Workshops & Events
The Art of Hand Lettering
In this in-person workshop, you'll discover hand-lettering techniques with step-by-step instructions and how to illustrate a word or quote of your choice.
Analog Zine Machine
Zines are a low-stakes way to share your story. In this virtual workshop, we will focus on the analog—or non-computer based—skills needed to write and lay out a multi-page zine.
The Art of Hand Lettering
In this in-person workshop, you'll discover hand-lettering techniques with step-by-step instructions and how to illustrate a word or quote of your choice.
Unfolding Narratives: Writing for Artists' Books
Learn techniques for generating text for artist's books through conceptual approaches: text as image, as narrative, and as lyrical expression.
Rebus: Image as Riddle
Rebuses are messages or puzzles in which pictures, letters, or symbols represent sounds.
Digital Resources: Geometry and Illusion for Visual Artists
In this virtual workshop, we’ll dive into some cool tools—both digital and on paper—to create tessellations, anaglyphs, patterns, and origami templates.
Ideation Through Collage
In this in-person workshop, failure is celebrated, dialogue sparks innovation, and the goal is to disrupt typical ideation patterns.
Collage Artist Trading Cards: Let's Trade!
Let’s explore collage through Artist Trading Cards! Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are small two- dimensional works of art about the size of a playing card.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem
Join us for a collaborative concrete poetry and low-fi printmaking workshop in MCBA’s studios, drawing on the history of concrete poetry, the work of screenprinter and text-combiner Corita Kent, and Walt Whitman's insistence that a just society is poetry's embodiment.