Afterschool Art classes Fall 2025 – Printmaking
Ages 13-18
During this six-week survey of various printmaking media, students will be exposed to four distinct forms of printmaking. From the comfort of a creative and supportive space students will have the opportunity to explore self-expression by creating their own original pieces of art. At the end of the six week period students will finish multiple pieces and will have the skills to continue their journey as printmakers at home.
Beyond the technique of print making, each session starts with a creative warm up that offers the dual function of promoting prosocial bonding and gets students’ creative energies flowing!
Details:
Dates: 6-week course. Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 pm, October 21 – November 25, 2025,
Location: Off Center at Riverside Arts Center
See the Hours and Locations Page for more information about location and parking.
Age Range: 13-18 year-olds
Cost: $10 a student*
*Because of the Kiwanis Foundation’s investment in young artists, this six-week after-school art class that would regularly cost $135 is now available to all students for only $10!
Semester Breakdown
Week 1 – Eraser Stamps
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Schedule:
- Introductions & Warm up (10 minutes)
- Instructions (10 minutes)
- Project introduction/show examples
- Carving tool safety
- Printing using an ink pad
- Activity (30 minutes)
- Carving
- Printing
- Clean up (5 minutes)
- Close out (5 minutes)
Week 2 – Block Printing Part 1 (Carving)
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Schedule:
- Warm up (10 minutes)
- Instructions (10 minutes)
- Recap carving tool safety
- Show examples
- Activity (30 minutes)
- Draw subject on rubber blocks
- Begin carving
- Store blocks for next class
- Clean up (5 minutes)
- Close out (5 minutes)
Week 3 – Block Printing Part 2 (Printing)
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Schedule:
- Warm up (5 minutes)
- Instructions (10 minutes)
- Printing demo
- Activity (30 minutes)
- Finish carving if needed
- Print using ink & brayer
- Clean up (10 minutes)
- Close out (5 minutes
- Share work
Week 4 – Stencil Printing
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 NOTE: This week’s activity requires being outdoors and so it is contingent on the weather. In the case of inclement weather, this week’s activity will be swapped with a future week’s activity.
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Schedule:
- Warm up (5 minutes)
- Instructions (5 minutes)
- Introduce concept of stencils
- Show examples
- Reminder of the law
- Activity (35 minutes)
- Stencil creation
- Spray paint demo
- Spray painting
- Clean up (10 minutes)
- Close out (5 minutes)
Week 5 – Screen Printing Part 1 (Stencil creation)
- Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- Time: 5:30-6:30pm
- Schedule:
- Warm up (5 minutes)
- Instructions (10 minutes)
- Stencil creation recap
- Screen printing process explanation
- Project introduction
- Activity (30 minutes)
- Stencil creation
- Cutting out stencils
- Store stencils for next class
- Clean up (10 minutes)
- Close out (5 minutes)
Week 6 – Screen Printing Part 2 (Printing)
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Schedule:
- Warm up (5 minutes)
- Instructions (5 minutes)
- Screen printing process recap
- Project introduction
- Activity (35 minutes)
- Print demo
- Finish cutting stencils if needed
- Setup silk screens
- Print on paper
- Print on fabric
- Clean up (10 minutes)
- Close out (5 minutes)
Meet your Instructor – Dylan Kite!
Dylan Kite is a self-taught artist whose work flows effortlessly across mediums—from illustration and collage to cyanotype—but it’s relief printing that captures his aesthetic. His creative curiosity doesn’t stop at the studio door. For over a decade, Dylan has taught art and technology to hundreds of learners across Washtenaw County, bringing the same spirit of exploration to his classrooms.
He believes everyone carries a creative spark—often buried, never lost—and his teaching invites people to reconnect with that spark by making something from nothing. Whether he’s inking linoleum, guiding a workshop, dancing until last call, or coaxing new leaves from his ever-growing jungle of houseplants, Dylan brings intention, play, and presence to everything he does.