Advanced Direct to Plate Photogravure, Oct 13-17
SYLLABUS WHAT TO BRING ACCOMMODATIONS, HOURS, & INFO CANCELLATION POLICY
Registration Fee: $450, Total Fee: $2200
Workshop Overview
Advanced Direct to Plate Photogravure is an "advanced" workshop in Photopolymer gravure for both artists and photographers. We want to encourage people to extend their comfort zone with photogravure printing. Together we will explore the potentiality of techniques. We hope to introduce new concepts for you to trial proof your work with. We believe that you will extend your toolkit and printmaking vocabulary along with arriving at finished concepts.
We will not be teaching the calibration software or the process of calibrating direct to plate in this workshop. The workshop will be making calibrated plates that produce prints that match displays – so you should either be familiar with it or be willing to pick up on it later. Rather, this is a workshop that is for attendees that have already taken a DTP workshop at Cone Editions Press or already have prior experience in photogravure or and photopolymer gravure, or and are experienced enough in printmaking techniques.
You’ll make DTP plates in abundance using the Piezography 3-ink DTP process. However, you will only be submitting your images into our workflow. We’ll hand you the printed plate that you will expose and process and make ready for the press. Of course we’ll demonstrate our process early on Day One in case you are not familiar with how we calibrate Direct to Plate!
If you decide that want to leave with a Piezography 3-ink Direct to Plate turnkey system of your own, we now provide an instructional set for your own studio. So, if you have experience in photogravure printing but not necessarily with our process – this workshop is still for you. Contact us if you have any questions whether this workshop is for you.
This workshop will operate with longer hours and more days than our regular schedule. The mornings will be filled getting ready for the afternoon of printing. Because we will be making larger plates the fee is higher to cover the materials and extra day. Everything you produce during the workshop is yours to take home with you.
Syllabus
Monday We start our morning with introductions and a short discussion of what you can expect. After a brief tour of the facilities will get you your permanent seat with display in our imaging room. Then we introduce chine collé as a kick starter – but how we will do chine collé is open to interpretation. The morning is spent in demonstration and platemaking. After lunch it's your time to employ the techniques using your own plates.
Tuesday Morning meeting with questions and an overview of our day. We plan to do multiple plate printing where registration and pre-visualization come into play. The morning is spent in demonstration and platemaking. After lunch it's your time to employ the techniques using your own plates.
Wednesday Morning meeting with questions and an overview of our day. We will consider multi-color printing combining inkjet color with a photogravure plate/s. Registration comes key and in different ways. After lunch it's your time to employ the techniques using your own plates.
Thursday Morning meeting with questions and an overview of our day. Today you'll have a chance to put all these ideas into motion creating complex projects with plates made on the previous days and if need-be plates made during this day. Those who would like a bit more one-on-one will have the technical time with Jon Cone or and review/edit time with Cathy Cone.
NOTE: This day the workshop extends into the evening.... Clean-up needs be complete at 7pm followed by a dinner party at the studio. If the weather is warm it means traditional paella outside. If it is too cool or and too rainy then it means home-made pizzas inside. Food is on us, drinks on you! Traveling partners are welcome to attend.
Friday After a brief morning questions and answers session, everyone unpacks the print flattener from its overnight heated drying and sorts through their work to make individual presentations to the group. We will share together our accomplishments and discoveries. Finally, a pack-up of everything you made to take home and an early end to the day.
What to bring
Please bring a Laptop or mini computer because the studio does not provide computers. The studio does provide calibrated displays that can be connected to your laptop. This make’s things easier especially when using the studios systems which are designed to match to display. Our calibrated displays have DisplayPort or HDMI connections. If you want to connect to our calibrated displays, you will need to bring your own connection cable for your laptop's video port and our displays.
Digital Images and original work: Bring a hard-drive or flash drive of digital images (at least 10 to work on). Ideally bring images that you've printed before and know well and bring raw images that you want to work on from scratch. You can send film ahead for drum scanning at our regular studio rates. We will not have time to drum scan during the workshop. If you are not doing "photo" printing that is fine. As long as you have some way to work with your images digitally is all that is required. However, there is an EPSON flatbed scanner for use in the workshop as well as a 100MB FujiGFX camera which can capture flat art.
Install the required software: We think that Photoshop should be installed on your computer for some of our demos. Lightroom is a good alternative as well, but there are things that Photoshop can still do today that Lightroom can't. If you are normally a Photoshop person that is fine. If you use a different imaging software that's fine also.
