Carve Your Own Flyers at MCASD’s Printmaking Workshop
A flyer is a small thing that does a lot of work. It moves hand to hand, lands on a wall, sits in a pocket, and turns a loose plan into a room full of people.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, San Diego artist Isa Ybarra is handing that job over to you. “You are Invited” is a hands-on printmaking workshop built around the flyer as an art object, and you leave with a stack of your own.
Carve a Block, Layer the Ink, Pull a Print
Ybarra brings lino stamps to work with, and you carve your own linoleum blocks alongside them. From there it is all layering: image, type, and pattern pressed together until the page starts to look like somewhere you want to be.
What you design is an invitation to a night of your own imagining. No printmaking experience required, only a willingness to imagine the party.
The Dance Floors Behind Visiones Nocturnas
Ybarra’s work is featured in Visiones Nocturnas: Queer Nightlife in Contemporary Art, and the workshop picks up the same threads: nocturnal gatherings, dance floors, and the communities that form after dark.
The flyer belongs to that world. It is printed ephemera, a small reproducible object that circulates through hands, walls, and pockets to call a scene into being. Expect to get into how the printed multiple has long served as a tool for making a community visible.
Lowriders, Machetes, and Vaqueros
Ybarra is a mixed media painter and printmaker based in San Diego, pulling from Mexican/Chicanx muralism, skate culture, tattooing, and zine ephemera, with activism and DIY practice from their own communities running underneath all of it.
Lowriders, machetes, and vaqueros turn up in their work as a way to celebrate Chicanx pride while critiquing colonial and machismo systems. Their paintings challenge borders and center queer Latinx visibility and joy as resistance.
See you there!
A party that exists only on paper still needs a good flyer. Come carve one, ink it, print it, and take the whole stack home with you.
📆 Saturday, November 14 | 11 AM – 1 PM
📍 700 Prospect St, La Jolla
🎟️ Get your tickets here
ℹ️ See what it’s all about here
See you there, San Diego!
