Santa Fe Opening

The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange opening in Santa Fe went really well, during the evening of July 12th, 2019.

We had a good turnout!

The stillness before the opening

The first visitor

Thank you Eric Thomson (middle full figure)

the owner of Argos Studio/Gallery

for framing all the prints

and showing them in his gallery

Packed back room

We served chocolate grasshoppers,

because in Oaxaca they offer fried chapulines during an opening

A single chocolate grasshopper

(thank you John Tollett, designer of the Ambos Lados catalog)

Ambos Lados catalogs,

next to catalogs from previous print shows that we have done

Manuel Guerra next to Eli Levin,

the co-founder of the Santa Fe Etching Club in 1981

(which is now housed in Argos Studio/Gallery)

David Contreras wearing his Horned Toad Prints hat,

next to Manuel Guerra

Manuel Guerra talking with printmaker Ron Pokrasso

The survivors

at the end of the opening!

A big thanks to everyone that came out!  It was a great event!

Ambos printmakers at the opening:

David Contreras, Manuel Guerra, Mike Kimball, Julianna Kirwin, Mary Lawler, Eli Levin, Abby Mattison, Raul Monarrez, Augustine Romero, Marco Sanchez, Eric Thomson,  Karl Whitaker


Also Ron Pokrasso showed up, as well as other Santa Fe printmakers.

VIEW THE GALLERY

(with all the hung prints)

View how all the prints were hung in the Argos Gallery at THIS LINK:

The exhibition starts on this wall 

with the prints from outside of the US and Mexico

See how all the prints were hung at this link

ONE YEAR AGO

Last year -- July 12, 2018 -- Tanya Rich made her print in the studio of Octavio Irving in Havana.  It was the first print delivered to Ambos Lados.

Karl Whitaker went with Tanya.  Later Octavio Irving submitted an edition to the Ambos Lados print exchange.

Karl, Tanya, Beatriz and Octavio

making prints in Havana

now posted on Instagram