Evenings for Educators: Block Printing Across Cultures
- Wed, May 20, 2026
- 4:30 pm - 8 pm PT
- Smidt Welcome Plaza | LACMA
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$20, Members: $15
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Pre-registration is required for this event.
For ASL interpretation and other accommodations requests, please contact educate@lacma.org by April 13.
Educators are invited to explore the art of block printing—the world's oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images—at the exhibition Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures, in which more than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas offer intricate patterns and striking imagery that reveal block printing’s global history.
Guests will enjoy a curator-led presentation, hands-on art-making workshops, and dinner. Dinner and parking is included with admission.
Agenda
4:30–5 pm: Arrive, check in, and explore Deep Cuts in the Resnick Pavilion
5–5:40 pm: Lecture in BCAM, Level 1
5:50–6:50 pm: Workshops throughout campus
6:50–8 pm: Dinner on the Smidt Welcome Plaza
6:50–8 pm: Gallery viewing
Check out our accompanying curricular resources to craft learning experiences that spark your students’ creativity and view recordings of previous programs on YouTube.
Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Anna H. Bing Children’s Art Endowment Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Mara W. Breech Foundation, the Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation, Bernard and Anice Dworkin Endowed Fund, Edison International, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the Louis and Harold Price Foundation, the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation, the Michael & Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, and Superior Grocers.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund.
Major support is provided by
Generous additional support is provided by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, Capital Group, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
Image Credit: Carl Otto Czeschka, Waldidyll (Forest Idyll), 1910–1911, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased in memory of Thomas H. Fox, © Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Anna H. Bing Children’s Art Endowment Fund. Additional funding is provided by the Mara W. Breech Foundation, the Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation, Bernard and Anice Dworkin Endowed Fund, Edison International, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the Louis and Harold Price Foundation, the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation, the Michael & Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, and Superior Grocers.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund.
Major support is provided by
Generous additional support is provided by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, Capital Group, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
Image Credit: Carl Otto Czeschka, Waldidyll (Forest Idyll), 1910–1911, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased in memory of Thomas H. Fox, © Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA