, would like to attend but can't make the dates listed above or have any queries, please contact us on shortcourses@bathspa.ac.uk .