Urpicollective is happy to announce its next event: Linoleum Block Printing Workshop with Bay Area artist Alejandra Rubio at the Sucka Free Collective Warehouse.
We invite you to learn with Alejandra the basics of printmaking while supporting social justice. 🖌️📰
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⏰🗓️ Friday May 29, from 3 pm-6pm (Doors open at 2:30pm)
📍125 quint st, bayview, SF
RSVP by May 26:
/e/1989264701271?aff=oddtdtcreator
In March I was granted the opportunity to take a week long intensive book binding course at @sanfranciscocenterforthebook , fully funded thanks to the Forlin Scholarship.
My interest in bookbinding was resparked after spending an entire day on the 6th floor at the SFPL main library looking at materials/artist books in their special collections. I was researching arsons in the Mission and wanted to see a book someone had shared with me, “Mission Inferno,” a book that was binded to resemble an investigative case file on fires in the Mission from 1970-2016. Since this day I started seeing books a little differently and my love of the library continues to grow🫶🏽✨
I have a lot to learn from this medium and even more practicing to do, but I’m super excited to be able to make my own sketchbooks from now on and work towards creating my own artist books 🙆🏽♀️✨
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1) sewing end bands- I’m never ripping them out of a book again
2) my letter-pressed certificate🥲
3) earth book
4) tools
5) corners
6) baby
7) a girl
8) with medieval hobbies
April 🔥❤️🔥🔥
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1) 🤎
2) kitty
3) year of the horse
4) reminders
5) I ❤️ books
6) making books, bookmaking
7) memories
8) I believe it
9) the signs
10) a girl and her backpack
11) untz untz untz
12) 🦕
13) 20 minutes and a dream
14) !pohs tnirp
15) community ✨
16) side questing so hard these days
17) I crashed out this month (there were 7 planets in Aries)
Sasha Vu up now at Taqueria Pancho Villa📍
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New art up at Pancho Villa, super excited to be collaborating with Sasha Vu (@atomic.lychee ) who is a San Francisco born and raised artist, designer, and educator that thrives on bringing big ideas to life.
Sasha has served as a co-founder and curator at Muni Raised Me (@muniraisedme ), helping to shape projects that honor and uplift San Francisco-born and raised artists.
Sasha’s work at Pancho villa features mystical babes, creatures, and monsters with bright colors and patterns- yall have to see it in person 🙏🏽 Support this local artist and business by grabbing a burrito and checking out the work!!
March 🙆🏽♀️💚✨- working hard, playing harder
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1) 👁️👄👁️
2) up close and personal
3) trying to live life more fearlessly
4) what do you see??
5) 🫂
6) dipping my little plate in acid and counting to 10 to see what happens
7) micro-coppers
8) medieval interests
9) a tale as old as time…😔
10) baby brother💖
11) duality
12) coming back to myself
13) only one way through
New art up at 📍El Cafetazo!!
Featuring Angela Zamora (@mex4art ) & Sofia Criswell (@atrevidasofia )
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First time in the 3 years of doing this project that I have a duo show up! Thank you @mex4art for coordinating it! It’s always so cool to see how art changes the energy of these spaces and how these works complement each other. Please stop by to see artworks on corn husks, canvases, wood, and textiles! And while you’re at it support your local artists and business 🙆🏽♀️✨
February 🙆🏽♀️💖✨
“Life is meant to be lived”
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1) the signs!!!!!
2) Juke 😛
3) baby’s first time tide pooling (I’m baby)
4) doing it scared
5) learning multiple things at the same time
6) I ❤️ Hayward and their library
7) cozy galentines 🫶🏽
8) whimsy 🙆🏽♀️✨
9) more whimsy (and a pronto plate 🤓)
10) I love teaching 🥹
11) and seeing my work/ideas transform themselves in someone else’s hands
12) hues and cues
13) dreamy ☁️
14) what Benito said
January - 31 days into 2026, what a year this has been🙆🏽♀️
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1) my two favorite things, Nemo and sketching (but Nemo doesn’t like when I sketch)
2) I’ve never seen a plant like this!!!
3) art, architecture, and archiving 🙆🏽♀️
4) creating peace
5) back to the basics
6) playing 🤸🏽♀️
7) mecaga eso
8) sacred
9) 😛🖕🏽
10) cooking
11) now booking city girl tours 🙆🏽♀️ (when I show my friends my favorite spots in the city 🤭)
12) artists are so cool
13) faith 🤞🏽✨
Send your boo a Valentines Love Letter ❤️
Or make your own custom cards at our upcoming workshop! Now being offered at a sliding scale 💘
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I started doing love letters during the beginning of the pandemic as way to sustain my printmaking practice with limited space. I didn’t want to keep stacks of prints and decided to transform them into love letters as a way to become a bridge between folks who may not have been able to be physically close to their loved one’s during birthdays, holidays, and Valentines Day.
This year one of my goals is to come back to the parts of my art practice that felt fun!! And this project brings me immense joy!
I’ve loved being able to bare witness to the love that people share with each other. I have had the honor and the privilege to play cupid at the beginning stages of people’s romantic relationships, between friends, and family. This project fills me with hope amidst what feels like the never ending violence of the world.
And to put it simply, we all deserve more fun mail, especially during this time!
Link in my bio to order or DM me!!!
Update: If you would like to make your own valentines day cards @sophiamitty and I are hosting a Lino-cut workshop on 2/1 from 12pm - 5pm!!
It is now being offered at a sliding scale of $50 - $100, ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED!!! Hit us up if you would like to join!
