About the Workshop

This workshop explores the iterative nature of print in monotype, risograph, and simple book forms. Beginning with your own materials—sketchbook pages, journal entries, or photographs—you’ll use print processes to translate, fragment, and reassemble images. We’ll experiment with monotype to develop fluid, symbolic imagery, and spend a day on the Riso machine to test digital translation. Using the printed material, you’ll create simple book forms that invoke narrative. The workshop concludes with a collaborative exchange with writing participants, weaving visual and written practices into shared works. Open to anyone with an active creative/making practice, no print experience required.

Students should bring a selection of their own imagery to begin working with (sketchbooks, photographs, collage, paintings, etc.). Also bring materials needed to sketch: pens, pencils, paints, paper, etc.

About the Instructor

Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas (they/them) is an artist, educator, and activist living and working in on the traditional lands of the Comanche - Austin, TX.

Barhaugh-Bordas’s art practice—which expands from print media into installation, as well as social and collaborative practices—works at the intersection of migration, queerness, and ecology. While thinking-through-making, Barhaugh-Bordas asks how art can contribute to ecological knowledge and build interspecies understanding, an inquiry they began investigating by comparing the stories of naturalization—becoming local—between Americans and non-native plants.