Make an Empathy Comic with Andrew Kozlowski!

So often we think of ourselves as the protagonist in our lives—but is that always the case? How might we use our sense of empathy to explore other points of view? This exercise is a great way to have fun grappling with a difficult interaction, while also exploring how we create characters with different motivations that can drive stories in new ways.

During this 1 hour workshop we’ll create not 1, but 2 mini comics that explore how we can use our ability as writers and artists to shift our point of view. No experience writing or drawing necessary!

In this Plant Printing Workshop, participants will explore the art of plant printing using real plant clippings, brayers, watercolor paper, and block printing ink. They’ll learn how to create unique compositions by inking and printing various plants onto paper, experimenting with color, texture, and layering techniques. Designed to celebrate the natural beauty of plants, this workshop allows participants to create one-of-a-kind prints in a hands-on, eco-friendly art session.

Using plant clippings as natural stamps, participants can capture intricate details of leaves, flowers, and stems by rolling block printing ink onto the clippings and pressing them onto watercolor paper. Experimentation with different colors and compositions will help participants create pieces that reflect their artistic style, focusing on exploration, creativity, and the tactile experience of working with natural materials.

Join Ronny Hantash of Mint Prints for a deep dive into screenprinting on textiles. Through the open and interactive demo, participants will learn about the foundations of screenprinting and gain lots of insight into the tools, techniques, and materials involved in pulling professional prints on fabric for varying applications. High-quality screenprinted garments are one of Hantash’s specialties. He will bring some of his favorite tools with him and offer insights from his years of experience using them to produce things for himself and the folks he loves to work with.

This one hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how to bind a short-form zine in a fun, creative way. The workshop will focus on different ways to bind with the saddle stitch technique, including stapling, sewing, and using safety pins, and will cover the few tools you need to make it happen. The pages are folded down the middle and attached to each other in the fold. It’s a popular method in self-publishing due to its ease and accessibility. There are endless creative ways to use saddle stitch to make your books your own.

Nothing is worse than staring at a blank sheet of paper, hoping it will just read your mind and turn into something magical. This workshop is designed to help anyone conquer the blank sheet, turning it into an eight page autobiographical mini-zine in less than an hour. We’ll use some simple journaling to get our ideas moving, then combine timed writing and drawing challenges to push us past the blank sheet. Armed with just a single sheet of paper, some pens or pencils, and a pair of scissors, we’ll turn our everyday experiences into a creative catalyst!

This workshop is open to anyone. It’s a great way to build that muscle for getting your story onto paper. At the end of the workshop, you’ll have a new zine (or maybe two.) They might be complete, or a sketch for something bigger. Whatever your skill level, you’ll be able to jump in and get going. What’s the worst that could happen? It's just a sheet of paper!

Your host: Andrew Kozlowski is an artist, educator, cartoonist, publisher, and zinester who lives and works in Jacksonville Florida, where he runs Paper City Publishing. He loves teaching about comics and zines, and making them accessible to anyone. This is his second time at SPF.

During this interactive one hour Cyanotype workshop, we will harness the power of sunlight to craft some cool art. Open to all levels of experience, this workshop offers a simplified introduction to cyanotype printing. We will use objects to block or diffuse light on paper coated with a light reactive dye to produce vibrant blue-hued prints. Participants will compose their print by arranging objects on their paper and exposing them to the sun's rays. Cool shaped objects will be provided, but feel free to prepare for the workshop by bringing your own items to print with. Prints can be made with flowers, stencils, keys, sea shells, old photo negatives, translucent objects, and small toys. You will be encouraged to engage with and assist each other to foster a supportive, communal learning environment. Leave with your very own cyanotype prints, each one a testament to your new experience and the magic of sun printing.

Learn how to make simple, satisfying, screen prints at home—without the need for specialized equipment! We'll cover techniques that don't use photoemulsion and don't require equipment like power washers and exposure units. You'll learn monoprinting with water soluble drawing materials, making stencils with tracing paper and cut vinyl, and creating hand painted blockouts with screen filler or water soluble glue. In addition to these techniques, you'll learn how you can build a simple low cost printing station with items from the hardware store. After this workshop, you'll leave feeling ready to set up your own screenprinting studio at home!

