Learn Printmaking in Paris

Honest level: Beginner -> Professional — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Paris

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Atelier Contrepoint (heir to Atelier 17)
  Open intaglio/etching atelier (apprenticeship)
  Atelier Contrepoint is the Paris etching studio that succeeded Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in 1988, operating as an open intaglio workshop where artists learn its simultaneous colour-printing technique alongside resident assistants.
  http://www.ateliercontrepoint.com/
• Idem Paris (lithography)
  Lithography studio collaboration / atelier
  Idem Paris is a historic Montparnasse art-printing house, once home to the Mourlot presses, that still produces hand-pulled lithographs on traditional stone presses in collaboration with artists in its working atelier.
  https://idemparis.com/en/
• École des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA)
  DNSAP (five-year fine art diploma) with printmaking ateliers
  The Beaux-Arts de Paris is France's national fine-art school whose five-year DNSAP program includes dedicated gravure and lithography ateliers for intaglio, etching and screen-printing.
  https://beauxartsparis.fr/en/

The credential

Tamarind Master Printer certificate (lithography) / atelier apprenticeship · Certifying body: Tamarind master-printer certification / atelier apprenticeship

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Printmaking

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.