Creative Aging: Printing without a Press at Battery Park City Library with Dikko Faust

Explore your artistic potential with Creative Aging, a series of art workshops for adults 50 and older.
 

This program will be held in person at Battery Park City Library. Join us for Printing without a Press!  Teaching artist Dikko Faust will guide participants over 8 sessions from October 18 through December 6.

Students will learn accessible approaches to making editions of their own designs. We will explore frottage (wax rubbings), monoprint, paste papers, collagraph (collage printing), styrograph dry point, eraser stamps, etc. These processes can later be done at home with friends and family--and can be used to make holiday cards, as well as frameable works of art.

Materials will be provided for this program. 

Attendance at all sessions is recommended. Space is limited. Supplies are available on a first come, first serve basis. Register with your email address for all program sessions. Walkups will be permitted as space accommodates.

REGISTER HERE FOR ALL DECEMBER DATES

About the Artist

Dikko Faust founded Purgatory Pie Press while a student under Walter Hamady in 1977. He continues to produce artist books and prints with partner Esther K Smith, collaborating over the years with more than a hundred other artists & writers. Their works can be found in many museums and rare books & art libraries around the US and the world, including the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Victoria & Albert, Tate, NY Public Library, and the Newberry Library. Faust has taught letterpress at SVA since 2005, and has taught at Cooper Union, Center for Book Arts NYC, and long and short terms at many more institutions.

About Creative Aging

Creative Aging is a series of free art classes for adults 50 and older. This year, in person programs are available from branches throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.  Come discover a new art medium or deepen your skills in a practice you’ve explored before! Visit nypl.org/creativeaging for a full list of programs.