Harlem Zine Lab: Xerox Transfer Workshop, part of ‘Still Here: Harlem Eternal’ and CAC PRESS & PULL
| Date: Saturday, July 11th Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pmVenue: The Ground Floor, The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031 For: Adults, Teens, and Children Ages 12 and Up (Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult) Join artist Dionis Ortiz for a hands-on workshop exploring Xerox transfer techniques as a tool for storytelling, memory, and image-making. Participants will learn how to transfer photocopied images onto paper and experiment with layering text, photographs, and found imagery to create original zine pages inspired by Harlem’s history, culture, and personal narratives. No prior experience is required, and all materials will be provided. Part of Still Here: Harlem Eternal, an exhibition presented in collaboration with The Harlem Defender. |
About the facilitator: Dionis Ortiz
Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the African diaspora.
He was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, received a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. He has produced several solo exhibitions in New York, and his work was recently included in Estamos bien: La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo Del Barrio (New York).
Community engagement is central to his practice and he has produced projects for Harlem River Park Fund, Museum of Art and Design, and ImageNation.
In 2021 he was Artist in Residence at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling and his mural design was selected by PubliColor for an elementary school in East Harlem. His work has been featured in The New York Times several times and is included in Latinx Art: Artists, Market, and Politics by Arlene Dávila.
This community work extends to teaching and Ortiz teaches all ages from pre-K to teenagers and undergraduates at Hunter College and Cornell University.
He received his B.F.A from SUNY Purchase College and his M.F.A from CUNY Hunter College.
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CAC PRESS & PULL is a community-based printshop at The Children’s Art Carnival (CAC) in West Harlem, grounded in equity, access, and experimentation. Inspired by the legacy of Robert Blackburn and Betty Blayton-Taylor, the program emphasizes non-traditional and accessible printmaking techniques that prioritize process, collaboration, and creative independence.
