CUT PAPER → PRINT

$100.00
Upcoming Dates:
Sun 9/20, 12:00-3:00 pm
Sun 10/04, 12:00-3:00 pm
Beginner Friendly
Location: nůn studios
Instructor: Nia Musiba (she/they)
Materials Required: laptop + Spectrolite (free program)
Materials Provided: paper, cutting mats + xacto knives, glue sticks, scanner

Cut Paper → Print will walk participants through the process of creating cut paper illustrations fit for risograph printing. This workshop is great for beginners – no prior risograph or cut paper experience is necessary, although a general understanding of how risograph works is helpful! In the first half of the session, participants will create their own cut paper illustrations and in the second half will learn the process of scanning, editing, and preparing digital files for a 3-color print process. 
Please come to the workshop with your laptop and Spectrolite (free program) already installed. You can expect to walk away from the afternoon not only with your prints, but also with a better understanding of how to translate existing artwork for the risograph, and how to create physical media with risograph printing in mind! If you don’t have a laptop, please email ([email protected]) as we have limited laptops to lend during this workshop. 
 
Nia Musiba is a Portland-based multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice spans painting, murals, drawing, ceramics, print-making, and community-driven projects. Working through a distinctly personal yet expansive visual language, Musiba centers Black and brown bodies as sites of tenderness, complexity, and transformation. Her work is marked by bold color, symbolic forms, and exaggerated figures that move between abstraction and narrative, weaving together themes of identity, love, heartbreak, and cyclical growth. Influenced by her background in graphic design and creative writing, Musiba approaches image making as both storytelling and world-building, embedding text, pattern, and repetition into layered compositions. Her work has been exhibited across Portland and beyond, and her large-scale murals have become a defining presence in the city’s visual landscape.

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