Loisaida Inc.

La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017 - Exhibition Open
2017-04-22 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-04-21 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-04-20 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-04-15 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-04-13 12:00 - 18:00 UTC | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Exhibition Details:
Title: La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017
Exhibition Dates: April 8 – June 30 , 2017
Viewing Hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Noon to 6:00 pm
and by appointment.
Organizer:
Artmakers Inc.
For more info and media queries: Jane Weissman, ArtmakersNYC@aol.com, (212) 989-3006
Host Venue:
Loisaida Inc. Center
(646) 726-4715
710 East 9th Street, Lower East Side
New York, NY 10009 United States
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Email: info@loisaida.org

La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017 - Loisaida: Then & Now
2017-04-19 18:30 - 20:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Wednesday, April 19, 6:30-8 PM.
Panel: Loisaida: Then & Now.
With Chino Garcia, Maria Dominguez, Noah Jemisin, Kristin Reed, Seth Tobocman.
Libertad Guerra, moderator.

Exhibition Details:
Title: La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017
Exhibition Dates: April 8 – June 30 , 2017
Viewing Hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Noon to 6:00 pm
and by appointment.
Organizer:
Artmakers Inc.
For more info and media queries: Jane Weissman, ArtmakersNYC@aol.com, (212) 989-3006
Host Venue:
Loisaida Inc. Center
(646) 726-4715
710 East 9th Street, Lower East Side
New York, NY 10009 United States
+ Google Map

Email: info@loisaida.org

La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017 - Exhibition Opening
2017-04-08 15:00 - 18:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Exhibition Details
Title: La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017
Opening Date:
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Time: 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Viewing Hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Noon to 6:00 pm
and by appointment.
Organizer:
Artmakers Inc.
For more info and media queries: Jane Weissman, ArtmakersNYC@aol.com, (212) 989-3006
Host Venue:
Loisaida Inc. Center
(646) 726-4715
710 East 9th Street, Lower East Side
New York, NY 10009 United States
+ Google Map

Email: info@loisaida.org

Community Screen Printing Workshop
2017-03-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2017-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center
proudly presents:
Community Screen Printing Workshops

Workshop begun: Wednesday, March 8th
10 sessions – 1 day a week for three months
All sessions on Wednesdays
from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREE! Ages 18+

Overview:
This program aims to bring art and creative place-making opportunities to Asian and Latino immigrant communities in the city of New York. The program introduces participants to a new art form and a vocabulary that can be used to strengthen and communicate to others their understanding of their environment. This program will expose participants to careers in art and design, developing skills and abilities that have transformative for individual growth and development, community beautification and belonging, and cross-cultural understanding. Art will be the vehicle that unites members of Asian and Latino immigrant communities to discuss, create and build the artistic capacity necessary for socio-cultural change. Our goal is to create opportunities to develop important artistic skills while sharing across differences that would not otherwise be possible.
Instructor Profile:
Professional artist Mauricio Trenard, will lead workshops for the project. He has lead design/build workshops for HSC and El Puente since 2010 and has 15 years of experience teaching art in Cuba. Since arriving in the U.S. in 2000, Mauricio has created commissions for the NYC Dept. of Education, Groundswell Community Mural Project and Fifth Avenue Committee. He uses public art as an indispensable tool to show and explore aspects of social reality of interest to him and the community in which he works. His work is in private collections in Europe, Mexico and the U.S. His illustrations for Dance, Nana, Dance received the 2009 Aesop Award.

Students will learn:
• The methodology, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.
t-shirts, posters and others on similar types of material;
• How to utilize all equipment, tools, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product.
• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically, students will be encouraged to
explore issues of immigrant identity, community, and difference.

Objectives:
• To engage students in the process of exploring their individual artistic vision by
developing personal imagery;
• To create an art project generated by using iconography, social and cultural community
issues;
• To appreciate the enrichment that art brings to his/her own life experience and the
possibilities for career development;
• To create a basic artist portfolio with the work performed during the work shop;
• To develop self-motivation, self-direction and a strong work ethic;
• To think critically, work creatively and collectively across difference.

