Introduction to Block Print: Plants, Moths and Insects

This workshop introduces you to block printing (aka relief printmaking). Students will learn the techniques of linocut carving; use printmaking inks; and generate original prints on paper (or fabric!) pulled by hand. We will have an optional theme of 'plants, moths and insects' to inspire imagery. Students will take home a series of paper prints, optional fabric pouch, and a carved block. The block can be reused again and again to print with ink on paper/fabric or can be used to transfer enamels onto flat or curved glass. (Please note: this 1-day workshop will not have access to kilns and we will not be printing on to glass).

No need to be 'good at drawing' to take this course. No experience necessary, all materials included.

*Participants age 14+ are welcome. Parents or guardians must sign up alongside participants under the age of 18.

Nikki Jabbora-Barber (she/her), a gay Seattle-based printmaker and teaching artist, was born in Bellingham, WA to a Lebanese-German mother and Anglo-Swedish father. Her work focuses on her mixed-race identity, centuries of storytelling, and womanhood through symbolic depictions of herself, flora, and fauna.