Picture This: What Do Mardi Gras and Printimaking Have in Common?

Take 5 Printmaking Event

Photo by Bruce Guthrie

SAAM Staff
Blog Editor
February 16, 2012

Dance, stamp, roll, press, and print! Join us for a Mardi Gras themed Take 5! jazz concert and printmaking workshop in the Kogod Courtyard, Thursday, February 16th from 5-7 p.m. Get down with zydeco beats from Little Red and the Renegades, and be inspired to create a festive print with students from George Mason University art department. Let the good times roll (through the printing press)!

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