2025 Summer Workshop Program

Miriam Klein Stahl Printing Our Queer & Trans Lineage June 22 to June 27, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Printmaking Materials Fee: $75.00 Open To All On-site Housing Available

This generative, collaborative workshop involves an introduction to printmaking and drawing processes using relief, papercut, lettering, and ink to create high contrast images of Queer and Trans ancestors and/or heroes. During the week, we’ll spend time researching, notating, and sharing about the ancestors and interlocutors who paved the way for us, learning an array of approaches in the studio to transform our ideas into portraits. We’ll also have the opportunity to collaborate with Andrea Lawlor’s concurrent writing workshop, ultimately pairing the culminating text and portraits from each respective workshop in a limited-edition publication published with the risograph at FAWC. Come with a project in mind or not, knowing this will be a space to uncover new possibilities in conversation with past and future queer relations. Sign up with a friend to collaborate with, or find one here! This class is open to participants with art experience and beginners alike.

Bring a sketchbook and your favorite pens and pencils. Black pens are ideal. Also bring source images of queer ancestors, friends, relatives or heroes to draw or make prints from.

Biography

Miriam Klein Stahl is a diasporist, artist, educator, activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. She works in printmaking, sculpture, paper-cut, and public art.  As an artist, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work, creating portraits of political activists, misfits, radicals, and radical movements. As an educator, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. She lives in Berkeley, California located on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone people with wife, artist Lena Wolff, their daughter, and poodle.