Print events in our studio
Words and Color on Posters
Learn to screen print. Make colorful posters with your words or an inspiring quote, poem, or statement. Express what you’re passionate about! Learn to design and print posters at our workshop with Eduardo Valadez Arenas @lacocinaloca.
Learn by Doing Workshop Series: Words and Color
Teacher: Eduardo Arenas @lacocinaloca
Learn to screen print multi-color posters
Saturday, February 22, 2024
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Inspired by the works of Citizen Printer, aka Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., we’ll be printing multi-color posters with bold, intentional words using a rainbow roll and 2-color screen printing process. Attendees will come up with a quote of their own, and learn how to print posters with strong messages and colorful backgrounds.
Event photos
Thank you to everyone who attended!
Workshop details
Poster by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., letterpress artist in Detroit, Michigan
Words and Color
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., is a contemporary, legendary letterpress printer based in Detroit, and featured in a new book, Citizen Printer.
We will have the book and examples of his work for inspiration at the workshop.
In this class, attendees will create a screen with words that inspire them, learning the process of creating a design and preparing screens for printing.
They’ll also get to choose from a few different background textures and screen print them as a dramatic backdrop for the words.
Create a visual reminder of a poem, an affirmation, a dream, a feeling or a vibe. What do you want to say?
No prior printing experience is needed. Beginners are welcome!
Teacher: Eduardo Valadez Arenas
Eduardo Valadez Arenas is a Mexican mixed-media artist based in Oakland. He is the founder of Taller Graficante, a graphic arts studio that offers free and sliding scale workshops for nonprofits and community organizations throughout the Bay Area. Their mission is to support POC and Indigenous artists through the production of graphic posters of their work and message.
Poster Printing Workshop
Printing posters is one of the oldest forms of political expression, and possibly the most accessible. Express what you’re passionate about! Learn to design and print posters at our workshop with Eduardo Valadez Arenas @lacocinaloca.
Learn by Doing Workshop Series: Grafica Popular / Passion Posters
Teacher: Eduardo Arenas @lacocinaloca
Learn to screen print posters
Saturday, November 9, 2024
2:00 - 5:00 pm
In this workshop, students learned the basic language and technique of serigraphy, a printing process known as screen printing.
We provided the tools and process guidance to create a poster designed around the issues you are passionate about.
Grafica Popular
Central to this Taller/workshop is “Grafica Popular” or “popular printmaking,” a twentieth-century popular movement in Mexico in which artists and activists use hand-printed posters to challenge the status quo and raise awareness around socio-political issues of the time.
Outside the constraints of corporate or commercial design, popular printmaking confronts the frequency of digital technologies and the corporate control of visual spaces and allows us to speak our mind through print.
No prior printing experience is needed. Beginners are welcome!
Teacher: Eduardo Valadez Arenas
Eduardo Valadez Arenas is a Mexican mixed-media artist based in Oakland. He is the founder of Taller Graficante, a graphic arts studio that offers free and sliding scale workshops for nonprofits and community organizations throughout the Bay Area. Their mission is to support POC and Indigenous artists through the production of graphic posters of their work and message.
Some students returned to the shop for Open Studio Night (Tuesdays from 5 - 9pm) to continue printing with the screen they made in class, and either brought their own t-shirts to print on or purchased a few blanks from Sunset. We’ll save screens for up to a month when we’ll reclaim them to use again for a new stencil. Or they can be purchased and taken home.
Summer Print Party
Join us for a print event celebrating our latest group of screen printing apprentices. Sunset Printshop is excited to work in partnership with Oakland Technology & Education Center (OTEC).
Saturday, September 7
3:00 till 7:00 or sunset
At Sunset Printshop: 6604 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA
Let us know you’re coming. RSVP today. It’s optional, but if you RSVP it helps us plan for the event.
Jayden prints his Oakland peace tree design
A Printshop Occasion
Join us for a print party and showcase!
Saturday, September 7
3:00 till sunset
6604 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA
We’ll be celebrating our summer screen printing apprentices, a program developed in partnership with Oakland Technology & Education Center (OTEC), the folks behind AfroComicCon, the annual event in Oakland.
We’re so grateful to OTEC for the opportunity to print and work with these three talented young artists.
You’re invited to come and see what they’ve been creating for the shop. Live screen printing of their designs, merch, food, music, prizes, and more!
We’ll be showcasing the works made by our summer apprentices, pictured below: Ashia, Jayden, and Zouhair.
Invitation flier for our summer printing party, September 7 at 3:00
Ashia pulls a squeegee to print her design of a tree growing on a stone.
Tarot card print party
Pick a card! We had such fun last month that we’re having another tarot-themed print party! Bring your own shirts and items to print. Or get t-shirts and totes from us. Make fun art! Get a tarot reading from Tomorrow Tarot. Visit the Sunset Printshop studio on Saturday, July 20th from 3:30pm - 6:30pm.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
We had such a great time last month that we’re doing it again!
Join us at Sunset on Saturday, July 20th, for a Tarot-themed printing party! Bring your own shirts and items to print or buy blanks from us. Get a free tarot reading from Tomorrow Tarot.
Who: You!
What: Three hours of food, fun, tarot and screen printing in our sunny print studio
Where: 6604 San Pablo Ave in Oakland
When: 3:30pm - 6:30 pm
Our print experts will be ready to help guide you and provide everything you need.
Come roll up your sleeves and play in the ink… then leave the mess with us! 🤣
Lounge in our sunny studio. Nosh on snacks and beverages. And get a free tarot reading from Tommi of Tomorrow Tarot.
See our newest designs:
We can’t wait to print with you! See you at the tarot print party.
Sunset print party
Join us for a print party in our studio on Saturday, February 24th, 3:30 through sunset. Live printing, music, food, and more.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
This was our first official printing party, featuring James Makowski printing a CMY sunset and his multi-color magnolia design.
The event also featured Joshua Smith aka Tigermind, who created the wall tattoos; Natalie Ammirato, who designed the gallery wall and store displays; and Torben Umeda aka Stainable Ink, with his upcycled blank shirts and assistance with folks on the one-color press.
James also contributed a larger-than-life handwritten poem for the celebration, and Abe graced us with music from his cello.
Thank you to everyone who came!
See our featured designs:
Fresh magnolia for early spring
Sunset in 3 colors (CMY)
Original party invitation
We can’t wait to print with you again! See you at the next event.
Tarot print party
Pick a card! Summer is here and it’s time for a tarot-themed print party! Bring your own shirts and items to print. Or get t-shirts and totes from us. Make fun art! Get a tarot reading from Tomorrow Tarot. Visit the Sunset Printshop studio on Saturday, June 22nd from 3:30pm - 6:30pm.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Thank you to everyone who came by! We loved seeing old friends, printshop regulars, and new folks as well.
Tommi from Tomorrow Tarot gave free readings, while Amy printed The Sun with a yellow-orange gradient, and The Star with glow-in-the-dark blue.