Workshops
Mixit offers various workshops throughout the year as well as tutorial sessions for one to three people.
Tutorials are handled on a request basis and are designed to meet individual and specific needs.
In the summer months we offer residencies for artists who want a sequence of days to focus on a particular project, or just to experiment.
2022 Workshops
Go with the Flow: Watercolor Monotype
June 13-17, 2022
with Jane Goldman
This workshop combines painting with translucent watercolor with the alchemy of working on a press. The result is an exciting fusion of luminosity and complex color layering.
It's an excellent way for watercolor painters to get into printmaking, and for printmakers to work in a spontaneous and fresh medium.
Some experience in watercolor or printmaking is preferred.
Cost: $650
Hours: 10 am to 4 pm
Register: My receipt of your deposit of $300 insures your registration in the workshop.
Send check to Jane Goldman, 32 Clifton St #1, Somerville, Ma 02144; or pay via Venmo to @Jane-goldman-6
Printmaking Bootcamp
July 11-15, 2022
with Chris Wallace
This intensive five-day workshop is designed to give you an introduction to the practice of printmaking.
We will cover three foundational processes (monotype, intaglio, and relief), discovering the unique visual effects and qualities each of them provides. Through demonstrations and personal instruction, you will learn a range of techniques and approaches to making visual work, all with newer less-toxic materials.
Print Bootcamp emphasizes exploration, experimentation, and play. You will make a series of original prints and leave this workshop with a newfound love and admiration for prints, presses, and the community around them. The class is open to beginning and advanced students.
Cost: $650 + $25 materials fee
Contact Chris Wallace for more details: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.southpaw-press.com
4-Day Monotype Workshop: Viscosity+
July 28-31, 2022
with Joel Janowitz
Joel Janowitz is offering a 4-day intensive oil-based monotype workshop at Mixit Print Studio. He will introduce a variety of monotype techniques including trace monotype, additive and subtractive inking, stencils, and multiple press runs. The workshop will also explore viscosity printing – the surprising ways printing inks of different viscosities (stickiness) interact with each other to build richly complex images.
Please contact Joel directly: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call (617) 821-0768 for additional information, his mailing address, and to be sure the class still has openings.
Deposit should be made out to Joel Janowitz and sent directly to him after confirmation.
Cost: $650 includes most studio and materials fees. $200 deposit.
Hours: 9:30 am to 5 pm
All Things Akua: Individual Tech Sessions
August 1-6, 2022
with Catherine Kernan
Layers of color on a single printing plate make gorgeous monotypes and monoprints. Learn how to modify Akua Intaglio inks for a myriad of effects. Modifying the viscosities of inks leads to results unachievable any other way. Just as peanut butter will not stick to jelly, a loose ink will reject a stiff ink. This is true of traditional oil inks as well as newer, soy oil-based Akua Intaglio inks. Exploiting ink interactions yields multi-color prints from a single plate, and naturally leads to sequences of related images.
We will schedule a full day session to focus on your work, and what you want to accomplish. You will receive the same number of contact hours as in a workshop setting but with undivided attention. The same material will be covered, but in a very directed way, and consultation to plan in advance will be included.
Cost: $650 for a full day on your schedule
Contact Catherine for details and scheduling: https://catherinekernan.com
Additional 2022 Workshops with Jane Goldman
Art in Western Maine: Plein Air Watercolor and Drawing
July 10-16, 2022
Enjoy a week of plein air watercolor and drawing at Jane’s home in the foothills of the White Mountains in Waterford, ME.
Date: July 10-16, 2022,9am to 5pm, Monday-Friday
Cost: $695
For further information: contact Jane Goldman
Additional 2022 Workshops with Catherine Kernan
Intention and Surprise: Printmaking with Akua Inks
High House / Peconic, Long Island, New York
June 13-17, 2022
Price: $550 workshop cost includes materials (except paper), and dinner + 3 lunches.
Contact Wendy for details: 617 448-3605, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CNC Intensive Play with Blocks and Inks
Making Art Safely / Santa Fe, New Mexico
July 11 – 15, 2022
Contact makingartsafely.com for pricing and details
Workshop Cancellation Policy:
If you need to cancel your participation in a workshop and want to receive a full deposit refund, you must do so before one week prior to the start of the class. Otherwise, we will refund one half of your deposit UNLESS you or Mixit find a replacement, in which case you will receive the full deposit.
Mixit Print Studio
COVID Response
Mixit Print Studio has responded to the pandemic by:
- limiting the number of artists using the studio at any one time;
- dividing the studio into separate areas to reduce air exchange;
- keeping doors and windows open as the weather allows;
- adding an air purifier;
- asking all members to wear masks.
The partners are vaccinated and boosted. We ask that you be vaccinated or tested prior to starting your workshop or residency. As there are unforeseen circumstances going forward, we will respond as needed.
Mixit Print Studio
32 Clifton Street, Somerville, MA
Mixit Print Studio is located in the heart of Somerville, Massachusetts. We are easily accessible via the Red Line, just a quick walk on the bike path from Davis Square.