Serpentina Arts Printmaking with Natural Dyes Workshop
Location: Squirrel Haus Arts | 3450 Snelling Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Dates: Saturday, March 29th: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM and Sunday, March 30th: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration deadline: Friday, March 21st, 2025 at noon.
NOTE: Lunch will be provided. This is not an introduction to printmaking. This workshop is for artists who already have printmaking experience.
This is a two-day printmaking FREE workshop to learn about natural dyes on woodblock printing (Ofrecemos un taller de 2 dias de tintas naturales y xilografía). Day 1 (3/29) will be an Introduction to making natural dyes. Day 2 (3/30) will focus on carving and printing. All materials will be provided.
Serpentina Arts Juried Printmaking Pop-up Exhibition
Serpentina Arts invites MN-based Latinx printmakers to submit their work for a juried pop-up exhibition at Squirrel Haus Arts. This two-day event will highlight the talent and diversity of Latinx printmakers at all career stages, from emerging to established artists. Selected works will be exhibited alongside prints by artists currently working in Mexico. Due to space limitations, artists may submit up to three works for consideration.
Exhibition Details
Dates: March 29–30, 2025
Location: Squirrel Haus Arts, 3450 Snelling Ave, MN 55406
Reception: Saturday, March 29 | 6–9 PM
Gallery Hours: Sunday, March 30 | 12–4 PM
For questions or to arrange alternative drop-off, contact serpentina.arts@gmail.com.
Darning 101
Rips and holes can happen in our favorite knit garments, including t-shirts, socks, and workout clothes. Heal all of those holes with darning and community during this two hour class. Lauren will teach you how to repair the knit garments in your life with two methods of darning.
Accessibility: Previous Darning skills not required. Fine motor skills used in class. If you have questions about accessibility please reach out.
Stencil Monotype
Stencil Monotype; What do you wish to put more of into the world? Lean into the replicability of printmaking to create prints that can depict an image or message that you want to share abundantly with others. Combine paper cutting and relief printing techniques to create unique prints. While each individual print will have slight variations, the stencils we create in class will allow us to maintain repetition and echo imagery. Participants will be encouraged to experiment and improvise throughout the mark making process!
2025 Serpentina Arts Annual Meeting
Serpentina Arts annual meeting returns to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). Stay tuned for more info about this yea’r’s agenda.
Thursday, April 17th, 2024 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Minneapolis Institute of Art | 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Improvisational Quilting
Improvisational Quilting; Learn how to make an improvisational quilt from scratch. This three-part workshop will explore intuitive piecing and improvisational ways of creating patterns, as well as techniques to hand sew a quilt. In this class we will reflect on what it's like to create a quilt 'as you go', and explore how to hand stitch and bind a quilt together in response to your piercing. There is no need to take the one session improvisational quilting before taking this workshop.
Serpentina Arts Presents: A Tour of the Giants Exhibitions led by curator Casey Riley
Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) | 400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Date: Thursday, May 1st: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Registration deadline: Monday, April 21st, 2025 at noon.
Join Serpentina Arts for a guided tour of the MIA's new exhibition Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keyson 5/1. The tour will be led by the MIA's curator of of Global Contemporary Art, Casey Riley. Spots are limited and will be filled on a first come first serve basis.
Dreaming in Drypoint
What do you dream of? Embrace the soft textures that can be achieved through drypoint to replicate the contents of your dreams. This class will use drypoint, an introductory Intaglio printmaking technique that uses an etching needle to draw on plastic to create an image that can be coated in ink and reproduced multiple times on paper using an etching press.
Watching with Watercolor
Let’s use watercolor as a tool to capture the season. As we transition into days outside, let’s embrace this lightweight and compact medium that’s easy for travel and capturing the world around you.
This class will:
-Explore methods and varieties of paint.
-Talk about paper
-Help you gain confidence with the medium.
-Ideate on a summer sketchbook to build up techniques.
