Coptic Stitch Binding: Two Day Workshop
Bookarts: Coptic Stitch Two Day Workshop Workshop Description: In this 2 day workshop, participants will come away equipped with a basic understanding of the tools required for bookbinding, and will learn how to create an exposed spine bound book. Commonly referred to as coptic or link stitch binding, the advantage of a section sewn binding… Continue reading Coptic Stitch Binding: Two Day Workshop
Writing Night
Bring your favorite notebook and pen or pencil, and join the IPRC for a monthly drop-in creative writing community event, with light facilitation, creative writing prompts, and opportunities to share your work. Free and open to the public.
April Hybrid Collage Night
Join us for a Hybrid Collage Night! The first 40 mins or so will be open collage with occasional prompts, followed by a show & tell. If this is your first time attending collage night, you can register here. The link for the zoom event will be sent out the day of the Event; and for… Continue reading April Hybrid Collage Night
Tech Support Group
About Workshop: In this monthly workshop meets peer support group, we will gather to cultivate community and creative consciousness around the complex presence that smartphones have in our lives. Each meeting will include space for sharing and exploring creative prompts aimed at inviting curiosity, embodiment, experimentationand play into our interactions with our phones. About the Instructor: Erika Callihan… Continue reading Tech Support Group
Intro to Screenprinting
Independent Publishing Resource Center Studios 318 SE Main St. , Portland , OR, United StatesJoin us to learn about silkscreen printing! Learn how to create stencils, prep and process screens while gaining knowledge about tools, tips, and tricks for the photo emulsion process. You’ll have the chance to acquire best practices for setting up your print station, printing and registration while gaining practice with the medium. Our studio area… Continue reading Intro to Screenprinting
Build Your Poem Machine: a Two Hour Workshop to Support the IPRC
Building Your Poetry Machine Workshop Description: It's easy to get bogged down with the idea of writing a poem when we think of it as a one-off precious object, or something dependent on a moment of inspiration. Instead, let's unbog by inventing our… Continue reading Build Your Poem Machine: a Two Hour Workshop to Support the IPRC
Intro to Risograph Printing
Independent Publishing Resource Center Studios 318 SE Main St. , Portland , OR, United StatesIn this 4-hour introductory course, participants will learn the basics of risograph (riso) printing and will leave with an understanding of how to use this print technology to create zines, fliers, posters, or other printed matter. While this technology is not new, riso printing has recently become one of the most exciting developments in… Continue reading Intro to Risograph Printing
Portland Correspondence Co-op
Independent Publishing Resource Center 318 SE Main St., Ste. 155, Portland, OR, United StatesPDXCC is a monthly gathering where participants make and share analog correspondence in the great mail art tradition of Ray Johnson and Anna Banana: art and conversation through the mail. This uniquely democratic, DIY art form incorporates writing, drawing, collage, rubber stamps, faux postage, decorative tape, typewriters – anything goes, as long as it goes… Continue reading Portland Correspondence Co-op
Intro to Letterpress (Two-Day Workshop)
Learn to set moveable type and print on table top and poster presses in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historic process. Gain access to IPRCs collection of over 150 fonts of lead and wood type. Leave the class with a… Continue reading Intro to Letterpress (Two-Day Workshop)
Writing Night
Bring your favorite notebook and pen or pencil, and join the IPRC for a monthly drop-in creative writing community event, with light facilitation, creative writing prompts, and opportunities to share your work. Free and open to the public.
May Hybrid Collage Night
Join us for a Hybrid Collage Night! The first 40 mins or so will be open collage with occasional prompts, followed by a show & tell. If this is your first time attending collage night, you can register here. The link for the zoom event will be sent out the day of the Event; and for… Continue reading May Hybrid Collage Night