Print Play: "note to self" A Screenprinting Workshop

Join Nicole Banton on Mar 14 to create some screenprints that plays with "note to self" as a source of art and reflection.

Print Play: "note to self" a screenprinting workshop
Saturday, March 14, 2026
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Nicole Banton
Class Capacity: 8 participants

Materials included | No prior experience needed | All skill levels welcome

In this hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to a variety of mark-making techniques and materials to create transparency films that will be exposed onto a silkscreen. Participants will learn how to print from the screen and combine layers of text and scribbles to produce a series of postcard-sized prints.

About the Instructor: Nicole Banton is a visual artist and printmaker. She received a BFAH in Visual Art from Queen’s University and an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Regina. She recently presented a solo exhibition at the Fifth Parallel Gallery in 2024, and her work has been included in various group exhibitions, including Print Pulse 30: NUPE Exhibition at Union Gallery and Echoes from This Land at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Banton predominantly creates text-based silkscreen prints and installations that incorporate layers of handwriting, fonts, found text, autographic strikethroughs, and mark-making.

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Banner images:

1) Post-it screenprints by Nicole Banton, currently on view in the Open Studio Proofs & Process vitrines located in the hallway outside the studio door.

2) Range of mark-making tools that will be used during the workshop.

3) View of the screenprinting area at Open Studio.

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Refund Policy: Refunds are available up to 4 days before the event start date. Eventbrite service fees are non-refundable.