Participating Artists

Collaborative Public Art Project: Together We’re Stronger — Lynda Grafito
Saturday, May 30 & Sunday May 31, 11 am – 5pm (paste-up 4 - 5 pm both days)

Join Lynda Grafito for a bilingual (English/Spanish), two-day collaborative public art project. Working in linocut, Grafito draws from plant and animal life in Latin America and Minnesota to explore themes of community, migration, and connection. Participants will print and contribute to a large-scale installation on Highpoint’s facade, culminating in a collective paste-up that transforms individual prints into a shared, site-specific work.
Lynda Grafito is a visual artist based in Minnesota and born in Columbia. She creates linocut works inspired by the beauty and diversity of nature representing scenes of animals and plants from Latin America and Minnesota that address migration and environmental issues.

Hands-on activity: The Art of the Single Print  — Maneli Aygani
Sunday, May 31, 11 am – 5 pm

Discover monoprinting with Maneli Aygani in this hands-on, all-ages activity. Focused on experimentation and process, participants will create one-of-a-kind prints using simple materials, guided by gesture, chance, and intuition.
Maneli Aygani is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently residing in Minneapolis after living and working between Tehran and the U.S. She has an MFA in Drawing/Painting/Printmaking from the University of Minnesota.

Hands-on activity: Custom Bandana Screen Printing — Bohemian Press
Saturday, May 30, 11 am – 5 pm

Create a custom bandana with Bohemian Press while learning the basics of screen printing. Participants will combine artist-designed imagery to produce a wearable print and leave with a unique take-home piece.
Bohemian Press is a nonprofit print collective based in the University of Minnesota Art Department, turning 20 years old in 2026!

Woodcuts: Black Identity — Jasper Duberry
Saturday, May 30, 4 - 5 PM

Follow the woodcut process from carved block to finished print with Jasper Duberry. This demonstration also offers insight into the artist’s approach to developing and expressing themes of Black identity through printmaking.
Jasper Duberry is a printmaker based Minnesota where he creates woodcut prints that address themes of pain, joy, excellence, healing, and resistance, through the lens of his experience as a Black person in America.

Investigative Monotyping — Kara Faye Gregory
Sunday, May 31, 3 - 4 PM

Kara Faye Gregory explores the open-ended nature of monotyping, emphasizing play and material exploration. Using found objects, solvents, and printmaking tools, this demonstration reveals how layered textures and abstract forms emerge through experimentation.
Kara Faye Gregory is a printmaker and painter born and raised in Minneapolis. After receiving a BFA in 2014, they started their own screenprinting shop and is an active member of the printmaking community.

CMYK Etching —  Amira Pualwan
Saturday, May 30, NOON - 1 PM

Amira Pualwan introduces a method for creating full-color imagery with etching. By screenprinting a halftone ground onto copper plates, this process brings CMYK color separation, commonly associated with screenprint and lithography, into the realm of intaglio, alongside hand-drawn marks.
Amira Pualwan is an artist and educator with MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, and is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Carleton College for the 2025-26 academic year.

Pattern on Stone — Lila Shull
Sunday, May 31, 1 - 2 PM

Explore the process of creating repeat patterns through stone lithography with Lila Shull. This demonstration highlights rich color layering and the expressive potential of lithographic crayon, offering a closer look at how intricate patterns are built through repetition and variation.
Lila Shull is a printmaker based in St. Paul, Minnesota and a current McKnight Fellow at Highpoint. Working in printmaking, painting, and drawing, her practice pays particular attention to the shift between objects and patterns related to memory.

Visualize, Illustrate, and Transfer — Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera
Saturday, May 30, 2 - 3 PM

Learn techniques for applying printed imagery to leather and fabric with Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera. This hands-on session shares practical approaches for translating illustrations into tactile, wearable surfaces through screen printing.
Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera is a Minneapolis-based multidisciplinary artist who investigates the constructions of racial, ethnic, gender, national and cultural identity via mediums like printmaking, installation, and public art.