The Program
Our medium will be water-base screen printing with an emphasis on photo emulsion processes.Students will be exposed to various techniques for making silkscreen prints, will gain basic mastery of these processes, and by the end of the program, will develop a series of their own single, and multiple color edition prints. Students will be encouraged to investigate their own interests and concepts in terms of content and image making in the process of printing. Themes of cultural history and preservation, art and activism, and immigrant identity will all be explored.
Workshop Timeline:
Unit 1: Introduction to Screen Printing
Unit 2: Image Preparation
Unit 3: Screen Preparation
Unit 4: Reclaiming the Screen
Unit 5: Screen Printing Operation
Unit 6: Substrates and Inks

Unit 7: Presenting and communicating to the broader community

La Vitrina Rota - Book Presentation by Silverio Perez
2017-03-29 18:30 - 20:30 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Wednesday, March 29th at 6:30pm
Loisaida Inc. Center hosts Silverio Pérez in the presentation and signing of autographs for his new book:
La Vitrina Rota “The Broken Glass Case” or What the hell happened here?

About the book:
The broken glass case, or what the hell happened here? Is a hybrid text that takes hold of what memory is and what memory offers, it is autobiographical, and a “history-o-graphic” essay. Narrated using the most respectable seriousness, the most pure emotion and a suggestive taunt, it leaves us a text that invites reflection and calm, but also calls to action and maybe encourages a calculated rebellion. All written in a tragicomic or comedic-serious tone so typical of the picaresque narrative that accompanies the Puerto Ricans from a remote past.
What Silverio does in this intense and moving volume is to look at that long 20th century that began in 1898 and continues in 2016, the American century, in the light of a repeated “promise” unfulfilled.
Exceptional witness of the time he has lived will prepare the reader for a time where “history” and “life” converge in an enviable balance.
It is also a historical and vital responsibility, well fulfilled.
Read Press Release here.
Please RSVP, spaces are limited.

About the author:
Silverio Pérez (born July 18, 1948) is a musician, writer, comedian, entrepreneur and broadcasting media host, born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He is known for several reasons, among them:

Hosting several successful Puerto Rican television shows during his career.
Performing with the known group of political satire called Los Rayos Gamma (The Gamma Rays)[1][2]
Performing with the nueva trova group called Haciendo Punto en Otro Son.
His motivational lectures which are usually called “Humortivación” (Humortivation).

Future Now // Futura Ahora
2017-03-18 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-17 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-16 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-11 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-10 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-09 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-04 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-03 12:00 - 18:00 and 4 more dates | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Atomic Culture in collaboration with the Loisaida Inc. Center as part of the 2017 Art Residency Program at Loisaida. presents:

Future Now // Futura Ahora

Exhibition open from February 4 to March 18, 2017
Closing: March 18th, 2017 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Details:
Future Now // Futura Ahora calls to attention the movement of artists reclaiming and reconfiguring their cultural disposition and narratives with society at large. Through sound, installation, literature, and visual arts each artist presents compelling possibilities for the future by embracing and reclaiming their histories, traditions, and present-day experiences.
During Atomic Culture’s curatorial artist residency at the Loisaida Center. They will bringing together 15 artists native to the southwest United States, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California to discuss futurism and geopolitics. Futurism is not just about technology but an act of self preservation and concern toward the creation and dismemberment of invisible borders, pillaging of natural resources, and colonization. Through decolonization and reclamation of traditions, personal culture, land and natural medicine.
Within the exhibition and workshops each artist addresses these issues blending their complex histories with a contemporary perspective creating a new trajectory.
Future Now/Futura Ahora will host multiple workshops on reclaiming use of the land and the natural remedies she provides you, discussions and screenings on chicanx futurism. The exhibition serving as a catalyst to discuss and initiate thinking and being in a time of increased tension and unknown.
Artists:
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, Nani Chacon, Gilbert “Magú” Luján, Ryan Dennison, Zeke Pena, Chico MacMurtrie, Claudia X. Valdes, Ruben Ortiz Torres, William Camargo, Rick Cortez, Lindsay Kane, Delilah Montoya, Cristobal Martinez, Scott Williams, Cultural Workers, and a SSSK Distro retrospective.

CitiCien Exhibit Artist Talk
2017-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Thursday, March 16 at 6 PM – 8 PM
Join us on Thursday March 16th for an artist talk featuring many of our participating artists.
The artists will share about themselves and their artistic practice, as well as the meaning behind the artworks they created for the CitiCien exhibit.

RSVP HERE.

