A Southwest Abecedarium

$300.00

Instructor: Daniel González

Date: Sunday 10/12 and Monday 10/13, 2025
Time: 10am - 4pm both days

Workshop Description:
Join us to collaboratively create a unique Abecedarium! Participants will select a pre-printed wood type letterform and create a linocut to interact with the letterform and be printed alongside it. We will cover carving techniques, image transfer, and tool maintenance, and leave ample time for carving, composition, and printing. The resulting edition will be shared to create a collection of prints for each participant.

An Abecedarium is an illustrated alphabet book, often depicting a visual representation of a letter (“A is for Apple”, etc). “Modern artists have gravitated to the abecedarium as a framework for celebrating letterforms and typographic history, recalling early childhood learning experiences, or simply as a convenient format for exploring word and image combinations.” - Cornell University Library

Instructor: Daniel González

Date: Sunday 10/12 and Monday 10/13, 2025
Time: 10am - 4pm both days

Workshop Description:
Join us to collaboratively create a unique Abecedarium! Participants will select a pre-printed wood type letterform and create a linocut to interact with the letterform and be printed alongside it. We will cover carving techniques, image transfer, and tool maintenance, and leave ample time for carving, composition, and printing. The resulting edition will be shared to create a collection of prints for each participant.

An Abecedarium is an illustrated alphabet book, often depicting a visual representation of a letter (“A is for Apple”, etc). “Modern artists have gravitated to the abecedarium as a framework for celebrating letterforms and typographic history, recalling early childhood learning experiences, or simply as a convenient format for exploring word and image combinations.” - Cornell University Library

Instructor Bio:

Daniel González is a Chicano graphic artist from the community of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. Daniel began exploring art making at an early age through community art workshops creating murals. He began his practice as a printmaker while he was studying at the California College of Arts and Crafts, through workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book and at Mission Gráfica at the Mission Cultural Center. Daniel completed his formal studies at UCLA and his artwork is housed in special collections internationally, on permanent display as public art at Metro’s La Cienega Station and at the LA County Natural History Museum as part of the Becoming L.A. permanent exhibit.

His work is informed by his experience as the child of immigrant parents, incomplete local histories and personal narratives of life between Los Angeles and Zacatecas. Through his printmaking practice, Daniel creates imagery that is rich in history and invents a visual narrative that is completely his own. Currently, Daniel’s work is part of the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Printing the Revolution: Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now and teaches printmaking and letterpress at the Barnsdall Art Center in Los Angeles and The Armory Art Center in Pasadena.

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WORKSHOP CANCELLATION POLICY

A lot of work and investment go into planning our workshops, and vacancies can be hard to fill, even when there’s a wait list. If you need to cancel your registration, please reference this schedule:

For cancellation 30 days or more before the start of your class, you will receive a full refund minus a $25 service fee.

For cancellation 29-14 days before the start of your class, you will receive a 50% refund.

For cancellations within 13 days of the start of class, no refunds will be given.

Workshop cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to info@southwestprintfiesta.org

If it is necessary for Southwest Print Fiesta to cancel a workshop for any reason, students will be notified and offered the choice of a full refund or another class, if space is available. We cannot, however, be responsible for travel or lodging expenses associated with your trip.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding!