Taták: Printmaking Workshop

PAINTING & PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP  July 15, 2026  6:00–8:00 p.m.
WITH  Anna Karina Jardin (Artdialogo)
LANGUAGE  The workshop will be held in English 
ENTRY  Recommended donation to support the workshop: 10–20 EUR 
ACCESS  SAVVY is wheelchair accessible

PARTICIPATION The workshop is open to everyone, but space is limited. If you’re interested in joining us, please send an email with the subject line “Taták” toworkshop@savvy-contemporary.com.

How do we construct a portrait from inherited symbols rather than drawn likenesses? What stories can patterns, colors, and repeated marks tell about identity, migration, and belonging?

In Filipino, taták means a stamp, a mark, or an imprint. It refers both to the physical impression left on a surface and to the traces that shape identity over time. This workshop invites participants to explore portraiture through these layered meanings, constructing identities through the accumulation of patterns, symbols, materials, and shared acts of creation.

Working with accessible materials such as foam, cardboard, and found objects, participants will create and assemble a collection of handmade stamps before creating a portrait or self-portrait using repeated printed motifs. Inspired by Philippine textile traditions and natural dye practices, the workshop introduces pigments derived from plants, revealing how color itself carries histories of ecology, trade, craftsmanship, and cultural exchange.

Rather than approaching printmaking as a technical exercise, this workshop positions stamping as a shared language. Each impression becomes both a visual mark and a starting point for conversation, inviting participants to reflect on memory, migration, belonging, and the symbols through which identities are inherited, negotiated, and transformed. The workshop also provides a space to consider the origins of the motifs we use, encouraging respectful dialogue around attribution, cultural stewardship, and the living traditions of Indigenous and ethnolinguistic communities across the Philippines.

The workshop welcomes participants from all backgrounds, and no prior experience in painting or printmaking is required. Whether drawing from Filipino heritage or from visual traditions rooted elsewhere, participants are invited to contribute to a collective exploration of how portraits can be constructed not only through likeness, but through the marks we inherit, the marks we make, and the marks we leave behind.

FUNDING Generously supported and partially funded by the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Berlin.