Fugitive Impressions with Matiz Press

Join Matiz Press for this Riso-based workshop. Participants bring small fragments of visual meaning: pressed flowers, fabric edges, poems, photographs, ticket stubs, and gathered textures. Each is placed gently on the risograph scanner, a surface that becomes both altar and archive.

As the light passes beneath the glass, it collects what remains: outlines, shadows, texture. These impressions are not exact reproductions but echoes, material translated through the machine’s impression. Layers shift, overlap, and blur into a shared visual language.

The resulting scans form the pages of a collective zine, printed on the risograph in a single or double tone. It becomes a record of what was present for the participants: objects held, stories implied, images resting between gesture and ink.

Everyone leaves with a copy of the zine at 5.5 x 8.5 in.

Miguel Limón (b. Chicago, IL) is an image and social practice artist exploring how images, materials, and place carry memory through layered photography and printmaking. Their work draws from Midwestern Mexican-American narratives and community engagement. They are the founder of Matiz Press, a print-based initiative for risograph publishing and collective making in the Arts.

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RSVP Required. Attendance is capped at 15 people. We kindly ask that you update your RSVP if you are no longer able to join the workshop so that we can make space for someone on the waitlist.

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