giving workshops

the course room at KKV (artist run collective workshops) Göteborg Today I started the 2,5 days "screenprinting on paper workshop" for master students from HDK (the school of design and crafts) at KKV. I've been giving a lot of short workshops the last years and it's always interesting to see the different types of participants. Mostly I give screenprinting workshops at art schools or to professional artists/designers. The most attentive participants and best listeners are actually very often the most experienced and established - or the total beginners. These two types believe they can learn from me. Then we have the opposite: the participants who think they already master the technique - because they've done it a bit before - and won't listen and don't need any demonstrations and very often fuck up. (there are of course also those who have a clue and know they still might learn new ways of doing things). Will be interesting to see what types I'm having from HDK. (I won't tell you though, because you never know who reads this blog) Every summer HDK offers an independent course program (which means not just for their own students) and this summer I will teach big format screenprinting. We're still in the planning phase, but by the 1st of April it should all be official - and I'll let you in on the details. Debu Barve writes about art on his blog.