Horned Toad Prints World Headquarters

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Horned Toad Prints set up shop in a new space, next to the Mexican border, in El Paso.

3 from the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta --

Federico Villaba, Manuel Guerra, and Francisco Delgado as Duer,

wearing the printed mask by Tom Huck

Manuel Guerra,

owner of Horned Toad Prints

Manuel Guerra unpacks the first delivery

to the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange -- 

an edition by Tanya Rich,

printed by Octavio Irving in Habana

We had a shop chop made at "Made to Order Stamp and Seal" of Albuquerque -- which is "Southwest Rubber Stamp Company" online.

Francisco Delgado and Manuel Guerra

with the new Horned Toad Prints chop

Horned Toad Prints chop

Federico Villaba, Francisco Delgado, Manuel Guerra, Raul Monarrez

INSPIRATION

from looking at prints from other  shops and talleres

Looking at the prints from Monterrey, Mexico

Manny received a print

from Angelica Bracho,

the director of Taller La Catrina

in Monterrey, Mexico

Manuel Guerra and Francisco Delgado

studying a print from Tom Huck --

scored in Houston

at the "It Came from the Bayou" event

Selection of prints

from the 2018 event in Houston

"It Came from the Bayou"

Showing of prints from Cuba and Florida

Marco Sanchez came by,

and showed off the new print he made in Zaachila, Oaxaca

at Taller Grafica Libre

Francisco Delgado

Francisco reading about the 

Taller de Grafica Popular

Litho stones

Collaboration serigraph

between Manuel Guerra and Francisco Delgado

Wouldn't it be great

to show prints in 

Laura Turon's Paradox bus?

Pavel Acevedo -- Linking Oaxaca and LA

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Pavel Acevedo was our first connection to Oaxaca, when we met him in Riverside, California (where he now lives), back in 2015.  He grew up in Oaxaca, and set up a Oaxaca residency with Taller Grafica Libre, when Francisco Delgado created his print for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

When we first met printmaker Pavel Acevedo

He also participated in the last Horned Toad Print Exchange II, as well as in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

Pavel's print

for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Pavel just had an opening on July 14, 2018, at the Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa in Oaxaca City, which was written up in the Imparcial newspaper of Oaxaca.  The pictures below are from that exhibition:

"Agua Negra" print exhibition in Oaxaca

Pavel with Marietta Bernstorff 

Sergio Huerta

of the project "Made in Oaxaca"

MORE PAVEL ACEVEDO

Pavel with art collector Cheech Marin,

when Cheech showed his collection

at the Riverside Museum,

Feb 2 -- May 7, 2017

Interview at Modern Art Blitz

with Mat Gleason

(MAB Episode 20)

Note: His Desert Triangle print in the background

Pavel had an exhibition

at Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles

in May 2016.

Here he poses with 

gallery director Kathy Gallegos

Pavel's portrait of Sharon Jones

on the Tonight Show

Pavel gave a relief workshop 

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

April 22 -23, 2017

We look forward to Pavel Acevedo's edition for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange!

Octavio Irving of Habana

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We had a great workshop in the private studio of Octavio Irving, printmaker in Habana, Cuba, on July 12, 2018.

We signed up for Octavio's workshop through AirBnB; but had a bigger experience since he also edition-ed Tanya Rich's print for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.  I hope we didn't exhaust him too much.  Hopefully he will also participate in the Ambos Lados exchange, if we are lucky and can arrange it. (Tanya also contributed to the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta)

We bought this print

from Octavio Irving

Karl Whitaker, Tanya Rich,

Beti and Octavio Irving

AirBnB workshop

with Octavio Irving

Studio apron

MAESTRO OCTAVIO IRVING

Huge collagraph print

Octavio participated in an LA/Havana portfolio

sponsored by Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles

He is also in the catalog of the

3rd Shinzaburo Bienal (2012) 

page 25

TANYA RICH'S EDITION

Tanya Rich in Octavio Irving's studio in Habana

Note the chop,

which I think is a raised 3D print

Father and son running the press

DEJAR HUELLA WORKSHOP

The idea of this AirBnB workshop was to create a relief print from a photograph.  After downloading a photograph to their laptop, we reduced it to a black and white image in high definition, and printed it out.  Then Octavio laid that print out on a piece of wood, and rubbed mineral spirits over it.  He rolled the paper on the wood panel through the press, to fully transfer the image.

After the image transferred to the wood panel, we could cut out the white areas with Power Grip carving tools, to make a relief print.

Tanya Rich carving out another print

My certificate of participation

Octavio Irving

used to be the director of the famous

Taller Experimental de Grafica

in Old Havana

Appreciation from Michelle Obama

when President Obama and the First Lady

visited Taller Experimental de Grafica in 2016

when Octavio was director

 FROM TAKACH  PRESS WITH LOVE

Marcos Polaco

selected some printmaking supplies 

from his employer Takach Press in Albuquerque,

which we left with Ocativo

Our Ride in Habana!!!

To paraphrase Octavio Irving -- "It's not a print shop without coffee.  You can do without presses, but coffee is essential."

We are very grateful to Octavio Irving for having us in his studio.  It was a wonderful experience.