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Workshops

All workshops are free and open to the public but registration is required.

two 3D printed heads from 3D scans in blue and orange
Mini Me Magnet with 3D Scanning + Printing

New Paltz Design Week 2024

Ever have someone say they miss your face? Well with the power of 3D Scanning and Printing you can leave a mini version of yourself with them! Participants will learn to scan one another, fix up the scan, and send it to be print in the HVAMC. Prints will be ready for pick up by the end of Design Week. Makes a great gift!

No experience required. All are welcome.

Workshop Facilitator: Kat Wilson is the Interim Director of the Hudson Valley Additive Manufacturing Center.

Date
Time
Location

Monday, April 8, 2024

11a-1pm

Digital Fabrication Lab / Smiley 100

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Computational Vector Tracing from Meshes for 2D/3D Design

New Paltz Design Week 2024

Do you work with vectors in Illustrator or Rhino? Come to this workshop to see a computational image-driven approach which turns bitmap images into 3D meshes and 2D vectors. Workflows for creating 2D and 3D designs will be demonstrated in Rhino, and participants can have their design 3D-printed or lasercut.

Workshop Facilitator: Eli Campbell is a graduate student in the MA Digital Design and Fabrication program. Eli uses digital technology to find creative solutions to art and design problems.

Date
Time
Location

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

10a – 12p

Smiley Art Building 100 / Digital Fabrication Lab

a clear acrylic keychain with a vector graphic of two hands holding open eyes
Keychain Craze

New Paltz Design Week 2024

Have you ever wanted to make your own custom keychains? Participants have the opportunity to have their own designs or images laser engraved onto acrylic or printed in color using UV ink. Open to everyone and materials are provided! Completed keychains will be ready for pickup by the end of Design Week.

Workshop Facilitators:

Brooke Pennington is a visual arts major with a minor in DDF who works at the DFL and HVAMC on campus. Her work combines technology and traditional methods of creating art to create or plan more complex pieces, including her clothing brand, The Good People.

Sophia Stanton is a Visual Arts Education major with a minor in Philosophy and a concentration in Printmaking. She works with laser cut techniques, implementing it in her own work as well as bringing other people's ideas to life.

Nic O'Connor is a DDF graduate student interested in product and toy design.

Date
Time
Location

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

3-5p

Smiley Art Building 100 / Digital Fabrication Lab

metal letters and characters tightly spaced together with the words Design Week inked
Letterpress Love

New Paltz Design Week 2024

In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the fundamentals of letterpress printing, including typesetting, ink mixing, and printing on our hand presses. By the end, furniture will no longer be something you sit on! Limited spots are available, so sign up now to secure your place!

Workshop Facilitators: Ben Bryant is a senior in the BFA Printmaking program and Sheyla Torries is a senior in the BFA in the Graphic Design program.

Cover image credit: Sheyla Torres & OLB type.

Date
Time
Location

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

10a – 12p

Old Library Letterpress Studio

bright graphics with the word
Design Society
Undesign Workshop

New Paltz Design Week 2024

As students, we are taught the basic rules of Graphic Design. But what happens when we bend or even break these rules? This workshop is a chance to go beyond that we are taught to follow, while still trying to make something intriguing. We will experiment with different rules while we learn to trust our own instinct in what makes "good design". All levels of experience are welcome so if you've ever been interested in testing the boundaries of design beyond what we're allowed in class, this workshop is for you. Open to everyone, regardless of major.

This workshop is hosted by Design Society, the Graphic Design Student Club.

Date
Time
Location

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

7 – 9p

Old Library 103B

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Just Transition Primer

New Paltz Design Week 2024

We’ve been through a global pandemic. Soaring prices for housing and food make it increasingly difficult to secure our basic needs. Wildfire smoke and damaging storms are commonplace. Our entrenched political divides are laced with conflict and create a sense of insecurity. How do we make sense of these realities?

