Self Help Graphics & Art Program Brochure

2019 PROGRAM CALENDAR

Barrio Mobile Art Studio Workshop (BMAS) ca. 1970s

MISSION

Incorporated in 1973, Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG) is dedicated to the production, interpretation and distribution of prints and other art media by Chicana/o and Latinx artists.

Our multidisciplinary and intergenerational programs promote artistic excellence and empower our community by providing access to space, tools, training and capital.

VISION & VALUES

Self Help Graphics’ vision is to be the preeminent center for Latino art in printmaking, exhibition and training, and to be a resource for young and emerging artists.

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SPIRITUALITY & CREATIVE HEART

Acknowledge the experience of art as a spiritual form of expression that reflects our community’s sense of hope and soul (in memory of Self Help Graphics’ founder, Sister Karen Boccalero).

INCLUSION

Build relationships across generations and communities by encouraging artistic expression through collaboration.

SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Promote socially engaging art with a conscience in service to the Latino community and diverse audiences through artistic freedom and cultural affirmation.

INNOVATIVE

Continuously re-invent programming, creating new and resourceful ways of showcasing artists.

INTEGRITY

Achieve the highest quality of operations with accountability and transparency through diligent, dedicated and equitable practices.

ACCESSIBILITY

Serve as a gateway to experience and appreciate art, and to provide art at a reasonable value.

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PROGRAMS 5 7 8 9 10 11

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Professional Printmaking Program Barrio Mobile Art Studio Creative Labs S.O.Y. Artista (Summer of Youth) Young Curators Program Advocacy

SHG’s acclaimed Professional Printmaking Program offers artists of various experiences the opportunity to create fine art limited edition prints and monoprints through a peer-led approach that is dedicated to providing an environment that nurtures and supports our artists’ creativity and careers.

PROGRAMS

Professional Printmaking Program

This program is the foundation of the organization and has produced over 2,000 editions of silkscreen prints by an ever -growing number of local and visiting artists. This program offers artists of various ages and experiences the opportunity to create limited edition prints in Self Help Graphics’ nationally acclaimed printmaking studio. Projects range in theme and content. A week-long artist residency is held in collaboration with Self Help Graphics’ team and a fully equipped printmaking studios.

2019’s Artists in the studio - lineup Dewey Tafoya Sonia Romero Rogelio Gutierrez Melanie Cervantez

Utopia/Dystopia Portfolio includes the following artists: Sandra Low Phung Nguyen Andi Xoch Wayne Perry Dalila Paola Mendez Sandy Rodriguez

The Professional Printmaking Program is by invitation, but artists are encouraged to enroll in our printmaking workshops facilitated throughout the year to expand their skill set.

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Barrio Mobile Art Studio Initiated in 1974 the Barrio Mobile Art Studio (BMAS) takes art creation to the streets with arts programming that features both youth and multi-generational workshops. Twenty five artists trained on peer-to-peer workshop facilitation, professional development, and social entrepreneurship administer BMAS. This allows Self Help Graphics(SHG) to hire artists, pay them a competitive fee, and enact its mission of self-help. BMAS assists the artists in their professional development (tactics for professional growth, lesson planning and curriculum development) by providing field experience through the facilitation of SHG’s acclaimed workshops. The BMAS creative team facilitates workshops in the community that include: printmaking (silkscreening, linocut, dry point, monotype), digital art using mobile devices and tablets, aerosol art (including temporary murals), and stencil work, among other workshops that can be customized to fit any scenario.

The BMAS was founded as a program that works towards equity and social justice through art. To hire BMAS for your next work or school event, visit www.selfhelpgraphics.com/bmas

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SOY Artista artists showing off their mixed media self portraits, 2018

SPRING 2019

PROGRAMS

Creative Labs SHG is launching Creative Labs, an after school program for local high school youth focusing on creative workforce development for HS and transitional aged youth. The workshops will include virtual reality, digital media, animation, printmaking and laser cutting. The program is offered in three modules to allow students multiple points of entry. Student meet once a week to explore and experiment with various media, providing insight into the multiple opportunities available in the creative industries. Visit www.selfhelpgraphics.com for more information.

