Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 16th! Yoshi Nakagawa and Saiyare Refaei will be doing a live printing demonstration at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle’s Central District from 1-2 pm followed by a brief talk and some of their other prints for purchase. This event is free to the public.

Yoshi and Saiyare have followed a similar journey: both from Oregon, both studied in universities in Tacoma and they met at el Taller Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2013 while taking printmaking classes from Maestro Oswaldo Ramírez. They reconnected in 2017 in Oaxaca and now reside in Tacoma. This past spring, they designed their first collaboration for Tacoma Wayzgoose’s steamroller printing event. Together they carved a 2’x3’ linoleum block and called the image “Sound,” which they’ll be printing an edition on Pratt’s large etching press.

You can find more of their art on Instagram at @yoshi.nakagawa36 and @_saikick_ or their websites yoshinakagawa.com and justseeds.org/artist/saiyarerefaei.