(tool tapping) - Printmaking is very versatile.

(ink swishing) The process is very immersive.

It's very tactile.

(roller thudding) So as you are carving a relief block, there's that automatic connection with material but also the idea of being able to create stories.

(gentle imaginative music) (gentle imaginative music continues) Within Mexican culture, printmaking has that historical component.

It's tied to being able to amplify the voices socially and politically.

Labor is a theme in my work, from what I'm capturing in the stories that I'm telling but also the act of printing.

Printmaking, in general, is very labor-intensive.

You have the act of carving multiple layers on a block, running it through a press.

(press clicking) All of that feeds into the underlying theme of my work.

(gentle bright music) (gentle bright music continues) (gentle bright music continues) - I'm Jacobo Lovo, managing artistic director at Latino Arts.

When I was first introduced to Christie's work, she was early in her program at UW-Madison, but right away I could tell that the direction she was going with her body of work was something very interesting.

The exhibit is titled "Cultivating Histories," which is "Cosechando Historias."

We always have our eyes open for Hispanic/Latino artists that are interacting with our community or being cultivated within our community.

Christie, the way she is presenting her work is really a beautiful way to tell story, and those stories come from her cultural background but also from her family stories, relationships with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and also godparents.

And it's a really beautiful way to interweave not only her artistic practice and cultural heritage with very traditional printmaking methods, but also incorporating technology.

And I think this just shows the caliber of artist that she is, where she is not only mastering traditional methods, but also looking ways to expand that conversation within that medium.

(machine humming) - I decided to push the boundaries, and I think it was about time, (laughs) especially with scale.

(roller swooshing) Specifically relief print, you kind of max out at the size of the printing press.

One of the things that I've always wanted to do was to make these pieces large scale, larger than life, or, you know, about life size.

(gentle imaginative music) In the exhibition, you'll be able to find a series of prints.

On the walls, you'll be able to see some larger-scale laser cuts, and those laser cuts, they all derived from prints that I've created.

So when you're looking at a print or something behind a plexiglass, you have that connection, that specific moment in time that you spend with that image right then and there.

Then you walk away, and then you're onto the next.

Whereas an installation, you can immerse yourself in this narrative, in this story, and you can walk through, and you can see all of the different movements that's happening, and you can just unpack the story as you're walking by it, essentially, walk into a print.

In my work, you'll notice that I'm very selective with color, and specifically in the installation, you'll see color on the butterflies, and you'll see color in this little symbol.

It's like a little spiral symbol, and that's actually a (speaks in Nahautl) in Nahautl, and it's been used to emphasize somebody speaking.

Those two, the butterflies and the (speaks in Nahautl), have colors specifically in this exhibition because some of the themes that I'm exploring here have to do with migration and the way we transmit those stories from one generation to another.

The butterfly serves as a symbol of migration, and the (speaks in Nahuatl) is the way family members pass on some of those cultural traditions to the next generation.

I think those are all things that are very important to just think about and also be able to share with those around you.

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