Relief Print to Book Art
Jeanine Coupe Ryding and Myungah Hyon
1 week course || PRINT 650 001 || 1 credit hours || Lab Fee: $50

Participants will learn to carve and print wood block narratives that are bound into book forms. Using the relief print and some writing, participants will learn single sheet, saddle stitch, perfect and accordion style bookbinding. The binding style of each book is considered with regard to the content it is presenting. Through examples and demonstrations students will learn about papers, using the tools of relief printmaking, as well as tools and materials of bookbinding. Emphasis is on content, self expression, and acquiring skills. No prior experience necessary, writers welcome.

FACULTY

Jeanine Coupe Ryding’s prints and artists books are in museum and private collections in the U.S, Europe and Japan. Her work focuses primarily on woodcut prints, etchings, artist’s books, drawing, and collage. She founded both Shadow Press and Press 928 in Evanston, Illinois for fine art printing and publishing. She received her BA degree from The University of Iowa and her MFA from the Universitat der Kunste, in Berlin, Germany. Jeanine has received various awards and residencies including Illinois Arts Council Award, Arts Midwest Grant, Frans Masereel Center residency in Belgium and Anchor Graphics residency in Chicago. She has been teaching in the Printmedia Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1991.

Myungah Hyon is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned her BFA from the Ontario College Of Arts and Design and MFA from SAIC. She has exhibited at Printed Matter Inc., NY; Kookmin Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea; Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL; William A. Koehnline Gallery, Des Plaines, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, IL; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL; Gallery 312, Chicago, IL and earned awards from The Community Artist Assistant Program, City of Chicago; Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture; and Arts Council Korea. Her most recent publication is titled Book Book, Dreamer FTY (Publisher).

Lithography: Stone and Photolithography
Danny Miller 
PRINT 635 002 || 1 credit hour || Lab Fee $50

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.

FACULTY

Danny Miller is an artist and musician working in Chicago, IL.  Utilizing woodblock, lithographic printing and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, Victorian engravings, advertisements, comic books and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SAIC and Ox-Bow School of Art and has been the Printmedia Department Manager at SAIC for 30 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.

Lithography: Stone and Photolithography
Danny Miller 
PRINT 637 001 || 3 credit hours || Lab Fee $100

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.

FACULTY

Danny Miller is an artist and musician working in Chicago, IL.  Utilizing woodblock, lithographic printing and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, Victorian engravings, advertisements, comic books and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SAIC and Ox-Bow School of Art and has been the Printmedia Department Manager at SAIC for 30 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.

Lithography: Stone and Photolithography
Danny Miller 
PRINT 635 001 || 1 credit hour || Lab Fee $50

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.

FACULTY

Danny Miller is an artist and musician working in Chicago, IL.  Utilizing woodblock, lithographic printing and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, Victorian engravings, advertisements, comic books and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SAIC and Ox-Bow School of Art and has been the Printmedia Department Manager at SAIC for 30 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.

Uniquely Printed Multiples: The Impossible Task of Monotype Mastery 
Leah Mackin
1 week course || PRINT 657 001 || 1 credit hour || Lab Fee: $50

This course is an exploration and investigation of various approaches to the foundational printmaking process of monotype, with the explicit goal of generating a large quantity of printed works that realize the unlimited potential of a print. Utilizing both press-based, silkscreen, and hand-printing techniques, students will incorporate drawing, painting, stencils, photographic image transfers, and found materials. Production will be paired with critical dialogue concerning content and transformation of prints into book forms, serialized images, and sculptural installations. Study of historic and contemporary approaches to the monotype process include looking at examples of printed works by artists such as Tracey Emin, Alison Saar, Shlomith Haber-Schaim, Milton Avery, and Henri Matisse. Readings to provide framework for discussions include a poetic inquiry by Richard Tuttle and a comprehensive history of the medium - The Monotype: The History of a Pictorial Art by Carla Esposito Hayter. Through experimentation and practice of the variety of techniques covered, students should expect to complete multiple works, or even a series of works, to be presented in-progress at a mid-course critique and a final critique.

FACULTY

Leah Mackin is a visual artist who explores themes of reflection, response, and re-creation. She has received a number of awards, scholarships and honors, including a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency, an Artist’s Book Residency Grant at the Women’s Studio Workshop, both a Fall Residency Award and a LeRoy Neiman Scholarship to attend the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, and a solo show award as a finalist in The Print Center’s 90th Annual Competition. Mackin holds an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Printmaking + Book Arts from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is currently a faculty member at the Book Arts Center at Wells College in Aurora, NY.

Screenprinting: Improvisation and Control
Sonnenzimmer (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi)
2 week course || PRINT 638 001 || 3 credit hours || Lab Fee: $100

Over this two week course, students will be introduced to the screenprinting process through an improvisational approach to print production. Rather than reproducing preplanned images, students will be challenged to sculpt images with compositional and conceptual integrity by harnessing the additive and modular nature of the process. A variety of hand and photographic stencil making techniques will be demonstrated and encouraged.

FACULTY

Sonnenzimmer is the collective output of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi. Their work explores the contemporary and historic impact of the graphic impulse through publishing, exhibitions, graphic design, and performance. While the duo works in an array of media, their focus is on triangulating a deeper understanding of the role of graphic expression at large. In addition to their self-driven work, Sonnenzimmer actively engages in commissioned projects aiming to reshape preconceived notions of the graphic arts. Their work has been shown in The United States, Brazil, China, and Europe; with recent solo exhibitions at Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and Hatch Show Print in Nashville, Tennessee.