S.O.Y. Artista (Summer of Youth) EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ART

S.O.Y. Artista is a free five-week summer art-training workshop for local youth (12-24 years old) from underserved communities of East Los Angeles, Boyle Heights and the greater LA area. The program’s goal is to expand access to art through SHG’s facilities and resources. The 60 hour course is taught by local artists and consists of various workshops including multi-color screen printing, mobile phone/tablet based art, stencil making, woodblock printing, etching, mono printing and photography. No experience necessary!

The S.O.Y. (Summer of Youth) Artista Program takes place July/August. Sign up for our mailing list to be the first to receive our sign up sheet. www.selfhelpgraphics.com/soyartista 7

Young Curators Program Our Young Curator Program provides youth with a mentorship opportunity to work with a lead exhibition curator or historian. Through this mentorship experience the youth are provided with skill sets in research and exhibition curation, giving them careerbuilding skills they can use for career paths in the arts and in creative industries.

Juan Silverio Participants receive a stipend Young Curator Program. Hacer, Deshacer, to research a topic, curate Rehacer exhibition curated by an exhibition and design an Juan Silverio. exhibition catalog to accompany their exhibition. Two Young Curators from Boyle Heights and / or East Los Angeles will be selected to create one exhibition on-site, and a second exhibition for a digital platform.

With the rise of satellite and digital spaces, we would like to encourage youth to create work and curate shows that can live online in the event they do not have a physical space or budget to have artwork shipped or insured.

Sign our mailing list to be the first to receive the application for the program at www.selfhelpgraphics.com/youngcurator

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Boyle Heights Building Healthy Communities (BHBHC) is a 10 year, comprehensive community initiative launched by The California Endowment in 2010 to advance statewide policy, change the narrative, and transform 14 of California’s communities devastated by health inequities into places where all people and neighborhoods thrive. Self Help Graphics is part of the Boyle Heights BHC and participates in two bodies of work within the coalition:

PROGRAMS

ADVOCACY

Health Happens in Neighborhoods which has a focus on the Invest in Youth campaign to get a youth development department established in the City of LA. Eastside L.E.A.D.S. (Leadership for Equitable and Accountable Development Strategies) which seeks to hold developers accountable to a community-inclusive process in the greater Eastside and pushes for policy at the City and County level that supports community members and their right to not to be displaced from our homes or neighborhoods.

SHG hosts and participates in events related to the BHC throughout the year - stay up to date by signing up for our email list.

Rise Up Meet Up

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EVENTS 11 12 13 14

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Printmaking SUMMIT Paper Fashion Gala Annual Print Fair 46th Annual Día de los Muertos

Relief printmaking workshop

EVENTS

Printmaking Summit APRIL, 18 - 20, 2019

SHG’s Printmaking Summit will be held April 18 - 20th with the support of the Mike Kelley Foundation, Eastside Arts Initiative, SHG is convening a roster of printmakers from around the country and locally to exchange ideas, share demonstrations and unpack discussions that will lead to the greater sustainability and vitality of printmaking as an art form. The Printmaking Summit includes a series of panel discussions, demonstrations and portfolio reviews.

2017’s Inaugural Printmaking Summit

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Paper Fashion Gala MAY 3, 2019

Self Help Graphics & Art is celebrating 46 years of nurturing innovation and creativity in our community. In lieu of a traditional fundraising gala, we’re bringing back Paper Fashion as a nod to the past and to center the art and the artists in the celebration. Invited artists are representative of various points in SHG history, including emerging artists.

Marisela Norte models a paper fashion dress

Paper Fashion Show, Día de los Muertos ca. 1980’s. Photograph by Ricardo Valverde (image may not be reproduced).

