Using images from military history, US Army veteran Yvette M. Pino and founder of the Veteran Print Project will demonstrate how to make trace monoprint memory drawings. Pino will share images and stories of local Chicago Latinx veterans as prompts for participants to create layered memories and stories. Participants are welcome to bring their own images to work with, as long as they are not original photographs.

A trace monoprint drawing is made by rolling out a small amount of slow-drying ink onto a piece of plexiglass and placing a very thin piece of Japanese paper over it, along with a source image to trace with a pencil or pen. The drawing tool presses the paper into the ink and makes a mark on the paper, thus transferring the ink onto the paper. Traditional free-hand drawing techniques may be used as well. Using multiple sheets and various drawings, the images will be layered and collaged together with nori paste or PH neutral PVA adhesive. The resulting images have evocative, ethereal, and dimensional characteristics that reflect the fleeting nature of memory.

Yvette M. Pino [US Army veteran] served with the 101st Airborne Division from 2002–2006. She earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2011 and received a Certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University in 2018. She currently works for The Wisconsin Veterans Museum as the Traveling Art Exhibit Coordinator, serves on the Madison Arts Commission, and sits on the board of the National Veteran Art Museum. She has published stories with The Warhorse and in See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans’ Stories of War and Coming Home.

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