Impresión de Resistencia

2026, 26 mins

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This documentary explores printmaking in Puerto Rico as a living practice shaped by education, resistance, and daily life under an ongoing colonial condition. 

It centers the pivotal role of the División de Educación de la Comunidad (DIVEDCO), whose artists transformed printmaking into a powerful tool for public education, cultural affirmation, and collective memory in the mid-twentieth century.

Through the voices of contemporary Puerto Rican printmakers, the film addresses precarity, migration, and institutional neglect, while examining why printmaking—accessible, reproducible, and deeply rooted in community—continues to matter on the island.

Drawing on archival materials from the Museo de Antropología, Historia y Arte and the Lazaro Library of la Universidad de Puerto Rico, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras campus), the Library of Congress, and the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, alongside interviews with artists including Poli Marichal and Fernando Santiago, the documentary traces an active, ongoing dialogue between past, present, and future.

Produced with support from Print Austin, Speedball Art Products, Southern Graphic Council International, Hello Print Friend Studios, and the generous donations of people around the world.

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Alexis Figueroa aka “La Cabra” is a Puerto Rican cultural advocate, best known for founding and operating Trailer Park Proyects (TPP), an alternative art space located in San Juan, Puerto Rico founded in 2012 with artist Jorge Rito Cordero. Through TPP, Figueroa has played a pivotal role in promoting contemporary Puerto Rican art, particularly focusing on printmaking and silkscreen works that are created to promote accessible art for everyone. The initiative aims to provide a platform for emerging artists to exhibit their work without the constraints of commercial galleries, emphasizing artistic expression over marketability. TPP Gallery has participated in various art fairs and art festivals like Scope, ArteBA, Circa and Santurce es Ley.

Javier Moreno González is a visual artist and educator who lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He currently teaches visual arts in the public school system and has worked with various non-profit organizations, leading art workshops for underserved communities.

His creative practice encompasses painting, drawing, and printmaking, with the latter being his primary discipline. Through his work, Javier offers a critical reflection on current processes of social transformation and the complex political relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States.

Poli Marichal utilizes different mediums such as printmaking, painting, mixed media, film and video to make works that explore social, political and environmental issues. Marichal received her B.A. in printmaking at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de San Juan, Puerto Rico and her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. A two-year scholarship from the Institute of Puerto Rican culture allowed her to study medieval painting techniques at La Escola Massana in Barcelona from 1974-76. In 1979, she studied with painter Cecil Collins in London City LIT. She has been recipient of grants from, among others, the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, The Puerto Rico Film Commission, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts Media Grant and the National Endowment for the Humanities in Puerto Rico and participated in projects funded by grants from the Mike Kelley Foundation and the Rauschenberg Foundation. She is one of the founders of Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective, a group of artists that specialized in collaborative large format prints and that were part of the acclaimed Chicano Latino Arts Center, Self-Help Graphics & Art in Los Angeles, where she lived for thirty years.

Miranda K. Metcalf holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a master's degree in art history with a focus on printmaking. She has held the directorship of arts organizations in Australia, Thailand, and the United States in both commercial and non-profit institutions and serves on the board of Print Austin. She is the director and founder of Hello, Print Friend Studios. 

Fraíxa Albizu Rodríguez was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, on December 20, 1996. She completed her bachelor's degree at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in 2020 and is currently doing a master's degree in cultural administration at the University of Puerto Rico. She is the founder of Ciclos Gráficos, a non-profit organization that aims to promote the exchange of prints with artists of all backgrounds through the creation of exchange portfolios.

Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an award-winning printmaking artist from Caracas, Venezuela, in Spokane, WA. Reinaldo is currently an associate professor of Printmaking at Gonzaga University, Co-founder of the Spokane Print & Publishing Center, and former Art Commissioner for the state of Washington.

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Please note seating is first-come, first-served. Plan to arrive early to secure your seat(s).
We provide live-captioning services at every conversation over the weekend.

Artisan Erik Savage and team will demonstrate a printing technique used by The Alpha Workshops in the production of some of their catalogue of award-winning wallpaper patterns. The team will demo intaglio carving using lightweight foam blocks and will print and embellish a signature Alpha wallpaper. Participants will take away a gorgeous hand-painted greeting card exemplifying these techniques.

Dedicated to creating beauty and changing lives, The Alpha Workshops is the nation’s first nonprofit organization to provide decorative arts education and employment to adults with visible or invisible disabilities and/or other vulnerabilities. It was founded in 1995 in the Chelsea area of Manhattan and modeled on the famed Omega Workshops, the Wiener Werkstätte, the Bauhaus, and the American Arts & Crafts movement. The multi-faceted organization encompasses The Alpha Workshops Studios, an award-winning professional design and decorative arts atelier.

‍Erik Savage joined The Alpha Workshops wallpaper artisan staff in 2012 and became the Production Manager in 2015. He designed many papers in the current collection and has taught the techniques of Alpha's signature folded papers and the traditional stamped patterns of our first collections in our Studio School.

In conjunction with the exhibition Felipe Baeza: Anima at Print Center New York, participants are invited to create prints inspired by Baeza’s layered imagery and material processes. Participants will explore texture, abstraction, and collage using watercolor monotype and chine collé techniques. Led by artist-educators Megan Duffy, Alejandra Arias Sevilla, and Cecilia Cano-Daly, this open-ended workshop emphasizes experimentation and creative discovery to engage with the visual language of Baeza’s work. Felipe Baeza: Anima is on view through May 23 at Print Center New York. 

This workshop is free with entry, but is limited to 25 participants and spots are first come, first served. No experience is necessary. Recommended for ages 12 and over. All materials provided. 

Megan Duffy is an arts administrator and art educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She currently serves as Project Manager for the NYC Department of Transportation Art Program, managing temporary art installations throughout the five boroughs in partnership with professional artists and community organizations. Previously, Megan was Artist Programs Manager at Print Center New York, overseeing the New Prints juried exhibition series among other initiatives. She has also worked as a museum educator at the Newark Museum of Art. Megan holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Skidmore College, focusing on printmaking and textiles.  

Alejandra Arias Sevilla is a visual artist, collaborator, and printmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Through research-based and intuitive methodologies, her work investigates the semantics and pragmatics of the color blue, as well as translation and shadows. Arias Sevilla earned her BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In 2021, she was awarded the Undergrowth Educational Print Fund at Mullowney Printing. After completing the apprenticeship, she joined the team, becoming the Lead Printer (2022-2023). In 2024, Arias Sevilla had two solo exhibitions, Borderings Print Center New York, and Translation as Deformation at the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery at Dieu Donné after completing the Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellowship.

Cecilia Cano-Daly is a printmaker based in Queens, NY. She primarily explores material processes, thinking of her creation as a collaboration between herself and the techniques she employs. She embraces the process and experimentation intrinsic to printmaking, often playing with the balance between control and chance. Cecilia completed a studio internship at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in May 2024, and is set to begin apprenticing at Mullowney Printing through the Undergrowth Educational Print Fund in April 2026.