Mo’Print 2026 Turns Colorado Into a Printmaking Playground

Mo’Print, short for Month of Printmaking, is a volunteer-organized biennial celebration of original, handcrafted prints that stretches across Colorado. Launched in 2014, the event pulls together galleries, schools, museums, studios and artist-run spaces to show how varied printmaking can be, from woodcuts and etching to monotypes, photograms and books that treat the printed page like sculpture.

“The goal of Mo’Print is to let everyone know the possibilities of printmaking,” says Tessa Crisman, director of communications and development at the Art Students League of Denver. “Our printmaking staff is very invested in making art accessible to people — in and out of the classroom — and finding ways to help people know art is available in the community and within their own body and mind.”

What makes Mo’Print matter is its mix of history and access. It’s built on more than a century of local printmaking while also functioning like a public invitation: Walk into a reception, watch a demo, ask questions, buy an affordable work and leave with a better sense of how an image becomes an object. Now that MoPrint Inc. is officially a 501(c)(3), the organization is also positioned to keep expanding that community-facing mission in a more sustainable way.

This seventh edition of Mo’Print includes more than 45 affiliated happenings across the metro and around Colorado, which means you can treat it like a choose-your-own-adventure: follow the medium you love (woodcut, screenprint, monotype, photogram, artist books) or follow the neighborhoods and let the presses lead you.

Highlighted Mo’Print Events

Futures: 528.0 Print Exhibition
On view through Saturday, March 21
Center for Visual Art at MSU Denver, 965 Santa Fe Drive
A juried snapshot of what printmaking looks like right now across 528.0 miles around Denver. The theme asks artists to imagine the future, so you’ll see everything from optimistic projections to more cautious, unsettling visions, all filtered through wildly different techniques across the western region. Bonus: It’s free, making it an ideal first stop on Santa Fe.

Xochimilco: Works by Eduardo Robledo Romero
On view through Sunday, March 22
Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street
Printmaking meets ecology and cultural memory in work shaped by Robledo Romero’s ties to Xochimilco, Mexico. The images draw connections between plants, animals and belief systems, exploring the spiritual charge of the natural world and its cycles of birth and death. It’s a strong pick if you want prints that feel rooted in place and tradition.

ex(PRESS)ion
On view through Sunday, March 29
NKollectiv at EASEL, 3485 South Broadway, Englewood
Printmaking in all its forms is the subject of an exhibition juried by Alicia McKim. Whether traditional or experimental, bold or subtle, the highlighted work exemplifies the richness and versatility of original, handcrafted print media.

Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women
On view through April 4
Loveland Museum, 503 North Lincoln, Loveland
In response to a growing climate of discrimination against marginalized people in the United States, Massachusetts-based printmaker Julie Lapping Rivera began a series of portraits of women who were often overlooked at the time. This ongoing collection of woodcut and collage portraits was inspired by the New York Times “Overlooked” series, which has been sharing the stories of remarkable people who’d previously gone unnoticed inTimes‘ obituaries.

Printed Page V
On view through Sunday, April 26
Anderson Academic Commons, 2150 East Evans Avenue
Abecedarian Artists’ Books is presenting Printed Page V as part of Mo’Print. Curators chose 38 works by 32 artists as outstanding examples of how traditional printmaking techniques are being applied by contemporary book artists living and working across the United States. The resulting exhibition focuses on contemporary artist books that combine letterpress, intaglio, lithography, relief and other techniques to create bound works that blur the distinction between reading and looking.

Heroes
On view through Sunday, March 29
Davis Gallery, University of Denver, Shwayder Art Building, 2121 East Asbury Avenue
This survey-style show anchored in the DU printmaking ecosystem highlights artists connected to the university’s studio and spotlights student work as well. Because it aims to represent “each of the main areas of printmaking,” it’s a good one-stop primer if you want to compare techniques side by side without hopping venues.

Pressed to Impress: A Community Print Exhibition
On view through Saturday, April 11
Art Students League of Denver, 200 Grant Street
The Art Students League of Denver show highlights the works of ASLD’s diverse print community of members, faculty and students. The goal is to celebrate the fine art of creating original, hand-crafted prints that inspire and make education accessible to the public. 

Round the Clock: 24 Hours of Colorado in Prints and Space Is the Place: Art & Design in the Atomic Age
On view through 2026
The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, 1201 Bannock Street
This is the big, institutional anchor for Mo’Print season, and it’s two shows with very different pleasures. Round the Clock uses 48 prints to map Colorado life across a single day, hour by hour, turning the medium into a time machine for landscapes and everyday scenes. Space Is the Place shifts into mid-century futurism with 51 objects across art and design, tracing how the Space Age shaped the optimism, anxiety and visual language of imagined futures.

Boulder Printmakers Winter Exhibit
On view through Monday, March 30
Kin Studio and Gallery, 4725 16th Street, Studio 104, Boulder
A group show featuring local printmakers who meet on a regular basis to share ideas, techniques and inspiration. The exhibition celebrates the diversity of printmaking, ranging from traditional woodcut and etching to experimental monoprint and mixed media, with each piece reflecting the maker’s distinct personality while elevating the group’s shared dialogue. It’s a worthwhile stop if you’re interested in printmaking as a social practice.

