Preserving and promoting the art of printmaking.
Classes
Solar Plate Etching! Fun with the Sun!
Class Description
This is a quick, introductory course to Solarplate etching: a photo process that is used to expose photographs and hand-drawn images into metal plates. The Solarplates are coated with a light-sensitve solution that will harden when exposed to UV light. Students will learn to create images and transparencies and how to expose these transparencies into the plates (using either the actual sun or the exposure unit). They will then be able to print an edition of five prints from these plates. All experience levels are welcome! No previous printmaking, drawing, or photography experience required.
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $110.00
Non-Member Pricing: $130.00
2- Day Class
August 13th 5:30-8:30pm
August 20th 5:30-8:30pm
Course Agenda
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Week 1: Demo on creating transparencies, exposing plates, and developing plates. Additional demo on printing the plates and curating prints
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Week 2: Class time devoted to students working on their transparencies and exposing/printing their plates
Levels of study: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Helpful skills: Drawing and basic understanding of printmaking
Topics Covered
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Creating transparencies for Solarplate etching
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Exposing and developing the plates
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Printing the plates
Supplies
Materials List (provided by class fees)
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Solarplates
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Brush to wash plates
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Exposure unit
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Ink
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Paper
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Cheesecloth/tarlatan
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Transparency film
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Pens to draw on film
Materials List (student brings)
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Sketchbook
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Pens, pencils, tools for drawing
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Photographs/digital files to work from
Stephanie Berrie
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 Senior Lab Associate of the printmaking lab at the University of Cincinnati and part-time print professor. Berrie 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.
Screenprinting of the Political Visual Arts from Mexican Printmakers
Class Description
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $145.00
Non-Member Pricing: $175.00
3-Day Class
July 12 from 1-4pm
July 26 from 1-4pm
July 27 from 1-4pm
Levels of study: Beginner, intermediate, advanced, intermediate
Helpful skills: Screen printing basics, basic drawing skills
Topics Covered
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Mexican printmaking history
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Basics of screen printing
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Translating linocut to screenprint
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Political art in Chicano artwork
Course Overview
Get inspired to create political screen printed work inspired by post-Mexican revolution printmakers!
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Study political posters, newspapers, and more that Mexican printers have used to convey their message and protest against authority
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Learn to work creatively on how to convey a message you are passionate about via methods used by Mexican printmakers from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
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Create visual impact within the limitations of a few colors and a brief timeline, while also learning to create an impactful piece inspired from Mexican political prints
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Take your artwork from digital final to print (pre-press and separations)
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Learn the basic rules and best practices of photo emulsion screen printing
Supplies
Materials List (provided by class fees)
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Screens – various ink colors (especially black)
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Paper – newsprint
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Squeegee
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Emulsion
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Printer – to print clear sheets
Materials List (student brings)
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An issue you are passionate about
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A drawing you’d like to print (optional)
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Your own paper (optional)
Abril Huerta
Abril Huerta is an artist and printmaker from Cincinnati, Ohio that also works at the Fairfield Lane Library doing meaningful, diverse programming. She runs her studio, GoreCat Illustrations from Essex Studios and specializes in illustration, comic art, screen printing, and murals to create images that display her experience as a queer Latina living in today’s world. Her emphasis on Chicana and horror artwork has been a recent muse for her that drives her artwork to be much more personal and political.
Recent Work
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Drawing the Landscape for Printmaking
Class Description
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $100
Non-Member Pricing: $120
3-Day Class
July 24, July 31, Aug 7
Thursdays 6-8 pm
Levels of study: Beginner, intermediate
Helpful skills: Sketch book practice, experience in some form of printing medium
Course Overview
We will go over basic principles of composition, foreground, middle ground, background, value study, mark making, perspective. Students will be prepared to transfer their images to a printing plate.
Supplies
Materials List (student brings)
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Sketch pad 9x12”
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Ebony pencil
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Kneadable eraser
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Pencil sharpener
Mary Woodworth
Mary has most recently been teaching at the Jewish Community Center. She has a Master of Arts degree in art education and has been a Tiger Lily member for 26 years.
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.