Harlem Zine Lab: Xerox Transfer Workshop
About this Event
Join artist Dionis Ortiz for a hands-on workshop exploring Xerox transfer techniques as a tool for storytelling, memory, and image-making.
Participants will learn how to transfer photocopied images onto paper and experiment with layering text, photographs, and found imagery to create original zine pages inspired by Harlem’s history, culture, and personal narratives. No prior experience is required, and all materials will be provided.
Part of Still Here: Harlem Eternal, an exhibition presented in collaboration with The Harlem Defender.
Saturday, July 11
1:00–3:00 PM
Press & Pull Print Shop at the Children's Art Carnival
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
About the facilitator: Dionis Ortiz
Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the African diaspora.
He was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, received a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. He has produced several solo exhibitions in New York and his work was recently included in Estamos bien: La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo Del Barrio (New York).
Community engagement is central to his practice and he has produced projects for Harlem River Park Fund, Museum of Art and Design, and ImageNation.
In 2021 he was Artist in Residence at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling and his mural design was selected by PubliColor for an elementary school in East Harlem. His work has been featured in The New York Times several times and is included in Latinx Art: Artists, Market, and Politics by Arlene Dávila.
This community work extends to teaching and Ortiz teaches all ages from pre-K to teenagers and undergraduates at Hunter College and Cornell University.
He received his B.F.A from SUNY Purchase College and his M.F.A from CUNY Hunter College.
Still Here: Harlem Eternal is a multimedia exhibition honoring the people, histories, and cultural legacy of Harlem through photography, poetry, visual art, and film.
Organized by Defend Harlem, the exhibition responds to the ongoing effects of displacement, rising housing costs, and gentrification impacting longtime Harlem communities. Through storytelling and visual art, the exhibition highlights the voices of residents, organizers, and artists who continue to fight for the preservation of Harlem’s cultural identity and community life.
Defend Harlem is a community-based media and advocacy collective founded by The Interfaith Housing Commission for Housing Equality in partnership with Young Atlas. The collective uses visual storytelling, public programming, and grassroots organizing to advocate for housing justice in Uptown Manhattan.
Featured photographs were hand-printed by the Defend Harlem Media Team through a handmade image-transfer process using photocopies.
Exhibition on View
Friday, July 10 – Sunday, September 20, 2026
Location
The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031
Opening Reception
Friday, July 10, 6–8 PM ()
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 10.00
