One-Page-Wonder Artist Books: An Introduction to Screen Printing

with Melissa Dettloff

Saturday, July 6, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Tuition: $130

This workshop includes lunch at 1 p.m.

Learn the basics of screen printing by making your own accordion-folded, single-sheet, screen printed artist's book. This workshop is great for beginners or those looking to refresh their print skills! You'll learn the basics of screen printing and a simple approach to bookmaking using a single sheet of paper. You will create your own screen using accessible techniques that can be easily replicated at home. We’ll use provided images plus those you create using handmade stencils and foraged foliage. You will go home with a handmade book you made yourself, and a zine created by the instructor to help replicate these simple processes at home. Materials will be provided.

Melissa Dettloff is a printmaker and teaching artist based in Detroit. Her current work is inspired by urban ecology and creating community through art. First introduced to screen printing as an art student at Wayne State University, Melissa has been making screen prints for over twenty years. With her friends, she co-owned Ocelot Print Shop, a community screen printing shop in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, for five years. Melissa has been teaching art and screen printing workshops for over ten years and maintains an art practice in her home print studio. She has shown her work nationally and locally, including at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Melissa Dettloff, Still Life, 2023, three-color screen print on paper, 4.25 x 5.5 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.