SPEAKING ARTISTS:
Bonafide Rojas
Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez
Melissa Montero
Vagaond Alexander Beaumont
Yasmín Hernández
Will Rosado
Juan Sanchez
Manny Vega
Jean Oyola
Shellyne Rodriguez
Other artists in attendance:
Sofia Maldonado
Daniel Alago
Nelson Host Santiago
Leenda Bonilla
Luis Pagan
Jo-El Lopez
Nia Andino
Oliver Rios

Signed in 1917 by President Wilson, The Jones-Shafroth Act granted U.S. citizenship to anyone born in Puerto Rico on or after April 25, 1898, a complex and significant turning point for the people of Puerto Rico.
Following strict visual guidelines of size and a black-and-white only palette, the exhibit’s theme is one of visual consistency and commitment, acting as a metaphor of the unified voice and solidarity of Puerto Ricans during this critical political time. Coinciding with the 100 year anniversary of the signing of the Jones Act, CITICIEN, in an effort to nurture greater solidarity and collaboration, will feature 100 Puerto Rican artists from the island and the diaspora.
Curated by Puerto Rican artist Adrián Viajero Román, DEFEND PUERTO RICO’s CITICIEN traveling exhibition will feature 100 artworks highlighting the historical and present-day impact of the Jones Act.

About DEFEND PUERTO RICO
Defend PR is a multimedia project designed to document and celebrate Puerto Rican creativity, resilience, and resistance. Recognizing the complex and dynamic landscapes that comprise Puerto Rican daily life and struggle, Defend PR seeks to deepen connections between Puerto Ricans on the island and throughout the diaspora, in the hopes of nurturing greater solidarity, collaboration, and kinship.
#CITICIENPR #DEFENDPR
Visit www.defendpr.com
www.facebook.com/Defendpr / instagram.com/defendpr

Cover photo: “Wall of Resistance” by Leenda Bonilla + Luis Pagan
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Community Screen Printing Workshop
2017-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center
proudly presents:
Community Screen Printing Workshops

Workshop begun: Wednesday, March 8th
10 sessions – 1 day a week for three months
All sessions on Wednesdays
from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREE! Ages 18+

Overview:
This program aims to bring art and creative placemaking opportunities to Asian and Latino immigrant communities in the city of New York. The program introduces participants to a new art form and a vocabulary that can be used to strengthen and communicate to others their understanding of their environment. This program will expose participants to careers in art and design, developing skills and abilities that have transformative for individual growth and development, community beautification and belonging, and cross-cultural understanding. Art will be the vehicle that unites members of Asian and Latino immigrant communities to discuss, create and build the artistic capacity necessary for socio-cultural change. Our goal is to create opportunities to develop important artistic skills while sharing across differences that would not otherwise be possible.

Students will learn:
• The methodology, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.
t-shirts, posters and others on similar types of material;
• How to utilize all equipment, tools, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product.
• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically, students will be encouraged to
explore issues of immigrant identity, community, and difference.

Objectives:
• To engage students in the process of exploring their individual artistic vision by
developing personal imagery;
• To create an art project generated by using iconography, social and cultural community
issues;
• To appreciate the enrichment that art brings to his/her own life experience and the
possibilities for career development;
• To create a basic artist portfolio with the work performed during the work shop;
• To develop self-motivation, self-direction and a strong work ethic;
• To think critically, work creatively and collectively across difference.

The Program
Our medium will be water-base screen printing with an emphasis on photo emulsion processes.Students will be exposed to various techniques for making silkscreen prints, will gain basic mastery of these processes, and by the end of the program, will develop a series of their own single, and multiple color edition prints. Students will be encouraged to investigate their own interests and concepts in terms of content and image making in the process of printing. Themes of cultural history and preservation, art and activism, and immigrant identity will all be explored.
Workshop Timeline:
Unit 1: Introduction to Screen Printing
Unit 2: Image Preparation
Unit 3: Screen Preparation
Unit 4: Reclaiming the Screen
Unit 5: Screen Printing Operation
Unit 6: Substrates and Inks

Unit 7: Presenting and communicating to the broader community

Nativa Remedies
2017-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Nativa Remedies by Celeste Casillas:

Join us Sunday, March 12th 3-5PM at Loisaida Center for our second workshop with Celeste Casillas of Nativa Remedies and other women seeking to connect with their feminine wisdom, honor their mother energy, and share sacred space.
We will discuss:
Using plant medicines to heal our bodies, balance our hormones, and ease stress and anxiety.
Connecting to the lunar calendar to understand the phases of our own cycle.
Ritualizing our life to create balance
Holistic beauty remedies
The gathering will evolve based on the interest of the group and sharing is optional.
Bring your amiga, sister, mother, a notebook and pen, a yoga mat or thick blanket.
RSVP REQUIRED