The first Paper Fashion show was created by SHG’s original avant garde performance art group ASCO, which at that time was represented by Gronk, Patssi Valdez, Diane Gamboa, Sean Carrillo, Daniel Villareal, Armando Norte, Marisela Norte, Marisa Leal, Maria Elena Gaitan and Consuelo Flores. The show was presented for Self Help Graphics & Art’s Día de los Muertos Celebration in 1982 and included other guest artists as performers and models. ASCO artists created Día de los Muertos themed fashions fusing calavera imagery with punk rock, traditional and pop culture. The temporal pieces morphed the historic with contemporary concepts, creating avant garde works of art. For information and to purchase tickets go to www.selfhelpgraphics.com/paperfashiongala 12

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Annual Print Fair

JUNE 29, 2019, 12:00 - 5:00PM

The Annual Print Fair is one of SHG’s annual fundraising events, where art lovers of all kinds, from casual admirers to art aficionados, are invited to view works for sale to find the perfect new, limited edition, fine art prints created by artists at Self Help Graphics & Art, for one’s home, work or creative space! The Print Fair Exhibition showcases the new prints published at Self Help Graphics & Art leading up to the day of the event.

Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, 2018 @ Self Help Graphics & Art

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46th Annual Día de los Muertos NOVEMBER 2, 2019, 5:00 - 10:00PM

For 45 years Self Help Graphics & Art has organized one of the most popular Día de los Muertos events in Los Angeles and perhaps the oldest Day of the Dead commemoration in the country. Self Help Graphics & Art is unique in that it provides the community with a season of activities Paper mache calavera on bike from September to November,

by Edgar & Norma Coronado, to celebrate and prepare Leila Tourino, Dia de los for Día de los Muertos. The Muertos 2018 image credit: season of activities includes Pablo Aguilar the participation of over 50 community organizations, 150 plus volunteers and over 15,000 attendees.

SHG’s Día de los Muertos begins with Community Arts Workshops, held every Saturday in October at which participants and families create traditional crafts to honor the dead. It also features the production of a commemorative limited edition fine art serigraph (print) to be premiered at the annual exhibition. Furthermore, over 40 community partners participate in the creation of 40 plus altars including Self Help’s Community Altar that is built during Noche de Ofrenda (Community Altar Night). Not only is Noche de Ofrenda a chance to remember 14

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and honor those who have passed, it is also a way to bring the community together in remembrance. The season culminates at SHG’s Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration held on November 2nd. The celebration includes a procession and blessing along with art, craft vendors, music, food and workshops for the community.

Throughout its history, Self Help Graphics & Art has worked with well-known artists including but not limited to Yolanda Gonzalez; Wayne Healy and David Botello of the East Los Streetscapers; Miguel Angel Reyes; Ester Hernandez Eduardo Oropeza; ASCO members- -Harry Gamboa, Gronk, Willie Herron and Patssi Valdez; Judy Baca; Chaz Bojorquez; and Los Four.

Our 2019 Día de los Muertos commemorative print artist is Melanie Cervantes from Dignidad Rebelde. Melanie will also be co-curating the annual Día de los Muertos exhibition.

Dia de los Muertos 2018 image credit: Pablo Aguilar

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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS (on-site) 17 17 18 19 19

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DíA DE LOS MUERTOS Mujeres de Maíz Exhibition and Festival PRINTMAING SUMMIT EXHIBITION ANNUAL PRINT FAIR Black, Brown and Beige

Womxn Warriors Exhibition, 50th Anniversary East LA Walkouts, 2018

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2019

Premiering Melanie Cervantez’ commissioned Día de los Muertos serigraph, this exhibition will include altars and other installations to commemorate this decades-long tradition.

Mujeres de Maíz Exhibition and Festival SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2019 7:00 - 10:00 PM

Mujeres de Maíz is an Artist in Residence at Self Help Graphics and the collective has often held their annual festival onsite - an annual intercultural, interdisciplinary, intergenerational arts happening with performance ofrendas (offerings) of music, spoken word, dance, artisans and vendors featuring all womxn and queer/trans people of color since 1997. This event is for, by and about & organized by the labor of WOC & QTWOC spiritual Artivists.

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS (ON-SITE)

Día de los Muertos Exhibition

Founded in 1997 as a grassroots, multimedia women’s activist organization based in East Los Angeles. Mujeres de Maíz regularly collaborates with women artists and educators of African, Central and South American, Jewish, Filipina, Asian, Native American and Sri Lankan descent who recognize the need and potential of cross-racial solidarity. The mission of Mujeres de Maíz is to bring together and empower diverse women and girls through the creation of community spaces that provide holistic wellness through art, education, programming, exhibition, and publishing.

