Tuesdays, October 22 to November 19 | 6-8PM
$275 Members and Non-members, includes materials

This five-week course will be a guided class taught by artist and educator Javier Flores, teaching carving and printing techniques used in a variety of relief processes. Students will become familiar with the Art Gym print studio, manual and motorized presses, and the various papers and tools used by beginner and professional printmakers. Course participants will practice drawing and carving images onto linoleum, and printing completed blocks.

Participants completing the course will receive 1/2 off their first month of membership if they join Art Gym, current members will receive 1/2 off their next month of membership.

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About the Instructor:  Flores received his Bachelor of Fine Art from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2008, and his Master of Fine Art from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in 2017. Since graduating, he worked as an affiliate until 2021 acquiring a full-time position at Front Range Community College. As a visual artist, Flores pursues a variety of mediums to best translate the biographical narrative approach to image and form making.

Born in 1978, in Denver Colorado to Mexican immigrants, Javier Flores is the eldest of 3 kids. Raised in a blue collar, middle to lower income level household in Brighton, Colorado helped to instill a strong work ethic, honesty, and integrity. At the age of nineteen Javier was shot in the lower back and subsequently paralyzed. Initially in shock and depression he became distant and suicidal for a time, thankfully saved by family, friends, the visual arts and martial arts.