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Print editions are coming in; printmakers are still signing up!

Print Editions Delivered!

By Joshua Woodhall and Gonzalo Espinosa,

from the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson

Still working in Oaxaca,

such as this edition by Alarii Mendoza Garcia

(from Instagram)

And working hard in Monterry, Mexico,

at Taller La Catrina

(from Instagram)

EXHIBITING THE PREVIOUS 

HORNED TOAD PRINT EXCHANGE

At the Seedboat Gallery, during the month of October 2018, we will be showing the second print exchange  -- Horned Toad II -- in Silver City, New Mexico.  The opening on October 5th, kicks off the Southwest Print Fiesta:  5 - 8 PM.  

Southwest Print Fiesta 2018

in Silver City, New Mexico

Print by Juan de Dios Mora,

of the Horned Toad II Print Exchange,

showing during the Southwest Print Fiesta

Press Release for the Horned Toad II print exchange exhibit in Silver City.

Our exhibition is at the Seedboat Gallery 

-- 214 W Yankie Street --

The headlining exhibit at the Seedboat Gallery,

is called "Power of Print,"

of political prints and posters

Also, the Arizona Print Group
is exhibiting at Light Art Space,
opening the next night,
Saturday, Oct 6th, 5 - 7 PM  --
Light Art Space owned by Karen Hymer

The main event, ie the print sale on Saturday, Oct 6th, features a lot of printmakers that we have been working with:

Vendor Map
for the Southwest Print Fiesta 2018

During that same weekend, there will be a city wide Red Dot art show in Silver City -- Oct 5 -8.

City wide art show in Silver City

at the same time as the Southwest Print Fiesta

UPDATE:  We had a great turn out for the Horned Toad II Print Exchange for the opening on October 5, 2018, during the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City.  We look forward to similar exhibitions for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

Horned Toad II Print Exchange opening

in Silver City, New Mexico

for the Southwest Print Fiesta

Meanwhile, in Lubbock, Carlos Hernandez and company are showing prints the same weekend.

LUBBOCK Printϟlingers on the High Plains --

Get Prints from John Hancock, Dennis McNett, Dirk Fowler,

Carlos Hernandez, Amber Kaiser, 

Tess Doyle, Bird Bonez, and more... 

3D PRINTED PRINTING PRESS

In Silver City, we hope to debut the 3D printed printing press -- aka Open Press Project, DIY Printing Press -- the plans were downloaded for free from Thingiverse.

Manuel Guerra

holding the 3D printed printing press

in El Paso

Joshua Pederson of QueLab hackerspace in Albuquerque,

printed out all the parts on his 3D printer,

and assembled them 

Fab Lab El Paso was also interested in 3D printing a printing press.  If it works well, it would be a great quick and slick way of demonstrating the whole intaglio printmaking process.

Manuel Guerra

cutting mini-blankets for 

the mini 3D printing press

ELECTRO-ETCHING DISASTER

We were also experimenting in electro-etching.

First electro-etching experiment

at QueLab in Albuquerque

Print Demo Idea

Perhaps we could laser cut an image into some small 1 x 1 inch copper squares.  We could not do this directly.  We would have to first spray paint the copper plates with  high heat spray paint.  Then we could laser cut the squares, taking only the paint off.

Next we would electro-etch the small squares, using a cell phone charger.  We would have to make sure that we beveled the edges of the plates.

Then we could make prints with the etched plates, on the 3D printed printing press.  Perhaps if we used Akua intaglio inks, the prints would be "dry" enough to take away.

Imagine, a mini print exchange, using the 3D printed printing press.  That is, if this whole process even works.

Iconografika Oaxaca

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The Rubin Center in El Paso had an opening of Oaxaca artists on September 20, 2018 -- Iconografika Oaxaca -- co-curated by Kerry Doyle and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz.

Iconografika Oaxaca exhibit --

with art by Pablo Cotama

It is great seeing a different art interaction between Oaxaca and El Paso -- as Manuel Guerra, a UTEP professor, and Taller Grafica Libre, in Zaachila, Oaxaca, are co-organizing the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts

is located on the University of Texas at El Paso campus

(UTEP)

The white flags are part of the Betsabeé Romero exhibit

DJ at the entrance

Emilia Sandoval art pieces

at the entrance of the gallery

Demian Flores

--Milpa Grafica --

Blanca Gonzalez

Baldomero Robles

Baldomero Robles

Claudia Lopez Terroso

Lissette Jiménez Díaz

Jaime Ruíz Martínez

Photo courtesy of the Rubin Center

Javier Santos

Photo courtesy of the Rubin Center

Sergio Gutierrez

Photo courtesy of the Rubin Center

Sergio Gutierrez

Photo courtesy of the Rubin Center

Statement by the curator

Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz

In the adjacent gallery was an exhibition by Betsabeé Romero of Mexico City.  Part of this exhibit was a long row of white flags, that went from the outside entrance of the Rubin Center, to the top of a hill above the Sun Bowl on the UTEP campus.

