Great for anyone new to linocut printmaking! Throughout this course you will receive all the knowledge and supplies you need to design, carve, and print your own linocut print!
Join Keep Colorado Springs Queer for an evening of queer art and community at July's queer open mic featuring acclaimed poet Matthew Brown!
Feature: Matthew L. Brown is a queer Afro-Latino author, entrepreneur, and multimedia artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico currently residing in Denver, Colorado. Matthew’s writing is an open soapbox that questions faith, addiction, mental health, love and forgiveness.
Open Mic: LGBTQIA2+ performers of all disciplines are welcome to perform on the open mic! If it can be performed into a microphone, we want to hear it. To sign up, add your name to the list at the event. Performers usually get an 8 minute window to perform, though this can vary depending on the list size.
Keep Colorado Springs Queer and the Pikes Peak Arts Council are collaborating for a special open mic in the PPAC Queer Narratives gallery at ZoneFive (1902 E Boulder St, Colorado Springs, CO 80909)! Spend First Friday with us and enjoy an evening of queer visual and performance art. Doors are at 6:30pm, show is at 7:00pm.
In a time of algorithms, censorship, and shadow-banning this workshop seeks to bring back limitless possibility and joy to creating. Participants who have never even heard of a zine before will be captivated with the joy that comes with total creative freedom of expression — freedom that is at the heart of the zine medium!
Participants will come away with a mini-zine, as well as the knowledge on how to continue their zine-making journey. Materials provided.
In this workshop, youth attendees will learn how to utilize metaphor to better understand and craft their internal worlds through poetry. They will also learn a method to craft persona poems to see the world from other points of view. Participants will be guided through a brainstorming stage, before writing and sharing their poems with the group. At the end of the workshop, participants will have written two poems.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to utilize metaphor to better understand and craft their internal worlds through poetry. They will also learn a method to craft persona poems to see the world from other points of view. Participants will be guided through a brainstorming stage, before writing and sharing their poems with the group. At the end of the workshop, participants will have written two poems.
I will be reading poetry at the Club Q Memorial Project Art Unveiling.
Join the UCCS Kraemer Family Library and MOSAIC & LGBTQ+ Resource Center for the unveiling event of the UCCS Club Q Memorial Artwork on Tuesday, 4/23/24. The reception begins at 5:30pm followed by programing from 6:00 to 8:00pm. We will gather to recognize the tragedy that struck the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ community on the night of November 19th, 2022, while unveiling an exhibit that symbolizes a permanent recognition of the need for justice for the LGBTQ+ community. We encourage you to join us in memorializing the lives lost.
I’ll be speaking and hosting a workshop during UCCS’ Pride Week Queer Authorship Panel!
About the panel:
Join us to discuss the power and influence Queerness can have over your writing and creative process. We will have a panel of established writers and creatives from our community to discuss their process, and then hold individual workshops focusing on these different aspects and how to help your own writing journey.
Some of the panelists include local poet, performer, teaching artist, and organizer of the Keep Colorado Springs Queer open mic, Nico Wilkinson, and Alpha the Musical.
This event aims to be accessible. For reasonable accommodations, please contact us at (719) 255-3319 or mosaic@uccs.edu no later than 72 hours before the event.
Great For:
People brand new to printmaking — beginner/non-artist friendly!
Printmakers who want a refresher & some printin’ fun on the press
Anyone who wants to take a future intermediate workshop with us and access the letterpress to print
The Class
Learn about the tools and materials needed for this method of printing
Share print inspiration, favorite mark making tools, and provide other materials for printmaking
Practice the safe usage of carving tools and how to know when they need sharpening
Overview + print demonstration of how to use a letterpress to print
Introduction to methods of printing linocut that do not require a press (barren, stamping, and more) that can be used after the workshop at home or in your own studio
Create & print an edition of 1 color prints to share with the class & take home! Size of print TBD: _____
Vending at Denver Small Press Fest! Come say hi and buy some prints!
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