Garage Screenprinting Workshop
A two-day workshop in which students will learn Zettwoch’s mostly self-taught, low-fidelity silk-screening process. He’ll go from ink drawings on paper to burnt stencils on screens to multi-colored prints on paper, fabric, or whatever the participants desire.
Dan Zettwoch was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1977. His earliest artistic influences were his father Donald "Toots" Zettwoch, grandfather Dalton "Wet Sock" Zettwoch, the host of the PBS kids' drawing show "Commander" Mark Kistler,, Ed Emberley, the Usual Gang of Idiots at Mad Magazine, and whoever drew the short-lived Marvel motocross comic Team America. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri to study at Washington University and continues to live and work there, making comics, illustrations, prints and how-to diagrams. In addition to several self-published booklets, his stories have appeared in Kramers Ergot, the Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, Nickelodeon Magazine, Yale University Press' An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories Volume 2. He is currently working on the weekly newspaper strip Amazing Facts & Beyond with fellow USS Catastrophe crew members Kevin Huizenga and Ted May, a series of screenprints commemorating local St. Louis icons and gross food, and his comic book Redbird.