We’re excited to share a brilliant mix of creative workshops happening over the coming months!
All workshops are free, but booking is essential.
Digital Screen Printing - Stuart Lawn
📅 Thursday 5th June and Thursday 7th August | ⏰ 10am – 4pm
Location: Leitrim Sculpture Centre Print Studio
A one-day workshop on digital screen printing, where you'll discover how to transform digital designs into vibrant, hand-printed artworks in just seconds. Using the innovative MiScreen A4 system, you'll learn how to take your creations straight from the computer screen to a ready-to-print silkscreen in under 30 seconds. Whether you're an artist, designer, or curious creative, this workshop will give you hands-on experience with a fast, accessible method of screen printing that blends traditional techniques with modern technology.
No experience required and all materials and laptops will be provided.
Book your place on our digital screen printing workshop
Digital Embroidery - Amy O'Hara
📅 Friday 20th June | ⏰ 11am – 4pm
Location: The Dock Arts Centre
Amy O'Hara from Dumore Embroidery will demonstrate how to create beautiful multicoloured embroidery from digital images using a Digital Embroidery machine and Digital Stitching software. Participants will learn how to manipulate images in the software to create various textile effects and observe how the digital embroidery machine produces layered embroidery designs. Each participant will create an embroidery design to take home.
All materials will be provided, and laptops will be available for use with the digital embroidery software.
Book your place on our digital embroidery workshop.
Ceramic 3D workshop - Bettina Seitz and Stuart Lawn
📅 Friday 25th July & Thursday 7th August (two day workshop) | ⏰ 11am – 4pm
Location: The Dock Arts Centre
3D printers can extrude everything from Kaolin and porcelain clay to stoneware and terracotta, even concrete (but that's a different story). This two day workshop, spread over two sessions to allow for drying, firing and glazing, is aimed at artists who wish to get experience in 3D Printing with Clay. The workshop is facilitated by Stuart Lawn and Bettina Seitz. Participants will get to see the 3D Ceramic Printing process and get to experiment with using simple 3D CAD software to create their own designs to 3D Print in clay.
All materials will be provided, as well as access to laptops for 3D CAD Design.
Book your place on our ceramic 3D workshop
Laser Engraving Workshop - Stuart Lawn
📅 Thursday 21st August | ⏰ 11am – 4pm
Location: Leitrim Sculpture Centre Print Studio
Laser engraving and cutting can create beautiful art and craft products. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn how material choices and techniques can produce different effects and aesthetic looks. The process will include a demonstration of free software that can be used to create graphics and images, as well as how these can be refined to suit the laser engraving process. A variety of materials will be used for laser engraving, and participants will learn how the material itself can affect the finished product.
No prior experience with laser engraving or design software is required, and all materials will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops, though a limited number of laptops will be available for use.
Admission to the workshop is free however, booking is essential.
These workshops are funded by the Leitrim Local Community Development Committee under the 2023-2027 LEADER Programme.
