Intaglio 1, 2, 3 ~ DO, RE, MI with Denise Karabinus

$250.00

Mondays October 20th, 27th, November 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th

2 pm - 5 pm (with optional open studio till 9 pm)

Intaglio is BACK! Letʻs get INKY.

Get your creative ideas flowing by working on 3 jewel like copper plates —of the same size. Create a playful series of images that work together to tell a story. You can rearrange them and trade images with classmates to tell a different story.

Example : Bird, Nest, Egg or Leaf, Tree, Water

This class is perfect for anyone. Even if you are totally new to printmaking!

AND this will inspire fresh ideas for experienced printmakers.

This course will focus on the wonderful world of line quality and mark making using the safest intaglio materials and techniques available today. Baldwin Ink Grounds offer traditional results with less toxicity. BIG hard ground offers fantastic benefits over traditional grounds and does not require any toxic materials for clean up. Traditional representational image development as well as abstract experimentation are encouraged in this course. Copper metal plates with traditional plate preparation and ink wiping techniques will be taught. If you have always wanted to try printmaking or have been away from it a while and want to get oriented to using the new HP studio this is a perfect place to start.

Class supplies available for purchase in the HP studio approximate cost is $25 depending on preferred plate size. Copper plates, printmaking papers, and etching tools are available. You have the option to use your own or buy materials from HP. Supply list will be provided on enrollment.

$225 Members price $250 Non Members

Course includes unlimited studio use during our Open Studio hours for the duration of the course.

HP Members must ask for and apply the discount code before checkout. Sorry - discounts cannot be given after checkout.

Risography & Photography : On Site Experimentation

$200.00

Saturday October 11 : 10am - 3pm

Sunday October 12th : 10am - 3pm

Combining the best of both worlds Photography and Risography! This IS the workshop you have been craving. In this exciting two session workshop participants will bring a camera of their choice and are encouraged to photograph and print from source material in their immediate environment. Time will be spent in the workshop sourcing imagery and learning how to setup an image as a 4-color print. Participants are encouraged to make a series of prints or publish their photographs as a book project or animation.

Programs that will be used / instructed in the class

• Adobe Photoshop

• Spectrolite

• Procreate

Course outline:
Day One:
• Presentation on examples of riso printed photographic work, and basic operations of risograph printer.
• Participants will then break to source images tied to a theme to turn into photographic works.
• 1:1 time with each participant for file setup and time on the risograph.

Day Two:
Students can source more imagery and create a project based off a project of their choosing. Using imagery previously sourced is also allowed but we encourage the idea of connecting the project to the new studio space.

Supplies: All Riso supplies (masters, paper, inks) will be provided from our current stock. Participants that require a particular color and paper weight should plan to provide their own paper as our current stock is limited to a few colors. Participants should bring a camera of their choice and a laptop computer if they have one. Several computers will be available for use on site as well.

Class size is limited to ensure individual attention.

Bio & Teaching Experience:

Devyn Park & Sarah Week are two visual artists living and practicing art in their hometown, Kailua-Kona Hawai’i. Devyn and Sarah own and operate their own Risograph and Screen Printing studio, Pencil Urchin Press. Devyn obtained her BFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, and her MFA in Print Media at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019. Sarah obtained her BFA in Animation at the Academy of Art University in 2014.

Devyn has assisted with teaching classes at the Donkey Mill Art Center with their Youth Art Program, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Pacific Northwest college design in their 2D Design Foundations. Sarah has taught community art classes with Arts for Hearts, and currently teaches art at Full Life Hawai’i.  Both Devyn and Sarah have offered popular Risograph workshops at Honolulu Printmakers.

New Studio Information

888 Mililani Street, Suite 701 Kendall Building - enter through the glass doors and take the elevator up to the 7th floor. If the door is locked— call the number posted on the door for entry.

Located right on Queen Street in downtown near the main Post Office. Metered parking is available at the post office, on Mililani Street and along Punchbowl Street. Garage parking is also available within a 5 minute walk to the studio. Topa Building at 700 Bishop St and Aliʻi Place at 1099 Alakea St. are good options. Give yourself some additional time to park.

-$25 Discount for Members. Discount Code will be sent out in advance to add to your cart on check out. If you did not receive the Discount code in an email or text 210-315-2244 ask for it before checking out. Sorry - no discounts can be applied after checkout.

$50 Fee will be taken for any workshop cancellations to cover our administrative costs. No cancellations accepted 7 days before a workshop.

Register on our class page.

Call for Art: Insect Art Show

The Insect Art Show will be held at Honolulu Printmakers’ new 888 Mililani Street location with an opening reception on the evening of October 24, 2025. There is no fee for submitting your art.

