Using a single plate, participants will create layered ,multi-color prints by strategically removing and re-inking areas of their design.
In this workshop, participants will create textured printing plates using various materials, then ink and print them to produce rich, layered images.
In this workshop, participants will cut a simple design into contact paper (the adhesive vinyl used for lining shelves) and adhering it to a screen to create a stencil. This technique is great for bold and graphic designs.
Drypoint is a form of intaglio printmaking. In this workshop, participants will scratch a drawing onto an acrylic plate with a sharp needle. Burrs that result from the scratching trap and hold the ink after the plate is wiped clean. This creates a soft, heavy line that is unique to this type of intaglio.
In this workshop, a single block is carved and cut into separate pieces, inked individually, and reassembled for printing. This method allows for multi-color designs without the need for multiple blocks.
Water soluble monotypes are a form of printmaking that uses water-soluble crayons and watercolor paints. Participants use these materials to paint and draw on a plexiglass plate. The paints are allowed to dry and are then printed on an etching press using damp paper. Wet paper reactivates the water-soluble materials and results in a vibrant impression. This form of monotype is the form of printing we offer that is closest to drawing and painting.
Participants will use water soluble materials to paint directly on a screen, then apply a transparent base to create unique monotypes.
Participants will use screenprinting ink to paint directly on a screen to create vibrant, painterly screenprints.
5-6pm
Please join us at Highpoint on Saturday, March 15 at 5pm for a gallery conversation with McKnight Fellows Grace Sippy and Fidencio-Fifield Perez. The conversation will be moderated By Teréz Iacovino.
About the guest moderator: Teréz Iacovino (she/her) is an artist, educator, and the Assistant Curator of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. As a First-Gen graduate working in academia her curatorial mission is to cultivate empathy for, give voice to, and take risks with underrepresented artists. Iacovino is the recipient of a Curatorial Research Fellowship Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is a 2024 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute Fellow. She is currently co-organizing Vaivén: 21st Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora (September 9 - December 6, 2025) with José López Serra, a multidisciplinary exhibition that gathers forty-three intergenerational artists of Puerto Rican descent working from the archipelago and its stateside diaspora over the last twenty-five years.
Within her own artistic practice, Iacovino's recent works function as a chain of unique installations, combining objects, text, and collage, that explore ways to process loss, map time, and negotiate familial history. Her current investigations explore familial estrangement within the Puerto Rican Diaspora coupled with an inherited colonial legacy spanning over half a century. She draws from objects and photographs that document these two intertwined histories, examining questions of authenticity and inheritance in relation to a diasporic consciousness.
Teréz Iacovino
TYhis event is made possible through the generous support of the McKnight Foundation. The McKnight Foundation is a family foundation based in Minnesota that seeks to advance a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive.
Join us on March 8th for a family-friendly, LEGO-themed Free Ink Day!
In this workshop, participants will cut paper stencils and can use certain found objects to build an image. After inking the stencils and applying them to a plexiglass plate, it is run through an etching press to create a unique, one-of-a-kind print.
This free workshop will cover the basics of applying to artist opportunities such as residencies, open calls, and fellowships: looking for opportunities, developing personal criteria for which to apply to, tracking deadlines, organizing application materials, and - most crucially - navigating rejections and cultivating resilience to keep applying. Following a presentation, participants will be invited to discuss and share their own methods, experiences and questions.
Join us at Highpoint for an artist lecture by Emma Nishimura
Join us on October 19th for a family-friendly, fall-themed Free Ink Day! Explore the season's textures, patterns, and plants, creating one-of-a-kind print pieces to take home! Visitors will create monotypes using pumpkins, apples, leaves, and more. Let’s get in the spirit of the season!
Use recyclable plastic plates, water washable oil based inks, and an etching press to make drypoint prints.
Are you a K–12 educator in the Twin Cities or nearby areas interested in bringing printmaking into your classroom? Join us for a free, engaging evening event to launch the 2024–2025 school year!
Learn to use carving tools, hand carve a relief block, and print by hand.
Use contact paper and acrylic ink to print a small screen print edition.
Join Joel Garcia (Huichol) for a drypoint portrait workshop centered on storytelling and kinship. Participants will be able to create a 4x6 portrait of a loved one (human and non-human) and participate in a story circle sharing that special connection.
Gain an introduction to African American printmaking history through a two-day intaglio color drypoint sampler class.
Combining recently created prints, test prints, makeready and found imagery, students cut, tear, trade with others, and manipulate portions of existing collages to create new collages that expand the image-making process.
Hand cut paper stencils and print using water soluble relief inks and an etching press
The McKnight Printmaking Fellows in conversation, moderated by Casey Riley, Chair of Global Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)
Using variations on pressure, create atmospheric prints using an etching press
Please join us for a conversation with Michele Parchment, Brandywine Workshops and Archives Executive Director, and Taylor Jasper, Walker Art Center Assistant Curator of Visual Arts.
A Highpoint first! Join us for a reading of recent poetry by John Yau
Use recyclable plastic plates and an etching press to make drypoint prints
Join us for our Fall Free Ink Day! For this event, we are using a technique called Pochoir, which is printmaking with stencils. All materials for the planned activity are non-toxic and supplied by Highpoint. No registration is necessary – just drop in, bring your creativity, and be ready to get inky! Staff and volunteers will be able to answer any questions along the way.
It’s a spooky time of year and Halloween weekend, so costumes are welcome, candy is provided, and ghost, pumpkin, and monster stencils will be ready for printing!
Interested in volunteering? We would love your help!
Learn to use watercolor paints, water soluble pastels and an etching press to make painterly monotypes
View art, support local makers, enjoy drinks, and learn about printmaking
Explore environmentally-friendly, ephemeral alternatives to traditional graffiti
Explore the use of paper as substrate to create one-of-a-kind monotypes in this free workshop
Learn the basics of polyester plate lithography
Learn an alternative to traditional lithography in this weekend workshop
Use recyclable plastic plates and an etching press to make drypoint prints
Highpoint Rain Garden (in our parking lot behind the space!)
With free treats from Sonny’s Ice Cream! (12:30-2:30, while supplies last)
ASL interpretation provided/available
Event supported in part by
Hennepin County Green Partners
Families, kids, adults, everyone is welcome!
Join us for this summer’s Free Ink Day! Create monotypes outdoors, surrounded by Highpoint’s rain gardens! Learn why rain gardens and Pollinators are important for our local environment. This Free Ink Day we have a special guest: Erin Rupp of Pollinate MN teaching about pollinators with a honeybee hive. (Bees will be fully contained).
What is Free Ink Day?
Highpoint invites the community to an afternoon of hands-on printmaking and creative fun. At these free, public events visitors of all ages can drop in anytime during the afternoon to make unique, hand-made artwork. All materials for the planned activity are non-toxic and supplied by Highpoint (while supplies last). No registration is necessary – just drop in, bring your creativity, and be ready to get inky! Staff and volunteers will be able to answer any questions along the way.
The event is zero waste with compostable wrappers and materials. This event is made possible with support from the Hennepin County Green Partners Grant.
Hennepin Green Partners Education Grant Supports this program through our Environmental Creative Clean Water Stewards Program. This is a year-long education program designed to teach students about clean water initiatives, rain gardens, and pollinators, and allow them to create artwork around sustainability.
Use water soluble media to create painterly screenprints
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