Instructor: Andrew Kozlowksi

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Participate in this interactive installation and add your contribution to our woodblock wheat paste community mural during SPF'22! Using eco-friendly materials, learn how to carve, print, and paste your woodblock design onto our communal wall. This group activity is for all ages and abilities. Pre-carved designs will also be available to print and paste. At the end of SPF, you'll be able to take your prints and blocks home with you!

Instructor: Jacoub Reyes of the Florida Printmakers society

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Participate in this interactive installation and add your contribution to our woodblock wheat paste community mural during SPF'22! Using eco-friendly materials, learn how to carve, print, and paste your woodblock design onto our communal wall. This group activity is for all ages and abilities. Pre-carved designs will also be available to print and paste. At the end of SPF, you'll be able to take your prints and blocks home with you!

Instructor: Jacoub Reyes of the Florida Printmakers society

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Let's draw together! Saturday afternoon sit down with paper and pencil to explore the many possibilities of representing emotions in comics. Together we will lean into the metaphorical potential of drawing to represent our experiences in unexpected ways. Bring your best sense of adventure and be prepared to leave with a four panel comic that you can replicate wherever you are in your comics making journey, whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced. Throughout it all, Emma will be there drawing alongside you and answering questions!

Instructor: Emma Jensen of The Sequential Artists Workshop

NOTE: This workshop is FREE and all SPF’22 visitors are welcome to attend.

Teens and adults (ages 13 & up) will create content for a zine through a printmaking technique utilizing found objects to print visually interesting abstract patterns. Attendees will learn two simple zine folding methods and participate in a discussion on sustainable art practices throughout this two hour workshop.

Materials will be provided, however, attendees are invited to bring their own found objects with textures they may be interested in replicating, such as mesh produce bags, tin foil, bubble wrap or leaves.

This workshop is FREE to attend, but please RSVP via email to tayina@girlsclubcollection.org or by clicking the button below.

About the Instructor:
Sharene Ashley is a Jamaican-born, Fort Lauderdale based multidisciplinary artist. Her work is largely introspective, exploring social interaction or isolation, self esteem and sentimentality as experienced from behind the lens of black, West Indian cultural identity.

This exciting two-hour workshop will include a relief carving demo on PVC and the making of a SMALL PRESS BUILD for each participant! The wood will be pre-cut to size for easy assembly and once built, the Tortilla Presses will be able to print 5"x7" relief blocks. There will be blocks with images ready to carve or you can draw your own design!

Check out the video below to see a Tortilla Press in action!

$10 per person, limited to 8 participants. Please register with IS Projects here or by clicking the button below.

About the Instructor:
https://www.josephvelasquez.com/bio

Join instructor Brooke Frank in this short, intensive workshop that focuses on quick and pain-free ways to bind book projects.

Students will learn multiple variations of the pamphlet stitch binding and Japanese stab binding techniques, as well as the x-book. These bindings are quick and easy and can be used to add a handmade touch to zines or other book projects without the need for large studio equipment or glue. Each student will leave with 2-5 small handmade books.

Admission is free to the public, but seating is limited. Please register in advance with the library here or by clicking the button below.

About the Instructor:
Brooke Frank is a painter based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She received her MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin and her BFA in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University. She has completed multiple artist residencies and currently teaches drawing and printmaking at Nova Southeastern University and Florida Atlantic University.

Join us in exploring easy, at home image transfer methods and an introduction to collaging techniques through live instruction and examples. This virtual workshop invites participants to follow along with their own supplies from home. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

About the Instructor:
Sammi McLean is a Florida-native and hybridized maker, working with installation and assemblage through the lens of printmaking. In addition to her independent practice, McLean has taught printmaking at various South Florida institutions and serves as the lead teaching artist and gallery coordinator for IS Projects in Fort Lauderdale, FL. McLean continues to collaborate and consult on many print-forward projects and exhibitions since receiving her Master of Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University in 2017.

