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SILKSCREEN 101: Silkscreen Studio Orientation
This comprehensive hands-on beginner class teaches you the basics of silkscreening, troubleshooting, working with fabric printing and basic registration. Get comfortable with the shop layout, equipment, and culture. Learn about techniques for creating screens, terminology, and techniques to be employed in entry level printing projects in the Silkscreen Studio. 

After taking this class, you can come back to one of our open studio sessions with the skills to work on all your silkscreen projects. Or, use the skills learned in this class to set up a printing studio in your home. Instructors are available after class for questions and answers.

101 Classes are held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month from 12-2 pm and on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 5-7 pm

VERA Silkscreen 101 is a prerequisite for all other classes as well as for open session use. 
Class Size: Minimum 6, Maximum 12
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SILKSCREEN 202: Multicolor Garments
This course explains everything you need to know to produce advanced printing on Garments in the Studio. We discuss how to effectively print multiple colors on fabrics such as t-shirts, patches and hoodies as well as tips and tricks to produce more professional projects, and how to optimize shop equipment for more effective work flow.

This course will explain more advanced concepts for producing artwork. Discover how to make your silkscreening projects come alive by using the full spectrum of this medium’s capacity. Your work will benefit from a better understanding the unique opportunities and limitations of this versatile printing method. Our instructors come prepared with commercial & fine-art knowledge about digital design, outputting, color separations, color matching/mixing, halftone preparation.

This class allows for multicolor projects to be printed by users on the multicolor carousels.
202 and 203 Classes are held in alternate months on the 3rd Saturday from 2:30 to 5:30 pm
Prerequisites: Completion of the Silkscreen 201
Class Size: Minimum 3, Maximum 8
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SILKSCREEN 203: Multicolor Flat Stock
This course explains everything you need to know to produce advanced printing on Flat Stock in the Studio. We discuss how to effectively print multiple colors on paper, stickers, and other items (like CD’s), explain different types of paper, and discuss techniques for producing professional quality flat stock projects.

This course will explain more advanced concepts for producing artwork. Discover how to make your silkscreening projects come alive by using the full spectrum of this medium’s capacity. Your work will benefit from a better understanding the unique opportunities and limitations of this versatile printing method. Our instructors come prepared with commercial & fine-art knowledge about digital design, outputting, color separations, color matching/mixing, halftone preparation.
This class allows for multicolor projects to be printed by users on the multicolor carousels.
202 and 203 Classes are held in alternate months on the 3rd Saturday from 2:30 to 5:30 pm
Prerequisites: Completion of the Silkscreen 101 class
Class Size: Minimum 3, Maximum 8

Multicolor silkscreen techniques take center stage for making shirts or posters – it is cheap, fast, and a relatively non-toxic way to express your vision. You will be everyone’s best friend when you print multicolor shirts, show posters, paper goods and more.  After completion of our multicolor classes you will know how to put your vision on the material of your choice! You may also be asked to join our Poster Collective and design and print posters for VERA and others.
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Private Classes, Studio Rental, and Mobile Screenprinting:
Our classes are so popular that they advertise themselves! You can book a private class for your non-profit, community organization, group of friends, company, band, everyone living in your communal house, or your book club – we are open to anything. Private classes cost $30-40 per attendee, and you have to have a minimum of 6 people participating. See our Silkscreen Classes section for more details.

Have a project that is too big to finish during open session? Or a project you and your friends would like to work on privately?  Vera will rent you our studio and provide an instructor to help you out! We won’t do your work for you but just like during our Open Sessions, one of our experienced instructor will be on hand to lend a hand.

In addition to in house jobs Vera Silkscreen Committee also plays away games. That’s right we have a Mobile Screenprinting Unit that allows us to take our class to you. We can accommodate one color poster and garment printing demonstrations and classes at the site of your choice. We have done many very successful Demos and classes for groups such as the Seattle Art Museum, The University of Washington, Sasquatch, and Capitol Hill Block party- to name a few.

Private Classes, Studio Rental, and Mobile Screenprinting Rates:
Private class rate (per student, minimum 5): $30-$40
Studio rental (hourly): $50
Mobile Silkscreen Set-Up: $200
Instructor Fee (hourly): $25

Questions? To book a private class please call (206) 956-VERA or shoot us an email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).