Making Endangered Animal Posters with Gelli-prints
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
The class met online in the late winter and early spring of 2022.
Instructor: Stephanie Stigliano
Participants: Amy Aker, Jeanne Gugino, Cheryl Herr, Katherine Hurxthal, Cecily Miller, Susan St. Maurice
Please contact the artist directly if you are interested in purchasing any of these artworks, or learning more about the animals depicted.
Amy Aker
Beautiful Bees at Work - Support bee health by planting a pesticide free garden, Layered acrylic monoprints on mulberry with hand carved stamps, 12” x14”
@amyakerart
Cecily Miller
Endangered Australian Magpie: Orange Magpie, 2022,
Monoprint, 10" x 14.5”
This is one of a series of experiments in representing the Australian Magpie. Like the rabbits I depict in other prints, these birds are so common in Australia that it is alarming to discover that they are already in danger from climate change. The population decline is not yet noticeable, as it is primarily the youngest magpies that die in heatwaves, but as the elders die out there may not be new generations to take their place.
www.cecilymiller.org
@ceciliachile
Cecily Miller
Endangered Australian Magpie: Yellow Magpie, 2022
Monoprint, 8.25" x 10.75”
www.cecilymiller.org
@ceciliachile
Jeanne Gugino
Caterpillar Shadow, Monoprints with hand cut stencil, 5” x 7”
By the numbers:
29 butteries are endangered nationwide.
6 are listed as threatened.
5 butterfly species have gone extinct since 1950 in the Unites States alone! Caterpillars become butterflies; they are not pests.
@jeanne4142
Jeanne Gugino
Lowland Gorilla, Monoprint, hand cut stamp, the actual stencils, 12” x 9” Lowland Gorillas are disappearing due to habitat loss and poaching.
@jeanne4142
Katherine Hurxthal
Little Brown Bats Emerging, Gelli-print, acrylic,11” x 14”
Little Brown Bats (myotis lucifugus)
Notes: Little Brown Bats, once widely common over North America, are
recently endangered due to white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease with no cure as yet.They are voracious insectivores, extremely important in balance of nature.
@khurx
Susan St. Maurice
Declared Extinct in 2022: Green-blossom pearly mussel, Monoprint, 14” x 11”
An elusive species, spotted just a handful of times, mostly before 1918. Dam building ruined some of its most important habitat in the headwaters of the Tennessee River; then pollution from coal mining drove it over the edge of extinction. It was last seen alive in the Clinch River in 1982. Recent research indicates that some of these freshwater mussel species can live for 100 years or more.
Amy Aker
Bee Friendly 1 - Plant a garden! Hand carved stamps on Rives BFK, Monoprint with acrylic
@amyakerart
Cecily Miller
Endangered British Rabbit: Nest, 2022, Monoprint, 13" x 13"
I was shocked to hear that an animal as common as a rabbit has become endangered in the British countryside. However, I was pleased to find that a program called "Back from the Brink" is building "brash piles" for them to hide from predators and raise their young. In this composition, I imagined a pair of rabbits in a protective space. Given that rabbits live in a matriarchal society, perhaps these two sisters watch out for each other. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/28/hope-rabbit-hotels-can-help-britains- decimated-population-bounce-back
www.cecilymiller.org
@ceciliachile
Cecily Miller
Endangered British Rabbit: Running Rabbit, 2022, Archival ink jet poster print based on monoprint, 11" x 17”
Due to a combination of habitat loss and disease, the rabbit is not as common as one would assume. A November 2021 story in The Guardian cites population decline as high as 88% in the East Midlands and 43% across the U.K. in the decade leading up to 2018.
According to Pip Mountjoy, Shifting Sands project manager at Natural England, “Rabbits are in a lot of trouble. They are actually an endangered species in their native region on the Iberian peninsula. It’s surprising for people that rabbits are important in some ecosystems. We think of them as a pest but in Britain they are a keystone species – they act as landscape
managers and a lot of other species rely on them.”
www.cecilymiller.org
@ceciliachile
Jeanne Gugino
Endangered Polar Bear, Monoprint, 5” x 7”
Polar Bears are threatened due to loss of vital sea ice habitat caused by global warming.
@jeanne4142
Jeanne Gugino
Seahorse No. 2, Monoprint, 7” x 5”
Seahorses are threatened by habitat loss and sold in massive global trade where they perish.
@jeanne4142
Katherine Hurxthal
Northern Bald Ibis, Gelli-print, acrylic,11” x 14”
Northern Bald Ibis (geronticus eremita)
Note: Handsome large bird, endangered, due to habitat loss, pesticides, and hunting. Had wide range including North Africa, Middle East, Southern Europe. Now, mostly in Morocco and Syria. Sacred to ancient Egyptians. Currently there are some successful attempts to increase population.
@khurx
Stephanie Stigliano
Snowy Owl, Gelli-print with mixed media, 14” x 10”
“With only an estimated 30,000 snowy owls left in the world, it's extremely rare to see the vulnerable species out in the wild. Seeing one in an urban setting is especially extraordinary considering they spend most of their lives in the remote Arctic.” https://www.southernliving.com/culture/activities-and-entertainment/outdoor-recreation/ animals-and-wildlife/rare-snowy-owl-spotted-washington-dc www.stephaniemahanstigliano.com
@stephaniestigliano
Amy Aker
Piping Plovers 1 - Habitat at risk in Massachusetts, Hand cut stencils on acrylic monoprint with collage, 9” x14”
@amyakerart
Amy Aker
Sea Turtle 3 - Navigating Sea Plastics, Hand carved stamp on acrylic monoprint with stencil lettering, 14” x 12”
@amyakerart
Cecily Miller
Endangered Australian Magpie: Orange Magpie, 2022,
Monoprint, 10" x 14.5”
This is one of a series of experiments in representing the Australian Magpie. Like the rabbits I depict in other prints, these birds are so common in Australia that it is alarming to discover that they are already in danger from climate change. The population decline is not yet noticeable, as it is primarily the youngest magpies that die in heatwaves, but as the elders die out there may not be new generations to take their place.
www.cecilymiller.org
@ceciliachile
Cheryl Herr
Sandpipers in Grassland, Akua ink, 14”x11”
Buff-breasted sandpipers migrate through the state of Iowa, seeking tall grass prarie where they can shelter. We need a more robust prarie development program if the buff-breasted sandpiper is to flourish.
@ctempleherr
Cheryl Herr
Sandpipers Need Praries, Akua ink,11 x 14”
@ctempleherr
Jeanne Gugino
Sea Otter, Endangered, Hand cut stamp on monoprint, 5” x 7”
Sea Otters are threatened by oil spills and pollution; their population is decreasing.
@jeanne4142
Katherine Hurxthal
Blue Ibis, Gelli-print, acrylic,11” x14”
Ibis in Morocco, Gelli-print, acrylic,11” x14”
@khurx
Stephanie Stigliano
Snow Leopard, Free, Gelli-print with suminagashi marbling and screen print, 22” x 8.5”
“Snow leopards play a key role as a top predator, an indicator of the health of their high- altitude habitat, and, increasingly, an important indicator of the impacts of climate change on mountain environments. If snow leopards thrive, so will countless other species and the largest
freshwater reservoirs of the planet.” With an estimated population at 4,00-6,500 the species is classified as vulnerable.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/snow-leopard
www.stephaniemahanstigliano.com
@stephaniestigliano