Come visit our printmaking studio and purchase a wide selection of fine art prints! Also see print being made.
Saturday, July 29th,
11am-5pm
2565 3rd St, #305
SF, CA 94107
View and purchase lithographs, etchings, letterpress prints, monoprints, and more. Also see artists in action demonstrating printmaking techniques.
Stop in and learn more about our printmaking cooperative located in Dogpatch.
Graphic Arts Workshop, Javier Chalini is showing his art at a window display in 24th Street and Treat Street.
An update on our new look! Thanks to everyone who’s reached out to offer support regarding our studio changes. We’ve launched a patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/graphicartsworkshop) to raise funds to help our cooperative workspace continue to offer affordable fine art printmaking facilities to local artists and keep the art of printmaking alive in San Francisco.
Wood, Aluminum, Copper: Exceptional prints by Toru Sugita (current GAW member), Jenny Robinson, and David Avery (past GAW member). at the Inclusions Gallery. April 1 – May 6, 2018. Artist’s talk: April 18/ 7-8:30pm.
Faculty Lecture at Diablo Valley College in April 18 and April 19.
GAW member Melanie Dorson is showing artist’s books in the Merced County Arts Council 12th Annual California Centered Printmaking Exhibition. Exhibition runs April 10th – May 22nd.
Six GAW printmakers partake in ‘City Hues’ exhibition. The show runs from 1 August through 30 August 2017 at 491 Greenwich Street, San Francisco
The six Graphic Arts Workshop artists participating in ‘CIty Hues’ are Marcia Clay, Alice Gibbons, Eddie Lee, Leslie Lowinger, Sarah Newton, and Toru Sugita. Clay a long-time resident of the city, offers impressions of her North Beach neighborhood and its waterfront; Gibbons, a native San Franciscan, her architectural renderings of charmed vistas and Telegraph Hill. Lee with his relief process captures the ebullient spirit of San Francisco, its moods and colors; while Lowinger contributes smoldering high-rise visions of the city by night. Newton explores scintillating underground with her Bart series and midnight hours with liquor shops while Sugita brings the Bay Bridge in eerie states of deconstruction along with a groundbreaking new suite of collages.
August at GAW – Love is Still Here exhibition of 12 GAW printmakers continues, gallery hours Fridays and Saturdays from 1:00 – 5:30
This eclectic selection from our 12 graphic artists commemorates the Summer of Love and reminds us too that Love is Still Here!
Recent Work by Eddie Lee, March 3 to 31, 2017
We had a great time with show and thanks for all that attended the opening and participated in the print demo. We got some great pieces out of the demos. If you find the demo process interesting and will like to have more, please leave us your comments.
OPEN STUDIOS 2016 (Oct. 22-23) featured eight GAW printmakers: Jean Capron, Marcia Clay, Melanie Dorson, Mariko Jesse, Eddie Lee, Clare Metague, Andrey Semyonov and Barbara Stikker.
The event was a big success! Bustling with visitors from start to end, the workshop never looked livelier. With wine, food, music, and above all ART in plenty, viewers delighted in the confluence of talent and pleasure. From Barbara Stikker’s wild-eyed images of owls to Melanie Dorson’s dreamy little girls in dreamland (that those wild-eyed owls seemed to stare at from across the studio) wonderful images abounded. Every wall dazzled the eyes, with Mariko Jesse’s world of delicately etched teatimes, Eddie Lee’s meditative suite of colorful shapes like an expression of consciousness itself, Andrey Semyonov’s poetic renderings of places you cannot place but feel, Clare Metague’s linocuts so redolent of tropical joy that they seem to breathe, Jean Capron’s exquisite and sometimes impossibly tiny depictions of graceful goddess-like women, and Marcia Clay’s lively San Francisco full of city dwellers–the 2016 Open Studios collection truly showed off what we do here at the Graphic Arts Workshop.
And lots of sales, of course, kept us smiling!
On November 14. 20-15, Susan Rockrise, former creative director of Intel Corporation, delighted gallery guests and GAW members with a sparkling, anecdote-rich presentation.
Ms. Rockrise, a gifted storyteller, regaled the audience with a spellbinding account of her long-term friendships with Pele de Lappe, Emmy Lou Packard, and other artists in her collection.
De Lappe and Packard, founding members of Graphic Arts Workshop, shared a passion for fine art and political activism. We are grateful to Susan Rockrise for so vividly reviving their memory and inspiring today’s active members of GAW to carry on with the high standard of printmaking that these founding artists established at the workshop’s inception back in 1952.
Sunday Music by Pele de Lappe
View of Mendocino by Emmy Lou Packard
Javier Chalini, Melanie Dorson, and Peter Doolin at their beautiful magic etchings show.
Our last show: Too Strange to Believe had a great run. Thanks for those who attended the reception.
