Solar Plate Etching:
Printing 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: $105.00
Non-Member Pricing
Member Pricing: $126.00
Course Agenda
Week 1: Demo on creating transparencies, exposing plates, and developing plates. Additional demo on printing the plates and curating prints
Week 2: Class time devoted to students working on their transparencies and exposing/printing their plates
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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Magnet for printing 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 and drawing materials
2 Day Class
August 22nd 10am-1pm
August 29th 10am-1pm
Level of Study:
All Levels
Class Fee
Member Pricing: $105.00
Non-Member Pricing
Member Pricing: $126.00
2 Day Class
August 22nd 10am-1pm
August 29th 10am-1pm
Level of Study:
All Levels
About the Instructor – 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. Berrie owns and runs her own printmaking studio in Northern Kentucky, Wild Berries Press and co-runs studio collective, Spit Bite Studios, where she teaches printmaking workshops and hosts community events. 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.
