Tuesdays: 5–9pm or Saturdays: 10am–4pm CT
Experience required
Bookbinding Lab provides access to basic binding tools, hot foil stamping machines, and large tables. Work on your own projects alongside other artists in a friendly and supportive environment. Fee includes some consumables (small amounts of thread and PVA); supply your own book board, cloth, paper, and other needs. Continue reading “Bookbinding Lab”
Tuesdays: 5–9pm or Saturdays: 10am–4pm CT, hourly reservations
Experience required
Cut paper and book board using MCBA’s cutting equipment! Two guillotine paper cutters cut stacks of paper and two board shears cut large sheets of paper (also called “parent” sheets). Cutting Equipment Lab offers individuals an opportunity to reserve an hour-long time slot during Studio Lab to prepare paper and board for future projects. Prior training on safe and effective use of MCBA’s guillotine paper cutter and board shears is required. If this equipment is new to you and you are interested in learning how to use it, register for Cutting Equipment Orientation instead. Continue reading “Cutting Equipment Lab”
Tuesdays: 5–9pm or Saturdays: 10am–4pm CT
Experience required
Enjoy community in the print studio! Set type, make polymer plates, and print on MCBA’s presses while social distancing. Fee covers ink and solvents; users supply your own paper. Continue reading “Letterpress Lab”
Saturdays: 10am–4pm CT
Experience required
Build your marbling skills! Marbling Lab provides individuals a fully equipped marbling station. Fee covers use of 16×20 inch tanks of carrageenan, rakes, alum, brushes, cups and eye droppers; supply your own Golden Fluid Acrylic paint and paper. Continue reading “Marbling Lab”
Tuesdays: 5–9pm
Experience required
Beat fiber with MCBA’s Reina beater and two Valley beaters. Or, bring prepared paper fiber for sheet-forming. The paper studio has a variety of western-style and eastern-style moulds and deckles for making sheets, two hydraulic presses, plenty of vats and felts with air-drying racks and restraint dryers. The valley beaters hold approximately .75 lb. (dry fiber or half stuff); the Reina holds up to 2 lbs. dry fiber (half-stuff only). Continue reading “Papermaking Lab”
Tuesdays: 5–9pm or Saturdays: 10am–4pm CT
Experience required
Prep screens, expose, and print in MCBA’s darkroom and printing studio, and enjoy the fellowship of other artists. Choose to print with exposed screens or wax paper stencils. Fee covers screen use and photo emulsion; supply your own water-based ink and paper. Continue reading “Screen Print Lab”
Tuesdays: 6:30-7:30pm CT
If you aren’t already trained to use our cutting equipment, here is your opportunity! Through hands-on training you will learn the capabilities of each piece of MCBA’s bindery cutting equipment, and how to use them correctly and safely. Completion of this training will allow you to rent this equipment and use it independently. This orientation was previously titled Cutting Equipment Training. Continue reading “Cutting Equipment Orientation”
Tuesdays: 6:30-7:30pm CT
Papermaking experience required
If you aren’t already trained to use our paper beaters, here is your opportunity! Through hands-on training you will learn the capabilities of each aspect of MCBA’s paper beaters, and how to use them correctly and safely. Completion of this training will allow you to rent this equipment and use it independently.
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