This Saturday, March 30th Claudia Borfiga, Virginia Diaz Saiki, and Lucy Holtsnider will demonstrate three different printmaking processes seen in their exhibition Home Away From Home.
Don't miss the opportunity to meet the artists, chat with them about their work, and get a peek into their printmaking processes. Drop in any time between 12-2pm on Saturday, March 30th.
Create collages out of letterpress scraps and magazines with Lucy Holtsnider
Try your hand at Gelli plate printing using found objects to create texture with Virginia Diaz Saiki
Make screen printed greeting cards or small prints featuring Claudia Borfiga’s sun symbology
OR combine all three techniques to create a truly unique, layered print!
Free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required. All materials provided!
About the Artists:
Claudia Borfiga is a visual artist, the body of work she shares here explores her relationship with the sun. With each move she’s made, from her homeland in the UK, to California, and now to Colorado, it feels as if it's become brighter and bolder. As the bringer of light and life, she is lured outside by its power, when sometimes she needs to lurk in the dark. She has endless longings for rainy day comfort, and for a taste of home.
Virginia Diaz Saiki is an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker from Peru living in Denver. She moved to the US in the pursuit to study Fine Art. During those formative years she discovered printmaking and has been making prints ever since. She currently works with Duke Beardsley as Studio Operations Manager, and maintains a steady printmaking practice while raising an amazing son.
The Black Garden Series is an ever growing garden project, sometimes the gardens will be full of color, this time the gardens are black. Layered and textured plant forms overlap in complex compositions of soft and prickly, transparent and opaque, black and white. These fantastical plantscapes are a visual expression of navigating through the soft, prickly and sometimes dark nature encountered on a nocturnal stroll back home. A slow and conscious return to self, requires a challenging journey.
Lucy Holtsnider is a printmaker and graphic designer based in Denver, CO. She creates vibrant, abstract collages from monotype letterpress prints out of Zarapes Studios. Her work references human impacts on the environment inspired by closely observing the natural world while volunteering as a backcountry trail builder. She has taught printmaking and design at four different colleges and universities, and now teaches print workshops at the Denver Tool Library.
