Zaachila

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Zaachila, just outside of the city of Oaxaca, is the home of Taller de Grafica Libre.  This studio, run by Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas, organized the Mexican printmakers in the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

Zapotec art from the archaeological site at Zaachila,

in the tomb

Manuel Guerra meets Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas

under the clock tower, in the center of Zaachila

Eating at the market in Zaachila

Manuel Guerra checking out the work of maestro Jose Villalobos,

being produced at Taller Grafica Libre

Manuel Guerra checking out the artwork of Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas

MAPECO in ZAACHILA

The day after the IAGO presentation, the MAPECO printamakers from Uruapan, Michocan visited Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila.

Tlayuadas make a great lunch

(left to back) Manuel Guerra, Olin, Lupita, Adrian Aguirre, Beatriz Rivas

(right to back) Gilberto Raul Mendoza, unknown, Maria Rosa Cervantes Bernal

(left to back) unknown, unknown, Samuel Diaz Gaona, Irma Reyes Almanza, Hectores

(r to back) Edgar Miguel Cerda, Avila, unknown, unknown, Eunice Barajas Murguia, unknown

Eugene, nephew of Manuel Perez Coronado,

whom the MAPECO studio was named after

standing left of Manuel Guerra

Arriving at the studio of 

Taller Grafica Libre

(from upper right corner around the table)

Manuel Guerra, Hectores, Irma Reyes Almanza, 4 unknowns, Eunice Barajas Murguia,

Gilberto Raul Mendoza, unknown, Beatriz Rivas (profile)

Showing off the US prints, one by one

Eunice Barajas Murguia displays her print

that she brought from Uruapan

Display of prints from the MAPECO artists,

which they brought from Uruapan

Showing off the Mexican prints, one by one

Samuel Diaz Gaona, director of the printmaking studio at MAPECO,

holding his milk carton print masterpiece

Samuel Diaz Gaona showing a print by

Irma Reyes Almanza

Edgar Miguel Cerda Avila

showing his prints

AMBOS LADOS PRINTMAKERS

The Sunday After

Some of the Oaxaca printmakers came to Zaachila to relax at Taller Grafica Libre, when everything was more casual.

Axl Ayuso, Daniel Pacheo, Sam Gardner, Pako Altimirano, Yati Ni, 

Nidia Rosales Moreno,

Making collaborative art

Axl Ayuso, Daniel Pacheo, Sam Gardner, Pako Altimirano, Yati Ni, 

Nidia Rosales Moreno, Cristina Anorve, Manuel Guerra

NOTE: Manuel Guerra stayed in Zaachila a few days, and helped Beatriz Rivas and Adrian Aguirre with the prints they submitted to the IPE #11 (International Print Exchange), organized by the Green Door Printmaking Studio, based in Derbyshire, United Kingdom.  The good news is that their prints were accepted, and arrived by the August 31st deadline. 

Many of the Ambos Lados printmakers had submitted to previous IPE print exchanges (as noted near the bottom of this blog entry).