What to expect
This is a hands-on workshop. You are going to get inky! You should bring an apron with you or you can purchase one of the super cool Cone Editions Press studio aprons. We first teach by demonstration, and then we supervise (or guide) as you print on your own. And everyone learns to print on their own quite quickly. And unlike other workshops where you may spend a full week to only get two plates and four prints made, in this workshop you may well walk out after five days with 6-10 plates and 16-24 prints. We'll be working with 11x15 and possibly larger plates.
While we provide excellent coffee and tea and usually Spindrift cans of fruit infused soda water we do not provide the noon-time lunch. We will have snacks, but please bring a lunch with you. We are rurally located and many of the local general stores make sandwiches to go and depending upon where you are staying you may find other options.
Will you be able to bring our 3-ink DTP process home to your own studio? If you want to we can provide you with a prescription for everything you need. Although it is no longer possible to purchase a new EPSON printer in North America that can be used with 3rd party inks, the workshop will teach the conversion of last generation EPSON printers that can be obtained from the secondary market. Our process uses only three special monochromatic inks. This means that a supported EPSON printer needs only to have three working ink channels. The rest can be reserved with PiezoFlush to keep them for future needs. The used printer market has plentiful cheap (often free) & available printers with missing ink channels or partially clogged print heads that are perfectly suitable to be used as direct-to-plate photogravure printers. We also have a fantastic relationship with a vendor who fully refurbishes and warranties supported EPSON printers. Our full ink set makes calibrated digital negatives and also the best black & white inkjet prints you will ever see.
If you have one of these existing printers that you are using for Piezography you will already have everything you need installed in the printer for the single ink process. If the printer is currently being used for color printing, you will need only replace the Matte Black with a much darker and more opaque black ink (it produces fantastic color prints!) And if your printer is an 11 ink Piezography Pro printer it is easy to do the slight conversion to maker it a full Piezography Pro printer with the 3-ink DTP option.
If you want to do this in your own studio, you can purchase the necessary inks, software, plates and the super-fast, verifiedUV™ exposure systems used in the workshop.
However, if you just want to come to a workshop to make photogravures you are more than welcome to attend without any intentions to bring our process back to your own studio. And it is also a perfect opportunity to see what this process can do to your own studio and rely on Cone Editions Press to make plates for your own studio. This way you benefit from the teachings but do not have to deal with the technology.
Accommodations, Hours, and Info
LOCATION AND HOURS
The studio is located at 17 Powder Spring Road, Topsham, Vermont 05076. It is registered with Google Maps and you can trust Google directions to our studio unless you are staying at the Rest Haven. Google misinterprets the amount of winter snowmobile traveling over the mountain as a road. I also keep my Garmin on when I am mountain biking and my frequent data is also interpreted by Google as passable roads. They are not. From Rest Haven use only the Wiley Hill Rd. All other locations have paved roads to the studio.
The Advanced Workshop is on a 5-day schedule instead of 4. And the hours are longer than our regular workshops. The studio is open to attendees, and instruction is provided from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Your instructor sets time for demonstrations, a mid-day lunch, critiques and clean up. We do not provide lunch so please bring lunch with you each day to put in our refrigerator.
On Thursday we try to have a paella party that evening when weather permits. In the Fall during this workshop we can either encounter unseasonably warm weather or the usual cool weather in which case we have an indoor homemade pizza party or we try to do something similar. But, we do keep the studio open later on Thursday. Plan for staying a bit later on Thursday to share, eat, or get a bit more printing done! Your traveling partners are welcome to the Thursday night party and can arrive anytime after 5:00pm but we tend not to eat until 7:00-7:30 and plan to stay late into the evening as the sun sets later this far North in Vermont!
TRAVEL
Our nearest airport (75 minutes) is Burlington International Airport (BTV) in Burlington, VT. Other airports are Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) (130 minutes) and Boston-Logan (180 minutes). There are car rentals as well as private taxis and shuttles between the airport in Burlington, VT and East Topsham.
LODGING
The amount of lodging near us is very limited. You should make reservations early.
