Pressless Prints: Hand-Stamped Designs

with Carolyn Ingram
July 25, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $75
Materials Fee: $20

In this workshop, participants will design and create original images using hand-carved and found-object stamps, producing a series of layered prints on paper to take home. Demonstrations will cover basic stamp carving, inking techniques, pattern building, registration, and creative mark-making without the use of a printing press. The class will flow from experimental warm-ups to guided projects and open exploration, allowing time for iteration, collaboration, and individual image development.

Plan to bring: any personal imagery, sketches, or objects you’d like to incorporate into your printing.

Location: Main Campus - 3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453

Carolyn Ingram (she/her, they/them) is a printmaker living in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She received her BA in Studio Arts from Kalamazoo College and served as a postbaccalaureate printmaking resident at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. She is a part of Southwest Michigan Printmakers and has taught printmaking workshops at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. Ingram has been practicing printmaking for eight years, exploring traditional and modern methods. Her work has been shown at Michigan’s Crooked Tree Arts Center and was included in the Poets in Print broadside at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center.

Inking and printing station during the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Workshop. Courtesy of artist.