Printmaking Workshop with Salvador de la Torre

Self Acceptance Printmaking Workshop 

Facilitated by Salvador de la Torre

Saturday, July 20

1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Hosted at Los Olvidados

309 Flores Avenue

Downtown Laredo

Workshop Description 

In this workshop participants will learn how to transfer an image onto linoleum, then carve and print the image on to paper. 

Salvador de la Torre will share their prints to deliver the message for the workshop which surrounds identity and self acceptance. Participants will brainstorm and sketch words, phrases, symbols, and images that resonate with their own personal identity, and ultimately go home with a 4x6 print.

Duration  2.5 hours

Material Outcome

Each participant will leave with at least one 4" x 6" print.

Cost

This workshop is FREE but space is limited.  

To reserve your spot, you must GET A TICKET.

All materials will be provided by the artist.

About the Artist Salvador de la Torre

Salvador de la Torre (they/he) is a Jalisco-born, Laredo-raised, and Los Angeles-based visual artist working across multiple mediums, educator, and storyteller based in Los Angeles. Their drawing and performance work invoke the power of personal experience and family history to create artworks that exist at the intersection of activism, art production and praxes of self-acceptance. Their work engages politics of migration, memory, queerness, and gender in ways that remind us of the power and solidarity that can exist in quotidian gestures. De la Torre’s production opens channels for theorizing vulnerability, intimacy, and proximity as radical undertakings in the space of the borderlands and beyond. In doing so, their work forges complex narratives of joy, struggle, adaptability, exhaustion and tenderness, as counternarratives that assert the wholeness, nuance, and humanity of immigrant communities, and queer subjectivities.

Salvador earned an MFA from California State University, Fullerton and a BA from Texas A&M International University.

For more information

If you would like to  learn more information please call (956) 307-8984 or send an email to info@daphneart.org.