Printmaking in YOUR K-12 Curriculum

Printmaking can be made highly accessible in the classroom by using inexpensive and recyclable materials like foam trays, cardboard, or even stencils, keeping costs low and encouraging creativity. Water soluble options for inks ensure safety and easy cleanup, making the process manageable for all age groups. Simplified techniques such as monoprinting, foam printing, and stamping eliminate the need for complex tools, allowing students to engage with printmaking right away. Instead of traditional presses, students can use hands, wooden spoons, or barens to transfer prints, keeping the process low-tech and classroom-friendly.

Small additions to the studio environment such as a handheld LED, handful of 4” brayers, or a drying rack, will open up possibilities to incorporate previously expensive and time-consuming processes which have become common thanks to advancements in technology.

Accessibility, combined with the expertise of practicing artists from SGCI, will showcase techniques that produce high-quality results while offering adaptable scaffolding strategies to suit a wide range of classroom environments, tools, space, and funding levels.

These 2-hour sessions are designed to empower teachers as artists by building confidence in a variety of print-based processes, while emphasizing flexibility so educators can easily adapt techniques and lessons to fit their unique classroom needs, resources, and teaching goals.

Sessions are moderated and led by both Dr. Michelle Livek Garner (Professor of Art Education, Winthrop University, South Carolina) and an artist specific to each session. Dr. Liv provides the vital link, connecting the practice of being an artist and materials back to the essential aspects of curriculum design, and both will be available to answer questions in real-time during the studio-based demonstrations.

Format

5 Sessions / 2 Live Virtual Hours Each / 5 Printmaking Techniques
Moderated by Dr. Michelle Livek (Dr. Liv+), featuring five different practicing print-based artists who are SGCI members. Each session is designed to fulfill 2 professional development credits, with attendance at all 5 sessions achieving 1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

Session 1: Dr.Liv + Margaret Craig / Akua Inks (monoprint/pochoir)
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 / 7-9pm (est)

Session 2: Dr.Liv + Roberta Restaino / Gel Printing Plates
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2026 / 7-9pm (est)

Session 3: Dr.Liv + Moss Nash / Relief (lino/SpeedyCarve/wood)
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 / 7-9pm (est)

Session 4: Dr.Liv + Myles Calvert / Screenprint (Frames and SpeedScreens)
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 / 7-9pm (est)

Session 5: Dr. Liv + Alanna Austin / Alternative Methods (Kitchen Sink Litho, Balloon Transfer)
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 / 7-9pm (est)

Participants are provided with one PDF per session which includes a list of all materials and tools used during the session, a list of relevant links, relevant artists, 2 practical example assignments, contact information for follow up questions or comments, and access to a recorded and downloadable version of the session after its completion.

Price

$25 per individual session
$100 for all 5 sessions (a $25 savings!) + receive a Sustaining Membership to SGCI (a $25 value!)

Already an SGCI Advocate Member or above? Join us for free!
Currently a Sustaining Member? Upgrade to Advocate or join each session for $15.
Have a Student Membership? Join each session for $10.

About Dr. Michelle Livek

Dr. Michelle Livek is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Art Education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. While attending the University of Missouri — Columbia where she completed her Ph.D., she was invited to develop a graduate course in art education assessment and policy. This invitation was the result of her investigations into assessment practices and policy enactments in arts education.

Livek’s art education teaching career consists of teaching grades K-5 and 9-12 for nine years, graduate and undergraduate art education, research and fine arts courses, community career center enrichment courses, and for various community based art leagues.

As an art education leader, she became a HeART Program Recruiter and Representative, Missouri Art Education Association division representative and mentor for pre-service teachers and teachers in their first five years, and the School for Art Leaders Cohort with the National Art Education Association.

Her current research investigates the ways Artist/Teachers make sense of educational policies that are written for tested content, and yet, they are expected to comply. She has found that Artist/Teachers utilize their aesthetic, artistic sentimentalities to become policy bricoleurs and entrepreneurs that re/dis/locate policy. The research, in method, data and analysis, is in service of practicing Artist/Teachers, to embolden them with their expertise and to make visible the intellectual agility they possess.

As a social practice art/influence, she participates in Civil Engagement art making experiences. Most recently, at the 2017 National Art Education Association convention in New York, she presented a social practice influence with the artist/teachers. The TouchStones Project, a social practice influence developed by Livek, has been implemented nationwide.

Livek has presented her research and pedagogical theories regionally and nationally and is an invited Keynote speaker for the Florida Art Education Association.

Additional Perks for Attending our Workshops

• Registration for all 5 Dr. Liv + Session includes 1 year SGCI Sustaining Membership status which includes:
  – VOTE: on Board of Directors and organizational decisions
  – ACCESS: to digital resources and programming via SGCI website (panels,
        demos, talks, etc)
  – ACCESS: to opportunities such as residencies, grants, and job postings
  – CREATE: an Online Profile, showcasing your artwork and socials
  – option to upgrade membership to attend in-person conference in 2027 and
    benefits of the Advocate Membership status which include:
  – ELIGIBLE: for awards and fellowship opportunities
  – APPLY: to themed conference portfolios and international exhibitions
  – ACCESS: to serve on SGCI committees, appointed by the Board
• Professional Development credits (varies by state)
• Speedball and Conrad Machine Co. discount codes for classroom products