Community Screen Printing Workshop
2017-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center
proudly presents:
Community Screen Printing Workshops (CRITICAL UPDATE)

Workshop begins: Wednesday, March 8th!
10 sessions – 1 day a week for three months
All sessions now on Wednesdays!
from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREE! Ages 18+

RSVP for information session below (*REQUIRED to attend one)

Overview:
This program aims to bring art and creative placemaking opportunities to Asian and Latino immigrant communities in the city of New York. The program introduces participants to a new art form and a vocabulary that can be used to strengthen and communicate to others their understanding of their environment. This program will expose participants to careers in art and design, developing skills and abilities that have transformative for individual growth and development, community beautification and belonging, and cross-cultural understanding. Art will be the vehicle that unites members of Asian and Latino immigrant communities to discuss, create and build the artistic capacity necessary for socio-cultural change. Our goal is to create opportunities to develop important artistic skills while sharing across differences that would not otherwise be possible.

Students will learn:
• The methodology, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.
t-shirts, posters and others on similar types of material;
• How to utilize all equipment, tools, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product.
• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically, students will be encouraged to
explore issues of immigrant identity, community, and difference.

Objectives:
• To engage students in the process of exploring their individual artistic vision by
developing personal imagery;
• To create an art project generated by using iconography, social and cultural community
issues;
• To appreciate the enrichment that art brings to his/her own life experience and the
possibilities for career development;
• To create a basic artist portfolio with the work performed during the work shop;
• To develop self-motivation, self-direction and a strong work ethic;
• To think critically, work creatively and collectively across difference.

The Program
Our medium will be water-base screen printing with an emphasis on photo emulsion processes.Students will be exposed to various techniques for making silkscreen prints, will gain basic mastery of these processes, and by the end of the program, will develop a series of their own single, and multiple color edition prints. Students will be encouraged to investigate their own interests and concepts in terms of content and image making in the process of printing. Themes of cultural history and preservation, art and activism, and immigrant identity will all be explored.
Workshop Timeline:
Unit 1: Introduction to Screen Printing
Unit 2: Image Preparation
Unit 3: Screen Preparation
Unit 4: Reclaiming the Screen
Unit 5: Screen Printing Operation
Unit 6: Substrates and Inks

Unit 7: Presenting and communicating to the broader community

Project Ñ - Film Screening
2017-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
DESCRIPTION:
Loisaida Inc. & are proud to present a special screening of:
The ñ Experience, is an engaging 90-minute presentation that combines a screening of the documentary “being ñ” infused with directors cut-style commentary from the film’s star and co-director Denise Soler Cox, offering viewers a unique perspective on the film and an unforgettable live experience.
In 90 minutes, Denise leads the audience on a powerful journey of cultural self-discovery and personal reflection. The result is a heartfelt, humorous and interactive experience that offers audiences a refreshing perspective on how to talk about culture and the feelings we all share around acceptance.

DATE AND TIME

Tue, March 7, 2017
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
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LOCATION

Loisaida, Inc
710 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10009
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2017 Community Screen Printing Workshop - Rescheduled!
2017-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center
proudly presents:
Community Screen Printing Workshops (CRITICAL UPDATE)

Due to unforeseen circumstances this workshop has been re-schedule for Wednesday, March 15th!
10 sessions – 1 day a week for three months
All sessions now on Wednesdays!
from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREE! Ages 18+

RSVP for information session below (*REQUIRED to attend one)

Overview:
This program aims to bring art and creative placemaking opportunities to Asian and Latino immigrant communities in the city of New York. The program introduces participants to a new art form and a vocabulary that can be used to strengthen and communicate to others their understanding of their environment. This program will expose participants to careers in art and design, developing skills and abilities that have transformative for individual growth and development, community beautification and belonging, and cross-cultural understanding. Art will be the vehicle that unites members of Asian and Latino immigrant communities to discuss, create and build the artistic capacity necessary for socio-cultural change. Our goal is to create opportunities to develop important artistic skills while sharing across differences that would not otherwise be possible.

Students will learn:
• The methodology, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.
t-shirts, posters and others on similar types of material;
• How to utilize all equipment, tools, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product.
• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically, students will be encouraged to
explore issues of immigrant identity, community, and difference.