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PrintMAKING Summit Exhibition APRIL 18 - JUNE 21, 2019

The Printmaing Summit Exhibition features prints by an international group of artists. These works were produced by the first cohort of artists who participated in the inaugural print summit in 2017. Artists included in the exhibition are: Jesus Barraza - Bay Area, CA Pepe Coronado - New York, NY Sandra Fernandez - New Jersey, NJ Rogelio Gutierrez - Phoenix, Arizona Poli Marichal - Puerto Rico Malaquias Montoya - Woodland, CA Humberto Saenz - San Antonio, TX Francesco Siqueiros - Los Angeles, CA

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Pepe Coronado works with local artist Moni Perez, 2017’s Inaugural Printmaking Summit

JUNE 29, 2019 - JULY, 2019

The Print Fair Exhibition showcases the new prints published throughout the year at Self Help Graphics and opens on the day of the Annual Print Fair sale.

Black, Brown and Beige

AUGUST 17, 2019 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Curated by Nery Gabriel Lemus, this exhibition brings forward the shared experiences of the black and brown communities and sets out to cover historical, transitional and contemporary narratives.

Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, 2018 @ Self Help Graphics & Art

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS (ON-SITE)

Annual Print Fair Exhibition

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EXHIBITIONS (oFF-site) 21 Cal State University Bakersfield and Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, ca - Entre Tinta y Lucha 21 Museum of Latin American Art Gráfica América 22 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA and Centro de Artes Gallery, San Antonio, TX Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy,

Past, Present and Future

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JANUARY 31 - MARCH 9, 2019

Will also travel to:

Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

EXHIBITIONS (OFF-SITE)

Cal State University Bakersfield Entre Tinta y Lucha: 45 Years of Self Help Graphics & Art

MARCH 31 - JUNE 9, 2019

Entre Tinta y Lucha celebrates the 45th anniversary of the East Los Angeles cultural and community art organization, Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG). The exhibition looks back at over four decades of the organization’s artistic innovation and excellence, organizational resilience and expanded activity, by featuring a display of over fifty fine art prints from throughout the organization’s history.

Museum of Latin American Art Gráfica América MARCH 2 - JUNE 2, 2019

Gráfica América explores the history of printmaking in the Americas through over 150 works created at print workshops and publishing houses in the US, Mexico, South and Central America, the Caribbean and Spain. Gráfica América highlights how information is distributed, ideologies established and the status quo challenged in the Americas through the graphic arts. Self Help Graphics & Art is represented through a Dewey Tafoya serigraph commissioned for the exhibition.

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Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past, Present and Future THROUGH MARCH 15, 2019 (traveling exhibition)

Centro de Artes Gallery, San Antonio, TX Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past, Present and Future OCTOBER - DECEMBER, 2019 (traveling exhibition)

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EXHIBITIONS (OFF-SITE) Leila Tourino riding paper mache calavera on bike. Sculptures by Edgar & Norma Coronado, Leila Tourino, Dia de los Muertos 2018 image credit: Pablo Aguilar 23

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DIY Silkscreen Workshops Linoleum Block Printing Workshops Aerosol Workshops Drypoint Printmaking Workshops

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WORKSHOPS

Our workshops are designed to promote peer to peer learning in a nurturing space. We equip artists with introductions to traditional printmaking practices and the resource of a community art center where they can expand their own work.

DIY Silkscreen Workshops Our DIY (Do it yourself) workshop will teach you the basics of the screen-printing process. During these one-day classes participants are taught how to transfer their designs or photos onto a screen using photo emulsion and an exposing unit.

Your prepared screen can be used to print on variety of surfaces including paper, textiles and clothing. With this class, you can make posters, fine art, print tote bags or t-shirts.

Linoleum Block Printing Workshops Invented in China, woodblock printing dates back to 220 A.D. and is how stamps were made to print patterned textiles and documents. Carve a linoleum surface to produce a printing block. The carved blocks can be used to create limited editions or experimental works.

