The Creativity Lab offers a space where visitors can explore how artists use printmaking to build community and inspire collective action, in the studio or in their neighborhoods. Printmaking collectives Secret Riso Club, Mobile Print Power, and the Rafael Tufiño Printmaking Workshop at Taller Boricua will activate the Creativity Lab through installations and free printmaking workshops. Learn about the political and social history of printmaking using materials and resources organized by each studio. Reflect on your own communities and create a poster to share your message for collective change.
The Crown Creativity Lab is a participatory space activated by local partner organizations, artists, and MoMA visitors. Each project is inspired by art on view and invites creativity, personal reflection, and exchange with others.
Secret Riso Club will activate the Creativity Lab with installations and programming from March 25 through June 2, 2024. Secret Riso Club is a graphic design and risograph studio that focuses its work on the intersection of social justice, art, design and community building. Secret Riso Club works to build a platform that serves as a collaborative space for developing ideas and new projects. Secret Riso Club is run in collaboration between artists Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell.
Mobile Print Power will activate the Creativity Lab with installations and programming from June 5 through August 4, 2024. Mobile Print Power is a multigenerational collective that started as a weekly printmaking and political education workshop in Corona, Queens in 2013. Mobile Print Power uses their methodology for participatory design in public space and a pair of portable silkscreen printmaking carts to engage communities and explore social and cultural situations. Mobile Print Power co-creates books, prints, and public sculptures with their communities. Each project reflects their commitment to social change and belief in the value of shared artistic production.
Rafael Tufiño Printmaking Workshop at Taller Boricua will activate the Creativity Lab with installations and programming from August 6 through September 30, 2024. Taller Boricua has been an advocate for East Harlem artists and residents since it was founded in 1969. Its current leadership includes original founders and artists Marcos Dimas, executive director of Taller Boricua, and Nitza Tufino, master printer and director of the Rafael Tufino Printmaking Workshop. The project in the Creativity Lab is organized by Nitza Tufino with the participation of member artists Ada Pilar Cruz, Betty Cole, Eliezer Berrios, and James Cuebas. Taller Boricua has been instrumental to East Harlem’s “El Barrio” community’s long-standing cultural and social well-being. Taller Boricua’s mission is “to establish a cultural and educational center for the Puerto Rican community in New York City and enhance the aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, and economic experience of Puerto Ricans in New York.” Its historic-artistic engagement with the Young Lords Party, which was once headquartered on the same city block, infused the inspiration that gave rise to the political, cultural, and poetic Nuyorican movement.