Demo + Workshop: How to make your own screen with Ted Howorth

With materials recently donated to the school of art, visiting artist E.J. (Ted) Howorth will demonstrate how to build and stretch your own screens for printing. Howorth will go over the basics of materials, frame construction, mesh stretching and finishing. After the demonstration, students can participate in one of the workshop sessions to build their own screen, which they can keep made with the donated materials and Ted’s help. There will be 4 slots with room for 4 people per slot. Materials will be available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

E.J. (Ted) Howorth was born in Regina and grew up in Winnipeg. He received his BFA from the University of Manitoba, apprenticed under Wilfredo Arcay of Atelier Arcay in Paris and received an MFA from the University of North Dakota. In 1995 he was appointed to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, R.C.A.

Howorth began printmaking at the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop in Winnipeg. In 1981 he moved to Toronto and worked as Director of Screen Printing for Open Studio. In 1987 Howorth introduced water-based screen printing to the University of Manitoba School of Art and taught printmaking there until retiring in 2013. He and Michael Schonke introduced water-based screen printing to Druckwerkstatt/BBK in Berlin in 1991. Howorth remains an active member of Martha Street Studio.

For over 45 years Howorth has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. He has received numerous commissions and is a part of many private and public collections.

Hosted by Suzie Smith, Assistant Professor, School of Art.
Presented by the School of Art Visiting Speakers Series.