Verge Center for the Arts

Polyester plate or “pronto plate” lithography is an immediate and often playful printing process that offers an option for artists to incorporate visual elements as disparate as photography, digital designs and hand drawn illustrations. This more immediate form will introduce you to the process and allow for immediate exploration and printing opportunities using a lithograph related format while dispensing with some of the more physical challenges of using lithography stones. It is a great way to experience the magic and opportunities of the litho process. The class will manually process the polyester plates from an additive drawing and painting process through the finished now color printing printing on paper.

WHEN: May 7, 2026 5:30-8:30 PM

WHERE: Myrtle Press inside Verge Center for the Arts

About the Instructor 

Howard Levine has been an active printmaker for the past sixty years. Howard taught printmaking and drawing for Sierra College for almost twenty-five years. At Carriage House Press, Grass Valley he had students engaged in all processes: intaglio, relief, litho and monotype for over 45 years. Howard has a M.A. from San Francisco State with an emphasis on printmaking, mainly lithography. He also is a painter, drawer and for-site artist. After dismantling his long time studio and gallery in Grass Valley, CA. he and his wife moved to Sacramento and joined Myrtle Press.

Chanel Mace is a geometric abstract artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of organic sensation and structured space. Rooted in repetition and form, her compositions reflect a meditative response to physical and psychological environments. Working primarily with drawing, printmaking, and mixed media paper, she preserves the artist’s hand in every mark—inviting viewers into a layered process of navigation and reflection.

Originally from Sacramento, Chanel holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at Central Saint Martins in London. She completed a yearlong postgraduate residency at The Wrocław School of Printmaking in Poland. She then spent eight years living and working in Australia. While in Sydney, she was deeply involved in the local printmaking community, working out of The Workshop Arts Centre in Willoughby and serving as acting Secretary of the North Sydney Printmakers Association. After a decade abroad, she returned home to Sacramento, where she now works out of Myrtle Press and is a member of the California Society of Printmakers.

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