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 and Manuel Guerra

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.

Taller Tacanche

Taller Tacanche

Marco Sanchez with Julian Guerrero Calderon

Julian Guerrero Calderon and his prints

Marco Sanchez working on an etching

Julian Guerrero Calderon

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.

 (l to r) Marco Sanchez, Karl Whitaker, Julian Guerrero Calderon, 

Angel Pahuamba, and Manuel Guerra

Angel Pahuamba

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."

La Cabrona Galeria

Inside 

Angel Pahuamba

Angel Pahuamba

Angel Pahuamba

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.

The first Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition in 2015,

at the Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita

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

Video about Artemio Rodriguez

"Not Lost!  Linocut Printing with Artemio Rodriguez"

We had previously shown this print by Artemio Rodriguez in 2017,

both at the El Paso Museum of Art,

and at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

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.

Microgallery Mandibula

of Patzcuaro

Martin Quintanilla and Marcy Miranda

in front of the fresco Martin created in 2012,

displayed at the Solar Culture Center in Tucson

Martin Quintanilla created the huge skull float

for the All Souls Procession of 2012

in Tucson

Martin Quintanilla's print

for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

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

Javier Ornelas Huerta

The large brown print 

by PRBLMTKX

The guitar print was part of a larger collection --

"Acordes de la Vida Guitarras Graficas"  --

we saw many of the other prints at MAPECO in Uruapan

Javier Ornelas Huerta

holding his print

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

 from the 8th Anniversary Carpeta

of the Taller de Grafica Rino Magenta

Octavio Irving of Habana,

and also of Ambos Lados,

has a print in the portfolio of the

Taller de Grafica Rino Magenta

Looks like Mazatl

This huge Juan O'Gorman fresco

is in the library of Patzcuaro

We left Patzcuaro on August 1st, 2019.