Intro to Relief Printing: Block Printing a Collaborative Poster

This workshop is designed to give you introductory hands-on relief printing experience, from block carving to printing a final poster. Through this workshop, you will learn fundamental block carving techniques, and carve your own linoleum block based on a pre-designed image. Then, we will combine all participants’ blocks to create a larger combined image, and learn how to use a Vandercook printing press to print posters of the combined image. All participants will take home up to 5 copies of the collaborative print and their carved linoleum block. No experience necessary.

A materials fee covers linoleum, paper, ink, and other consumables for an introductory project.

Please note: We require all visitors to the Soapbox wear masks, regardless of their vaccination status. The instructor reserves the right to ask you to leave if you do not comply.

Dani Garcia is a printmaker specializing in linocut relief printmaking of intricate naturalist imagery. They create from a love for connecting with their physicality, and are passionate about caring for oneself as an essential part of the physical process of art-making.

Belle Handler is a disabled artist living and practicing on Lenapehoking. Her work and studio practice emerge from the intersection of lived experience with disability, and reproductive print technologies spanning from traditional letterpress printing to contemporary computer-aided design and CNC machining.

$40 for Current Members of the Soapbox/$45 for Non-Members

Plus a $15 materials fee that covers a mounted linoleum block, ink, paper, and use of our equipment.

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