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Aerosol Workshops The Aerosol Art Workshops focus on teaching participants of all levels and ages how to create artwork using aerosol paint and other painting tools used in creating aerosol based art such as paint markers, color pencils, sharpies, stencils, and stickers.

Drypoint Printmaking Workshops Our peer-to-peer printmaking workshops are led by local artists.

The drypoint workshop uses all green / nontoxic materials.

Participants learn how to create printmaking plates using plexiglass and a metal scribe or needle to create their image. Select workshops combine printmaking methods and mix media.

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MARCH Linoleum with Chine-Collé Printmaking DIY Silkscreen Workshop Drypoint Printmaking Workshop

WORKSHOPS CALENDAR

WORKSHOPS CALENDAR

APRIL Insect Printmaking DIY Silkscreen Workshop Drypoint Printmaking Workshop MAY Loved Ones Portrait: Intro to DryPoint DIY Silkscreen Workshop Drypoint Printmaking Workshop JUNE Drypoint and Chine-Collé Printmaking DIY Silkscreen Workshop Drypoint Printmaking Workshop 27

March DIY Silkscreen Workshop MARCH 16, 2019 11 AM - 3 PM

Our one day Do-it-Yourself workshop teaches participants how to print using stencil and photo processes. Participants will transfer their designs or photos onto a screen. Prepared screens can be used to print on variety of surfaces including paper, textiles and clothing. With this class, you can make posters, fine art, print tote bags or t-shirts.

MAX CAPACITY: 20 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $30

Drypoint Printmaking Workshop MARCH 30, 2019 10 AM - 2 PM

Join artist Margaret Alarcon to learn the art of drypoint. Â Participants will learn how to transfer their photos or designs on to a plexiglass plate. Â Learn how to develop your drawing skills and express your ideas through the intaglio process. Participants will create an edition of prints using traditional printmaking practices. Learn the art of drypoint printmaking. Use a metal scribe to incise an image on plexiglass and create an edition of prints.

MAX CAPACITY: 13 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $40

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Insect Printmaking

APRIL 12, 2019, 7 - 9 PM & APRIL 13, 2019, 11 AM - 1 PM Create your own collaborative portfolio book inspired by insects! Join artist Victor Rosas in creating a series of multicolored direct monoprints. Bring your own image to create 3 - 4 prints, while exploring different approaches to color and technique. Please bring an image of an insect as reference to guide your design. (*this is a two session workshop)

MAX CAPACITY: 10 participants

WORKSHOPS CALENDAR

APRIL

WORKSHOP FEE: $50

DIY Silkscreen Workshop APRIL 20, 2019, 11 AM - 3 PM

Our one day Do-it-Yourself workshop teaches participants how to print using stencil and photo processes. Participants will transfer their designs or photos onto a screen. Prepared screens can be used to print on variety of surfaces including paper, textiles and clothing.

With this class, you can make posters, fine art, print tote bags or t-shirts.

MAX CAPACITY: 20 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $30

Drypoint Printmaking Workshop APRIL 27, 2019, 10 AM - 2 PM

Learn the art of drypoint printmaking. Use a metal scribe to incise an image on plexiglass and create an edition of prints.

MAX CAPACITY: 13 PARTICIPANTS WORKSHOP FEE: $40

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MaY Loved Ones Portrait: Intro to Dry Point

MAY 10, 2019, 7 - 9 PM & MAY 11, 2019, 11 AM - 1 PM Learn introductory processes to the drypoint technique with artist Victor Rosas. Carve your own image into plexiglass to create a mini 7x5 inch portrait print. We encourage you to bring an image of your loved ones to create a series of portraits. (*this is a two session workshop) MAX CAPACITY: 10 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $50

DIY Silkscreen Workshop MAY 18, 2019, 11 AM - 3 PM

Our one day Do-it-Yourself workshop teaches participants how to print using stencil and photo processes. Participants will transfer their designs or photos onto a screen. Prepared screens can be used to print on variety of surfaces including paper, textiles and clothing.

With this class, you can make posters, fine art, print tote bags or t-shirts.

