About Us
The ESU Print Guild specializes in providing the student body and broader Emporia community with workshops, events, and fundraising through teaching and incorporating the art of printmaking as well as other mediums. The printmaking processes we utilize include relief, monotype, and screenprinting.
Join our GroupMe for updates! We meet every other Thursday at 5:30pm in King Hall Room 002 (Print Studio)
Membership Benefits
- Engage with your on-campus and local art community.
- Sell your prints at fundraising events.
- Learn new ways of creating artwork through the printmaking processes.
- Gain problem solving skills
- Receive peer-to-peer feedback on art projects.
- Work with each other to become better artists through critique, community, and collaboration
Projects & Initiatives
Past Events:
- Picnic Potluck (8/25/23). Meet other art students and learn about what the ESU Print Guild does.
- Gallery Gaggle (9/8/23). Join us for a walk downtown to see the local art galleries and discuss the art afterward at Gravel City Roasters.
- Movie Night (9/16/23). ESU Print Guild will be hosting a viewing of Gregg Araki's Kaboom and other short films.
- Life Drawing (9/24/23). Get in studio time with live models!
- October Emporia First Friday Art Walk (10/6/23). Help us table and live-print during the Emporia First Friday Art Walk. Bring your prints for sale!
- Life Drawing, Second Session (10/19/23). Get in studio time with live models!
- Lawrence Print Week (10/27-10/28/23). Join us for a print sale and join workshops during Lawrence's Print Week.
- Emporia First Friday Art Walk (12/1/23). Help us table and live-print during the Emporia First Friday Art Walk. Bring your prints for sale!
This list is tenative with other events likely to be added or edited in the future. Please join our GroupMe for updates!
- December 3rd + 4th: Holiday Art Sale, From 10am-4pm, ESU Memorial Union
- December 4th: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
Spring 2026 - January 22nd: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- Feb 5th: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- Feb 19th: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- March 5: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- March 19th: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- April 2nd: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- April 16th: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- April 30th: Regular meeting in King Hall 002, Print Studio at 5:30pm
- May 1st: Emporia First Friday: Steam Roller Event! 2pm-8pm on Commercial St