This workshop provides an opportunity to connect, explore a shared vision of Just Transition, and consider the question: What will it take to build systems centered on care for each other and our shared home? What would it mean for many of us in the Mahicantuck (Hudson) Valley to be focused on social and ecological well-being? Join us to deepen your understanding of the Just Transition framework, principles and practices. Through video, reflection, story sharing, and small group discussion, you will:

• Gain an understanding of the Just Transition principles and practices, and where they come from

• See people from across the country describing aspects of Just Transition

• Connect your own experience to extractive and regenerative economic paradigms

• Discuss ways to weave one or more Just Transition principles and practices into your work and life

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS:


Hélène Lesterlin, Worker Trustee/Community Fund Steward, Good Work InstituteHélène (she/her) focuses on social impact work, helping entrepreneurs, artists, and activists find pathways to manifest their ideas. She seeks and creates good stories and effective strategies to build a regenerative economy. She lives with her family in West Saugerties NY.

Micah, Worker Trustee, Good Work Institute
Micah (he/him) is of mixed race (black and white) and mixed religion, and grew up in two different socio-economic homes. He is a cisgendered, working/middle class parent of two living on Munsee/Lenape land in the Mahicantuck Valley, commonly referred today as Kingston, NY, working to prove possibility and to liberate the imagination in order to see a Just Transition.

Aja Schmeltz, Worker Trustee/Community Engagement & Communications Steward, Good Work Institute
Aja is an Afro-Latina, cisgendered, middle class woman raising 3 daughters with her partner of 20+ years, growing food and medicine, creating art, loving hard and strengthening connections in her beloved communities throughout the Mahicantuck (Hudson) River Valley. The Just Transition is central to her work, both personally and professionally, because she strongly believes that a successful community is made up of individuals working collaboratively on all fronts to create avenues to build a healthier, thriving, more sustainable environment.

Date
Time
Location

Thursday, April 11, 2024

1–4p

OLB Seminar Room

cat typing at computer
Look Ma, No Code!
New Paltz Design Week 2024

Want to put together a portfolio site but don’t want to spend $10-20/month for hosting? Come to this workshop, in which we’ll be setting up and deploying a customizable portfolio website, using only free/open-source software and platforms - CMS Keystatic, static-site generator Astro, and editing and deployment tools from Github. We will not be writing any code in this workshop (though we will look at additional ways to customize the site with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for anyone who is interested). At the end of this workshop you will have a site that is live on the internet for everyone to see, that will be completely free to host and maintain for a long time.

Workshop Facilitator: Kristoff Lalicki is a designer & developer based out of Kingston, New York who makes a mean personal pizza.

Date
Time
Location

Thursday, April 11, 2024

6:30-8:30p

OLB 103B

black and white drawing of a rock
Rock Workshop

New Paltz Design Week 2024

Rocks are silent storytellers of Earth’s history, incorporating geological narratives and revealing the processes that created them. By creating a diverse rock collection, participants will stretch their making muscles, exploring tools, techniques, and materials. We’ll consider texture, shape, form, function, and the visual inspiration of organic and inorganic materials, aiming to create a body of work that can be incorporated into a collective poster and/or publication.

Workshop Facilitators: Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda currently split their time between Boston and Connecticut. Together, the pair have run Draw Down Books, publishing and curating printed matter, since 2012. They also create illustrations as Gluekit, design for clients in the cultural sector and the arts, and teach at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Previously, Christopher was Director of Graphic Design at the Yale University Art Gallery for 15 years, and Kathleen, an enrolled member of the Coldwater Band (nɬeʔképmx), worked as an archivist at the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale University. Draw Down has been active in the artist book space for over a decade, organizing and curating fairs (the Otis MFA GD Fair, Odds and Ends at the Yale University Art Gallery, and Multiple Formats at Boston University) and participating in over 50 book fairs around the world.

Date
Time
Location

Friday, April 12, 2024

1:30-4:30p

OLB 103E

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