PRINTMAKING

CHOP SHOP: GUIDED TRANSFORMATIONS

with Jessica Gatlin & Brandon J. Donahue

PRINT | 664 001 | 3 CREDITS $150 LAB FEE | MAY 28 - JUNE 10

Class as collage, mixtape, chop shop - a place where vehicles are dismantled and distributed. In this course, students are encouraged to explore a variety of media through both individual and collaborative prompts. Group discussions will be had on authorship, appropriation, the collective, the individual, and transformation. Students will engage with techniques and media such as airbrush, assemblage, performance, and print to repair, examine, and transform objects and practices. Readings will include The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying from Darren Hudson Hicks and select works by bell hooks. Assignments will include Communicative Practice Scoring in which participants will be challenged as maker, facilitator, audience, and interpreter. The class will culminate in a group project guided by our discussions and is adaptable according to the group’s skills and interests.

RISO-RELATIONS & BOOKISH BEHAVIORS

with Madeleine Aguilar & bex ya yolk

PRINT | 668 001 | 3 CREDITS $150 LAB FEE | JUNE 11 - 24

This course is an introduction to the RISOgraph as a tool for high volume printing, editioned objects, and bookmaking to produce publications in printed bookish form. Students will experiment with a range of binding, printing, and sculptural tools to create publications while learning a variety of book structures and binding techniques. Equipment and praxis include but are not limited to: the RISOgraph printer, screen printing, xerox copier, comb binder, Epson scanner, laminator, spiral bound machine, and hand bookbinding tools. Daily in-class technical demonstrations in tandem with lectures on independent presses, zine makers, works by artists and publishers that utilize the RISO as both an economic and artistic tool, and prominent book artists’ will all be explored. The class will culminate in the production of a publication for the Ox-Bow Artists’ book and Zine Library (est. 2023). Each student will donate at least one book from their edition(s) to the collection. This gesture in fostering community by means of leaving ephemera and art objects for future artists to engage with, is the very core of what arts publishing can be.

QUEER METHODS IN GLASS & PRINT

with H. Schenck & Liesl Schubel

PRINT & SCULPTURE | 669 001 | 3 CREDITS $350 LAB FEE | JULY 10 - 22

This cross-disciplinary course will be hosted in both the print studio and glassblowing studio and encourages experimental making processes that blur image, language, and sculpture. Taking inspiration from printmaking’s origins in published activism, and glassblowing’s inherent denial of binaries as an amorphous solid, students will self-innovate the basic principles of each process, dissolving the boundary between media, to create a collection of objects and images with glass. Students will learn the process of vitreography, a technique for fixing an image within a sheet of float glass to create an impression on paper. In the glass studio, foundational glassblowing skills will lead to more complex shapes, including rondels and cylinders for custom flat glass, and more flowing, unusual forms. We will consider artists who generate language and instigate play, including Anna Mlasowsky, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez, and Elizabeth Atterbury, while reading “Daybook” by Anne Truit and “Learning to Love You More” by Miranda July. We will also host/discuss screenings about Jes Fan and Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. To maximize cross-studio collaboration, students enrolled in this course will alternate back and forth between the printmaking and glass spaces. In addition to vitreography exercises, assignments will include pyrographic drawings and glass capsules and the course will culminate with salon-style installations of created and found objects.

DECONSTRUCTING ART & DESIGN IN THE LIVED ENVIRONMENT

with Nia Easley & Ashley M. Freeby

PRINT | 667 001 | 1.5 CREDITS $100 LAB FEE | JULY 23 - 29 students will be challenged to consider the overlap between the skills we use to create art and those designated as design. We will review the basic concepts of art and design, comparing the language that is used in each discipline to define those concepts such as: audience, aesthetics, composition, etc. We will think through ideas around Gesamtkunstwerk - or “total design” - as seen in the ideologies behind art nouveau, de stijl, bauhaus and others. We will spend time observing the campus, actively looking at the designed elements around us like the iconic Ox-Bow burials and assortment of hand-painted signs scattered around campus. Then we will use the Ox-Bow campus to supply the raw materials which we will bring back into the studio to create 2-D work using slow processes (i.e., collagraph, monotype, collage, screenprinting, cyanotype, anthotype, etc.) The class will culminate in addressing a design issue on the grounds as a group project without the use of digital technology.

LITHOGRAPHY: STONE & PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY

with Danny Miller & Kristina Paabus

PRINT | 637 001 | 3 CREDITS $200 LAB FEE JULY 30 - AUGUST 12

This fast-paced course is designed for both beginners and advanced artists, and will be offered in a two-week sequence. Week one focuses on traditional methods with stone lithography, and week two introduces students to photomechanical lithography using both hand-drawn and digital processes. Students are encouraged to investigate personal directions in their work as they explore lithographic possibilities through editions and unique variants. Emphasis will be placed on both conceptual and technical development, and additional demonstrations will be added based on the specific interests and needs of the participants. Class consists of demonstrations, presentations, work time, discussions, and critiques. Historical and contemporary lithographic examples will be presented in order to clarify the relationships between idea, context, material, and process.

(left to right) 1. Jessica Gatlin, Abode: Contemporary Art & Craft Exhibition Space, Tithes & Offerings, 2021, artworks by Abigail Lucien, Sam Dunson, Anna Wehrwein, and TaO, size variable; 2. Brandon J. Donahue, Basketball Bloom (NCAA Mask), 2017, searched for and found basketballs, shoestrings, 3 x 4 x 2 ft. ; 3. Madeleine Aguilar, door bell, 2021, steel pipe, nylon mason line, and wooden mallet, 8x 2 1/2 x 1 in.; 4. bex ya yolk, Origami Diamond Book, 2020, Neenah 80 lbs cardstock paper, book cloth, book board, linen 18/3 thread, PVA, Velcro, 16 3/4 x 3 in. (extended); 5. Danny Miller, Zombie Satellite #1, 2022, crayon, acrylic and graphite on paper, 22 x 18 in.; 6. Kristina Paabus, Impossible Too, 2021, wood lithography, aquatint, and screenprint, 24 x 20 in.; 7. Nia Easley, It's Just OK, 2019, billboard, printed ephemera, walking tour, website, photograph by Milo Bosh; 8. Ashley M. Freeby,Segment 091 dedicated to LaTanya Haggerty who we lost on June 4, 1999 in Chicago, IL at age 26