Alexandra McClay
About
Alex McClay lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio as an interdisciplinary artist, an instructor in Printmaking at the University of Cincinnati and the 2022 Artist-in-Residence at Tiger Lily Press. She graduated with an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Georgia in 2021. She received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Cincinnati in 2014. She was a Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina from 2016-2018, where she studied craft in many forms, including textiles, metals, printmaking, book arts and papermaking. Her current practice engages language, material, and the human body to question and disrupt the power dynamics present in our most intimate and vulnerable spaces. Her work has been included in multiple exhibitions and venues across the United States, including SPRING//BREAK Art Show (NYC), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL), Weston, Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), ArtSpace (Raleigh, NC), Haggerty Gallery (Dallas TX), and Robert C Williams Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta, GA).
Alex McClay teaches art through demonstrations, readings, critiques, and conversations with students. She teaches various forms of printmaking, including screen printing, letterpress, intaglio, relief, and monoprinting techniques. She also teaches book arts, papermaking, and basket weaving.
Make Your Own Sketchbook: Coptic Bookbinding
Online group class with Alex McClay
Starts January 9 - Learn more and sign up