Admission is free, but seating is limited so please sign up in advance online at NSU Art Museum

Illustration begins with learning how to analyze and recontextualize the world around us. In this course we visit some basic design principles and techniques, explore different illustrators, and do some exercises to get you started illustrating by viewing the world through different lenses. Starting off with basics such as shape, line, and form, the course culminates with sketchbooking exercises to create the habit of illustration.

About the Instructor:
Caro is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently living in Miami, FL. She is currently a freelance illustrator and previously worked in art direction and product development. Her love for music, art history, and food are all driving themes in her illustrations. She graduated in 2017 from Emerson College, where she focused on Global & Post-Colonial art and film history; she conducted research for Boston's Museum of fine arts in 2018. When she is not illustrating or cooking, she's usually writing music or biking.

Admission is free, but seating is limited so please sign up in advance online at The Frank

This short, intensive workshop is aimed towards artists who are looking for quick and pain free ways to bind their book projects. Students will learn multiple variations of the pamphlet stitch binding and the Japanese stab binding as well as the x-book. These bindings are quick and easy and can be used to add a handmade touch to zines or other book projects without the need for large studio equipment or glue. Participants will learn to prepare their paper, calculate where to punch the holes, how to punch the paper, and how to sew it all together. Each student will make 2-5 small handmade books.

About the Instructor:
Ingrid Schindall is a passionate and productive printmaker and book artist based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is almost always found standing next to a press at the fine art printmaking studio she founded called IS Projects. She has a methodical yet curious and experimental studio practice. Her prints and artist books have been exhibited internationally and nationally.  She is devoted to her writing practice and has produced six limited edition books, all written, designed, hand printed and bound by the artist.

Admission is free, but seating is limited so please sign up in advance online at Creation Station

This short, informal workshop is created with artists and collectors in mind who are looking for creative ways to document and share their work with minimal equipment. Participants will learn different techniques and best practices to quickly capture quality photo and video of their artwork or collectibles on their smartphones. After a review of standards of artwork documentation, the workshop will go over a basic shot list and jump into alternative documentation methods including stop motion animation, prop use and model interventions. Participants will leave the workshop with fun photo and video documentation of their work for use in websites, social media and print.

About the Instructor:
Sarah Michelle Rupert is an artist, educator and cultural producer living and working in Miami, FL. Working with photography, video, collage, drawing and animation, her creative practice revolves around consumer and mass-communication culture and its beautiful, tragic and humorous interactions within contemporary life and the environment. As a cultural producer, she works collaboratively with artists and organizations to build innovative and fun projects across artistic disciplines. She is the Director of Collections at Girls' Club Collection, a private collection and nonprofit alternative art space in Fort Lauderdale. She is a founding co-director of SPF: Small Press Fair Fort Lauderdale and Tropic Bound Artist's Book Fair, and works with  artists and collectives to realize ambitious projects through program and grant development.

Admission is free, but seating is limited so please sign up in advance online at BACA.

Participants will explore this creative and intuitive technique to create one-of-a-kind monotype prints with artist, Andrea F. Huffman. Using found objects, plant material, stencils and masks on an inked printing plate made from unflavored gelatin, multiple images and colors can be layered to explore the many possibilities to create intriguing designs. Students will create their own stencils as well as using commercial ones. Techniques for registration, clean borders and bleed prints will be covered. Paper and water soluble inks will be used for this workshop, however, applications for fabric will also be discussed. Participants will receive a handout with the recipe to make the plates on their own after the workshop.

Andrea F. Huffman
www.andreahuffman.com

Fiber artist Andrea Huffman received a Master’s degree in Art Education from Florida International University and taught art in Florida Public Schools for over 30 years. She has exhibited her art throughout Florida and nationally, receiving numerous awards and recognitions, including several grants and a Residency at the prestigious Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida. Although Andrea has retired from teaching in the public school system, she continues to share her passion for art, teaching classes and workshops in fiber art, printmaking and mixed media at museums, guilds and community outreach venues, including the Boca Museum Art School. Andrea is currently a studio resident at The Bailey Contemporary Art Center in Pompano Beach and a founding member of 6 Hands Collaborative.

