Screen Printing Workshop
All My Relations Art
Placement #2: All My Relation Arts (AMRA), Screen Printing workshops with the community for the upcoming Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples March.
2nd location: American Indian Magnet School, January 24th, 4:30pm-6:30pm.
We went to American Indian Magnet School in St Paul for their Family Involvement Day to screen-print. This session was really exciting to work with younger kids, they were really excited to print and had lots of energy! Because we were working with younger kids and more participants we decided to use just two screen rather than four like at Anishinabe Academy. With screen printing it’s important to work quickly so the ink doesn’t dry within the screens. This helped because when the screens needed to be washed we just quickly replaced them with the extras and continued printing.
It’s always interesting to print with Rory Wakemup because of the workshops he organizes can be within schools, community centers, at parks or during street festivals and we always set up and adjust to different environments. I appreciate this because no matter where we decide to print at we find a way to print efficiently, teach and bring awareness with different communities in the twin cities. The only thing that seems to be an issue is where to clean the screens but we alway manage with what we have available to us.
AIMS Screen-printing workshop for Family Involvement Day
MCAD Alum, Ana Laura Juarez is one of the teaching artists with AMRA
The AIMS art teacher helped to organize this event!