Upcoming Workshops

Jami Taback has a unique way of understanding the artists intentions while helping the student to arrive at the best solution to their idea-resulting in lively vibrant works of art on paper!

Teaching workshops from NY to California

Do you have studio space to sponsor a workshop with the artist?

Collagraph Workshop

Collagraphs are textured plates that can be inked up and printed with beautiful results. These plates can have as much imagery and line as you want or more subtle. Process transitions to fabric if you are a fiber artist or designer, and they are beautiful as backgrounds for book artists preparing signature pages for a project.

The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing.

Expect to take home several prints at end of day.

This is a chemical free workshop-we will be using water soluble inks. Soap and water cleanup!

Most materials are supplied except for printing paper. Asian Papers and of course papers like Arches, BFK Rives, Fabriano work after dampening. There will be paper available for purchase if you need. You may cut/tear your paper as needed here at the shop. We will work on an 8 x 10 inch substrate/matrix.

The table press bed I bring to the class is 12 x 15 inches.

Chine Colle is a printmaking technique in which the image is transferred onto a surface that is bonded onto a heavier support in the printing process. One purpose is to allow the printmaker to print on a much more delicate surface, such as Japanese paper or linen that pulls finer details off the plate.

Chine-collé roughly translates from French chine = China, and collé, meaning glued or pasted. The word chine is used because the thin paper traditionally used in the process was imported to Europe from China, India and/or Japan.

We will be using Asian papers and attaching them to a stiffer paper behind. For this workshop I am recommending bringing Mulberry or Awagami papers like Kitakata. I also recommend you bring printmaking paper with you, Arches, Fabriano, paper with a high gsm.

Some materials such as ink and paste will be supplied.

*I will have some paper available for purchase at the workshop.

Expect to take home several prints at end of day.

This is a chemical free workshop-we will be using water soluble inks. Soap and water cleanup!

Remember to bring lunch with you!

Join Jami Taback in this exciting exploration of Solarplate, a safer alternative high-quality printmaking process that uses sunlight and water instead of toxic chemicals.

This adventure leads you to uncharted territories of your artist’s soul and takes you to a free place of drawing and dreaming to release you from past boundaries.

Tapping into the mysteries of your creative potential on a 4 x 5 inch or 8 x 10 inch surface, you have the opportunity to print several prints in brilliant colorful expressions. Plates work for letterpress as well as Intaglio Printmaking and are extremely durable and versatile. No printmaking experience is necessary. 

Non-toxic inks wash with soap and water!

*Photographers are attracted to these workshops to have photogravure plates to print up-

*Fiber Artists. Wearable Art Artists enjoy printing on fabrics, Stunning results.

Solarplate/Polymer Platemaking Workshops are taught at my studio in Santa Rosa California. Please contact the artist for all future workshops jamitaback@gmail.com to arrange a time.

As President of CSP it was my duty to contact the artist about this honor. In that first phone call a friendship was forged. We discussed her work, her career and printmaking. As curious printmakers are, she was particularly interested in what I was doing in my printmaking challenges and was very excited to hear that I teach polymer platemaking, a chemical free process. She asked me to come to her in Susanville, CA to teach a workshop at the Native American Graphic Workshop. I agreed and spent 5 glorious days with them demonstrating this great process. I invited the printmaker Kelly Autumn to attend because she early on introduced me to Jeans’ work. We all had the time of our lives and certainly made friends for life. The artists continued to print and post images on FB and IG long after we left.

We were treated with so much love and respect by the artists attending the workshop. They incased us in love and laughter. Their art and their culture interweaved with imagery of baskets, ancestors in native dress, the earth and sacred spaces that flooded their work. Paiute Tribe, Pomo and Madesi Band and Pit River Nation, were present sharing stories and songs.

At the end of our visit Brandi Mc Daniels, a Madesi Band National Council Member sang a beautiful song to me in her native language that reached into the deepest part of my being. A gift I will never forget. It was a rendition of the Beatles song Blackbird, about slavery and civil rights from the 1960’s. It was emotional and far reaching all these decades later.

Thank you to all who helped to see this event through: Jean LaMarr and the Native American Graphic Workshop, Beverly Ortiz; Chair, NaCRI, Native California Research Institute, Melissa Moose; Reno Art Center for your generous support. These programs are made possible through the support with grants from the Puffin Foundation, Foundation for the Contemporary Arts and California for the Arts Grant along with the Nevada Museum of Art & the Environment.