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For this hands-on workshop, you will explore color interactions and texture through three printmaking techniques: risography, a high-speed digital screen printmaking method, relief printing, a process in which the printing surface is carved away, leaving a raised area to be inked, and monotype, a spontaneous, painterly technique in which a print is made from pressing paper on a painted glass, metal, or plastic sheet.

Chicago Printers Guild members Gabe Hoare and Eric Von Haynes will demonstrate these printing methods, leading you through the layering of patterns and chromatic gradients to create compositions that are more than the sum of their parts. 

The workshop will begin with a brief tour of Press & Pull at 12:30 p.m. The workshop begins at 1 p.m., and participants are encouraged to register here. If you wish, you can attend the tour without participating in the workshop. 

Open to both newcomers and experienced printmakers. No previous printmaking experience is required. Materials, equipment, and light refreshments will be provided.

ABOUT:

Eric Von Haynes is a printmaker, designer, publisher, and educator with over 15 years of experience leading Flatlands Press, an independent imprint recognized for innovative design, collaborative publishing, and community-based projects. He serves as President of the Chicago Printers Guild, is a member of the Zinemercado team, and is an Instructor of Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses in offset production, substrates, and documentation.

His work is held in the collections of the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection in Chicago, the Center for Book Arts in New York, and the Illinois State Museum, and has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Elephant Room Gallery.

In 2020, Eric co-founded Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid initiative that supports citywide access to free food and essential resources through a network of community fridges. Across his artistic, educational, and community work, he is committed to using print, design, and collaborative publishing as tools for connection, access, and civic engagement.

Gabe Hoare is a Chicago-based artist working primarily in lithography. His work is a reflection of the absurd world we inhabit. Anthropomorphic tugboats, animals, and mutated fast food touch upon themes of greed, gluttony and ignorance. 

In 2012, Hoare co-founded Hoofprint Workshop with artist and printmaker Liz Born. Now operating as Hoofprint Chicago, the collaborative printmaking studio and fine-art publisher produces editions in lithography, relief, intaglio, monotype, and screenprinting while working with artists from Chicago and beyond. Over more than a decade, Hoofprint has published collaborative editions with dozens of artists and developed a broader practice encompassing exhibitions, workshops, teaching, and community printmaking projects. 

Hoare received his BFA from the University of Florida and subsequently worked at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Tandem Press, where he assisted artists including Eddie Martinez, Sam Gilliam, and Suzanne Caporael.