Preserving and promoting the art of printmaking.
Classes
Move it Around! Paste it Down!
Collage on a Press, 3 Day Workshop
with Maureen George and Shelley Creech
Class Description
Free yourself and your art practice! Collage is an exciting artform that allows for limitless design possibilities. Meditative or exuberant, abstract or figurative…you are in charge!
This introductory workshop will be a jam-packed, fun, hands-on printmaking experience with design guidance from two professional graphic designers turned printmakers.
Each participant can expect to leave with their own ready-to-frame colorful collage, plus a sampling of their unique, printed specialty papers.
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $180.00
Non-Member Pricing: $195.00
3- Day Class
February 8th 10am-1pm
February 15th 10am-1pm
February 22nd 10am-1pm
Level of Study: All Levels, Especially Beginners
Course Agenda
Day One: Create and print your own designs on specialty paper.
Day Two: Hone your design and composition skills. Create your collage, ink as desired, paste then print it on the press.
Day Three: Continue to explore, create and print on this workday.
Topics Covered
•Monotype printmaking techniques
•Chine collé and other collage methods using the press
•Basic design and composition theory
•Discussion of safe and sustainable practices
Supplies
Materials List (provided by class fees)
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Paper
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Inks
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Brayers
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Printing Press
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Aprons
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Cutting Tools
Materials List (student brings)
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Pencil
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Sketchbook
About the Instructors
Maureen George graduated with a BFA from Ohio State and worked as an art therapist for five years. Following that, she took design courses in Dayton, and worked in Chicago, Tampa, Los Angeles, SF Bay Area, and Washington DC. When she moved to the Bay Area, she learned monotype in Berkeley. She moved again and worked as an Associate Creative Director in DC while taking workshops in other printmaking techniques at Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA.
Shelley Creech worked as a graphic designer in New York City, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. She earned her BFA at the University of Dayton, studied painting at the Art Students League in NYC, and also taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Shelley has taken various printmaking, bookbinding and paper-making workshops at Snowfarm in Massachusetts, Arrowmont in Tennessee, Craftsummer at Miami University along with several classes at Tiger Lily Press.
Tiger Lily Press is a great local resource to obtain and maintain a full and enriching experience with traditional printmaking processes, guiding personal expression. You'll be able to tap into hands-on printmakers and artistic expertise. Many classes we offer provide you with the relevant, value-added history of each class' medium, while assisting you in interpreting the topic or medium within your own visual language. We are also committed to extending action-oriented involvement in our communities, so that printmaking touches the lives of all who become our customers. New processes and technologies are also being explored as offerings, so that trends and innovative image making can be integrated within our legacy of hand-pulled media.
Recently Completed Classes
4-Day Class: Jon Flannery
Designing and Printing the Poster
This course will give you the tools to design a beautiful AND functional poster. Posters are not paintings, they are often created in response to or in service of a current event (a concert, a call to action/protest, an annual event, etc).Therefore the poster must service its function within limited time and often limited means (budgetary limitations that directly effect the printing process). We will learn to creatively work with and against these parameters. The best posters are usually few colors, in order to serve as quick reads that leave lasting impressions.
3-Day Class: Maureen George & Shelley Creech
Collage on a Press / Move It Around! Paste It Down!
Free yourself and your art practice! Collage is an exciting artform that allows for limitless design possibilities. Meditative or exuberant, abstract or figurative – you are in charge! This introductory workshop will be a jam-packed, fun, hands-on printmaking experience with design guidance from two professional graphic designers turned printmakers. Each participant can expect to leave with their own ready-to-frame colorful collage, plus a sampling of their unique, printed specialty papers.