Description: Join us for an evening of block printing and leave with a tote bag or small pouch printed with your own design!

You’ll learn the basics of block printing, starting how to transfer your design to a linocut block. We’ll then learn how to use carving tools to carve your unique design into a block for hand-printing.

We’ll have small pouches, perfect for make up or pencils, and totes available for printing. You may also bring your own article of clothing if you’d prefer (100% cotton, please!).

Feel free to bring your favorite beverage to enjoy while crafting. We have glasses available, no need to bring disposables.

When: Wednesday, 9/2 6pm-9pm

Skills taught: You will learn how to design and carve a printing block, how to ink a block and print onto a cotton fabric medium, and how to set the print.

Skills needed: This is a great workshop for beginners! All you need is hand eye coordination and basic drawing abilities.

Supplies used: All supplies will be provided by CraftNation and will include 100% cotton fabric, carving tools and medium, and printmaking ink.

What you’ll leave with: Each student will leave with either a small pouch or tote printed with your own design!

Meet your teacher: Gabriel is a block print artist. They are inspired by resistance movements, mental health struggles, folklore, and flora and fauna. Check out their work at wildcraftprintshop.

All workshops at CraftNation are offered at a sliding scale. For guidance on which price you should pay, please see our Sliding Scalepage.

Description: Have you ever looked at a vintage toy or your grandmother’s  old tea pot and thought,”that would make a good lamp”? Well, now’s your chance! Join artists Emilie Yonker and Kieran Betz for a fun evening of creating a one of a kind lamp from thrifted, unwanted, and secondhand materials.

Feel free to bring your favorite beverage to enjoy while crafting. We have glasses available, no need to bring disposables.

When: Saturday, 9/5 12-3PM

Skills taught: You will earn basic wiring skills and how to use a drill and various bits.

Skills needed: None! Just a desire to learn and a sense of creative adventure.

Supplies used: Emilie and Kieran will have all of the wiring components and tools necessary to complete a project. They will also have a broad assortment of items to choose from to make your lamp. However, if you have a special item that you’d like to turn into a lamp, feel free to bring it!

What you’ll leave with: Each student will leave with a finished lamp, light bulb included. 

Meet your teachers: Emilie Yonker (born 2003, Hastings, Michigan) is an artist living and working in Wilmington, DE. She is a graduate of the College for Creative Studies where she received a BFA in Fiber and Textiles. Her work is inspired by secondhand materials, and she uses both traditional and experimental techniques to create her work. She is drawn to domestic ephemera, such as doll parts, vintage toys, and doilies. Her work has been featured in Detroit Artist Market’s Annual Scholarship Awards and Exhibition. She is currently employed at the resource exchange where she sorts gently used art supplies as well as offers workshops. Visit Emilie’s website or Instagram to learn more.

Kieran Betz (born 2002, Woodbury, Vermont) currently lives in Wilmington, DE. He graduated from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI with a BFA in Crafts, emphasizing in Glass and is now pursuing a degree in Scientific Glass Blowing from Salem Community College in Carneys Point, NJ. Kieran’s process centers on found and scrap material, blending natural forms with manufactured shapes. Whether working with glass, metals, woods, ceramics, fibers or minerals, Kieran is most comfortable with a tool in his hand and a fresh project on his mind. Visit Kieran’s Instagram to see more. 

All workshops at CraftNation are offered at a sliding scale. For guidance on which price you should pay, please see our Sliding Scale page.