OFF-PRINSTE
On view through Sunday, April 26
The People’s Building, 9995 East Colfax Avenue, Aurora
This show is built around the idea of “print thinking” rather than strict technique, so it’s for anyone curious about what happens when artists take impression, transfer, trace and pressure off the page and into unexpected materials. The premise alone makes it one of the more adventurous entries; go if you want to challenge your own definition of printmaking.

10 Years @ Tenn Street
On view Thursday, March 5, through April 24
Tenn Street Coffee and Books, 4418 Tennyson Street
A neighborhood-friendly annual that has built its own tradition, mixing intaglio, screen prints and experimental work in a setting that encourages lingering. Because this is the tenth year, the show also reads like a little archive of how a local print community sustains itself over time. Pair it with dinner on Tennyson.

Arts For All
On view Friday, March 6, through March 21
Access Gallery, 909 Santa Fe Drive
A show rooted in adaptive making where tools are reimagined so that wheelchairs, walkers and other devices can become part of the print process. While he work is the point, so is the methodology: It’s a clear example of how printmaking can expand through access, ingenuity and a willingness to redesign the studio.

Student Printmaking Showcase
On view Friday, March 6, through Saturday, March 28
40 West Gallery, 6501 West Colfax Avenue, Lakewood
A comprehensive look at what print students are currently creating in multiple Colorado schools, including Regis University, Colorado College, CU Boulder, RMCAD, Front Range Community College, Metro State and Jeffco Scholastics facilities. Expect a wide range of subjects and processes, from traditional assignments to work that gets weird in the best way possible as students push the medium’s limits.

Gelatin Prints: A Redefined Pull
On view Friday, March 6, through April 12
Niza Knoll Gallery, 915 Santa Fe Drive
Gelatin printing is built for surprise, and this show leans into the medium’s mix of texture, layering and chance. Expect one-off pulls that feel immediate, translucent and slightly unruly, often flirting with collage and mixed media. This is a great Santa Fe stop when you want printmaking that looks like it happened in real time.

Under Pressure: 2026 National Printmaking Exhibition
On view Friday, March 6, through April 24
The Lincoln Center Art Gallery, 417 West Magnolia Street, Fort Collins
If you want a view that extends beyond Colorado, this nationally juried exhibition is the move. With relief, lithograph, silkscreen, intaglio and monoprints in the mix, it’s designed to showcase range and quality across the field. Pair it with a Fort Collins day trip and you’ve got an easy Mo’Print mini getaway.

Ecosystems
On view Friday, March 6, through May 15
DAVA, 1405 Florence Street, Aurora
Biodiversity is the through-line here, interpreted through a mix of print techniques from intaglio and relief to more experimental approaches like Tetrapak printing, collagraphs, foam prints and printing on ceramics. The exhibition includes work by DAVA students ages six through eighteen, plus guest artists, which makes it feel like a cross-section of how print skills get passed along.

The Proof Is In The Print
On view Saturday, March 7, through April 6
Spectra Art Space, 1836 South Broadway
A salon-style format that lets you bounce between approaches quickly: letterpress, screen printing, relief block work and more under one roof. Learn about the various types of printmaking and enjoy some incredible new art from local creators.

VOLUME: Screen Prints With Purpose
On view Saturday, March 7, through April 25
Blue Tile Gallery, 3944 South Broadway, Englewood
For this exhibition, artists were asked to create a one-color image addressing a social issue of their choice, which was then reproduced as a limited-edition, 12×12 screen print. Ink Lounge, an Englewood screen print design studio, curated and donated the screen printing, including materials, and some of the artists even came to the studio to pull the squeegee themselves. All sales benefit a nonprofit chosen by each artist.

Do Not Disturb
On view Saturday, March 14, through April 10
Space__Space, 7464 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite B3, Boulder
Andi Newberry organized this print exchange with seventeen artists from across the United States, prompting them to consider questions, feelings and tensions surrounding privacy, home, security, peace, seclusion, community, vigilance and support. With prints in the shape of doorknob signs, this portfolio and exhibit explores signifiers of entry and printed matter as a barrier. It’s compact, clever and likely to stick with you.

Pressing Matters
On view Saturday, March 14, through April 18
Yolia Art Space, 901 Englewood Parkway, Unit 112, Englewood
Curated by Carlos Frésquez and Grace Gutierrez of Los Fantasmas Artist Collective, this exhibition positions printmaking as a tool and testimony of the present moment. It includes collaborations built on screen-printed images by Frésquez plus a small prints showcase amplifying Chicano/a/x, Latino, Indigenous, queer and other community voices. Pressing Matters is a timely, socially relevant show based on dialogue and contemporary politics.

Connecting Energies
On view Saturday, March 21, through April 25
Studio Lunning, 12150 West 44th Avenue #116, Wheat Ridge
A one-person show by print master Mark A. Lunning that spans big prints, small prints, old prints and new prints, which is another way of saying you get to see an artist thinking across time and scale. Studio Lunning is also a working printmaking facility, so the context matters: You’re seeing work in the ecosystem where prints get made. Go if you like exhibitions that feel close to the studio floor.

Nevruz
On view Thursday, April 23, through April 30
Magnolia Street Art Space, 6600 East 74th Avenue, Commerce City
A photogram series inspired by Nowruz and ideas of renewal and new beginnings, using plant shadows to build images that carry both light and loss. The project’s origins in collaboration and ritual give the prints an intimate charge. This is a strong, late-season stop if you want something quieter and more reflective.

Mo’Print takes place at various art spaces in and around Denver through March and beyond. Learn more here.