Diego Mendoza has spent his career moving between Mexico, Tanzania, Qatar, and the UAE, and printmaking has been the medium he keeps returning to. In this class, he walks you through the fundamentals of relief printmaking, from handling tools and carving your first block to applying ink to paper and understanding why the results are never quite the same twice. That unpredictability is part of what makes printmaking interesting to Diego, and he shows you how to work with it rather than against it. The class is taught in English and designed for beginners with no prior experience in printmaking.
Build foundational relief printmaking skills and develop the confidence to work independently.
Understand how repetition can create visual variety and meaning.
Explore how printmaking can be used to examine identity and heritage through the representation of cultural artifacts.