Students will learn how to create a letterpress postcard and using a vandercook press and a variety of type. General printmaking experience can be helpful, but is not necessary.  

Saturday, June 8th 2024

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Ages 16+

$139.00 per person

Amber Heaton creates colorful, geometric installations, mixed media works, paintings, and works on paper. She received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking in 2012, a BFA from the University of Utah in Printmaking and Sculpture in 2009, and a BUS in Human Diversity from the University of Utah in 1998. Her work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Susquehanna Art Museum, International Print Center New York, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Musée Des Beaux-Art, Le Locle, Switzerland, and other venues internationally. In 2019, Heaton had solo exhibitions at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA and Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA. Heaton participated in the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, was a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, NY, and an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Project, NY. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in South Korea from 2001-2003. Heaton lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.