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Press and Pull: EFA Printmaking Workshop – Linoleum Block Printing by Yashua Klos
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LINOLEUM BLOCK PRINTING is a part of Press and Pull Fall 2024 Date: Saturday, Octorber 5th Time: 1:00 – 3:00pm Venue: The Children’s Art Carnival Max. Participants: 15 Registration is required to participate: Reserve your spot now! This workshop will guide students through the process of linoleum block printing. Participants will carve into linoleum, ink-up, and hand print your image multiple times. You will print in different colors using several different hand-pressed printing techniques. Students add to their practice with a whole new toolbox of methods as well as new conceptual approaches to the linocut medium. While some of the primary tenants of traditional block printing are covered, printmaking operates as a means to facilitate the student’s concept. Students gain knowledge of the fundamentals of linoleum block printmaking: carving, reproduction, inking, etc. Lino printing is considered a traditional relief printmaking method and is often referred to as lino cutting. In this technique, a design is carved into a linoleum block. The uncarved, raised surface (relief) is then inked using a brayer and printed onto paper or fabric with the aid of a baren. This process enables the production of multiple copies of the same artwork, known as editions. Lino printing shares similarities with traditional woodblock printing. However, linoleum is favoured over wood due to its carving-friendly nature. Registration is required to participate: Reserve your spot now! 
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About the facilitator: Yashua Klos
In his multi-media practice, Yashua Klos explores themes of identity, memory, and African Americans’ relationship to American labor. His large-scale works are created from the intricate formation of woodblock prints, representing ideas of Blackness through multi-dimensional, fragmented compositions. Unlike traditional collage arranged from ready-made source material, Klos creates all his collage material through woodblock printing and monotypes. His work reimagines the Black body as an alchemical being, surviving and existing within intertwined networks of history, myth, and lived reality.
Yashua Klos (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) received a BFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb (2000) and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York (2009), both in Fine Art. Recent exhibitions include Building Our Being at Zidoun Bossuyt, Paris, FR (2023) and the major solo show Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (2022) curated by Tracy L. Adler, and Yashua Klos: OUR LIVING at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME (2022). His work was also included in the group exhibitions Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023) and at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (2024); Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art at the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2022); and Africa, Imagined: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Art at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI (2022). His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, WA, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI, and the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. He has been awarded residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, BRIC Arts, the Joan Mitchell Center, Skowhegan, and the Vermont Studio Center. Klos is the recipient of a 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant and a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. Klos lives and works in Harlem, NY, and the Bronx, NY, respectively.