MAX CAPACITY: 20 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $30

Drypoint Printmaking Workshop MAY 25, 2019, 10 AM - 2 PM

Learn the art of drypoint printmaking. Use a metal scribe to incise an image on plexiglass and create an edition of prints.

MAX CAPACITY: 13 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $40

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Drypoint and Chine-Collé Printmaking

JUNE 14, 2019, 7 - 9 PM & JUNE 15,2019, 11 AM - 1 PM Learn how to combine multiple printing techniques with artist Victor Rosas. Use a metal scribe to incise an image on plexiglass, followed by the chine-collé technique to create a multi-colored print. (*this is a two session workshop) MAX CAPACITY: 10 participants

WORKSHOPS CALENDAR

June

WORKSHOP FEE: $50

DIY Silkscreen Workshop JUNE 15, 2019, 11 AM - 3 PM

Our one day Do-it-Yourself workshop teaches participants how to print using stencil and photo processes. Participants will transfer their designs or photos onto a screen. Prepared screens can be used to print on variety of surfaces including paper, textiles and clothing. With this class, you can make posters, fine art, print tote bags or t-shirts.

MAX CAPACITY: 20 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $30

Drypoint Printmaking Workshop JUNE 22, 2019, 10 AM - 2 PM MAX CAPACITY: 13 participants WORKSHOP FEE: $40

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PRINTMAKING GLOSSARY CHINE-COLLÉ is a technique that allows you to add colour to your prints without making another block. Using Chine Collé you are able to print on much finer, more delicate papers which are bonded onto a more sturdy paper during the printing process.

DRYPOINT is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or “matrix”) with a hard-pointed “needle” of sharp metal or diamond point.

Intaglio is the printmaking technique in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.

LIMITED EDITION A limited edition is a work of art produced in very small numbers, so that each one will be valuable in the future. The print edition is the set of signed and numbered impressions. Impressions are numbered using numerals 1/20, 2/20.

LINOLEUM A relief printing process in which the image is carved out of linoleum block using a carving tool.

PRINTMAKING is the process of creating artworks through hand made processes, normally on paper. Each print is an original work of art with elements of originality, rather than just being produced through photographic mechanical reproductions.

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MONOPRINT A monoprint is a single impression of an image through the printmaking medium. Materials such as plexiglass plates, relief blocks or silk screens can be used to create monoprints. Rather than printing multiple copies of a single image, only one impression is produced through a direct painting application, collage or applying color to an image after it is printed.

RELIEF PRINTING A Printmaking processes in which the image is printed from the raised or uncarved surface of the block or plate that has been inked.

SILKSCREEN Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the materia

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Parking at Self Help Graphics & Art Limited parking is available on site and along residential side streets.

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SHG MAP SHG is located directly across the street from the Pico Aliso Gold Line stop - public transit is highly recommended during larger scale events.

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SHG PRINTS FOR SALE

Humberto Saenz, Piedra Liberada, 2018, Serigraph, Ed. 60, 28 x 21�

Self Help Graphics limited edition prints produced through the professional Printmaking Program are for sale and can be found on our online shop. Visit www. selfhelpgraphics.com/shop/ The earned revenue from the prints is reinvested into the program, making it possible for us to purchase supplies, hire master printers and invite artists to create editions in the studio.

SHG CONTACT INFO 1300 East 1st Street Los Angeles, CA 90033 www.selfhelpgraphics.com info@selfhelpgraphics.com (323) 881-6444 36

HOURS: Monday - Friday 9AM - 6PM Check our website for programming scheduled on weekends.

Endy Bernal, President Artist Keri V. CastaĂąeda, Vice Chair Chief Program Officer, AbilityFirst Roberta Tinajero-Frankel, Secretary, Senior Managerial Consultant, Kaiser Permanente Upstream Community Health Luis Rivera, Treasurer Accounting Manager, Penske Media Corporation Andy Candelaria Art Director Candelaria Yvonne Colacion Design Director Gensler

Dr. Karen Mary Davalos Professor, Department of Chicano & Latino Studies University of Minnesota

SHG INFORMATION

SHG Board of Directors

Alfred Fraijo Jr., Esq. Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Wayne Perry Artist Paulina M. Flores, Treasurer Community Member and Education Advocate Justin Woodward Financial Analyst, Southern California Edison

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STAFF BETTY AVILA

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Betty Avila was raised in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles. Her work has centered on the intersection of the arts and social justice, with particular focus on community building, public space, and youth empowerment.

