Analogue Poster Making: Intro to Letterpress and Screen Printing with Vincent Perez and Benjamin Nelson - Agnes Etherington Art Centre Agnes Etherington Art Centre

$175 for members, $190 for non members

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Bursaries for this program are supported by the Iva Speers Fund for Art Education.

Join artists Vincent Perez and Benjamin Nelson for a hands-on workshop exploring the art of poster making using analogue techniques.

Hosted at Everlovin’ Press and Ironclad Printing Company’s shared print shop, participants will experiment with letterpress and screen printing and explore the fundamentals of impactful design while they create their own poster.

Vincent and Benjamin will introduce participants to the rich history of hand-crafted posters, share insights into their creative practices and approach to design, and the role of poster art in Kingston’s cultural landscape.
Whether you’re a printmaking enthusiast or simply curious about this form of artmaking, this workshop offers an exciting opportunity to work in a professional print studio and create something bold, tactile, and uniquely your own.

All materials provided. No prior experience necessary.

Artists Biography

Vincent Perez is a designer and printmaker living in Kingston, Ontario. He is the proprietor and pressman at Everlovin’ Press, a letterpress printer and stationer since 2010. Previously, he was the manager of the Dawson Printshop, a teaching printshop at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His design practice primarily serves arts and cultural organizations, creative businesses and post-secondary institutions and focuses on branding and document design. He has been an instructor in the graphic design program at St. Lawrence College in Kingston and maintains an interest in design pedagogy at the primary school level. He has won several awards for book design and been featured in industry magazines like Applied Arts Magazine and Communication Arts Magazine as well as newspapers like The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. He is committed to art as public practice, design as collaborative process and printing in the analog tradition.

Two images next to one another. The one on the left is of a man with a beard and glasses and a ball cap. The image on the left is the same man, but working at a printing press.

Vince Perez. Courtesy of artist.

Benjamin Nelson has been a graphic designer, printmaker and active member of the Kingston arts community for over 20 years. A keen interest in the history of architecture and design, post-modernism and 20th century pop-culture often influence his visually striking work. Using illustration, collage, analogue and digital techniques he creates original artwork for musicians, record labels, festivals, art organisations, and galleries. Nelson has also been fortunate enough to perform live music across the world with such notable local bands as PS I Love You and Deux Trois.