There is a small B&B Cape House with a friendly owner and excellent breakfast nestled in the pasture on the other side of our steep hillside and perhaps a 10 minute walk: Call Bernice Dow (802) 439-5448
Rest Haven is our preferred Inn as it is the closest Inn to our studio and most our attendees stay there which makes it a great gathering place and ride sharing location. They are located in West Topsham (an 18 minute drive) They can provide meals. They have five different guest rooms. Please contact Angela Piletz
[email protected] (585) 749-0015
Lake Morey Resort (25 minute drive)
Gibson House Bed & Breakfast (30 minute drive)
Millstone Inn, heart of the old Websterville granite quarries (25 minutes drive)
Firehouse Inn, an old firehouse converted into a restaurant and inn (25 minutes drive)
Maplecroft Bed & Breakfast (25 minutes drive)
The Lyme Inn (40 minute drive)
Dowd's Country Inn (40 minute drive)
Breakfast on the Connecticut Inn (40 minute drive)
Norwich Inn and Brewery (40 minutes drive)
Betsy's Bed and Breakfast (45 minutes drive)
The Inn at Montpelier (45 minutes drive)
Capital Plaza Hotel (45 minutes drive)
Hannover Inn (upscale and fine dining) (45 minutes drive)
Six South Hotel (45 minutes drive)
Stillwater State Park (camping) (20 minutes drive)
The amount of lodging near us is very limited. You should make reservations early.
There is a small B&B Cape House with a friendly owner and excellent breakfast nestled in the pasture on the other side of our steep hillside and perhaps a 10 minute walk: Call Bernice Dow (802) 439-5448
Rest Haven is our preferred Inn as it is the closest Inn to our studio and most our attendees stay there which makes it a great gathering place and ride sharing location. They are located in West Topsham (an 18 minute drive) They can provide meals. They have five different guest rooms. Please contact Angela Piletz
[email protected] (585) 749-0015
Lake Morey Resort (25 minute drive)
Gibson House Bed & Breakfast (30 minute drive)
Millstone Inn, heart of the old Websterville granite quarries (25 minutes drive)
Firehouse Inn, an old firehouse converted into a restaurant and inn (25 minutes drive)
Maplecroft Bed & Breakfast (25 minutes drive)
The Lyme Inn (40 minute drive)
Dowd's Country Inn (40 minute drive)
Breakfast on the Connecticut Inn (40 minute drive)
Norwich Inn and Brewery (40 minutes drive)
Betsy's Bed and Breakfast (45 minutes drive)
The Inn at Montpelier (45 minutes drive)
Capital Plaza Hotel (45 minutes drive)
Hannover Inn (upscale and fine dining) (45 minutes drive)
Six South Hotel (45 minutes drive)
Stillwater State Park (camping) (20 minutes drive)
Cancellation Policy
Because these workshops are small and your cancelling adversely affects the program, Cone Editions has both a very generous and a very strict cancellation policy.
We collect a deposit payment if you sign up more than 30 days in advance of a workshop. All workshops must be fully paid 30 days in advance.
If you withdraw more than 30 days prior to the start date of your workshop, all payments made will be refunded, minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the deposit.
If you withdraw between 30 and 15 days prior to the start date of the workshop, all payments made will be refunded, minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the workshop tuition, unless Cone Editions or you can supply a replacement, in which case you will receive a full refund minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the regular deposit amount associated with that workshop.
If you withdraw less than 15 days prior to the start date of the workshop you will receive no refund, unless Cone Editions or you can supply a replacement, in which case you will receive a full refund minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the regular deposit amount associated with that workshop.
There are no exceptions to these policies and Cone Editions is not responsible for cancellations due to medical or other emergencies. Should Cone Editions have to cancel a workshop, all fees and deposits are refunded in full or may be transferred to another workshop within 12 months. Cone Editions is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline tickets in the event of a workshop cancellation. We strongly recommend that you purchase trip cancellation/travel insurance.
Because these workshops are small and your cancelling adversely affects the program, Cone Editions has both a very generous and a very strict cancellation policy.
We collect a deposit payment if you sign up more than 30 days in advance of a workshop. All workshops must be fully paid 30 days in advance.
If you withdraw more than 30 days prior to the start date of your workshop, all payments made will be refunded, minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the deposit.
If you withdraw between 30 and 15 days prior to the start date of the workshop, all payments made will be refunded, minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the workshop tuition, unless Cone Editions or you can supply a replacement, in which case you will receive a full refund minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the regular deposit amount associated with that workshop.
If you withdraw less than 15 days prior to the start date of the workshop you will receive no refund, unless Cone Editions or you can supply a replacement, in which case you will receive a full refund minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the regular deposit amount associated with that workshop.
There are no exceptions to these policies and Cone Editions is not responsible for cancellations due to medical or other emergencies. Should Cone Editions have to cancel a workshop, all fees and deposits are refunded in full or may be transferred to another workshop within 12 months. Cone Editions is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline tickets in the event of a workshop cancellation. We strongly recommend that you purchase trip cancellation/travel insurance.