She has held positions with the Getty Research Institute, The Music Center and the Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park. She sits on the boards of the Center for Cultural Innovation and Arts for LA, and is a founding board member of People for Mobility Justice (formerly Multicultural Communities for Mobility), an organization that supports low-income communities of color that bike, walk and use public transit in Los Angeles County.

Betty sat on the inaugural Advisory Committee for Los Angeles County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative as an appointee of Supervisor Hilda Solis that resulted in the recommendation of cultural policy and was unanimously approved by the County Board of Supervisors. In 2017, Betty was named one of C-Suite Quarterly Magazine’s NextGen 10 in Philanthropy, Arts and Culture and an Impact-Maker to Watch by City Impact Labs. She received a dual B.A. in English and Spanish Literature at Pitzer College, has an M.A. in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University, and is a 2008 Fulbright Fellow to Korea. betty.avila@selfhelpgraphics.com 38

SHG STAFF

MARVELLA MURO

DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PROGRAMS & EDUCATION Marvella Muro is the Director of Artistic Programs and Education at Self Help Graphics. Prior to joining SHG, she was the Community Engagement Manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2016-2018), developing and executing art programs with community partners, artists, and social service groups in the neighborhoods of East Los Angeles, Compton and North Hollywood. In 2015, she joined USC Pacific Asia Museum as Executive Assistant to the Director where she co-developed public programs with the Education Department and oversaw the day to day logistics of the museum. In 2012, she oversaw the installation of the exhibition, In Wonderland: Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States at LACMA and developed its programming. From 2012-2015 she worked with the Chinese and Korean Art Department overseeing grants, programming, and assisting with the gallery rotations and installations. She has a B.A. in Art History from Cal State University, Fullerton and earned her M.A. in Arts Management from Goucher College. marvella.muro@selfhelpgraphics.com

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ALEXA KIM

PROGRAM MANAGER Alexa has assisted in the development and coordination of the ever growing volunteer program that is integral to the success of the many of Self Help’s cultural programs such as Dia de Los Muertos and the Annual Print Fair & Exhibition.

Most recently, Alexa played a key role in the completion of a comprehensive appraisal of Self Help Graphics’ inventory, composed of 8,000+ individual print editions, with Patrick H. Ela of Comprehensive Art Services. Alexa is an alumna of the Getty Leadership Institute NextGen 2017 cohort at Claremont Graduate University and has interned at Self Help Graphics & Art, the Japanese American National Museum (Little Tokyo), Yochim Arts (Venice), and the Muckenthaler Cultural Center (Orange County). During her internship at Self Help Graphics & Art, Alexa helped with the digitization and development of Self Help Graphics & Art digital print archive that includes prints from ’73 to the present. Alexa is a graduate of Kalamazoo College with degrees in Art History and Sociology. alexa.kim@selfhelpgraphics.com

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SHG STAFF

STEPHANIE MERCADO

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Stephanie Mercado is a fine arts professional with 10 + years experience in business management, arts administration, exhibition curation and fine art production. Stephanie Mercado is an artist from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. She has worked in arts administration since 2007, while maintaining her arts practice. She has experience working with corporations and private clients on collections and acquisitions, appraisals, exhibition planning, and art gallery management. She has also worked as an artist assistant, as a costume-maker and production assistant in the film industry. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State University Long Beach in Drawing & Painting and was awarded a merit scholarship to study drawing and painting in Florence, Italy through CSU Summer Arts. Stephanie is a fellow of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute in 2018. As an artist she has exhibited internationally including exhibitions in Spain, Canada, Norway, Italy, Puerto Rico, Colorado, Texas and Illinois. Stephanie joined the Self Help Graphics and Art team in September of 2017. stephanie.mercado@selfhelpgraphics.com

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