Mucha Chita

Mucha Chita is a Colombian artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2023 as part of Basic Training Program A in Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The MI-LAB program provides international artists with intensive instruction in traditional mokuhanga tools and materials. Mucha Chita's participation represents the rare engagement of Latin American artists with the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique, contributing to the geographic diversity of the global mokuhanga community.

Mucha Chita's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.

Mucha Chita is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.