SHG continues to print “Know Your Rights” posters! Posters are available for pick up (10 per organization/ 5 per person) until supplies last. Email our Digital Marketing and Outreach Associate at jeny.amaya@selfhelpgraphics.com to coordinate your pickup!

If you want to print and distribute “Know your Rights” posters in your local neighborhood, you can also download and print English and Spanish versions via our website. Created in partnership with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, NDLON. Learn more about their work here.

🎨:  Joy as Resistance | 2025 Printmaking Summit
⏰:  Saturday June 28, 2025 |  12 - 5 PM
📍:  Plaza de la Raza | 3540 N Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90031
🎟️: https://joyasresistance2025.eventbrite.com

Self Help Graphics & Art presents Joy as Resistance, our Biennial Printmaking Summit in partnership with the East Side Print Fair and Plaza de la Raza. Join us as we explore how joy and printmaking have long served as tools for resistance, empowerment, and world-building. The day will feature art, workshops, demonstrations, a panel discussion, a print fair with local artists, live music, poetry, and more! 

WORKSHOPS 

Family Workshop: Styrofoam and Block Printing with Natalie Godinez
12-4:00 PM (drop-in anytime!) | MUSIC BUILDING 
FREE

Join us for a hands-on printmaking workshop where families can create bold, colorful prints using easy block and styrofoam techniques. All ages welcome and no experience needed! Come explore texture, shape, and storytelling through the art of print.

Papermaking Workshop with Usen Gandara *
12:30- 2 PM | ART BUILDING
* Registration required: $15 | 12 participants 

Join artist Usen Gandara in this fun and easy workshop and create something usable and beautiful from what would otherwise be an endless amount of junk mail, old newspapers, or magazines. Participants will use found or recycled paper material to mold sheet(s) of paper with a screen and create new sheets of paper! 

Printmaking Patterns (Tessellations) Workshop with Pavel Acevedo * 3:30-5:00 PM | ART BUILDING
* Registration required: $15 | 12 participants 

Join artist Pavel Acevedo and learn to design and carve linoleum blocks to create amazing repetitive patterns. A tessellation, also known as a tiling, is a repeating pattern of shapes that fills a plane without any gaps or overlaps. Participants will learn how to print their tessellation designs on to a bandana.

PRINTING DEMONSTRATIONS

Collagraphs with Victor Rosas *
1:00-2 pm | ART BUILDING
* Registration required: $5 | 12 participants

Join artist Victor Rosas to learn how to create collagraph prints. Victor will demonstrate the process of creating a plate design using found objects to create textures and unique effects. 

Block Printing with Gisela Ramirez * 
3:00-4:00 pm | ART BUILDING
* Registration required: $5 | 12 participants

Join artist Gisela Ramirez to learn fundamental techniques and the process of block printing. Gisela will demonstrate how to use tools, print with a printing press, and printing by hand to achieve similar results.

* These require a paid ticket. If you require financial assistance to attend, email info@selfhelpgraphics.com as we have a sponsor willing to fund some tickets!

PANEL DISCUSSION

2 PM - 3 PM | MUSIC BUILDING

This panel discussion will explore the role of printmaking in social justice movements. From traditional prints to community-based projects, printmaking has empowered people to express their unique perspectives, creating connection and collective agency in the process. Printmaking, like joy, has long been a site of resistance, where artists deconstruct the status quo to reconstruct new worlds. Curator Claudia Zapata will moderate a conversation with artists Jackie "Chicas Peligrosas" Hernandez and Dewey Tafoya, SHG Master Printer. They will be joined by Juliette Bellocq from the Corita Art Center and Emily Sulzer from the Center for Political Graphics.

LIVE PERFORMANCES

1 PM - 5 PM | OUTDOOR STAGE

Enjoy free live performances by local poets and musicians. Plus, artist Marcus Kuiland-Nazario will be our MC!

POETRY READINGS

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

EAST SIDE PRINT FAIR

12 PM - 5 PM | OUTDOORS

🌀 FEATURING: 🌀

• SHG’s La Tiendita

• Evillustrations

• Tarjetitas con Amor

• Francis Robateau

• Cindita's Tiendita

• Know Más Generation

• Chayote Press Printmaker

• Eastside Press

• Zuaycreatex

• Printgonzalez

• Miyo & Usen Print Editions

• Eduardo Muñoz

• karmarelo

• Gio Rubio Art

• Erick Martinez Art

• Arte En Tu Mente

• Las Chicas Peligrosas

• Artpunk

• Grafica Nocturna

• Maritza Torres

• Kalli Arte

Self Help Graphics & Art has always been a place where people come to begin, grow, and thrive — both as artists and as staff. True to our spirit of growth, opportunity, and evolution, we are proud to share that Marvella Muro, our Director of Artistic, Curatorial, and Education Programs, is stepping into a new role at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. Over the past six years, Marvella was instrumental in creating programs and exhibitions that reflect the heart of SHG. In her new position, she will continue to support artists and advocate for the arts throughout our community.

While we will greatly miss her presence at SHG, we are excited for this next chapter in her journey and look forward to finding new ways to stay connected. In the coming weeks, we will be thoughtfully planning this transition to ensure that our programs and partnerships continue to flourish without interruption.

For any questions during this transition please reach out to our Interim Executive Director, Paulina Flores at pflores@selfhelpgraphics.com.

Please join us in thanking Marvella for her dedication and wishing her all the best in this new endeavor!