Learn how to transform your art into a collection of physical prints and enhance your creative potential.

  • Develop your confidence in a print studio.
  • Build your portfolio for professional commissions.
  • Create a collection of physical prints for home, open calls, print fairs and markets.

Learn the fundamentals of screen-printing in this ten-week course with professional artist Kelsey Cruz-Martin. During this course, you'll discover how to create your drawings and transfer your images onto a screen to produce a series of prints that'll explore techniques including drawing, mark making, cutouts and stencils. 

You’ll experiment with opaque and translucent inks to produce a series of layered screen prints that will enhance your printing skills and confidence. 

By the end of the course, you’ll have produced a suite of paper prints of your artwork and have professional photos taken of your work. 

Beginner’s Screen-printing is designed for complete beginners, artists and small businesses who want to learn to produce artwork, whether for your own use at home, or to exhibit or sell. 

You must be aged 18+ to take part in this course.

“This screen-printing course creates exciting opportunities for local, emerging artists who want to develop their professional portfolio for future commissions and exhibiting opportunities. This short course will provide practical skills to enhance creative potential, building upon a community of printers that contribute to a supportive network of artists.”

Kelsey Cruz-Martin, Technical Demonstrator in Screen Print, Bath School of Art, Film and Media

Overview

Location

This course will take place at Locksbrook Campus.

Dates and times

This course will take place: 

  • Wednesday 5 February for ten weeks, Wednesdays 6pm-9pm 
Cost

This short course costs £379 per person. 

What to bring

All materials for this course will be provided except for paper. Paper of various sizes can be purchased at Locksbrook Campus. 

You’re advised to wear old clothes as the print workshop can be a messy place. 

Meet the team

Kelsey Cruz-Martin is a multidisciplinary artist working across writing, sound, sculpture, and print. She creates large-scale immersive installations and intimate listening environments. Kelsey has worked as a Technical Demonstrator in Screen Print at Bath School of Art, Film and Media since 2018.

Kelsey’s work is driven by experiential knowledge, her Mexican heritage, cycles, voice and the relationship between language and the body. Her work attempts to disrupt perceptions of the interior/exterior, public/private, human/non-human forms through the visceral power of repetition, ritual, and sacred objects. In 2022, she was awarded the Developing your Creative Practice fund by Arts Council England.

Kelsey recently had a solo exhibition titled A Flowing Body of Snake at SHIFT in Cardiff.

Terms and conditions

Read the terms and conditions for taking part in this short course.

Contact us

If you'd like a bespoke course created for your company, would like to attend but can't make the dates listed above or have any queries, please contact us on shortcourses@bathspa.ac.uk .