Tiger Lily Press is pleased to announce
Spring 2023 classes in printmaking at the studio!
Spring 2023 Classes
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Tiger Lily Press
P.O. Box 5394
Cincinnati, OH 45205
Intermediate/Advanced Etching
Copper Etching with Aquatint & Multiple Plates
Saturday mornings in May
Instructor: Stephanie Berrie
Course description
Have a basic understanding of etching but want to improve
your skills? In this course we will be covering aquatint, step-biting, multiple-color etching, and many other processes. Participants should have a better understanding of copper etching and more confidence in their etching abilities!
Topics covered include:
Multiple-color etching: we will cover making a multi-plate
print, color flats, chine collé, and a la Poupée
Aquatint: we’ll go over spray paint and rosin aquatinting
and step-biting
Course Agenda
May 6: Aquatint: we’ll cover spray paint vs. rosin aquatint,
step-biting, and creating value with aquatint
May 13: Multiple plate printing: how to register an image
onto more than one plate, etching the plates, and registering the plates while printing
May 20: Color flats, a la Poupée, and chine colle: I’ll show
different methods of adding color and texture to intaglio prints through color flats, a la Poupée, and chine collé
May 27: Work day: participants are encouraged to work on
their projects and finish up their prints
Materials list
(provided by class fees):
Copper plates, proofing paper, Chine collé paper, inks,
spray paint and rosin, Ferric Chloride, scraper, burnisher, scribe, paint brushes
(student provides):
Drawing materials such as pencils, pens, sketchbook, paint
brushes (optional), tracing paper
Helpful skills:
Basic etching skills: hard/soft ground etching, copper or
zinc etching, printing intaglio plates, knowledge of how to use an etching press
Basic drawing/ composition skills
Fee
Members: $144
Non-members: $180
About the instructor: Stephanie Berrie is an artist from Dayton, Ohio. She completed her BFA at the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2015 and her MFA at Texas Tech University in 2019. She is currently the Printmaking Lab Manager at the University of Cincinnati and part-time print professor. Berrie additionally owns and runs her own printmaking studio in Northern Kentucky, Wild Berries Press. She has also been an artist in residence at the Charles Adams Studio Project in Lubbock, Texas and was Tiger Lily’s Annual Working Artist in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2020–2021. She has exhibited her printmaking work all across the nation, primarily in the Southwestern, Midwestern, and Eastern states and is an active member of the Mid America Print Council.
Advanced Screenprinting: Monoprinting, Multiple-Color, and More!
Saturday afternoons in May
Instructor: Stephanie Berrie
Schedule
Meet Saturdays, May 6, 13, 20, 27 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Course description
Have you ever wanted to take your screenprinting skills to
the next level? “Advanced Screenprinting: Monoprinting, Multiple-Color, and More!” is a course that will cover more advanced techniques for the ambitious screenprinter. Over four weeks, students will learn how to do the following:
Multiple-color printing and/or CMYK printing
Creating stencils with Drawing Fluid and Screen Filler
Monoprint using watercolor to create unique and beautiful
prints!
Some basic screenprinting knowledge is required for this
course. Students should know or have a basic understanding of screenprinting: exposing screens, creating and printing a one-color print, and standard registration skills.
Topics covered in class:
Multiple-color registration and printing
Brief overview of exposing screens
Watercolor monoprinting
Creating stencils with Drawing Fluid and Screen Filler
Brief overview of CMYK process and printing
Course Agenda:
May 6: Brief overview on how to expose screens again; talk
about multiple screen registration, create 3-color transparencies for 3-color
print; discuss CMYK process and show examples. Give students the option to
either do a 3-color print or CMYK print
May 13: Work day/go over printing CMYK process
May 20: Introduce and demo Drawing Fluid and Watercolor
Monoprinting
May 27: Work day/finish up Drawing Fluid and Monoprinting
projects
Level of study: Intermediate: Have a basic understanding of
screenprinting (exposing screens, printing, one-color registration)
Helpful skills:
Drawing skills, basic computer skills, basic screenprinting skills
Fee
Members: $96
Non-members: $120
Materials
(provided by class fees):
Inks, emulsion, screens, drawing fluid, screen filler,
transparent base, squeegees, cleaners/ solvents, transparencies, paper, markers
for drawing transparencies, tapes
(student provides):
Sketchbook, pencils/ pens to for drawing, other materials to
print on (such as fabric, other paper, etc.)
About the instructor:
Stephanie Berrie is an artist from Dayton, Ohio. She completed her BFA at the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2015 and her MFA at Texas Tech University in 2019. She is currently the Printmaking Lab Manager at the University of Cincinnati and part-time print professor. Berrie additionally owns and runs her own printmaking studio in Northern Kentucky, Wild Berries
Press. She has also been an artist in residence at the Charles Adams Studio Project in Lubbock, Texas and was Tiger Lily’s Annual Working Artist in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2020–2021. She has exhibited her printmaking work all across the nation, primarily in the Southwestern, Midwestern, and Eastern
states and is an active member of the Mid America Print Council.
above: Artwork by Stephanie Berrie
below: Stephanie Berrie
Text As Image
Introduction to Letterpress Printing
Sunday mornings in May
Instructor: Alex
McClay
Schedule
Sundays, May 7, 14, 21, 28 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Course description
In this class, we will take inspirational text that we have
written or found and create provocative and profound images. We will learn to
set and print lead type, wood type, and polymer plates on the Vandercook
proofing press. We will learn to create images using text through physical
experimentation on the press and digital pathways.
Topics covered include:
Setting lead and wood type
Printing lead and wood type
Printing polymer plates
Creating and ordering polymer plates from Box Car Press
Monoprinting on the Vandercook Proofing Press
Course Agenda
May 7:
Get to know the press
Print monotypes
Discuss type in shop
Discuss text/quotes that folks would like to print
Slideshow of images for inspiration
May 14:
Set type!
Discuss and create photo polymer plates
May 21:
Print type
May 28:
Print type and/or photo polymer plates
Materials list (provided by class fees):
Paper, type, ink, boxcar base
(student provides):
Found materials to use for monoprinting, laptop, sketchbook, pencil
Helpful skills possessed by prospective students:
Anyone with an affinity for the written word is encouraged
to take this class! Beginners to those with intermediate experience welcome.
Fee
Members: $144
Non-members: $180
About the instructor:
Alex McClay lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio as an interdisciplinary artist, an instructor in Printmaking at the University of Cincinnati. She was the 2022 Artist-in-Residence at Tiger Lily Press. She graduated with an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Georgia in 2021. She received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Cincinnati in 2014. She was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina from 2016–2018, where she studied craft in many forms, including textiles, metals, printmaking, book arts and papermaking. Her current practice engages language, material, and the human body to question and disrupt the power dynamics present in our most intimate and vulnerable spaces. Her work has been included in multiple exhibitions and venues across the United States, including
SPRING//BREAK New York (New York, NY), Women Made Gallery (Chicago, IL), Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), ArtSpace (Raleigh, NC), Haggerty Gallery (Dallas TX), and Robert C Williams Museum of Papermaking
(Atlanta, GA).
above: Artwork by Alex McClay below: Alex McClay
