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Serigraph Workshop with Master Printer Malaquias Montoya

Serigraph Workshop with Master Printer Malaquias Montoya
Saturday, February 25, 2017 | 1PM to 4PM

Master Printer Malaquias Montoya will introduce participants to various techniques in creating film positives for screen printing. All materials provided by Self Help Graphics & Art.

Malaquías Montoya is an American born Chicano poster artist and a major figure in the Chicano Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Montoya founded the Mexican-American Liberation Art Front and was “arguably the most influential Chicano artist collective in the movement.” Since 1989 Montoya has held a professorship at the University of California, Davis, teaching both in the Department of Art and the Department of Chicana/o Studies. He is founder of a community art center, Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) in Woodland, CA that works with at-risk youth.