AMACO PRINTING INKS WORKSHOP

Hosted by Bitter Root Pottery and AMACO Brent

 Saturday, May 2nd

Free for Bitter Root Pottery Members (LIMITED TO 20 PEOPLE)

11am-2pm

*Experience: this workshop open all experience levels.

Join us for a hands-on workshop that promises to take your surface decoration game to the next level.

AMACO Ceramic Inks are printmaking inks designed for use on ceramics - great for screen printing, craft foam printing, and monoprinting! A thin application yields best results. For use on greenware or bisque. 

Saturated Color | Apply to unfired clay or bisque | True to color
Can be used with or without glaze - Food Safe with proper glaze
Cone 05 to 10

1. Welcome & Introductions

  • Introduction of AMACO

  • Quick overview of schedule and materials

2. Printing Overview

  • Demo then screen printing technique on newsprint

  • Glaze behavior, layering, effects, and firing notes

3. Students Print on Slabs

  • Hands on instruction and tips for printing

  • Participants print directly on slabs

4. Slip Cast Transfer on Printed Slab (patches)

  • More techniques for printing on slabs

5. Simple Slab Build

  • Build a slab piece with your printed parts

  1. Cleanup + Closing

  • Cleanup as a group

  • Quick Q&A and end-of-workshop notes

Free for Bitter Root Pottery Members (Limited to 20 people)

PLEASE NOTE: If you sign up for this workshop, we expect your attendance. Please do not sign up if you are unsure if you’ll be able to attend. If your schedule changes and you’re unable to attend, let us know as quickly as possible so that we can grant your spot to a member on the waitlist.

We will provide leather-hard slabs for student use.

Workshop Outline & What You Will Learn:

About AMACO Brent:

American Art Clay Company (AMACO) is an Indianapolis-based, family-owned company founded in 1919 that specializes in ceramic arts supplies, known for its glazes, underglazes, clays, and pottery wheels.

The company was an early innovator in safety, introducing the first lead-free glaze to the industry in 1951 and establishing safety labeling practices with ACMI. AMACO offers a wide variety of products, including its popular Velvet Underglazes, Potter's Choice glazes, and a range of high and low-fire glazes, and also produces Brent pottery wheels.