Red Press Collaborative
Red Press Collaborative
The Red Press Collaborative is an annual event that hosts a celebrated printmaker for one week to work with Department of Art students. During that time, a limited-edition print is created in collaboration between our visiting artist and YSU art students. The final print is then made available for ownership via donation of $125.
Each print from the collaboration will be signed, numbered, and fully documented. All contributions go directly to the funding of various events within the printmaking program, including our study abroad program, student trips to printmaking conferences and exhibitions, equipment, and the annual print collaboration itself.
Print collaboration in its tradition has fostered relationships between professional artists and students while utilizing the most contemporary and comprehensive printmaking concepts and techniques available. At YSU, the Red Press Collaborative serves as a means towards creating these interactions and educating future fine art printmakers.
For more information about YSU’s Red Press Collaborative program, please contact professor of art Joseph D’Uva.
Recent Artists
2024 -2025
Michael Weigman
Michael Weigman, based in Columbus, explores a personal mythos in his work, combining elements of his suburban upbringing, obsession with history, and fascination with subcultures in extreme metal music. He utilizes printmaking as his primary medium due to its legacy as a mass communication device for the working class.
2023-2022
Jeffrey Sippel
Jeffrey Sippel’s imagery is best expressed through floral motifs. Due to the spontaneity of his art, the resulting pieces feature abstract shapes and are dependent on him achieving balance between the concept of illusion and the evocative quality of abstract mark making.
2021-2022
Richard Repasky
Richard Repasky is a Chicago-based stone lithographer, educator, and artist. Working as a coordinator and faculty member in printmaking in the Department of Art and Architecture at Harold Washington College, Repasky is also the founder of Arbing Editions, an invitational, part-time workshop dedicated to collaborative, hand-printed, original lithography projects.