PROGRAMS
Institutional courses
Specialization
1 year
It provides students with exhaustive knowledge and insights in the field of printmaking while paying attention to its multiple forms of expression.
DATE
14th OCTOBER 2024 – 13th JUNE 2025
(Christmast break from December 21st till January 6th 2025)
TIMETABLE
From Monday to Friday, 9.30 am to 1.30 pm
Advanced
6 months
It offers a comprehensive knowledge on all traditional techniques and some experimental processes allowing for extensive individual work.
DATE
7th JANUARY – 13th JUNE 2025
TIMETABLE
From Monday to Friday, 9.30 am to 1.30 pm
Intensive
3 months
It allows a practical and direct training in the use of some traditional chalcographic techniques and of some experimental processes.
INTENSIVE – 1
DATE
14th OCTOBER 2024 – 20th DECEMBER 2024
TIMETABLE
From Monday to Friday, 9.30 am to 1.30 pm
INTENSIVE – 2
DATE
7th JANUARY – 28th MARCH 2025
TIMETABLE
From Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 1.30pm
Base
1 month
Suitable to get a first approach to the main themes of printmaking providing a basic knowledge of the main etching techniques.
DATE
START EVERY FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH
(EXCEPT JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, DECEMBER)
TIMETABLE
From Monday to Friday, 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm
Short courses
Flexible
customized schedule
It guarantees maximum flexibility, allowing you to match the lessons to all the appointments on your agenda.
DATE
One or more days a week from Monday to Friday
TIMETABLE
2.30pm – 6.30pm
Print Club
once a week
It offers practical and direct training in the use of specific techniques for your projects.
Due to renovations that will affect the studios, Print Club is suspended until September 2024
TIMETABLE
1 or 2 day a week to choose from:
Monday to Friday
2.30pm – 6.30pm
Summer School
1 or 2 intensive weeks
Intensive course designed for those who want to deepen specific aspects of printmaking within a short time.
CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGES OF PRINTMAKING
The main summer course runs over 2 weeks focused on different technique. It is possible to enroll in the individual week
1.7.2024 – 5.7.2024
9.30am-1.20pm / 2.30-6.30 pm
Application of printmaking techniques to the photographic image (toner transfer, aquatint, etching, sugar lift, cyanotipe, gum print)
8.7.2024 – 12.7.2024
9.30am-1.20pm / 2.30-6.30 pm
Artist Posters (linocut and letterpress)
Ri/Conoscere la Stampa d'Arte
Intensive theoretical and practical course aimed at art historians, archivists and curators.
DATE
From 8 to 12 April 2024
TIMETABLE
9.30am – 6.30pm
Workshops and Masterclasses
Letterpress
8-12 hours
In the letterpress workshop you can give your creativity a shape by creating posters and artist’s books.
Cyanotype
8-12 hours
It allows you to create artworks characterised by the signature color blue.
Gum Print
8-12 hours
It allows you to experiment a printing process that uses pigments colored with gum Arabic on a paper support.
Woodcut and Linocut
8-12 hours
It offers theoretical and practical knowledge on the techniques of carving and hand printing on wood or linoleum.
Burin
It allows you to explore the ancient technique of burin starting from the knowledge of the specifics tools.
Mezzotint
To learn a technique aimed at obtaining deep blacks, bright highlights and a wide range of tonal values.
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Silkscreen
Allows you to learn the screen printing process, from design to printing on paper.
Lithography
It offers historical notions and practical demonstrations for the preparation and printing of a lithographic stone.
Studio Rent
customized schedule
Access to fully equipped studios for individual artists or groups without a teacher’s supervision.
Due to renovation work, the Studio Rent is suspended until September 2024
TIMETABLE (BY APPOINTMENT ONLY)
From Monday to Friday: 9.30 am – 1.30pm and 2.30pm – 6.30pm