ACCESS/PRINT & LOOK/SEE Exhibitions
AND Free Ink Day & Doors Open 2024
All are happening at Highpoint on Saturday, May 18, 2024
Join us for a Saturday full of printmaking – there will be live demonstrations, refreshments, and kid-friendly activities! Visitors will have the chance to tour Highpoint’s facilities and get a behind-the-scenes look at our artist co-op, print study room, and Highpoint Editions Studio. You can watch live printing demonstrations within the gallery, create your own prints during Free Ink Day festivities, and learn more about printmaking and our programmatic offerings!
Activities Overview:
Highpoint participates in Doors Open 2024, tour our space, 10 - 5 pm
“Doors Open Minneapolis is your chance to explore the buildings that tell our city’s story. From theaters to business hubs, sacred spaces to private clubs, sports complexes to engineering wonders, historical gems to not-even-open-yet buildings, Doors Open Minneapolis will give you a FREE behind-the-scenes look at dozens of exciting venues.” –Doors Open
We are one of many organizations participating that weekend – get an insider's view into buildings like the Scottish Rite Temple, American Swedish Institute, Star Tribune, and more. See all activities, event details, and accessibility here!
ACCESS/PRINT 2024 Students in the Education Classroom
ACCESS/PRINT & LOOK/SEE Student Show, Main Gallery, 12 - 4 pm
Exhibition on display: May 18 – June 1, 2024
ACCESS/PRINT, our teen mentorship program, artists include Tamsin Beveridge, Nana Boynton, Finn Emerson, GiGi Lahr, Kamarah Maynard, Ray Maynard, Kaya Molt, Sofia Rice, and Jasper Slichter. *Read more about student projects and the programs below. Come see what the students have created over the program and watch live screenprinting demonstrations by students and instructors.
LOOK/SEE: featuring work made by Hennepin County 5th-graders as part of the Creative Clean Water Stewardship Program. Each year, HP engages 250 5th-graders in a year-long interdisciplinary environmental education program designed to teach students about clean water initiatives, rain gardens, and pollinators and create artwork around sustainability. Students hail from Burroughs Community, Ella Baker Global Studies and Humanities Magnet, Nellie Stone Johnson, and Whittier International Elementary Schools. This program is generously supported by the Hennepin County Gree Partners Education Grant.
Free Ink Day, Highpoint Co-op, Classroom, and Rain Garden, 12 - 4 pm
Free Ink Days (family days) are free, engaging, and printmaking fun for all! Come create water-soluble monoprints, learn about print techniques, and enjoy environmental programming. We’ll have several special environmental guests, including Erin Rupp from PollinateMN and information from Hennepin County Green Partners.
Zero-waste snacks and refreshments are provided! The student exhibition and Free Ink Day are generously supported by the Hennepin County Green Partners Grant.
More about the ACCESS/PRINT program and exhibiting artists:
ACCESS/PRINT is a teen mentorship program that supports creative youth with over 50 hours of studio time, printmaking tutorials, technical assistance, and support as they work to create a body of work.
ACCESS/PRINT ARTWORK HIGHLIGHTS:
Saint Paul Conservatory of Performing Arts junior Nana Boynton is working on a final project combining a screenprinted photo collage and a watercolor monotype. They are exploring themes around gender, sexuality, and LGBTQAI+ representation, working to integrate personal narrative and universal experience in their work. Nana plans to center the physical body in their work.
Gigi Lahr’s final project, inspired by the political history of printmaking as a tool for dissemination, will be a series of large-scale screenprinted posters. She will focus on messaging, commentary, and education related to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical science, and masking. Gigi plans to experiment with materials, such as hand sanitizer, to make marks in her work; these marks serve as metaphors for what we experienced during the pandemic (physical disinfection, what was wiped away/given up).
Ray Maynard’s project includes a large-scale drypoint. They explore ideas of variation within symmetry. They will combine their interest in sewing and textiles into their project by printing on wearables in addition to paper.