Admission is free, but seating is limited so please sign up in advance online at IS Projects.

Join instructor, Sammi McLean, in this short, intensive workshop aimed towards artists who are looking for quick and pain free ways to bind their book projects. Students will learn multiple variations of the pamphlet stitch binding and the Japanese stab binding as well as the x-book. These bindings are quick and easy and can be used to add a handmade touch to zines or other book projects without the need for large studio equipment or glue. Participants will learn to prepare their paper, calculate where to punch the holes, how to punch the paper, and how to sew it all together. Each student will leave with 2-5 small handmade books with the option to decorate covers with hand-carved stamps.

Preregister by calling (561) 233-2600
Admission is free to the public.

Participants will create their own protest poster signs, one for (Heck Yes!) and one against (Heck No!). After a stamp carving demonstration, "Heck Yes!" and "Heck No!" stamps are printed onto signs using a hand-carved stamp before participants decorate with additional painted, drawn or collaged elements while appropriate 'yes/no' music is played during the workshop. Afterwards, instructors will photograph each participant and their signs to compile into a zine that will be printed and given to participants and sold during Small Press Fair 2019.

Admission is free to the public. Pre-registration required.
Call 954-201-2657 to pre-register (Leave name and telephone number) or, email hstjohnayre@broward.org .

This workshop will be co-presented by Laura Sue Wilanksy and Kristin Beck.

Laura Sue Wilansky, a.k.a. The Silver Nightingale is a musician, proofreader, poet, arts journalist and visual artist working in collage, cartooning, beads, multimedia and more.
website: http://www.SilverNightingale.com

Kristin Beck is a multidisciplinary artist and Florida native. Beck has tabled at SPF in previous years and led art workshops in Palm Beach and Broward County.
website: http://ArtBuzzStudio.com

Collaborate with Dale Zine founders Steve Saiz & Lillian Banderas on a zine workshop using Dale Zines personal mis prints. Guests will get the chance to re-purpose various prints from Dale Zine artist titles ranging from 2009-till now. All zine making supplies will be provided.

About Dale Zines
Dale Zine, established 2009 in Miami, is an independent printer and publisher with the goal of giving a platform to multimedia artists and designers. With humble beginnings as a zine collaboration about Garfield, Dale has broadened into something of an open cultural space for the Miami community, with offerings ranging from all-age zine workshops to our independent radio show, pop-up events, and most recently a storefront in Downtown Miami.

Admission is free to the public

Two-part workshop: October 7 and 21

Relief Printing is the oldest form of printmaking. This course is designed to teach students how to "think print" while carving away at an MDF block, then how to use that block to make multiple prints and how to layer images on top of one another

Students will work with a 20x20" block in class and will be sent home with a 40x40" block to prepare for the Steamroller Printing Extravaganza during SPF'18 on November 10th from noon to 6pm. All students enrolled in this class are also invited to participate in the steamroller event free of charge.  

Students will get a sense of how it feels to work in a communal space surrounded by artists with similar interests. Students will also learn how to use and respect a large fine art press. Students will leave the class with a working knowledge of shop etiquette, linoleum carving, and printing techniques as well as a small portfolio of prints and their own MDF block. 

This class will certify you to reserve and use our etching press during open studio hours.

$160

registration link coming soon

Two-part workshop: October 7 and 21

Relief Printing is the oldest form of printmaking. This course is designed to teach students how to "think print" while carving away at an MDF block, then how to use that block to make multiple prints and how to layer images on top of one another

Students will work with a 20x20" block in class and will be sent home with a 40x40" block to prepare for the Steamroller Printing Extravaganza during SPF'18 on November 10th from noon to 6pm. All students enrolled in this class are also invited to participate in the steamroller event free of charge.  

Students will get a sense of how it feels to work in a communal space surrounded by artists with similar interests. Students will also learn how to use and respect a large fine art press. Students will leave the class with a working knowledge of shop etiquette, linoleum carving, and printing techniques as well as a small portfolio of prints and their own MDF block. 

This class will certify you to reserve and use our etching press during open studio hours.

$160

registration link coming soon

SPF teams up with Art and Culture Center/Hollywood for Zines for Pines workshop with Kim Heise during Culture Hour. Zines for Pines participants will create a page of the Pine Rockland Zine, the nature-themed publication that supports conservation of South Florida's most endangered habitat type. Each page will be photocopied and assembled together into a collaborative zine that participants can take home with them after the workshop. The zine will also be the next month’s issue of Pine Rockland Zine with the creators of each page as guest contributors to the publication. 

Images and information about the plants, animals, and landscape of pine rocklands will be provided for reference, and participants will be asked to choose one that inspires them to make a page about in order to help others better understand, love and conserve this globally imperiled habitat. Materials will be provided for a wide variety of expressions including collage, drawing, painting and calligraphy.

Materials she'll bring : "some collage and drawing materials like magazines, paper, fabrics, markers, pencils, calligraphy pens, card stock, watercolor brushes, paint, water jars and pallets. I can also bring thread for binding and wax. If you could provide access to a photo-copier/printer, and if possible, needles for book binding (SPF bringing) and some other collage materials and drawing utensils.

More info about SPF Fort Lauderdale, Small Press Fair at ww.spf-ftl.com.

More info about Kim Heise at www.kimheise.com.

This fun, hands-on workshop will provide teen participants with zine-making techniques, a brief history of zines and will culminate with participants producing their own 8-page zine and/or contributing a page to a compilation zine. The group will learn methods of folding, binding and reproducing their zines. Participants may use provided materials and are welcome to bring any materials they would like to use for drawing, collaging or sewing.

Instructor: Sharene Mullings

Free for teens

This workshop is focused on helping participants to understand their relationship to artmaking, so naturally, the class will be formatted around conversation and a cozy sketchbook session. Students will be drawing, writing, collaging, and talking throughout the class. They will be guided through a series of prompts examining their relationship to their artwork, and the ways they stop themselves from making space for it in their lives. The goal is to offer students strategies for developing a sketchbook habit that they can maintain, and helping them to defend their artmaking practice. Students may or may not arrive with an intention to explore a specific topic, and all experience levels are encouraged to participate.

STUDENTS MUST BRING:

• One Sketchbook: Brand-new, in-progress, or so hated by the participant that they want to cover everything in it. Must have at least 20 - 30 pages that they are willing to do all kinds of things to.

• Favorite Pen

• Erasable Pencil

• Scissor or X-acto Knife

• Glue Stick (Acid-Free/pH Neutral)

STUDENTS MAY WISH TO BRING:

• Other sketchbooks, for reference and very brief discussion. (Your favorite, your least favorite, the one from that trip you took where you were more inspired than ever, the only one you ever actually finished, or any other special sketchbook in your collection. If you have no other sketchbooks or don’t want to bring them, that is completely fine. Please sticky note one or two pages in each that you want to discuss. We won’t look at anything you don’t wish to share.)

• No more than thirty (30) pages of collage material (colored paper, magazines, book, etc. You don’t want to spend your time sifting through it, you only want to bring things you know you would use.)

• Watercolors/Ink

• Litho crayon

• Conte crayon

• Postage stamp

From $15

For more information please check:

http://www.isprojectsfl.com/workshops/sketchbook-club-habits

Join the EXILE Books team as we get warmed up for SPF Fort Lauderdale!

Stop by IS Projects to participate in a generative zine workshop. It's time to sharpen our zine-making skills and learn fresh tricks from stitch binding and grommet, to essential folding techniques. Learn something new, meet your fellow zine makers, and feel inspired to make your own zine. Let's gear-up for the Small Press Fair!