Verge Center for the Arts

Polyester plate or “pronto plate” lithography is an immediate and often playful printing process that offers an option for artists to incorporate visual elements as disparate as photography, digital designs and hand drawn illustrations. This more immediate form will introduce you to the process and allow for immediate exploration and printing opportunities using a lithograph related format while dispensing with some of the more physical challenges of using lithography stones. It is a great way to experience the magic and opportunities of the litho process. The class will manually process the polyester plates from an additive drawing and painting process through the finished now color printing printing on paper.

WHEN: June 1, 2025, 10- 3 PM

WHERE: Myrtle Press inside Verge Center for the Arts

About the Instructor 

Howard Levine has been an active printmaker for the past sixty years. Howard taught printmaking and drawing for Sierra College for almost twenty-five years. At Carriage House Press, Grass Valley he had students engaged in all processes: intaglio, relief, litho and monotype for over 45 years. Howard has a M.A. from San Francisco State with an emphasis on printmaking, mainly lithography. He also is a painter, drawer and for-site artist. After dismantling his long time studio and gallery in Grass Valley, CA. he and his wife moved to Sacramento and joined Myrtle Press.