Objectives:
• To engage students in the process of exploring their individual artistic vision by
developing personal imagery;
• To create an art project generated by using iconography, social and cultural community
issues;
• To appreciate the enrichment that art brings to his/her own life experience and the
possibilities for career development;
• To create a basic artist portfolio with the work performed during the work shop;
• To develop self-motivation, self-direction and a strong work ethic;
• To think critically, work creatively and collectively across difference.

The Program
Our medium will be water-base screen printing with an emphasis on photo emulsion processes.Students will be exposed to various techniques for making silkscreen prints, will gain basic mastery of these processes, and by the end of the program, will develop a series of their own single, and multiple color edition prints. Students will be encouraged to investigate their own interests and concepts in terms of content and image making in the process of printing. Themes of cultural history and preservation, art and activism, and immigrant identity will all be explored.
Workshop Timeline:
Unit 1: Introduction to Screen Printing
Unit 2: Image Preparation
Unit 3: Screen Preparation
Unit 4: Reclaiming the Screen
Unit 5: Screen Printing Operation
Unit 6: Substrates and Inks

Unit 7: Presenting and communicating to the broader community

Cultural Equity Town Hall
2017-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, 10002, United States
Loisaida & The NYC Cultural Plan
Our voices ring loud town hall meeting: Wednesday, March 1st at 6:00 pm.

The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center – 107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002

Loisaida & The NYC Cultural Plan – Our Voices Ring Loud Town Hall Meeting! Loisaida Inc. leads the local cultural planning project, in partnership with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center and Teatro SEA that will ensure that Latino arts organizations, cultural workers, and residents in Lower Manhattan are heard and their recommendations included in the City’s 10 year cultural plan. Loisaida Inc. was chosen from a competitive pool of applicants as one of the winning proposals to conduct community engagement and feed-back activities around the City’s cultural planning process, which will wrap up in the late spring of 2017.

Be Heard! Participate!

This Loisaida-led Project to Help Inform New York City’s Cultural Plan is Funded by:
New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust.

2017 Community Screen Printing Workshop - Rescheduled!
2017-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center
proudly presents:
Community Screen Printing Workshops (CRITICAL UPDATE)

Due to unforeseen circumstances this workshop has been re-schedule for Wednesday, March 8th!
10 sessions – 1 day a week for three months
All sessions now on Wednesdays!
from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREE! Ages 18+

RSVP for information session below (*REQUIRED to attend one)

Overview:
This program aims to bring art and creative placemaking opportunities to Asian and Latino immigrant communities in the city of New York. The program introduces participants to a new art form and a vocabulary that can be used to strengthen and communicate to others their understanding of their environment. This program will expose participants to careers in art and design, developing skills and abilities that have transformative for individual growth and development, community beautification and belonging, and cross-cultural understanding. Art will be the vehicle that unites members of Asian and Latino immigrant communities to discuss, create and build the artistic capacity necessary for socio-cultural change. Our goal is to create opportunities to develop important artistic skills while sharing across differences that would not otherwise be possible.

Students will learn:
• The methodology, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.
t-shirts, posters and others on similar types of material;
• How to utilize all equipment, tools, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product.
• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically, students will be encouraged to
explore issues of immigrant identity, community, and difference.

Objectives:
• To engage students in the process of exploring their individual artistic vision by
developing personal imagery;
• To create an art project generated by using iconography, social and cultural community
issues;
• To appreciate the enrichment that art brings to his/her own life experience and the
possibilities for career development;
• To create a basic artist portfolio with the work performed during the work shop;
• To develop self-motivation, self-direction and a strong work ethic;
• To think critically, work creatively and collectively across difference.

The Program
Our medium will be water-base screen printing with an emphasis on photo emulsion processes.Students will be exposed to various techniques for making silkscreen prints, will gain basic mastery of these processes, and by the end of the program, will develop a series of their own single, and multiple color edition prints. Students will be encouraged to investigate their own interests and concepts in terms of content and image making in the process of printing. Themes of cultural history and preservation, art and activism, and immigrant identity will all be explored.
Workshop Timeline:
Unit 1: Introduction to Screen Printing
Unit 2: Image Preparation
Unit 3: Screen Preparation
Unit 4: Reclaiming the Screen
Unit 5: Screen Printing Operation
Unit 6: Substrates and Inks

Unit 7: Presenting and communicating to the broader community
