Monoprint Meditations / Hathaway Brown
2024
Shaker Heights, OH
Young Artists and Writers Festival: A mono screen printing workshop, meditating on the energy and ideals we wish to embody within ourselves and bring into our worlds. Working with juicy one-of-a-kind color blends, drips, drags, pulls, and handmade mark making, we created colorful and painterly mono prints with textual imagery centered around our collective reflections. We created individualized posters and wearable clothing items, as well as collaborative group printed bandanas.
Palestine Poster Print Sessions
2024
Cleveland, OH
Two communal screen printing sessions held at the APE MADE studio, creating posters together - to be sold to raise funds for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
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collabXchange
2023-2024
Cleveland, OH
Pilot program for this collaborative artist exchange with Jordan Lee.
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Anne Kibbe Residency for Women / FIG
2022
Cleveland, OH
I was happy to work one-on-one as a screen printing instructor to the talented Nathalie Bermudez, Future Ink Graphics’ inaugural Anne Kibbe Residency for Women artist.
KSU + SCAD Professional Practices Presentations
2022
Kent, OH + Virtual
Two lovely sessions reflecting on and sharing my 10+ year journey as a self-employed artist and entrepreneur with art school students nearing graduation. It was a real treat to go back to my alma mater (KSU) and work with former professors for these. Held both in-person and virtually.
Akron All Star Weekend Print Pop-Up
2022
Akron, OH
Screen printing pop-up for All Star Weekend at the Summit Lake Community Center in Akron. Thanks to UNKNWN, Nike, and all involved.
Print For The People Screen Printing Course / CIA
2019
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art, Continuing Education 8-week Screen Printing 101 class, where students learned the full screen printing process from start to finish, how to hand print onto both paper and fabric with water-based inks, and how to separate layers and register multi-layer prints. Emphasis on and discussion of the history of printmaking as a tool for social change included a preliminary overview of printmaking and it’s shaping of history, with specific printed examples from abolition, suffrage, independence, revolutionary, civil rights, workers and union rights, peace/anti-war, feminist, environmental, and LGBTQ movements. Individual breakouts of iconic symbols within these movements were explored as well as the role of state-sponsored propaganda and public service announcements.
POP! Screen Printing Class
2019
Cleveland, Ohio
A quick one night workshop class with the Cleveland Museum of Art Studio Workshops, where students learned the basics of screen printing and how to hand pull screen prints onto both paper and fabric with water-based inks while exploring layering and colors inspired by Pop Art. The workshop included a visit to the museum gallery to view Warhol’s ‘Marilyn x 100’, a presentation on the history and evolution of Pop Art with emphasis on specific artists and discussion of the techniques used in creating different artworks.
Printmaking Teaching Instruction
2014-Present
APE MADE Studio / Zygote Press / CIA / Youth Programs
Cleveland, Ohio
Since 2014, I have taught a variety of printmaking workshops, primarily focusing on screen printing. Classes have been held at the APE MADE studio, Zygote Press, the Cleveland Institute of Art, as well as with local youth organizations. Ages of students typically range from middle school to adult.
Westside Boys and Girls Club and Esperanza Workshops / Creative Fusion
2015
Cleveland, OH
I worked with Chilean visiting artist, Mauricio Cortés Fuentes, while he stayed at Zygote Press in Cleveland for 3 months through the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program. Creative Fusion was an artist residency program that partners international artists with local arts organizations with the goal of maximizing the cultural exchange between artists and the community.
While here, I assisted Mauricio's workshops with the after-school Esperanza group and at the Westside Boys and Girls Club, conducting both engraving and enameling workshops.
ArtWorks / Summer Youth Apprenticeship Program
2014
Cleveland, OH
I worked as master teaching artist for a group of 11 teens over a 6-week full-time Center For Arts-Inspired Learning program, teaching the basics of printmaking, with an emphasis on screen printing.
The course took two forms. First, students used their newly learned printmaking skills to create their own “mini-line” of products, which they then marketed and sold. I focused on teaching not only the technical skills needed for printing but honed in on real-world printmaking and business applications. Student apprentices received hands-on learning in all aspects of building a brand and merchandising: design, printing, production, packaging, branding, marketing, small business management, and sales.
The second component of our project was community based. Students became the teachers, leading in-person screen printing lessons with both other groups of students and in the general community. As a team, we developed a public art installation for the Gay Games – researching and illustrating designs for the AIDS Memorial Walk, focusing on the history of and educational information surrounding the disease. We printed these designs onto balloons which were then installed at the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland’s grand opening, MOCA Cleveland, and at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the AIDS Memorial Walk during the Gay Games.
Sisterhood and Stockyards School Workshops / Creative Fusion
2013
Cleveland, OH
I worked with Senegalese visiting artist, Cheikhou Ba, while he stayed at Zygote Press in Cleveland for 3 months through the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program.
I helped facilitate Cheikhou's workshops with the after-school Sisterhood girls’ group at the Westside Community House and partnered with Art House and provided workshops to 6th graders at the Stockyard Community Elementary school. These portraiture workshops explored issues of identity and self with the participants, and culminated in an art shows featuring their work at the end.
Girls Painting Project / El Salvador
2013
El Salvador
While traveling with Concern For Children, we traveled to an orphanage for older girls. We only had a short time to spend there, so instead of a mural, I led a painting workshop where the girls worked on three canvases (which would then be hung together to make a sort of “mini mural”).
Arts Alive! Youth Arts Group
2008–2012
Portage County, OH
I volunteered with the Family & Community Services after-school and summer youth arts group, Arts Alive!, for many years – often leading printmaking workshops with elementary through high school aged youth at various locations.