“Five years!! That’s how long l’ve been teaching block printing workshops at the @denvertoollibrary. Please enjoy a few of my favorite moments with the hundreds of students l’ve gotten to teach in that time (note there are a few videos from @landlibrary @cc_printshop and @manossagrados snuck in there too). Every class brought a new group of friendly, curious folks who stepped out of their comfort zones and spent five hours with me making something beautiful by hand. I don’t know of any moment of craft that more reliably produces a huge smile and sense of accomplishment than when a new printer pulls their first two-color print. I feel very lucky to have witnessed that magic so many times!
This summer I’m passing the torch to my good friend @vircheese. Virginia has many years of teaching experience and some big ideas for new print classes at DTL! If you’ve already taken a class there with me, keep an eye on DTL’s classes page for some new offerings in the coming months. Her first class is already sold out!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who joined me for a workshop. I will really miss teaching at DTL, but I’m planning to use that time on applications and material experiments for turning my collages into large public art pieces. More soon! 💕Lucy”
THANK YOU FOR FIVE YEARS - WE’LL MISS YOU LUCY!
AND WELCOME TO THE TEAM, VIRGINIA!
About Your New Block Printing Teacher
Virginia is a Peruvian interdisciplinary artist and trained printmaker based in Denver, where she has lived since 2005. She moved to the United States in the early 2000s to study Visual Arts, discovering printmaking during her undergraduate years. Intrigued by its tactile process and layered possibilities, she was immediately drawn to the medium.
Rooted in printmaking, her practice explores the language of process, texture, and multiplicity. Her work emerges from a sustained engagement with the medium—its rhythms, physicality, and capacity for transformation. Through print, she continues to investigate the interplay between craft and expression, repetition and variation, cultivating an ongoing relationship with the discipline and its evolving forms.
Virginia is an experienced teacher of all printmaking techniques and loves spreading the ink.
