Creative Minds – Community Zine Collab for Teens
Dates: Tuesdays, October 15 to November 19
Time: 5:30PM-7:00PM
Venue:Meridian Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge Street, North York
This interactive program will delve into the depths of drawing, printing and zine-making techniques for a fun, hands-on learning experience that will leave participants feeling accomplished and engaged. Come and learn with members from our very own community about our shared connections to the people, places and things that we enjoy, and discover fun, exciting ways to depict our story with relief-cut printing techniques.
Project Objective: Students will leave the program with one 6″ x 9″ folded zine which features six interior pages, one cover page with a title and one back cover page with all the students’ names. The zine will be printed in black ink using relief cut lino block printing techniques, where each student will make one row of comics and mix and match their rows together to create a non linear story about “shared spaces”.
Learning Objectives: In this program students will learn all the key steps needed in order to create relief-cut lino block prints. They will learn how to assemble a relief cut tool, how to properly bray ink and press prints, how to transfer a design and how to design an image for relief cut prints. They will also learn all the key steps needed in order to create a folded zine. They will learn how to prepare a sheet of paper for a zine layout, and how to cut and fold a zine out of a single sheet of paper using no glue or staples.
If you require more information or help with this registration, please contact Anna Aleksanyan at anna@northyorkarts.org.
