UPCOMING OFFERINGS

CARVED CONCOCTIONS: Garden-to-Studio Printmaking Workshop - Workshop Series - Blue Light Junction (Baltimore, MD): October 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd, 5:30-8:30pm

In this workshop, interdisciplinary artist Vetiver will guide you through the art of printmaking using natural pigments made from vegetables, herbs, and spices commonly found in family recipes, remedies, and rituals. Centered in preservation, the goal of this workshop is to provide participants with basic printmaking techniques through various methods (botanical printing, monotype, and linocut), enabling them to walk away with greater self-efficacy in recording their lived experiences, traditions, or those of their family and community.

The content of each workshop will incorporate plants cultivated at Blue Light Junction, as well as herbs, spices, and other natural materials, to which participants are welcome to contribute. By emphasizing the intention of preservation through communal and familial connections, we will learn the fundamentals and importance of first-person image-making for historical purposes, for present and future generations.

Borrowing from Moku Hanga, a Japanese-style of printmaking (with Chinese origins) that uses woodblocks and water-based pigments to create intricately layered prints, and inspired by my archival work on Black queer and trans narratives, Carved Concoctions is an offering meant to provide you with the tools to preserve your recipes, rituals, and remedies. - Vetiver

Purchase tickets here: www.bluelightjunction.com