KBAI: Print Media & Photography
Photo and Transfer
June 5-18, 2026
Resident Faculty: Dadisi Curtis
Visiting Artists: Tyanna Buie and Leslie Diuguid (Du-Good Press)
The theme of KBAI Print Media and Photo 2026 is Photo and Transfer - this is intentionally open-ended and accommodates cross-disciplinary investigations. The focus will be on application of photo and transfer based techniques. Participants can use photographs or use transfer techniques to place drawn or other imagery onto a matrix. Throughout the workshop, the instructor and visiting artists will demonstrate several prints-based photographic techniques and participants will continue developing their capabilities with technical variations in printing and methodology. These techniques may include but are not limited to photo intaglio, CMYK, photo lithography, toner transfer, solar plates, toner transfer and screen printing resists. Participants will be encouraged to develop their own images and visual language through mixed media use of these processes. In addition to gaining technical competency, students will resolve their works conceptually and formally.
Non-credit Tuition Option - $1,250
Undergraduate and Graduate Credit: Undergraduate (3 credits); Graduate (3-4 credits). Standard tuition rates apply. More info available on admissions page.
Resident Faculty
Dadisi Curtis is an alum of 蹤獲扦 where he received a B.F.A. He then went on to earn the M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa in May 2022. During his time at the University of Iowa, he taught courses such as Printmaking and the Politics of Protest, and Elements of Printmaking.
Professor Curtis was a 2023 Print Fellow and Master Printer at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, and until his appointment in the School of Art, he served as the Photography Studio Technician at Pratt Munson Williams Proctor in Utica, NY. Recent Exhibitions of his work include Ultraviolet Monster Iowa City, IA. USA, Havens Inquiry , IA. USA, and the Screen-print Biennial, Opalka Gallery & Janet Turner Museum Albany, NY. USA. & Chico, CA. USA.
One of the defining characteristics of Curtis' work is the use of black light or ultraviolet light as a framework for alternative perspectives. White light is the view that most individuals reside within, this is the lens that most Americans dwell within. It adheres to a view that is generally accepted and welcome. The shift to black light is subtle but it represents a hidden view. Ultraviolet light is requiring a shift in how one views the world. It is a light that most live within, only dipping into white light when conforming is required.
Visiting Artist: Leslie Diuguid
Leslie Diuguid is a Brooklyn-based artist and printmaker best known as the founder and master printer of Du-Good Press. She earned a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 and has deep expertise in screenprinting, developed through apprenticeship and years of hands-on press. In her own practice she explores materials through found and unconventional ways of archiving its presence on screen and performing procedures to print them on surfaces. Her work combines technical precision with creative collaboration, producing fine art editions for a diverse roster of contemporary artists and contributing to major collections and exhibitions. Diuguid also teaches screenprinting at institutions like Cooper Union and is committed to expanding access to arts and fostering community through her craft.
Visiting Artist: Tyanna Buie
A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Tyanna J. Buie earned her B.A. from Western Illinois University and an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has participated in artist residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans, LA), Womens Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Project 1612 AIR (Morton, IL) and Hotel Pupik (Schrattenberg, AUT).
Buies accolades include the 2012 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant. She was also awarded the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking (University of Iowa), the 2020 Fellowship.art award through gener8tor and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.
Buie has presented several solo exhibitions including: Embodiment(s) at the Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL, Re/Faced at the South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, Improvisations, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI, and Input/Output, Materia Gallery, Detroit, MI, Revisionist History, cam.contemporarie Gallery in Chicago, IL and Now Playing! One-Off Exhibitions, Milwaukee, WI. She has also contributed to many group exhibitions including A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking Exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, Homebody, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, The Black Biennial: Sonder, RISD Chace Center Gallery, Providence, RI, Its a Fine Thing, University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, Screenprint Biennial, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY, All in the Family, University of 蹤獲扦ucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY, Reclaim/Reframe: Datasets and Cultural Visibility, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE and machinekind, Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University, Corvaillis, OR.
Additionally, Buie has also maintained a connection to the community by hosting printmaking workshops and demonstrations throughout the country. Her works have been acquired by major institutions and private collections both nationally and internationally and has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com and featured on Essayd.com and New American Paintings No. 155. Currently, Buie is an associate professor in Printmaking/graduate program director at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
Image:
Left: Leslie Diuguid, "Jessica," single color screenprint with acrylic ink on canvas 12 x 12 in. 2024
Right: Tyanna Buie, "It Girl," Screen-Print, Charcoal, hand-applied ink on multisheet paper, 76 x 62, 2024