Grace Sippy, Tower, photolithograph
Due to public health recommendations, this class will be rescheduled for Spring/Summer 2021. Stay tune for dates!
Photolithography from Hand-made Imagery
Dates: Tuesdays: January 5, 12, 19, 26, February 2 & 9; 6:00-9:00p.m. Saturdays: January 23 & Februrary 6; 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.
Ages: 18+; for beginning students
Cost: $345 (10% discount for HP members)
Registration: Deadline is December 28
Enrollment: Maximum 5
Instructor: Grace Sippy
In photolithography, an image (hand-made or digitally output) is exposed onto a thin, UV sensitive plate. The plate is then developed through a specific process and printed using a lithographic press. This type of lithography is well suited for the printmaker who has been apprehensive about learning lithography, or for someone who is new to printmaking altogether. It is also a great course to simply add another technique to your printmaking gamut! This class will introduce the fundamentals of photolithography with a focus on hand-drawn imagery. The course will begin by highlighting examples of photolithography and the techniques and materials used to create hand-based positives. Participants will learn plate exposure, developing, printing, troubleshooting and will be given the opportunity to complete a small edition of their own photolithograph by the end of the course.
Please note, while the use of photographic and digitally- derived imagery will be touched on, these will not be the focus or approach of the instruction.
About the Instructor:
Grace Sippy grew up in small-town Swisher, Iowa as the only artist in a family of scientists, medical professionals, and engineers. She earned her BFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa, and an MFA in Printmaking at the University of Alberta. Grace has taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, as well as various workshops and demonstrations. As Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Grace taught introductory through advanced level printmaking courses, and she has experience teaching each of the main printmaking disciplines.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally. This year she exhibited in the China Printmaking Museum in Guanlan, China, a group show titled “Stones From Other Mountains”, and in the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art for the museum’s “International Printmaking Biennial: ROC 2020”.
As a Highpoint Jerome Emerging Printmaker 2019-20, Grace has been focusing on using toner as a drawing medium for screenprinting and photolithography, creating prints on thin, lightweight, Asian paper. Generally her work is inspired by psychoanalysis and an interest in seeing what is possible in printmaking as a field, often creating hybrid prints. The body of Jerome work features humanoid figures, exploring what cannot be said in words, or what she does not wish to say through words, touching on themes of disintegration, doubles, the Grotesque, vulnerability, and conflict.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration may be completed by calling Highpoint at 612-871-1326 or emailing info@highpointprintmaking.org. Registrations are finalized upon receipt of payment.
If payment is not received within one business week your place in the class will not be reserved.