Classes and Workshops

 

Haight Street Art Center offers a host of educational opportunities, from specialized art classes to public outreach programs and partnerships with local schools and organizations. Sign up for our mailing list to receive updates about new classes and programs.

 

We are now offering Adult Education Classes at HSAC!

Ages 15+

Screen Printing Basics

This class is your introduction to screen printing and/or orientation to the studio and equipment at HSAC. This hands-on 3 session class takes you through the basics of creating screens, printing, and troubleshooting. The 3 sessions take place over 4 weeks. In the first two weeks, we’ll meet as a full group. For the final two weeks, the class splits into two smaller groups to allow everyone the space and resources needed to work on their projects. You will sign up for one of these final weeks based on your schedule and preference.

You’ll spend time with the design process as well and learn multiple techniques for creating screen-ready artwork. Get familiar with the studio workings at HSAC and comfortable with the steps to creating projects in a print studio. Open to beginners and those with previous screen printing experience.

Screen Printing Basics is a prerequisite for other screenprinting classes at HSAC.

The classes are limited to 12 students. The 3 session classes cost $200, with all materials included in price. But we suggest bringing a notebook and pencil!

Intermediate 2 Color Screen Prints

Ready to take your screen printing skills to the next level? Our Intermediate 2 Color Screen Prints class is designed for those with a basic understanding of screen printing or those who have completed our Screen Printing Basics course. In this four-session workshop, we delve into the world of layered imaging and registration techniques, with ample opportunities for creative experimentation.

The classes are limited to 12 students. The 3 session classes cost $250, with all materials included in price.

New! Block Printing
Discover the art of linoleum block printing in this four-week introductory course. Learn how to transfer your design, carve a block, and create striking single-color and multi-color prints. Perfect for beginners and open to all experience levels, this hands-on class provides the tools and guidance to bring your creative ideas to life.
 

Any questions? Please contact rebecca@haightstreetart.org

 

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Screen Printing Basics, 2025

 
 
Wednesdays 2/12 - 3/5  6-9pm
 

 

Tuesdays 4/8 - 4/29 6-9pm

Intermediate 2-color Screen Printing, 2025

Wednesdays 5/14 - 6/4 6-9pm

New! Block Printing, 2025
 
Discover the art of linoleum block printing in this four-week introductory course. Learn how to transfer your design, carve a block, and create striking single-color and multi-color prints. Perfect for beginners and open to all experience levels, this hands-on class provides the tools and guidance to bring your creative ideas to life.
The classes are limited to 12 students. The 3 session classes cost $250, with all materials included in price.
 

Tuesdays 2/4 - 2/25  6-9pm

Saturdays 5/10 - 5/31 11am-2pm

New! Summer Monotype Workshop, 2025
 
Saturday 6/7, 10am-5pm (with lunch break)
 
This one day workshop explores the exciting and exploratory process of directly screen-printing dry color pigments such as pastels, charcoal, and graphite to develop imagery on paper and other substrates. This experimental approach embraces exploration and stretches the conventional applications of the medium by using image alteration to create a dynamic series of varied multiples of an image. Imagery can be hand-generated or photographic. The technique is introduced as a single process procedure, which can then be used to investigate new ways to discover print qualities to strengthen images and concepts.
 
The workshop costs $250, with all materials included in price.
 
Guest Instructor: Miguel A. Aragón
 
Miguel A. Aragón is a native of Juárez, México, who lives and works in New York City where he is an associate professor in printmaking at CUNY College of Staten Island. His works explore subjects of violence, transient and/or persistent memory, perception, and the multiple; he uses erasure as language using a variety of innovative techniques. Aragón has exhibited internationally at venues including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, Berlin, and the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Canada, to name a few. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute fellowship and residency, Berkeley, CA; East London Printmakers Keyholder Residency, England; The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia fellowship residency, Italy; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany, among many others.
 

 

Gift Certificates!

Want to give the gift of a Screen Printing Basics Class to someone?

Click below, remember to add who the gift is for in the notes, and we'll reach out with a digital card so they can redeem for a class of their choosing. We'll also have their gift bag ready for them on their first day of class!

 

 

A special thank you to Exceptional Papers for donating their holographic foil papers.

About the Instructors

 

Rebecca Rippon is an artist specializing in printmaking and illustration. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute where she received the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award. She has taught art in the Bay Area for the past 5 years at multiple studios including the UC Berkeley Art Studio, Sharon Art Studio, Pixar University, SFAI Public Education, and many others.

 

 

Emily Peterson assists Rebecca in the studio. They have degrees in Art Education and Printmaking from California State University, Chico. They have been running educational programming surrounding access to art and printmaking since college. Emily is also pursuing a master's degree in museum studies at the University of San Francisco.


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