Stephanie Hunder is a Minnesota artist and arts educator who creates with ink, paper, and light. Her current work studies human relationships to the natural world through botanical and scientific iconography, combining photographic and digital techniques with traditional printmaking processes. Creating content through process and the importance of hands-on research are a focus in her teaching. She received her BFA and MA from the UW–Madison, and her MFA from Arizona State; she currently teaches at MCAD and the UM Twin Cities. Hunder was recently awarded the McKnight Printmaking Fellowship for 2025, and has upcoming exhibitions at ArtHaus in Decorah, Iowa, and Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis.
Program Offerings
Workshop
Botanical Blueprints
In this workshop, we explore natural shapes and patterns using the cyanotype process. In this beginner-friendly process, each person can paint the cyanotype light-sensitive coating onto paper in simple ways or with expressive brush strokes. Participants gather or choose their own botanical material to make creative designs using the sun to expose the image; it is then washed in a clean water bath to produce the brilliant blue image. Photographic negatives, digital prints, drawings, or writing can also be included if desired, as well as simple toning with tea to create a range of colors from blue to brown.
Duration: 1–2 sessions, 2–3 hours; Participant Type: Middle School (5-8), High School (9-12), Folks with Disabilities, Teens & Young Adults, Adults, Older Adults – General, Older Adults – Memory Care, Intergenerational, Educators
Natural Impressions: Collagraph Monoprints
Bringing people in literal contact with nature is proven beneficial for mental health, and deepens our relationship with the world around us. In this workshop, printmaking becomes an exciting way to translate tactile information into visual messages. Relief printing records surface textures from natural objects such as leaves and grasses onto paper with ink through touch. Materials gathered from nature are documented to create an exquisite image. This workshop can be customized for one-hour to several hour workshops and can be adapted for a wide variety of learners.
Duration: 1-2 sessions, 2-3 hours; Participant Type: Middle School (5-8), High School (9-12), Folks with Disabilities, Teens & Young Adults, Adults, Older Adults – General, Older Adults – Memory Care, Intergenerational, Educators
Residency
Translating the Forest: Collagraph prints of leaves and natural objects
Bringing people in literal contact with nature is proven beneficial for mental health, and deepens our relationship with the world around us.
In this residency, printmaking becomes an exciting way to translate tactile information into visual messages. Relief printing records surface textures from natural objects such as leaves and grasses onto paper with ink through touch. Materials gathered from nature are documented to create an exquisite image. This artform can be adapted for a wide variety of learners.
Projects explored over several sessions are customizable and could include prints ranging from large and complex to small and simple. Colors and paper can have options or be preselected. Professional grade oil-based inks and a large press can be used, or non-toxic water-based ink printed by hand. Projects can also be explored through cyanotype or silkscreen with minimal set up. For example, each learner can make one print; or, they can experiment with different colors, objects, and layering over several sessions. Alternative ways to print and new materials could also be explored.
