Summary -- and Sign Up Extension

SIGN UP EXTENDED to

* OCTOBER 6TH, 2018 *

CALL TO PRINTMAKERS

CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA A GRABADORES

For more information, see the colored links to the above left:

--  S  U  M  M  A  R  Y --

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.