Monday, September 9, 2019

Pátzcuaro


We arrived in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán on July 29, 2019. 

We met a lot of printmakers, but nobody who participated in Ambos Lados.  Martin Quintanilla participated in the first Horned Toad Print Exchange, as well as the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.



Marco Sanchez's grandfather -- Guillermo Cordero -- was a well-known artist in Patzcuaro, and passed away the previous year.

View looking down on the House of the 11 Patios


Our hotel
conforms to the architectural style 
of all the buildings in Patzcuaro


GALERIA-TALLER TACANCHE
Julian Guerrero Calderon

Taller Tacanche is the gallery/studio of Julian Guerrero Calderon.







Julian Guerrero Calderon and his prints


Marco Sanchez working on an etching






Julian Guerrero Calderon also participated in the 8th Anniversary Portfolio of Taller de Grafica Rino Magenta, from Toluca.  He hung select prints from that portfolio in the Jacaranda Cultural Center in Patzcuaro, including a print from a Cuban Ambos Lados printmaker Octavio Irving.







LA CABRONA GALERIA
Angel Pahuamba

La Cabrona Galeria is the gallery of Angel Pahuamba.

Angel Pahuamba is from the village of Cheran, a self governing village in Michoacan which "threw out police, politicians and gangsters."




Inside 







Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita

The Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita houses art galleries and a printmaking studio in the center of Patzcuaro.



We had two exhibitions of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at the Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita -- in September 2015, and March 2016 -- thank to the efforts of Martin Quintanilla.




Manuel Guerra visiting the printmaking studio
of the Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita




Amira was preparing her litho stone in the back of the studio --
she had spent the previous Spring 2019 semester
studying printmaking at the University of New Mexico,
where Karl met her in Albuquerque



LA MANO GRAFICA
Artemio Rodriguez

La Mano Grafica is the gallery of Artemio Rodriguez, and has two locations in Patzcuaro.

The main location on the hill











We had previously shown this print by Artemio Rodriguez in 2017,
both at the El Paso Museum of Art,



MICROGALLERY MANDIBULA
Martin Quintanilla and Marcy Miranda


Martin Quintanilla and Marcy Miranda have the MicroGallery Manidubla in Patzcuaro.  Martin participated in the first Horned Toad Print Exchange, and also the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.  He brought the Desert Triangle exhibition to the gallery of the Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita in two parts --  September 2015 and March 2016.  He was in Tucson, where he spends part of the year.

















Veronica making prints
while making sales at the gallery


TALLER GRAY
Colectivo Achokez
Javier Ornelas Huerta

Veronica from Microgallery Mandibula, took us to Taller Gray, where Javier Ornelas Huerta, of Colectivo Achokez, was running the printmaking studio.

Taller Gray is a walk from downtown






The guitar print was part of a larger collection --
we saw many of the other prints at MAPECO in Uruapan






Froylan Ruiz came up often in the printmaking studio.


LA JACARANDA
Cultural Plaza


La Jacaranda cultural plaza
facing the Casa of 11 Patios


Inside La Jacaranda  --
I wish we had art places like that in the United States


Selected small prints hanging (towards the right)
in the gallery of La Jacaranda


Octavio Irving of Habana,
has a print in the portfolio of the








We left Patzcuaro on August 1st, 2019.

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