Summer 2025 Jigsaw Linocut (4 weeks)

Summer 2025 Jigsaw Linocut
4-weeks, Mondays
July 7 - July 28
6:30 - 9:30 PM
$310, Materials included

Instructor: Cleopatria Peterson (they/them)
Class size: 6 students

Cut corners and carve lino in this fun relief printing workshop. Students will learn to create linocut prints that fit together like a puzzle, enabling multiple colours to be printed all at once. Join artist Cleopatria Peterson to master carving and crafting intricate prints on Open Studio’s relief presses. Suitable for all levels; no prior experience needed.

About the Instructor: Cleopatria Peterson is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the intersectionality of their identities as a Black, non-binary, transgender, and crip artist through narrative, printmaking, illustration, and education. They are a member of the Crip Arts Collective, have exhibited work at the Canadian Textile Museum, and co-founded Old Growth Press. Recently, they celebrated their first solo show, Bestie Mart, at Tangled Art + Disability. Cleopatria graduated from the Cross Disciplinary Art: Publications program at OCAD U as the medal winner for their class (2020) and holds a Bachelor of Design from TMU’s Fashion Communication program.

Image: Cleopatria Peterson, "Signal Hill", jigsaw linocut, 2025