The deadline by which we can guarantee consideration of your artwork is October 8. We will provide a response to all submissions received by this date by October 13. Framed artwork can be dropped off during the week of October 24.

Please note: The UH Insect Museum is encouraging the appreciation of insects and the role they play in art. The UHIM has no commercial role, interest, or involvement in this event.

More information can be found on the submission form, located here.

Mokuhanga Traditions and Innovation with April Vollmer

On Friday, September 12th from 6:00 to 7:30pm we will welcome April to lead our first artist presentation at our new studio space in the Kendall Building at 888 Mililani Street (at the corner of Queen and Mililani). She will talk about Mokuhanga, a traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing. April is an amazing American artist and printmaker from New York. She is the author of the 2015 publication “Japanese Woodblock Printing Workshop”.  Don’t miss this presentation. You can also see some of her work on exhibit at HoMA in the “Enduring Impressions: Contemporary Woodblock Prints” exhibit. Her knowledge and experience makes her a printmaking national treasure. We look forward to welcoming her.

A Letter from Our Director, Denise Karabinus

​​​​When I lost my newborn son in January 2013, Honolulu Printmakers became my creative refuge. The compassion, generosity, and space to create were vital for my healing. I had a story to tell, and the cathartic repetition of printmaking processes — mixing ink, tearing paper, rolling brayers, and making thousands of prints — provided the time and space to quietly unfold myself to the world again.

My commitment to Honolulu Printmakers is deeply personal. I took the stewardship of this organization seriously, especially during our most vulnerable moments. We are now in a very different reality than when I took over during COVID.

Our studio is bustling and filled with amazing creative energy. Taking this significant step into property ownership will secure our precious organization and launch our community into the future. We are doubling our size, moving into a safe, light-filled home where our artists and the many lives we touch can truly thrive. Let's take this leap together!

Deep appreciation to everyone involved in this project! 

Through sheer grit and determination we are starting the next chapter in our next 100 year story. With over 500 volunteer hours contributed already, office cubicles have been gutted, carpeting removed, plumbing updated, gorgeous crystal-clear tint applied on windows to show off our awesome view and new floors are installed! 

Three major $50,000 gifts from longtime supporters are on offer to kick start this project. Mahalo to Paul Weisman, Marcia Morse and another anonymous family for helping us get to LIFT OFF!

Our vision to develop the state of the art printmaking studio of our dreams is beginning to take shape. We want YOU to be a part of this story. 

Additional volunteer work days have been announced via email and are added to our website. We need a lot of help and we want everyone to be involved. It is exhilarating to be a part of this. Do not miss out!

We need helpers to paint, do light carpentry work with José in the evenings, and pack/unpack and organize the studio areas once we move into the new space. Please use this linked schedule to sign up or contact Denise at 210-315-2244 to let us know when you can come in to help out.

And please join us this Friday, August 22nd from 5-7pm at our 1142 Bethel Street location for one last toast to our space before we say goodbye.

Be Part of the Next Chapter of Honolulu Printmakers

We’re building the premier printmaking center for the next generation right in the heart of downtown Honolulu. Three incredibly generous donors have each pledged $50,000, and they’re challenging our community to match their $150,000 gift by October 2025.

Every donation, big or small, brings us closer to unlocking this match and opening the doors to our new creative home. As a thank you, your name will be proudly featured on our Founding Donors Wall, a permanent tribute to the people who made it possible.

Join the Brayer Bunch. Shape the future of printmaking in Hawai‘i. Let’s meet this challenge together!

Our strategic actions:

• Renovate our recently purchased property!

• Purchase a few key pieces of the most advanced printmaking equipment available today. 

• Offer world class printmaking workshops to our members and the community!

Click here to donate via our Zeffy campaign.

SPECIAL PROGRAM Intaglio Line Work with Visiting Artist Koichi Yamamoto

Instructor: Koichi Yamamoto

$450.00

June 22nd - 28th 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Course includes open studio the entire week.

In this course, we will be investigating fundamental visual elements, especially with copper Intaglio printmaking lines from drypoint, engraving and etchings. Understanding various quality of lines are essential part of building drawing and compositions. We will be making various types of lines such as fast dynamic and expressive gesture trace mark to slow meditative precision engraving lines and dots on copper plate to create contrast in in intaglio image makings. All participants are welcome to bring their own works as well as start a new work on copper plates. We will be experiment with drypoint lines and later translate that to burin copper engraving and etchings. We will cover some historical background as well as technical demos including Chine- Collé and à la poupée.

Supplies List for Participants: Order your supplies for delivery before course begins.

