Joan Miró's Printmaking Workshops
- Screen-Printing Workshop
Given by
- Carles G.O’D
Dates
- June 29th to July 4th 2026
Timetable
- From Monday to Friday 9 a.m – 3p.m.
- Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Maximum no. of students
- 10
Price
- 260€
Applications
Contact
T1/2026 Screen-Printing Workshop
Given by Carles G.O’D.
Screen printing is one of the most versatile techniques in printmaking today. Although it was originally an industrial process, over the course of time it has become an artistic tool with high expressive potential, used in both mainstream circles and independent, experimental ones.
This workshop offers a practical insight into screen printing on paper. It is inspired by the pedagogical and creative approach developed by Corita Kent, an artist and educator who promoted screen printing as a means of artistic expression and a tool in visual communication.
The workshop is aimed at creative minds and people with an interest in printmaking, fanzines, and contemporary art practices. Disciplines like illustration, photography, painting, design and comics have especially close ties with this technique.
During the workshop, each of the participants will work on a personal printmaking project under the teacher’s guidance. Despite this individual focus, at certain points, group collaboration will be needed in the printing process, fostering the collaborative efforts typical of printmaking studios.
OBJECTIVES
- To gain an understanding of the whole flat screen-printing process on paper.
- To get to know the materials, tools and equipment used in professional screen printing.
- To learn to prepare and work with hand-drawn and digital film positives.
- To experiment with chromatic techniques, such as overlaid translucid inks, and the use of halftones.
- To introduce the use of digital tools for colour and image processing (Photoshop).
- To analyse examples of contemporary screen-printing practices and to contextualize the participants’ own work.
- To carry out a personal printmaking project, printing a small edition.
PROGRAMME
At the beginning of the workshop, an introductory session will be held with audio-visual backup, showing different examples of the ways in which screen printing is used in art and publishing. During this opening session, an analysis will be made of various original works so that the participants can gain an insight into the technical and expressive potential that this procedure offers.
All the participants must bring black and white images as the basis of their project. These images will be digitally processed using Photoshop prior to the printing stage.
The practical part of the workshop will consist of printing a project on paper (approx. A3) with 3 inks. During the process, experimentation on different supports and with different materials will be encouraged. The workshop will combine the use of manual techniques with professional equipment, such as a semi-automatic vacuum screen printer and a screen exposure unit.
REQUIREMENTS
- A basic knowledge of Photoshop.
- An interest in collaborative work and studio processes.
- To bring black and white sketches, drawings, photos or images as a basis for the project.
Carles Garcia O’Dowd, Mallorca
Carles, also known by the name of his artistic alter ego Carles G.O’D., is an illustrator born in Palma with a restless, inquisitive mind. He dedicates his time to screen printing, activism, teaching and illustration.
An obsessive illustrator, he trained as an artist in Barcelona, Hamburg, Guadalajara (Mexico) and New York, in addition to doing art residencies in London, Florida, Guangzhou and Oaxaca, among other places. His favourite method of reproduction is large-format screen printing, combining manual and digital techniques. His work is hard to classify, and it mainly spans the visual arts, illustration and performances.
During his years as a trainee artist, he was involved in the underground art scene, and his subsequent evolution has always been tied in with counter-cultural movements, punk, social struggles, popular culture, and the queer movement.
Curiosity led him to work with the Beehive Collective in the USA and with the independent publishing house Le Dernier Cri in France. It also spurred him on to travel the world, attending independent comic and graphic art festivals. He co-organized Gutter Fest in Barcelona, Crack! in Rome and the Tropicana Dreams Festival in Palma. He produces his own publications in the form of fanzines and narrative posters. For four years, he coordinated the “Trini Print Club”, a printmaking studio in the city of his birth.
From 2015 to 2018, he travelled around Europe presenting the ambitious project Proyecto Útero. This collaborative drawing, made with artist Tonina Matamala, was shown at centres like the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and the Rome Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO).
He has lived in New York for three years, having moved there with a Fulbright grant to do an M.A. at the School of Visual Arts. His illustrations have been published in The New Yorker and The Washington Post Magazine, and his clients include the Viña Rock Festival, Deutsche Telekom and the Save the Med Foundation.
One of his most outstanding projects is Heaven is a Town Much Like Shagaluf (2016–2018), a giant narrative drawing of the tourist industry in Mallorca, the island of his birth. Made during his travels back and forth between Palma and London, it fosters dialogue between workers and consumers, local residents and visitors, and settlers and natives in a crazy, over-the-top, humoristic extravaganza.
Another project worthy of a special mention is Cupola: Mater Aeterna in Black Rock City, Nevada (USA): an installation created by the artist in 2025 in the form of a contemporary cathedral of mythmaking, transforming the tradition of narrative murals into a dynamic sanctuary of light and storytelling.
