About the Workshop
Join us for one of our more advanced risograph workshops! Learn some time-honored sign painting and hand lettering techniques to use in your riso printing practice!
In this workshop, we will explore hand-lettering & techniques used by sign painters to make letters POP! We will touch on the basics of outlines, shades & shadows, decorative and beveled letters, and how we can translate these into risograph prints! We will give a nod to some of the rules of lettering and look at different examples for inspiration—but most of all we will focus on having fun and experimenting with hand drawn lettering and riso! This class culminates in us hand lettering a word or phrase to turn into a 2-color print!
At the end of the workshop, you'll walk away with your very own print edition, a collection of the prints made by fellow workshop attendees, a guide on all the lettering techniques referenced in class, and lots more tips and tricks on how to merge your lettering and riso practice!
Supplies Needed
None! We provide all materials and tools.
Prerequisites
Participants must have taken the Riso Basics Workshop at Outlet to in order to take this workshop. If you have a special circumstance or previous riso experience and would like to be considered for this advanced workshop please contact us!
Skill Level
Some risograph experience
No previous hand lettering or sign painting experience necessary!
Workshop Fee & Ticketing
Your ticket includes the workshop, compensation for the instructor(s), an edition of your own lettering prints, a collection of the other prints made in the class, a few takeaways and goodies, digital downloads, and lots of hand lettering resources.
Interested in supporting Outlet and everything we do? Please consider a supporter add-on with your ticket—there are different options and the extra funds go to our scholarship program so that we can continue to offer free and discounted workshop tickets to anyone who needs it. Our goal is to not turn anyone away for lack of funds and your support makes that possible. Add-ons also mean that we can pay our workshop instructors more! Thank you so much for your support.
Your ticket helps keep Outlet afloat. We can't thank you enough for supporting us!!
Accessibility & Mask Policies
We want our workshops to be as accessible as possible! Outlet is a ground-floor space with a single-stall ADA accessible bathroom. You can find more information about wheelchair access, parking, transit options, and more on our accessibility page. If there’s any way we can make your visit feel more comfortable or safe please let us know.
In an effort to keep our classes accessible and to keep our most vulnerable community members safe we require masks in our space for all group workshops and indoor events. We offer both masked and mask optional appointments during our open hours.
About Outlet
Outlet is a risograph print shop, community maker space, and the studio of Kate Bingaman-Burt and Leland Vaughan. We host workshops, pop-up events, and other projects and offer an array of services from printing, button making, binding, and more! We're the home of a zine library and more art supplies, making tools, and collage materials than we know what to do with. We also rent our space and offer in-person open hours where folks can print, make buttons, and hang out. Outlet is based out of Portland, Oregon and was founded in 2017.
About the Instructor
Kirsten Bauer is a multidisciplinary artist and sign-painter based in Portland, OR. With a background in Art History & English, she previously worked for several arts organizations in both educational and curatorial departments where she developed her eye for design, color, understanding of visual forms, and ability to pull from a vast inner library of aesthetic references.
Kirsten is a graduate of the Los Angeles Trade-Tech Sign Graphics program, the only formal sign-painting training program still offered in the US. Her studies prioritized letterforms, layout & design, and color. To her, sign painting is the act of beautifying our commercial landscape; a way to organize our world and permeate our everyday lives with handmade acts of artistry.
