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Sampler Session: Drypoint
Jul
24
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Drypoint

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Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio. 

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Multi-Session Workshop: Reductive Screen Printing
Aug
19
to Sep 23

Multi-Session Workshop: Reductive Screen Printing

Expand the bounds of your screen printing practice with a new technique that’s sure to challenge and inspire the way you approach your imagery moving forward. Learn how to translate your full color photographs or drawings into intricate screen prints through reverse thinking and painterly strokes with the reductive process!

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Multi-Session Workshop: Introduction to Woodcut Relief
Oct
13
to Nov 17

Multi-Session Workshop: Introduction to Woodcut Relief

This class is for those who are interested in exploring the expressive potential of the woodcut/relief print. The emphasis of the class will be on developing individual vision and approach, and at the conclusion of this course, students will have a solid understanding of the medium with the goal of being able to continue to develop their work independently beyond the classroom.

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Sampler Session: Relief
Jul
17
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Relief

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In this workshop, participants will carve away the areas they want to remain white on a soft, easy-to-cut block. The image will be printed from the raised surfaces left on the block after carving. Relief printing is the oldest form of printmaking, and these prints are characterized by their bold contrast between light and dark areas.

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Sampler Session: Water Soluble Monotypes
May
29
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Water Soluble Monotypes

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Water soluble monotypes are a form of printmaking that uses water-soluble crayons and watercolor paints. Participants use these materials to paint and draw on a plexiglass plate. The paints are allowed to dry and are then printed on an etching press using damp paper. Wet paper reactivates the water-soluble materials and results in a vibrant impression. This form of monotype is the form of printing we offer that is closest to drawing and painting. 

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Sampler Session: Linoleum Relief
May
15
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Linoleum Relief

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In this workshop, participants will carve away the areas they want to remain white on a linoleum block. The image will be printed from the raised surfaces left on the block after carving. Relief printing is the oldest form of printmaking, and these prints are characterized by their bold contrast between light and dark areas.

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Sampler Session: Drypoint
May
8
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Drypoint

Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio. 

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Sampler Session: Drypoint
Mar
20
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Drypoint

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Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio. 

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McKnight Gallery Conversation
Mar
15
5:00 PM17:00

McKnight Gallery Conversation

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saturDAY, March 15

5-6pm

FREE! FREE! FREE!

Please join us at Highpoint on Saturday, March 15 at 5pm for a gallery conversation with McKnight Fellows Grace Sippy and Fidencio-Fifield Perez. The conversation will be moderated By Teréz Iacovino.

About the guest moderator: Teréz Iacovino (she/her) is an artist, educator, and the Assistant Curator of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. As a First-Gen graduate working in academia her curatorial mission is to cultivate empathy for, give voice to, and take risks with underrepresented artists. Iacovino is the recipient of a Curatorial Research Fellowship Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is a 2024 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute Fellow. She is currently co-organizing Vaivén: 21st Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora (September 9 - December 6, 2025) with José López Serra, a multidisciplinary exhibition that gathers forty-three intergenerational artists of Puerto Rican descent working from the archipelago and its stateside diaspora over the last twenty-five years.

Within her own artistic practice, Iacovino's recent works function as a chain of unique installations, combining objects, text, and collage, that explore ways to process loss, map time, and negotiate familial history. Her current investigations explore familial estrangement within the Puerto Rican Diaspora coupled with an inherited colonial legacy spanning over half a century. She draws from objects and photographs that document these two intertwined histories, examining questions of authenticity and inheritance in relation to a diasporic consciousness.

Teréz Iacovino


TYhis event is made possible through the generous support of the McKnight Foundation. The McKnight Foundation is a family foundation based in Minnesota that seeks to advance a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive.

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Sampler Session: Emulsion Screenprint
Feb
27
6:00 PM18:00

Sampler Session: Emulsion Screenprint

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For this class, students will create a drawing on frosted Dura-lar with paint markers (positives). Screens are pre-coated with a photosensitive emulsion, and the positives are used to expose an image on the screen. The unexposed emulsion is washed out, leaving the image on the screen. This is the most common form of screenprint, as similar methods are used for commercial screenprinting.

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