In this four-day workshop, students will learn how to use the silkscreen process to create hand-printed multiples of an original image. Silkscreen is an exciting art-making technique with a rich history and a diversity of applications: from fine art prints to t-shirt designs, protest posters, and beyond. Students in this course will be exposed to a variety of historical and contemporary examples of silkscreen printing and will use these examples as inspiration as they design and print their own original artworks. Students are encouraged to investigate their own interests and ideas when developing their subject matter for the project. Technical skills learned will include both digital and hand-cut film stencil making, the photo-exposure process for transferring images onto screens, color theory when mixing inks, proper printing techniques, and correct registration of multiple color layers within a single print.
Students will leave the class with an exciting new skill set and a stack of editioned original prints!
Instructor
Mary Claire Becker holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, a Certificate of Book Arts from the UI Center for the Book, and a BFA from UNC Asheville. Her artworks use printmaking, sculpture, and video animation to explore fetishization of landscape as “other” in industrialized cultures. These creations rearrange and re-contextualize human-made depictions of Nature, drawing inspiration from plastic house-plants, bucolic social media posts, Hudson River School paintings, and more. She has shown nationally at venues such as Tippetts and Eccles Gallery at Utah State University, the Stanley Museum of Art’s First Friday series (Iowa City, IA), Visions West Contemporary (Livingston, MT), the New York Center for Book Arts, Blue Spiral 1 (Asheville, NC), and Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). She taught as Instructor of Record at the University of Iowa from 2016-2019 and as Central Michigan University’s Barstow Artist-In-Residence for the Fall 2019 semester. In 2020, Mary Claire received the of University of Wyoming’s Inky Paper Award and Sheridan College’s Theodore Waddell Award. She has been an artist in residence at the Jentel Artist Foundation in Wyoming, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska, and the Lakeside Laboratories AIR program in Iowa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at OSU.
Class Time
August 1st-4th
Tuesday - Friday, 1:00-4:00pm
Tuition
$175.00
August 1st-4th
Tuesday - Friday, 1:00-4:00pm
Tuition
$175.00
Ages
14-18
All Supplies Included
Students need to wear closed-toe shoes and clothes that can get messy. Students are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle with the student’s name on it.