• Drypoint: Copper plate 9”x 12”

• Printing paper Fabriano Unica 250gsm, 22x30” x 10 sheets each student

• Etching needle

• Engraving: Burin, #8

• Leather work gloves, Home Depot or Amazon

• Sharpie markers black and red

Supplies provided by the HP studio:

Baldwin Ink Grounds, Lexan plate 9”x 6”, newsprint, brayers, cleaning supplies, Frosted mylar 24x36x.005”, Tracing paper and many shared supplies and tools. Teaching Assistant knowledgeable with BIG grounds will be available for consult.

Skill Level: Open to All

$50 Discount for Members. Discount Code will be sent out in advance to add to your cart on check out. If you did not receive the Discount code in an email or text 210-315-2244 ask for it before checking out. Sorry - no discounts can be applied after checkout.

$50 Fee will be taken for any workshop cancellations to cover our administrative costs. No cancellations accepted 7 days before a workshop.

Instructor Bio:

Koichi Yamamoto is an artist who merges the traditional and contemporary by creating unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking.

Koichi has worked with meticulous copper engravings to large-scale monotypes and kites. He studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon then relocated to Krakow, Poland and Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia for learning copper engravings. He completed MFA at University of Alberta, Canada. He has taught at Utah State University and University of Delaware and currently a professor at University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

To sign up, please go directly to the class page, add to cart and check out.

Risography Digital Tools with Pencil Urchin Press

Risography Digital Tools with Pencil Urchin Press

Instructor: Pencil Urchin Press

Saturday, May 17th 10 am - 4 pm

Sunday May 18th 10 am - 4 pm

During this two session workshop, participants will come in with pre-planned images/projects to Riso print. Having taken Intro to Risography, or other prior Riso experience is recommended. Workshop participants will also be encouraged to bring their own laptop or tablet for demos and making content for the workshop. 

Appropriate projects for this course would be complex print projects (3+ colors, multiple prints, etc), or small publications (art book, comics, zines, etc). Extra attention given to preparing print files in the following softwares:

● Adobe Photoshop

● Adobe Illustrator

● Spectrolite

● Procreate

A working knowledge of any of the above programs is preferred. Through the use of digital tools participants will be able to quickly output images with a higher range of control then working with physical media. Course outline:

• Presentation on examples of digital tools being utilized in Riso, overview of methods/softwares

• Tutorials in the above software, with focus in:

- Setting up CMYK (or simulated process) images, both with an without halftones

- Setting up illustrations/designs as prints through photoshop channels / color range selection tool.

- Setting up files for a riso animation

- Double-sided printing & setting up trim marks

• Individual press time for each participant

• Time to finish and assemble individual and group project

This workshop included all basic Riso supply fees. If participants desire specific colors and sizes of paper they should plan to bring them to the workshop. White paper and a few colors will be offered for in workshop use.

Bio & Teaching Experience: 

Devyn Park & Sarah Week are two visual artists living and practicing art in their hometown, Kailua-Kona Hawai’i. Devyn and Sarah own and operate their own Risograph and Screen Printing studio, Pencil Urchin Press. Devyn obtained her BFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, and her MFA in Print Media at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019. Sarah obtained her BFA in Animation at the Academy of Art University in 2014.

-$50 Discount for Members. Discount Code will be sent out in advance to add to your cart on check out. If you did not receive the Discount code in an email or text 210-315-2244 ask for it before checking out. Sorry - no discounts can be applied after checkout.

$50 Fee will be taken for any workshop cancellations to cover our administrative costs. No cancellations accepted 7 days before a workshop.

To sign up, go to our class page, add to cart and check out.

Kamehameha Schools Printmakers

This is the second year for the Kamehameha Printmakers exhibition at Printmakers. The artworks will be on exhibit from January 3 – 26th. The exhibition highlights a selection of outstanding examples of student creativity and innovation! The relief and screen-prints on view emphasize the young printmaker's Hawaiian identity. Their art is inspired by ‘Ike Kupuna, ‘Ōlelo No’eau, Hawaiian History, family legends and personal insights.

Students were asked to talk story with their Kupuna and create a story about an interaction a family member had with an `aumakua. Students then made a visual representation of this story through printmaking.

Open Jan 3rd through Jan 26th during studio hours (Tues – Sat 9 – 5) at 1142 Bethel St, Honolulu

Printer Lei on Display This Weekend

The Honolulu Printmakers “Printer Lei” project is in full swing. Please join us this weekend during the DAC Holiday Extravaganza at our Bethel Street location for a hands-on workshop of paper lei-making. Use our precut circles, flowers, and various shapes crafted out of Riso by-product papers to create lei with some of our volunteers.

Come view some of the prototypes of “Printer Lei” print works in our ongoing exhibition and enjoy the music of James McCarthy.

Honolulu Printmakers will be open on Friday and Saturday, December 13 – 14th from 5:30 – 8:30pm. Learn more about the DAC Holiday Extravaganza and all of the events here.