Peekskill Open Studios June 7-8
Visit Peekskill next weekend, plus summer classes (IRL and virtual!)
MAY UPDATE
Time has flown! Its hard to believe its the end of May! I have some fun stuff coming up this summer I wanted to share with you all:
Peekskill Open Studios are happening next weekend, June 7-8. I’ll be in the studio and Bookshop/Bookshop will be open from 12-5. There will be lots of great art to see around town and its always fun to get a glimpse inside artists studios that are usually not open to the public! More details and links below to the map and list of participating artists and spaces.
Save the date for my upcoming solo show at the Croton Free Library in July! The Opening reception will be on July 10th and the exhibition will be on view for the months of July and August.
Coming Soon – I’m going to launch a fundraiser for new Riso color drums! A few years ago I jumped on an opportunity to purchase a nearly new Risograph SF3150. This machine came with a black color drum only. I’ve made some cool stuff but I really want to expand the colors I have available. I want to be able to use this more for more own work of course, but start working with other artists and printers too. A Risograph printer looks kind of like a photocopier but works kind of like screen printing. The machine creates a stencil based on your black and white artwork and colors are printed one at a time. The resulting prints have a look that is very unique to the riso process, colors and inks. Check out this 3 minute video from Risolve studio that gives you an idea of the printing process. You’ll see what the ink drum and stencils look like and a gorgeous print by artist Jordan Kay. I’ll be making some fun prints and artists books as fundraiser rewards. Look out for the fundraiser launching in my next monthly update!
Finally, included below are links and descriptions of some really fun summer classes I have coming up, in person and online!
Hope to see you at one of these events or talk to you soon!
Love and Art <3
Liz
✩ 5 things I’ve read/listened to/ watched recently that keep me going:
This interview on the LSQ podcast with musician ANOHNI gave me all the feels.
Capitalism: A Horror Story by Jon Greenaway - because I love horror films and am bummed out by capitalism.
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna J. Haraway - revisiting an essay I thought I understood when I read it in grad school 12 years ago.
Pauline Anna Strom - Trans Millenia Music - dreamy ambient music helps me focus
Common Side Effects - a captivating animated series about big pharma and fungi that got our whole family to agree on what to watch for once.
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Peekskill Open Studios
June 7 - 8, 2025 | 12-5pm
My Studio: 105 South Division Street, 2nd floor, Peekskill NY
Map of all studio locations
The 26th annual Peekskill Open Studios is less than 2 weeks away! I will have my studio open in the Peekskill Flat Iron building (above Peekskill Coffee) both days from 12-5 and I hope you’ll come visit. Lots of cool stuff in our building – there are several artist studios: Lavinia Wiggins, Maureen Winzig, Berit Schumann, Wendie Garber, Alison Pascoe, Flat Iron Gallery, BookShop/BookShop, 222 Much Swag vintage t-shirt shop, Body Axis Pilates, and the new Bantam Tools Drawing Machine show room! There are so many great artists in Peekskill, so you can make a day of it and visit lots of artist studios that are mostly in walking distance or a very quick drive away.
Find the Map and Full list of participating artists and satellite events here.
Solo Exhibition at the Croton Free Library
July 1 - August 31 | The Ottinger Room at the Croton Free Library
171 Cleveland Dr, Croton-On-Hudson, NY
* SAVE THE DATE * Opening Reception: Thursday July 10th 6:30-8pm
This exhibition will include recent prints and collages exploring pattern as abundance and the body as a site of action. In a series of colorful silkscreen prints I imagine the building of pattern as a representation of joy, pleasure, and sensuality, and reflect on the desire to nurture self and others as a source of power.
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Pocket Accordion Travel Notebook
Strudel Media Live
June 29 | Sunday 12-2
ONLINE CLASS Learn to make a travel notebook that has pockets to stash ephemera, photos, and notes you collect on your travels. In this 2-hour Mini-workshop, you’ll learn to make an accordion-style keepsake for memories, notes, and more. This accordion notebook is folded from one large sheet of paper, giving you 8 pages with pockets, and you’ll also learn a simple binding method for adding more note pages into your journal. We’ll polish it off by adding a softcover with a tab closure. This book is perfect for bringing along on your summer travel, or even making on the go, with minimal tools and materials required.
Bookbinding I:Intro to Softcover Binding
Center for Book Arts June 17 - July 15 | Tuesdays 6-9pm
In this introductory class you will learn the basic use of bookbinding tools and materials, along with simple bookbinding structures that utilize softcovers. Students will learn about non-adhesive structures, bindings for single sheets, and other bindings that can be made with little specialized equipment. Accordions, pamphlets, drum leaf books, and a variety of softcover bindings will be taught during the course. This class is ideal for those who wish to learn simple forms for presenting work, or for building fundamental knowledge on bookbinding.
