Alternative Printmaking

With Sarita Garcia
PRINT 606 001 | 3 credits | $150 lab fee

Specifically designed for Ox-Bow, this alternative printmaking course is a combination of etching, monotype, and relief.  It is the alternative print medium for painters, printmakers, and all two-dimensional visual artists who are looking for a tremendous range of line quality and color, as well as the opportunity to create multiples.

Sarita Garica, Estrellas, 2022, Silkscreen print on fabric, canvas, silk, and cotton, 10ft x 12ft & 10ft x 12ft

Sarita Garcia is a Chicago based artist, educator, and cultural worker, born and raised in South Tejas. Garcia holds a Master of Art in Arts Education and a Bachelors in Fine Arts with a focus in Fiber and Materials Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Garcia is a fiber artist and printmaker informed by architectural spaces of her vernacular culture. Using an image archive to talk about consumerism, identity and cultural hubs, these fantasyscapes showcase a vocabulary of iconography  as a means to empower and remix the reality of these spaces.

Garcia has exhibited work in Chicago such as the National Museum of Mexican Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Art Department, Chicago Cultural Center, Roots & Culture, Heaven Gallery, ACRE, Mana Contemporary, SITE Galleries, Laband Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA, City Gallery San Diego, CA, and Blue Star Contemporary San Antonio, Texas. Garcia has been featured on the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic and Southside Weekly. Garcia currently works as an arts administrator at the Hyde Park Art Center and holds expansive experience working alongside non-profits, cultural institutions, and artist galleries centered on art education programming.