Thursday Workshops

Roll up your sleeves for Thursday’s hands-on workshops at

Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center

4318 Gallatin Street
Hyattsville, Maryland

from 10:00am to 5:00pm on Thursday, June 13th!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Registration Deadline is 11:59 PM EDT on June 5th.
After that, all registrations will be closed.

Workshop Logistics

  • Pyramid Atlantic is 20 minutes from the hotel in the historic Hyattsville, MD arts district. In between workshops you can (and should!) enjoy studios, art and vintage stores, artist supply shops, bookstores, coffee, cafés, restaurants, and a tasty microbrewery within a few blocks’ walk.
  • Each workshop will run twice: once in the morning, and once in the afternoon.
    • Morning sessions: 10:00am – 12:45pm
    • Lunch (on your own): 12:45pm – 2:15pm
    • Afternoon sessions: 2:15pm – 5:00pm
  • Space is limited. All workshops are $65 per session and need 3 participants to run.

Workshop 1: Introductory Bookbinding – Buttonhole Books

Get hands-on with bookbinding techniques by creating your a “buttonhole book” with a waxed thread binding. The finished product is a complete journal. This technique doesn’t need any glue or specialty tools so you can do it again in your own shop. Use the journal as your print shop’s guest book, as a gift, or to record your recipes for roast goose!

Instructor: Anne Barnes
Anne Barnes is an artist and graphic designer living in Washington, DC. She graduated in June 2020 with an MFA in Visual Arts and worked for many years as a book and cover designer in publishing. Her mixed media work—which includes the use of books as medium and the production of artist’s books—combines a high-keyed color palette, expressive gesture, and symbolic mark-making. The result is the abstracted visualizations of her memories, emotions, and varied perspectives that merge to become metaphors for exploration into themes of human nature, popular culture, feminism, and motherhood. Learn more about her work at www.annebarnesstudio.com and on Instagram @annebarnes_studio.

Eight spots for each session, morning & afternoon.
Morning Session has met the minimum registrants to proceed.
Afternoon Session is lacking the minimum of 3 registrants to be held.

Spots Still Available: [Updated 06/05/2024 @ 1:00pm]
1 of 8 in the morning          8 of 8 in the afternoon

Workshop 2: Letterpress – Posters on a Vandercook

Set type and print posters on Vandercook proofing presses. Pyramid has a solid collection of type and cuts to play with! Each workshop participant sets and prints their own edition.

Instructor: Sarrah Matthews
Sarah Matthews is a 2016 MA Art & the Book graduate from the Corcoran College of Arts and Design, and holds an MBA with a Marketing Concentration and BS in Sociology from Bowie State University. Matthews’ work has been exhibited nationally and is part of the permanent collections of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, GWU’s Gelman Library, University of Puget Sound, and Samford University. Matthews is a full-time artist, teacher, & YouTuber (SARAHBEME). You can view her work at iamsarahmatthews.com.

Six spots for each session, morning & afternoon.
Morning Session has met the minimum registrants to proceed.
Afternoon Session has met the minimum registrants to proceed.

Spots Still Available: [Updated 06/05/2024 @ 1:00pm]
3 of 6 in the morning          2 of 6 in the afternoon

Workshop 3: Suminagashi Marbling

Suminagashi is a marbling technique originating in medieval Japan and brought to Europe in the 17th century. You’ll float ink on a water surface, create designs by arranging/swirling/maneuvering it, and then set paper on top of the surface to create marbled sheets.

Instructor: Jen Sheckels
Jen Sheckels is a mixed media artist that has lived and worked in Prince George’s County, MD most of her life and currently serves as the Education Manager at Pyramid Atlantic. She studied Studio Art with a Graphics concentration at Messiah College in Grantham, PA and completed her MFA in illustration at Savannah College of Art and Design. Working primarily in pastels, mixed media, and relief printmaking, Jen enjoys getting her hands dirty and experimenting with all forms of art-making. She uses the tactile qualities of the media to explore new layering methods and simply “play” with the art. Learn more about her work at jensheckels.com.

Six spots for each session, morning & afternoon.
Morning Session has met the minimum registrants to proceed.
Afternoon Session IS NOW FULL!

Spots Still Available: [Updated 06/05/2024 @ 1:00pm]
2 of 6 in the morning          0 of 6 in the afternoon

Workshop 4: Drypoint (Intaglio)

Drypoint is an intaglio platemaking technique where the image is incised onto a plate using a hard-edged needle. The process is functionally similar to engraving (no acids). Use an etching needle to draw, scrape, and cut your design into a plate; the grooves and burrs capture ink for printing.

Instructor: Etai Rogers-Fett
Etai Rogers-Fett (he/him) is a printmaker, judaica artist, and arts educator living on Piscataway land in Maryland. Etai is an artistic associate in the printshop at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and teaches printmaking to youth and adults at various art centers in the DMV area. In his printmaking practice, Etai draws inspiration from Jewish craft traditions of papercutting, manuscript illumination, and calligraphy to create compositions that blend decorative and narrative imagery and explore the expressive potential of Hebrew and Yiddish typography. Etai plays with the genres of Jewish book arts in order to tell the stories of gender expansive identities often deliberately obscured from this historical body of work – weaving together archival research, folktales, and speculative imagining to trace vibrant trans and queer Jewish lineages. See more of Etai’s work on Instagram at @tsukunst.

Eight spots for each session, morning & afternoon.
Morning Session is lacking the minimum of 3 registrants to be held.
Afternoon Session is lacking the minimum of 3 registrants to be held.

Spots Still Available: [Updated 06/05/2024 @ 1:00pm]
8 of 8 in the morning          8 of 8 in the afternoon

Workshop 5: Screen Printing

A novel, “painter-ly” approach to screen printing using acrylic to create colorful and semi-abstract shapes. Bring your ideas!

Instructor: Nicole Parker
Nicole Parker is a fine artist specializing in representational oil painting and intaglio printmaking. She received her BFA and Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts in 2018. She is greatly enriched and inspired by sensory sources like music, film, storytelling and food. She joined Pyramid as a keyholder resident and was thrilled to stay on as an associate! Her work can be viewed at nicole-parker-art.com.

Six spots for each session, morning & afternoon.
Morning Session is lacking theminimum of 3 registrants to be held.
Afternoon Session IS NOW FULL!

Spots Still Available: [Updated 06/05/2024 @ 1:00pm]
6 of 6 in the morning          0 of 6 in the afternoon

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