Master Class | Linocut Relief Printmaking with Juan de Dios Mora
July 5–August 5, 2025
Explore the possibilities of linocut printmaking in this hands-on art master class. Participants will learn a range of carving techniques and the basics of relief printing from concept and design to editioning.
The Contemporary’s Master Class program is a community engagement education program that focuses on hands-on learning from a professional artist that demonstrates a mastery of their working medium. This program offers participants exceptional instruction of art techniques and culminates in a showcase of the participants work. Materials and supplies will be provided to participants at no additional cost.
Linocut Relief Printmaking’s showcase will be displayed in the Contemporary’s Learning Lab Thursday, August 21, 2025.
Schedule
Saturday July 5, 10am–1pm
Saturday July 12, 10am–1pm
Saturday July 19, 10am–1pm
Saturday July 26, 10am–1pm
Saturday August 2, 10am–1pm
Thursday August 21, 5pm–7pm
+ Class fees: $250. Members receive a 10% discount. Email Membership@contemporarysa.org to sign up for your membership and receive a discount code.
+ Educators can receive up 15 hours of CPE credits for this program. For details contact our Education and Public Programs Manager at Juan@Contemporarysa.org
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About the Instructor
Juan de Dios Mora was born in Yahualica, Mexico. In 1998, his family immigrated to the United States. In 2009, he received his BFA with an emphasis in Painting and an MFA specializing in Printmaking in 2011 from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) where he currently works as an Assistant Professor of art.
Mora concentrates in the printmaking technique of relief to create narratives of Mexican-American experiences. His experiences living along the border (US and Mexico) provide an awaking of social and political concepts that heavily influence his artistic, aesthetic and conceptual ideas.
Mora has been included in exhibitions across United States, Mexico, and Japan. Venues featuring his work are McNay Museum; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; and Kyoto Municipal Museum, Japan. His work has been collected by the, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, OR; McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX; University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; The Smithsonian America Art Museum, Washington, DC.