Opening dates:
January 7th – March 28th 2025
September 22nd – December 19th 2025

Timetable:
from Monday to Friday: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm
20 hours per week

Cost

till March 21st 2025 earlybird discount  tuition fee € 3000 + € 250 enrollment fee instead of € 3750 tuition fee + € 250 enrollment fee

The course offers opportunities for beginners or intermediates to start a personal creative research. The course offers practical, straightforward training in the use of the traditional techniques. The workshop practice is strongly underlined. This course is regarded as the basic module for an initial approach to the main themes of printmaking: a solid knowledge of the tools and the specific materials, preparation of zinc or copper plates from the beveling of the edge to the application of the ground; sketch conception, execution of drawing and their transferral to the plate; introduction to black an white etching and aquatint, including practical work; an a basic train of other printmaking techniques (drypoint, soft ground etching, pastel-manner, sugar-lift) introduction to printing processes with a hand-operated press and relative exercises, including some print variation.