Lithography: Stone & Photolithography
with Danny Miller & Kristina Paabus
PRINT 637 001 | 3 credits | $200 Lab Fee
May 26 - June 8, 2024
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.
Danny Miller is an artist and musician working in Chicago, Ilinois. Utilizing woodblock, lithography, etching, painting and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, film noir, vintage advertisements, comics and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of the Art Institute, and OxBow School of Art, and retired from the SAIC Printmedia department after 32 years. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked in professional print shops including Landfall Press, Normal Editions Workshop and Four Brothers Press, in addition to playing and teaching traditional fiddle and banjo music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago for 11 years.
Kristina Paabus (USA/EE) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and printmaker. Her work examines systems of power and control, with a focus on Soviet and Post-Soviet histories. Paabus earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and China; and her work can be found in numerous private and public collections. Recent solo exhibitions including Meanwhile at Hobusepea Galerii (Estonia) and Something to Believe In at the McDonough Museum of Art (Ohio). Paabus has participated in numerous international and domestic artist residencies, and was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at The University of Iowa, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Paabus lives and works in Ohio where she is an Associate Professor of Reproducible Media and Chair of the Studio Art Department at Oberlin College.
Danny Miller, Close, 2023, acrylic on wood panel, 11 x 14 x 1 in.
Kristina Paabus, (in the) Shadows of Debris, 2022, collagraph intaglio, linocut, and letterpress, 24 x 20 in.