Image Making on Letterpress 1: Photopolymer Crash Course
Center for Book Arts
June 21-22 | Weekend 11-5
The letterpress has so many more capabilities than its classic wood and metal type uses. Photopolymer plates are a new school material that brings versatility, convenience, and a wealth of design options to the old school world of letterpress. In this workshop, students will learn how to prepare plates from hand-drawn illustrations and/or digital images. Then students will learn how to make plates using CBA’s exposure unit. Finally, the class will set up the press and print!
This workshop is designed for individuals with some letterpress experience.
Image Making on Letterpress 2: CMYK Printing for Photo
Center for Book Arts
July 12-13 | Weekend 11-5
This Workshop includes an additional online session on Wednesday July 2, 6-9pm for image prep. Learn the steps for making full color, photographic prints on a letterpress using the CMYK photopolymer plate technique. In the first session of the class on Zoom, Castaldo will teach students about color separation, how to work on prepping images in photoshop, and the proper settings for both ordering plates and for in-studio output. Then in the remaining classes in CBA’s studios, students will learn how to properly mix ink for CMYK printing as well as learn the proper registration techniques for printing photographic images on letterpress.
This workshop is designed for individuals with some letterpress experience.
Virtual Bookbinding II
Center for Book Arts
Aug 6 - Sept 3 | Wednesdays 6-9
ONLINE CLASS In this beginning hardcover bookbinding class, you will learn to make several different hardcover bindings. Students will gain a foundational understanding of hardcover bookbinding including how the structure beneath the cover can affect the final result. You will learn how to create a hardcover accordion, hardcover pamphlet, a multiple signature flat backed case binding, and even coptic binding. Students will develop the skills needed to create a variety of hardcover books that will prepare them for building more complex hardcover designs such as the inboard cloth-bound book. In the process, students will learn about the historical and contemporary uses of the structures learned in the book arts and artists books.
Image Making on Letterpress 3: Alternative Process
Center for Book Arts
Aug 23- 24 | Weekend 11-5
The Vandercook presses are useful tools for a variety of projects and can be fun to use for many image based processes that can stand alone or be used in combination with hand set type. This workshop will cover a variety of hand made image making techniques such as pressure printing, collagraphs, and linocut.
Through these techniques, you will explore color, transparency, shape, and layering of imagery to create a series of prints. This class will focus on a playful and spontaneous approach to letterpress, but the resulting prints can be used as the beginnings of an artist’s book, a printed edition, or a series of unique prints, and next steps for these types of projects will be touched on as well. Anyone with an experimental spirit will love this class. Letterpress experience will be helpful but is not required.
Summer Art Institute at Women’s Studio Workshop
Women’s Studio Workshop 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston NY
These 5 day intensive workshops meet every day from 9 -4. There are sliding scale tuition options starting at $450. There is an option to add home made lunches. On Monday evening there will be an artist talk by all of the instructors for that week. You get open studio access to keep working on your projects starting before class at 7am and after class until 11pm, except on Friday when we wrap up at 3. There are many options for places to stay for the week and WSW can give you a list if you need.
***My SAI workshops have filled, but if you’d like to be added to the waitlist please email info@wsworkshop.org***
Printing to Infinity: Endless Silkscreen Repeats for Installation
July 21 – 25
In this workshop we will explore the endless possibilities of working with patterns, and learn how to turn small components into large scale wall installations, wallpaper, or even covering three dimensional objects. We’ll cover multiple methods to create repeatable patterns from participants’ own drawings or photos, that have the potential to be tiled together to create an endless repeat. Participants will also learn the Silkscreen printing process, which gives us the ability to make many multiples of our modular patterns. We will discuss multiple color printing, methods for loose and tight registration, color mixing, and layering pattern and color on the same print. Once participants have made an edition of prints we’ll get them up on the wall and strategize creative ways to display them and options for attaching prints to the wall.
Ink, Paper, and Thread: Artist’s Book Editions
July 28 - August 1
Make your artist’s book dreams a reality in this silkscreen-focused workshop. We will go over how to make several book structures by hand including one page books, accordion books, pamphlet bindings, flexagons and drum leaf bindings. We’ll make one collaborative zine together as a workshop and then participants will spend the rest of the workshop developing, printing and binding a small edition of artists’ books. The silkscreen printing process will allow us to create multiples of our book pages. Participants will learn how to create hand drawn and digital transparencies, expose their images to the screen and print several copies of their book pages!
