Frantically Finishing Up

We are working hard, frantically finishing up the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.  We are thick into archiving, framing, and redistributing the prints.  First exhibition is at the big SGCI print conference in North Texas, during March 6 - 9, 2019.  All the prints will soon be posted online.

Print edition deliveries last December

from the University of New Mexico:

Ben Schoenburg, Calliandra Hermanson, Juana Estrada Hernandez

 Meanwhile...

Manuel Guerra printing at Horned Toad Prints in El Paso

Some of the boxes of print editions that came in from Oaxaca

Skuishii working on her edition

at studio Horned Toad Prints in El Paso

Francisco Delgado slaving away on a print

at studio Horned Toad Prints in El Paso

Raul Monarrez with conviction

at studio Horned Toad Prints in El Paso

Raul Monarrez's print

for Ambos Lados

Cynthia Evans hands in her print edition

Cynthia Evans is teaching printmaking

at the El Paso Museum of Art  --

some of the student work hands in the hallways

Marco Sanchez

creates his print at the El Paso Museum of Art

Marco Sanchez' s print edition for Ambos Lados

Krrrl edition

Victor Muheddine joined Ambos Lados,

and completed the junta of beards,

when he visited Horned Toad Prints studio in El Paso

Another studio shot of Horned Toad Prints in El Paso

Boxes and coffee,

to sort print editions

Last December 2018, The Guardian from Great Britain did an article about El Paso art -- The street art of El Paso, Texas -- in pictures

Update (Jan 17)  Horned Toad Prints studio is busy silk screening the cardboard portfolio boxes, which all participants will receive (with 10 prints inside, by 10 different artists):

Those portfolio boxes are looking good

with 2 logos printed on them:

Horned Toad Prints and

Taller Grafica Libre

Top shot of the portfolio boxes

Studio shoot

(these photos are courtesy of Federico Villalba)

Los Tres Grandes

of Horned Toad Prints studio in El Paso,

(l tor) Raul Monarrez, Manuel Guerra, Francisco Delgado

On the outside

looking in from Alameda Street

We are going to dedicate the catalog to print collector Juan Sandoval, who has been collecting prints from both Oaxaca and El Paso for decades.

Franciso Delgado (left) and Manuel Guerra (right)

at Juan Sandoval's retirement from UTEP,

ceremony on January 18th, 2019.

Santa Fe

Meanwhile, at Argos Studio and Gallery in Santa Fe, Eric Thomson and Krrrl have already started cutting mats, to frame the Ambos Lados prints.

Eric Thomson measuring all the prints,

before cutting window mats

Eric Thomson cutting mats

to fit in the 10 x 13 frames

Eric cutting window mats for the prints

The framed and matted prints look good!

These 10 plastic boxes

will hold all 158 prints

Abby Mattison and Eli Levin 

both have prints in Ambos Lados,

and pose here in front of Eli's framed prints

at Argos Studio/Gallery in Santa Fe

Note: Eli Levin and Sarah McCarty founded the Santa Fe Etching Club in 1981. That etching club is now going on strong in the Argos Studio Gallery.

Abby Mattison hold her print of a press

in front of one of the old time presses 

(the type Gene Kloss used)

Oaxaca

Julianna Kiriwin of Albuquerque (who submitted to Ambos Lados) is now printing down in Oaxaca:

Julianna Kirwin of Albuquerque (right)

printing with Federico Valdez 

at Cooperativa Grafica in Oaxaca

Julianna Kirwin's print
that she is making in Oaxaca in January 2019
(not her Ambos Lados print)

Print by Federico Valdez,

Julianna's teacher

"Here’s the amazing woodcuts by Taller Artística Comunitaria 

that I have seen wheat pasted to outside walls around Oaxaca. 

You can see how the weather has deteriorated the paper somewhat."

Julianna is working with Abraham Torres also

Meanwhile, Orlando Almanza sends an announcement from Havana, Cuba about his opening on Friday, January 18th.  He submitted a print to the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

Julianna Kirwin with Enrique Flores (left),

while working in Enrique's studio

Orlando Almanza's exhibition

in Havana, Cuba