Poster Printing Workshop
Learn by Doing Workshop Series: Grafica Popular / Passion Posters
Teacher: Eduardo Arenas @lacocinaloca
Learn to screen print posters
Saturday, November 9, 2024
2:00 - 5:00 pm
In this workshop, students learned the basic language and technique of serigraphy, a printing process known as screen printing.
We provided the tools and process guidance to create a poster designed around the issues you are passionate about.
Grafica Popular
Central to this Taller/workshop is “Grafica Popular” or “popular printmaking,” a twentieth-century popular movement in Mexico in which artists and activists use hand-printed posters to challenge the status quo and raise awareness around socio-political issues of the time.
Outside the constraints of corporate or commercial design, popular printmaking confronts the frequency of digital technologies and the corporate control of visual spaces and allows us to speak our mind through print.
No prior printing experience is needed. Beginners are welcome!
Teacher: Eduardo Valadez Arenas
Eduardo Valadez Arenas is a Mexican mixed-media artist based in Oakland. He is the founder of Taller Graficante, a graphic arts studio that offers free and sliding scale workshops for nonprofits and community organizations throughout the Bay Area. Their mission is to support POC and Indigenous artists through the production of graphic posters of their work and message.
Some students returned to the shop for Open Studio Night (Tuesdays from 5 - 9pm) to continue printing with the screen they made in class, and either brought their own t-shirts to print on or purchased a few blanks from Sunset. We’ll save screens for up to a month when we’ll reclaim them to use again for a new stencil. Or they can be purchased and taken home.