And in the gallery on the first floor, was a show by University of Arizona artist Yana Payusova.

Yana Payusova

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So Far

The beginnings go back even before the Horned Toad II Print Exchange opening in 2017, at Espacio Centro in Oaxaca.

Manuel Guerra (tallest)

flanked by Beatriz Rivas (yellow) and Adrian Aguirre (blue)

at an opening in Espacio Centro in Oaxaca  in 2017,

of the previous print exchange (Horned Toad II)

 The Ambos Lados International Print Exchange is being run from both sides of the border -- by Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints in El Paso, and by Beti Rivas and Adrian Aguirre of Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila, Oaxaca.

Manuel Guerra 

in the Horned Toad Prints shop in El Paso,

flanked by Federico Villalba and a fake Albrecht Duer

Adrian Aguirre and Beti Rivas

run Taller Grafica Libre

in Zaachila, Oaxaca

It's Happening!  Printmakers are signing up!  Print editions are coming in!  Below are pictures of print activity from all over the continent, with links below to more robust blog explanations:

 M E X I C O

 OAXACA 

Manuel Guerra from El Paso

went to Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila in August 2018,,

to make his print and visit other print studios

Doroteo Tuala

working hard in Taller Grafica Libre

Marco Sanchez, orignally of El Paso

makes his print edition in Zaachila

There are many small print studios in Oaxaca that are participating in the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange:

• Taller Grafica Libre
• Taller La Burburja
• Grafica Ojo Tres
• Taller de Grafica Enrique Flores
• Taller King Kong (Tlacolulokos)
• Taller Santaller
• Taller El Ajolote (Mexico City)
• 3 Gatos Press (Leon, Guanajato)

El Taller Burbuja

 GUADALAJARA 

Manuel Guerra visited  

Taller De Gráfica José Gutiérrez

in Guadalajara

 MONTERREY 

9 editions are coming from 

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,

out of the Taller La Catrina,

run by Angleica Bracho

 PUEBLA 

Carlos Rom and Roberto Rodriguez (both far left),

as well as 3 others from Puebla,

are participating

 MEXICO CITY 

Cuauhtemoc Kamffer signing an old print,

and has jumped into Ambos Lados

Kuate printed at Taller Ochoa

We are also hoping for a few editions

from Taller 75 Grados

of Mexico City

U S A

 EL PASO 

Francisco Delgado

is a fixture in the Horned Toad Prints studio

in El Paso

 SANTA FE 

Eli Levin is one of the co-founders

of the Santa Fe Etching Club,

since 1981

Eric Thomson runs Argos Studio and Gallery,

which hosts the Santa Fe Etching Club,

with a big thanks from Dr Robert Bell

 ALBUQUERQUE 

There is some activity from

Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop

in Albuquerque

Henry Morales 

has participated in many of our previous print projects,

and gives a woodblock print workshop in Albuquerque

 TUCSON 

Gonzalo Espinosa (left) and Joshua Woodhall,
of "Taller Sin Miedo" in Tucson,
are participating
(as well as Glenn Buack, not pictured)

 PHOENIX 

Eric Hodgins (left) is participating

 SAN FRANCISCO 

Toru Sugita from the Bay Area,

has signed up,

and has also made prints in Zaachila

 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 

Pavel Acevedo (left),

first connected us to Oaxaca, where he is from originally,

now participates from Riverside, California

FLORIDA 

Joseph Velasquez,

at FAU in Boca Raton,

and co-founder of Drive By Press

C U B A

 HABANA 

Octavio Irving used to run the 

Taller Experimental de Grafica in Havana,

and has signed up to participate

Orlando Almanza 

is also participating from Havana

The above is just a selection of some of the printmakers who signed up for this print exchange, and the ones we have pictures of so far. This does not include our participant from Canada, Darlene Kalynka.

We are in talks about exhibiting the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange at the SGCI print conference in Dallas, March 6 -9th.  We should be showing at UT Arlington.  There will certainly be other exhibitions as well.