The First Recipe (Printmaking)

What was the first recipe you learned? What is your favorite herb or spice to cook with? In this workshop, participants can look forward to exploring relief printmaking and preserving family traditions by creating designs inspired by passed-down recipes, using images of herbs, spices, and produce as reference. 

Vetiver (Vonne Napper) (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator, printmaker, and land steward. Their practice centers on preserving Black queer & trans identities & narratives and promoting spiritual wellness. Identifying as nonbinary & trans-masculine, Vetiver pulls from their lived experience to highlight the challenges of existing at a particularly targeted intersection in society, and employs their ancestry and relationship with nature to establish connections between the communities to which they belong.

Vetiver was the first artist from the Community Arts MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art to hold residency at the B&O Railroad Museum, where they developed the first…