Creative Menus: June
Different art mediums have different personalities. Why does careful drawing with a colored pencil feel different than free fingerpainting? What makes scribbling with a Sharpie satisfying sometimes, or ripping and cutting and gluing a collage feel right at other times?
This class is inspired by the expressive therapies continuum, which helps us consider what art tools light up what parts of our brain. Let’s explore how the art tool we choose can help us connect to our logical minds, our emotional expression, or both—and get creative about which projects we tackle at which moments in our lives.
You will leave this class having made your own personalized creative menu booklet that you can reference when you need to get in touch with your feelings or make sense of something.
Remembering through Relief
For the month of pride, Curiosity Studio invite participants to remember our Queer and Trans-cestors through relief printing. In this class, learn how to carve and print multiple impressions of a relief block by hand. Draw inspiration from those who came before us to create hand-printed relief prints that honor their histories and celebrate our present existence. Lean into the somatic practice of hand sculpting a matrix to create a 2-dimensional image.
For the month of pride, Curiosity Studio are centering this class around Queer and Trans participants. If you do not identify with this community, please join us for a similar offering in the future.
Due to the topic of this class, we are offering a reduced rate option for BIPOC Queer and Trans participants with the intent of increasing accessibility and ensuring materials cost and labor are paid.
Zines as Vessels
In this workshop, you will be introduced to a few different methods of creating zines: small DIY booklets. Approaches will range from simple, one-page folding methods to a basic introduction to paper stitching. We will cover a brief history of zines as autonomous publications and their use in disseminating ideas and information.
Zines can be a great vessel for capturing and sharing stories, art, or virtually anything!
Registration deadline for Serpentina Arts Printmaking with Natural Dyes Workshop
Location: Squirrel Haus Arts | 3450 Snelling Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Dates: Saturday, March 29th: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM and Sunday, March 30th: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration deadline: Friday, March 21st, 2025 at noon.
NOTE: Lunch will be provided. This is not an introduction to printmaking. This workshop is for artists who already have printmaking experience.
This is a two-day printmaking FREE workshop to learn about natural dyes on woodblock printing (Ofrecemos un taller de 2 dias de tintas naturales y xilografía). Day 1 (3/29) will be an Introduction to making natural dyes. Day 2 (3/30) will focus on carving and printing. All materials will be provided.
Last chance for a free headshot and artwork documentation
Squirrel Haus Arts | 3450 Snelling Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Tuesday, March 19th: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Free opportunity to receive headshots by Xavier Tavera and artwork documentation by Andres Perez. This is an opportunity for MN Latinx artists.
Learn more and register using this Google Form.
Event photo by nigojaproductions.
Jigsaw Printing
Jigsaw Printing; Our lives are made up of so many different things we cherish and value! Piece together various snippets from your life that come together to form who you are. In this multi-week class, learn introductory skills to relief printing and create your composition using a jigsaw technique. These techniques will allow you to spend time meditating on the things you love as you carve, join together the different aspects of your life that create your whole person, and hand-print multiple impressions on paper that you can share with loved ones.
Deadline to apply for the Serpentina Arts Juried Printmaking Pop-up Exhibition
Serpentina Arts invites MN-based Latinx printmakers to submit their work for a juried pop-up exhibition at Squirrel Haus Arts. This two-day event will highlight the talent and diversity of Latinx printmakers at all career stages, from emerging to established artists. Selected works will be exhibited alongside prints by artists currently working in Mexico. Due to space limitations, artists may submit up to three works for consideration.
Exhibition Details
Dates: March 29–30, 2025
Location: Squirrel Haus Arts, 3450 Snelling Ave, MN 55406
Reception: Saturday, March 29 | 6–9 PM
Gallery Hours: Sunday, March 30 | 12–4 PM
Submission Guidelines
Open to MN-based Latina, Latino, and Latinx artists.
Acceptable printmaking techniques include monotype, etching, lithography, collagraph, relief (linocut/woodcut), intaglio, and screenprinting.
