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Join the Boston Public Library community to create revolutionary art!

Boston is a city of revolutionaries and prints are the medium for the message. As we mark the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution we invite you to make your own small-scale protest posters with Boston-based artist and printmaker Crystalle Lacouture. In this three hour workshop we will learn about the history of the print and the press as tools for people to share ideas and to affordably reproduce urgent political images and texts with fellow citizens. Patrons will learn how to carve a simple linoleum block and print its image using BPL’s historic etching press. Additional pre-cut ornamental blocks, moveable type, and stamps will be available to further embellish posters.

At the end of the workshop patrons will have the option to loan their prints to an exhibition that will be on view in Boston’s Old South Meeting House Museum & Historic Site and the Central Library in Copley Square. More information will be given during the program. If you have questions, please contact communityhistory@bpl.org.

All materials provided. No experience necessary. All are welcome.

Artist Bio:

Crystalle Lacouture is an artist based in Boston and North Adams, MA. She received her BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Skidmore College, where she received the Pamela Weidenman Award for Excellence in Printmaking. In addition to her full-time studio practice, Crystalle is a Co-Founder of Arrival (art fair). She exhibits her work throughout the country and is represented by Praise Shadows Gallery in Brookline, MA.

These events are part of the “Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness” program series, which is a joint initiative between BPL's Community History team and Revolutionary Spaces.

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Programming at the Boston Public Library is funded through private support. To learn more about supporting the Library, please visit the Boston Public Library Fund's website.