Fall is in full-swing! Taking inspiration from the season and traditional Chinese woodblock printing, design a foam-block print with teaching artist Yu Rong using foam sheets, scissors, and paint. Sketch an original design, cut and incise the shapes, paint and print! Mix and match your foam parts to create different patterns. Then, add details to your prints by drawing, painting, splashing, or using other creative artistic techniques. Don’t stop there – create different works of art from the same foam-block design.

Join us for an in-person workshop with teaching artist Yu Rong on Saturday, November 12th from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM. FREE— no RSVP required, simply show up!

Yu Rong is a painter and product designer who has exhibited paintings and wine goblet designs in the US, UK, Italy, and the Czech Republic. She was born in Sichuan and currently lives in New York City. Yu is interested in designing products that are fun to use and creating paintings that are natural and true. She is currently a teaching artist at the Hope Garden Center and MOCA, as well as a member of the CREATE Council on the Arts in the Catskills New York and at Ceres gallery, a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery in New York City dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. You can learn more about her here: www.yurong.work!

MOCACREATE is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts under Governor Kathy Hochuls’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative.