Date: Thursday, April 18
Time: 6-9pm
Cost: $50
Ages: 15+
*For intermediate and advanced students. Highpoint Intro to Screen or equivalent required.
Registration Deadline: 4/11
Max Enrollment: 10
Instructor: Miguel Aragón
Scholarships are available, see registration details.
This class will explore the process of directly screenprinting dry color pigments such as pastels to develop imagery on paper and other substrates. This experimental approach embraces exploration and stretches the conventional applications of the medium by using image alteration creating a dynamic series of varied multiples of an image. Imagery can be hand-generated or photographic. The class introduces the technique as a single process procedure, which can then be used to investigate new ways to discover print qualities to strengthen images and concepts. Previous screenprinting experience required.
About the instructor: Miguel A. Aragón was born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, México; currently he resides in Brooklyn, NY and he is an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island.
Aragón has exhibited internationally at venues including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany and the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Canada. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany. Aragón’s work has been published in A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking (Greenville, NC: Wellington B. Gray Gallery, 2012), Peenemünde Project: Geschichte wird Kunst / Imprinting History (Berlin: Edition Braus, 2017) and ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Princeton: in association with Princeton University Press, 2020).
Aragón’s works explore subjects of violence, transient and/or persistent memory, perception and the multiple; he uses erasure as language through the use of processes that are reductive in nature. His work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration and payment may be completed through this website. Refunds are no longer available after the registration deadline. Please call 612-871-1326 or email info@highpointprintmaking.org if you wish to pay with cash or check, or have any questions.
DISCOUNTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
A 10% discount is available for Highpoint Members.
Full Color Print Scholarship: A limited number of full tuition scholarships are available through the Full Color Print Scholarship, which provides free classes to individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Request a scholarship for this class by clicking the button below, or call, email or visit Highpoint. See our Discounts and Scholarships page for more details.