Print Play: note to self - a Screenprinting Workshop

Print Play: Tetra Pak Printmaking
Saturday, March 14, 2026
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Nicole Banton
Class Capacity: 8 participants

Materials included | No prior experience needed | All skill levels welcome

In this hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to a variety of mark-making techniques and materials to create transparency films that will be exposed onto a silkscreen. Participants will learn how to print from the screen and combine layers of text and scribbles to produce a series of post-card sized screen prints.

About the Instructor

Nicole Banton is a visual artist and printmaker. She received a BFAH in visual art from Queen’s University and an MFA in visual art from the University of Regina. She recently exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Fifth Parallel Gallery in 2024, and her work has been included in various group exhibitions, including “Print Pulse 30: NUPE Exhibition” at Union Gallery and “Echoes from this Land” at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Banton predominantly creates text-based silkscreen prints and installations that incorporate layers of handwriting, fonts, found text, autographic strikethroughs, and mark-making.

Banner image:

1) Post-it screenprints by Nicole Banton currently on view at the Open Studio Proofs & Process Vitrines, located in the hallway outside the studio doors

2) the range of mark-marking tools that will be used during the workshop

3) view of the screenprinting are at Open Studio

Refund Policy: Refunds offered up to 4 days before the event starts. Eventbrite service fees will not be refunded.

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