Saltgrass Printmakers

Don’t miss the Utah Arts Festival’s all-new Studio Tour!

The first annual Utah Arts Festival Studio Tour is a free, self-guided art stroll open to the public that will feature 131 local artists working in various mediums throughout Utah. Artists are inviting the public into their studios or workspaces where they can connect, showcase and sell their work.

The new mobile UAF Studio Tour Pass can be downloaded to your phone for free and offers a searchable database of participating studios and artist profiles with an interactive map. Patrons can use their mobile devices to identify studios or hubs and plan their adventures to win prizes. Artist profiles are also available on the Utah Arts Festival website (uaf.org/studio-tour). Various studios and group sites will also hold opening night celebrations on Friday (6p-9p).

Get some one-of-a-kind art and support our local artists!

Dates:  October 21-23, 2022

Hours: 

• Friday “Opening Night” celebrations, 6p-9p
• Saturday & Sunday, 10a to 6p​​​​​​

Cost:  Free to the public 

Instructor: Inez Garcia

Saturday, October 29, Demonstration 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Here we combine two unlikely mediums to show you how to screen print on top of glass with enamels. Some simple modifications to the printing process allow us to dip our toes into the medium of glass. I’ll go over basics for firing and the material qualities of glass. This opens all sorts of possibilities for printmakers to create layered depth and take advantage of glass’ transparent and sometimes atmospheric qualities. 

Together with Stefanie Dykes at Saltgrass Printmakers, we will demonstrate the screen-printing process, talk about materials, and answer questions about fusing the enamels.

Demonstration fee: $25.00 (suggested donation)

Email Stefanie Dykes to RSVP (not required but it would be nice to know how many were coming)

Inez Garcia earned a B.F.A. degree from Alfred University SOAD with a concentration in glass. She teamed up with Stefanie Dykes from Saltgrass Printmaking to transfer her knowledge of glass to printmaking. 

Editor of 15 Bytes, Shawn Rossiter has written an article about Utah artists who screen print. “As a follow up to our article on the history of the serigraph in Utah, we take a look at three Utah artists working with screen prints.“

The article features two of Saltgrass Printmaker artists Anna Bugbee and Stefanie Dykes.

Check it out and the rest of 15 Bytes, Utah Arts Magazine since 2001.

Screen It: Justin Diggle, Stefanie Dykes, Anna Bugbee

THIS CLASS HAS FILLED FOR APRIL, 2022.

Organization: South Salt Lake City Arts Council
Teaching Artist: Stefanie Dykes, Saltgrass Printmakers

Workshop Location: Saltgrass Printmakers, 412 South 700 West, #110, Salt Lake City, Utah 84104  

Class Description: Natural History meets Personal History – a six week course exploring collagraph printmaking

Collagraph prints can be created from materials found in your kitchen junk drawer, hardware store or during a walk in your neighborhood. Students in this course will use various techniques to build up textured surfaces with common materials. We will be exploring form, texture and composition as well as developing a conceptual approach to our prints. Stefanie Dykes will introduce the idea of ‘Lifecores’ as a self-reflective process that will help us diagram our lived experience or personal landscapes. We will translate our collected ‘data’ to create the collagraph prints. This approach is a kind of quasi-scientific method to creating an image. This process is inventive and inspiring! The workshop is geared for beginning students, but experienced artists can join us as well. 

Workshop is limited to eight participants.

Dates and Location: This six-week course will meet Saturdays at Saltgrass Printmakers, 412 South 700 West, #110, Salt Lake City Utah, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. 

Registration: Email Stefanie Dykes @stefanie.dykes822@gmail.com to register for this FREE class. 

Artist Reception: Saturday, June 11, 2022 at Columbus Community Opportunity Center, 2531 S. 500 East, South Salt Lake City, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Thank you to our generous sponsors: Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Aroha Philanthropies, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies & South Salt Lake City

Tuesdays, March 15 & 22, 2022 – 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 26, 2022 will be a work day at the press.

Individuals will sign up for a 2hr work session. 

First session starting at 11:00 a.m. Last session finishing up by 5:00 pm.

Workshop fee: $175.00 includes all your materials. Saltgrass Members 20% off workshop fee.

Combine your love of plants and printmaking! Students will learn basic sketching and observation techniques for drawing live plants. They will then turn their drawings into colorful silkscreen prints; learning the full process for how to make a screen, and techniques for how to successfully make a blended gradient background.

How to Register: Contact Stefanie Dykes @ stefanie.dykes822@gmail.com

1. Stefanie will send you a Square invoice for a $25.00 non-refundable deposit. The deposit is used to purchase your workshop materials. Workshop balance will be due the first day of class. 

• Stefanie will also ask to see your Covid-19 vaccination card. Saltgrass Printmakers follows CDC health & safety guidelines and recommendations. Since instructors and participants will be moving around in the shop, plan on wearing a mask during the workshop.   

THE MAGIC OF THE THREE-STICK KITE

WITH MASTER KITE BUILDERS: ALI FUJINO, JOSE SAINZ AND SCOTT SKINNER

Dates: June 4 & 5, 2022

We are offering a two-day workshop with world renown kite builders, Jose Sainz and Scott Skinner, who will help us explore the artistic and aerodynamic variations of three-stick kite construction. We will learn which are the best papers to use with these handmade kites. Ali Fujino, Seattle water-based style print artist, will lead a class and show us how to create non-traditional papers for kites.

On Saturday, June 4th Ali Fujino, Seattle water-based style print artist, will lead a class on how to create non-traditional papers for kites.

Sunday, June 5th – Kite Construction and Building 

On Sunday, June 5^th join Scott Skinner and Jose Sainz as they teach us how to create their “three-stick magic” paper and bamboo kites. Scott and Jose will share their distinct styles when building the ‘three stick’ kites. Scott starts with the American traditional Barn Door kite and finds many variations using three straight sticks. Jose starts with a much more organic shape made simply with two curved sticks and one straight one. The possibilities for original kite design become endless!

Each participant will receive a gift from Scott’s collection of handmade/printed papers.  

For the two-day workshop with Ali, Jose & Scott – $150.00. One adult with one child 12 years and older can participate for one workshop fee. 

How to Register: Contact Stefanie Dykes @ stefanie.dykes822@gmail.com

1. Stefanie will send you a Square invoice for a $30 non-refundable deposit. The deposit is used to purchase your workshop materials. Workshop balance will be due the first day of class. 
2. Stefanie will also ask to see your Covid-19 vaccination card. Saltgrass Printmakers follows CDC health & safety guidelines and recommendations. Since instructors and participants will be moving around in the shop, plan on wearing a mask during the workshop.   

THE INSTRUCTORS

SCOTT SKINNER is the former director of the Drachen Foundation, and a longtime philanthropist, kite collector, writer, and kite artist. 

JOSE SAINZ, since 1989 has been making and flying kites with an emphasis on bold graphic Aztec god motifs and for which he has won numerous international awards.

ALI FUJINO, is former executive director of the Drachen Foundation and non-traditional water-based printmaker of different media.  Printmaking is a part-time pursuit.