Works must be ready to hang and no larger than 14" x 11".
Submit up to three images, along with a 150-word bio, and piece descriptions (title, medium, size, year).
Timeline
Submission Deadline: March 14, 2025 (11:59 PM)
Notification of Selection: March 17, 2025
Artwork Drop-Off: March 23–27, 2025
Artwork Pick-Up: March 30, 2025 (4–6 PM) or arrangement made in advance
Register using this Google Form.
For questions or to arrange alternative drop-off, contact serpentina.arts@gmail.com.
No Sew Portraits
No Sew Portraits; How do you capture someone's essence? Using double sided interfacing, we will create textile portraits without using any sewing. We will explore how color and pattern can articulate personality by using a variety of fabrics. Participants will be asked to bring copies of reference photos they would like to work from in class.
Bring: 2 copies of a reference photo you would like to work from in class.
Goals: Use scraps/found fabric, get folks intimidated by sewing a different avenue to explore textiles, explore how we visually describe personality through portraiture
Creative Menus: March
Creative Menus; Different art mediums have different personalities. Why does careful drawing with a colored pencil feel different than free fingerpainting? What makes scribbling with a Sharpie satisfying sometimes, or ripping and cutting and gluing a collage feel right at other times?
This class is inspired by the expressive therapies continuum, which helps us consider what art tools light up what parts of our brain. Let’s explore how the art tool we choose can help us connect to our logical minds, our emotional expression, or both—and get creative about which projects we tackle at which moments in our lives.
You will leave this class having made your own personalized creative menu booklet that you can reference when you need to get in touch with your feelings or make sense of something.
Mending 101
Find the meditative power of hand sewing, learn history of the craft and lessen your consumption by repairing your own clothes! Participants will walk away with needles, thread and a reference guide for future mending endeavors.
Skills learned: five basic stitching and patching methods to repair your garments.
Mending Happy Hour
Come visit the studio for a Mending Happy Hour.
There are a lot of questions that come up in the mending process. Of course, these normally come up after you leave class 🙃
BYOP(roject) and B(ev) to gather with others over your mends, questions, or consultation!
More info at the Curiosity Studio website.
3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN
Intuitive Dreamscape Painting
In this class, participants will create a dreamscape painting with a Surrealist twist! Learn new techniques, build expressive colors and create a landscape composition inspired by intuitive painting practices. Explore the world of dreams and the unexpected!
Learn more at the Curiosity Studio website.
3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN
Reverse Appliqué
This reverse applique method will use layers of fabric and hand sewing skills to create a unique portrait. With the use of hand sewing, embroidery and textiles, let’s consider these techniques as a way to simultaneously uncover and build images. Similar to humans, our portraits will be layered!
Learn more at the Curiosity Studio website.
3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN)
Cards for Spreading Love
Do you ever wish you could design your own greeting cards? Come to the studio to make your own matching set through a relief printmaking method. Participants will walk away with a matching card + envelope set of 5 or more as well as the general know-how to do it again at home!
Learn more at the Curiosity Studio website.
3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN)
Queer Open Studio: February
Love is an infinite thing that can be shared any time of year! Join us this month and sculpt an object that you can revisit as a reminder of love.
Thursday, February 6th 6-8 pm at Curiosity Studio (3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN)
Learn more at the Curiosity Studio website.
3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN)
Darning 101
Rips and holes can happen in our favorite knit garments, including t-shirts, socks, and workout clothes. Heal all of those holes with darning and community during this two hour class. Lauren will teach you how to repair the knit garments in your life with two methods of darning.
Learn more at the Curiosity Studio website.
3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN
Open Studio: January
Curiosity Studio presents Open Studio; Theme: Fantastical Face Masks
Masks can make us into different people for a minute. Sometimes these masks are tangible; used for ceremony, theatre or disguise. Sometimes masks are intangible; put on when we are communicating with new people, suspending identity or disguise. Making a fantastical mask is a beautiful way to interrogate or celebrate the masks we put on.
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