Printmaking Summit
Thank you for a wonderful event in 2023.
our next summit returns in 2025!
On September 9, 2023 Self Help Graphics & Art's presented its Biennial Printmaking Summit in partnership with the Eastside Print Fair, the East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Art Department and the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM).
The event bridged master printers, emerging and seasoned artists, as well as aspiring youth toward a solid foundation in printmaking. The Print Summit provided print demonstrations, workshops and prints for sale by participating local artists.
Eastside Print Fair participating artists included Ernesto Vazquez, Kalli Arte, Daniel González, Francis Robateau, Cultivarte Studios, Erick Martinez, Jimmy Saldivar, Harry Diaz, Fabrica Marrano, Cielo y Tierra Collective, Huachumalotus, Xicana Tiahui, Isela Ortiz, Other Books LA, Por La Mano Press y Arte, Viktor Rosas, Tarjetas Con Amor, Las Chicas Peligrosas, Gio Rubio, and Martha Carillo, with many more.
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print summit WORKSHOP schedule
Artist and Printmaker Sandra C. Fernandez leads a demonstration at the 2017 Printmaking Summit.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 • TIMES VARY
REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ALL WORKSHOPS
Experimental Relief Printmaking Workshop: Linocut printed on Cyanotype Paper with Teaching Artist, Viktor Rosas
1:00-2:30 pm • Meet at 12:55PM at SHG Info Table
Registration required: $15 students/ $20 General audience
This workshop invites participants to experiment and create artwork combining linocut and cyanotype processes. Participants must bring a drawing to this advanced printing workshop, allowing the group to focus on the printmaking process at the ELAC art department studio.
Papermaking Demonstration & Workshop with Teaching Artist, Usen Gandara
1:00-2:30 pm • Meet at 12:55PM at SHG Info Table
Registration required: $15 students/ $20 General audience
Join artist Usen Gandra in this fun and easy workshop and create something usable and beautiful from what would otherwise be an endless amount of junk mail, old newspapers, or magazines. Participants will use found or recycled paper material to mold sheet(s) of paper with a screen and create new sheets of paper!
Experimental Drypoint Techniques with Teaching Artist, Nguyen Ly
4:30-6:00 pm • Meet at 4:25 PM at SHG Info Table
Registration required: $15 students/ $20 General audience.
Join Nguyen Ly to learn about a printmaking technique developed in the 15th century. Drypoint allows artists to create fluid and expressive imagery by scratching a sharp needle on a metal or plastic plate. Participants will learn this printmaking process, including using the tools, inking the plates, and using a press, leaving with a unique print and contributing to a collaborative group collage.
PANEL DISCUSSION
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 • 3:00 PM-4:15PM
PANEL DISCUSSION REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Self Help Graphics Ateliers: A Legacy in Experimental Printmaking Moderated by Scholar, J.V. Decemvirale
Welcome by Jennifer Cuevas and Marvella Muro
3:00-4:15 pm • Located at VPAM Lecture Hall
As part of Self Help Graphic's 50th Anniversary suite of programs, the panel discussion will reflect on the organization's experimental silkscreen atelier program founded in 1983. Scholar J.V. Decemvirale will moderate a conversation with its past and current Master Printers Oscar Duardo, Jose Alpuche, Dewey Tafoya, and artist Barbara Carrasco to discuss the studio's 40 years, Sister Karen's vision for the studio, Stephen Grace's (SHG's first Master Printer) approach in establishing the studio, processes and techniques, and stories.
LOCATION, PARKING AND
RIDESHARE DROP-OFF
2023 Printmaking Summit and Eastside Print Fair will be hosted at the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), located on the campus of East LA College (ELAC).
Location
The Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) is located at1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez Monterey Park, CA. 91754, on the campus of East LA College. The museum is on the corner of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Collegian Ave.
Parking, Accessibility and Rideshare Drop-Off
Free parking is located on the corner of Floral Dr. and Collegian Ave. Parking is a short, two-block distance, to the museum. VPAM's accessibility and rideshare drop-off is located on Collegian Ave, at the driveway round about, in front of the museum (ELAC S1 Building).
biennial print summit and eastside print fair collaborators
