Join Intuit at A Very Serious Gallery for a printmaking workshop facilitated by Rachelle Hill. Using LEGO blocks, printmaker and educator Rachelle Hill will guide you through the process of transferring your unique designs onto paper and totes. Art After Work is pay what you choose. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists. Register here.
Materials Provided at A Very Serious Gallery
- LEGO blocks
- Water-based ink
- Brayer
- Tote bags
- Paper
Meet Rachelle Hill
Rachelle Hill is a visual artist, educator and youth advocate. Rachelle currently works as a teaching artist for the Chicago Park District, leading and developing art programming in the West Ridge and Rogers Park neighborhoods.
Rachelle has worked throughout Chicago with youth and adults and is passionate about creating accessible art spaces for all, while building community. She routinely offers free intergenerational art-making workshops through the Chicago Printers Guild. Her current work explores mapping as a way to investigate identity, creating a dialogue through the use of abstraction to contemplate how home and landscape condition the way we approach the world utilizing printmaking and textile methods.
About A Very Serious Gallery
A Very Serious Gallery (VSG) is a West Town art gallery dedicated to stewarding community through art. Learn more about VSG at https://veryseriousgallery.com/
Metered street parking is available outside the gallery. The studio is also located off the Chicago Blue Line.
Art After Work is a series of hands-on artmaking workshops facilitated by Chicago-based artists. Every month, explore new inventive ways to use common, inexpensive, and salvaged materials to create your own unique work of art. Each workshop is designed for you to connect with your creativity, and each other!
Please contact Accessibility Coordinator, Dani Wieder, at dani@art.org with questions related to accessibility accommodations.
Your participation in an Intuit program constitutes implied consent to be photographed, and for those images to be utilized by Intuit for educational, fundraising, and marketing purposes. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let a staff member know and we’ll be happy to respect your wishes.
Art After Work is funded in part by the Alphawood Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Illinois Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations from Intuit members and supporters.
