From simple do-it-yourself methods to complex unique prints, join artist Jose Luis Garcia a guided series of printmaking activities. Each participant will take a sample home. Materials will be provided. Registration is required. For more information, contact the branch at 305-625-6424 or creasyc@mdpls.org. Ages 19 yrs.+
This program was made to support the current exhibition Making Impressions: Archives, Printmaking, and Robert Blackburn, on view at the branch. Funding for the exhibition and this program is 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.
PrintPals Exchange is an educational printmaking program emphasizing and fostering community building through in-person printmaking workshops and exchanges. A print exchange is a collaborative tradition highlighting a variety of prints made by a community of printmakers to distribute democratically.
About the Artist:
Jose Luis Garcia received his BFA in Visual Art from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and his MFA in Studio Art from Florida International University. He has exhibited artwork locally in institutions and venues such as the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Coral Gables Museum, Bakehouse Art Complex, and Laundromat Art Space. Garcia has taught various educational residencies as a Teaching Artist with Arts for Learning Miami, led workshops with Miami-Dade Public Libraries' The Vasari Project, and is a Professor of Art & Photography at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, New World School of the Arts, and Broward College North Campus.
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 is located at the Main Library and 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: | Adult (19+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Collections | In-Person | Arts & Crafts |
TAGS: | In-Person | Drawing Class | Art |