Meet artist Jacoub Reyes and learn to etch, ink, and print your designs on to paper using a foam relief printmaking technique. This project uses readily available materials to encourage participants to continue printmaking at home. For more information, please contact the library at 305-625-6424 or noelp@mdpls.org. Ages 6 - 11 yrs.
This program was made in support of the current exhibition Making Impressions: Archives, Printmaking, and Robert Blackburn on view at the branch. Funding for the exhibition and this program are made possible through the James L. Knight Foundation and Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs division in connection with the Vasari Project archive and to support the Miami Art Timeline project. Materials provided thanks to sponsor Speedball.
About the Artist:
Jacoub Reyes is a printmaker and installation artist based. His work focuses on his Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds. Reyes uses found materials and object to create his art and encourages his students to do the same. Reyes conducts printmaking workshops locally and internationally.
About the Vasari Project:
The Vasari Project is a library collection dedicated to documenting, collecting, and preserving Miami-Dade County's art history from 1945 to the present. It is a living archive that grows through contributions from artists, art professionals, exhibition spaces, galleries, institutions, and private donors.
The Vasari Project is a resource for ongoing research, scholarship, publications, artists' projects, exhibitions, and events. The archive collects documentation rather than original works of art composed primarily of printed matter: correspondence, press clippings, photographs, posters, books, exhibition catalogs, artists' files, oral histories, and other ephemeral materials.
About the Division of Special Collections & Archives:
Miami-Dade Public Library System's Division of Special Collections & Archives holds rare and irreplaceable historical materials for the benefit of the public and scholarly community. They oversee the Helen Muir Florida Collection, 16mm Film Collection, Cuban Collection of Rare Books & Ephemera, Genealogy Collection, Vasari Project archive, and Rare & Antiquarian books from as early as the 17th century. The Division aims to provide the public with the contents of these collections at their request, which include books, original manuscripts, over 18,000 photographs, prints, artifacts, audiovisual resources, and electronic media.
AGE GROUP: | Families | Children (6-11) |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Collections | In-Person | Arts & Crafts |