Tzompantli paste-up in Guadalajara

https://tinyurl.com/Tzomp

More collaborative interaction:

Los Tres Gatos solicited images of skulls which they will paste-up on the streets of Guadalajara to make a TZOMPANTLI -- Aztec skull rack -- during the Day of the Dead in 2021.

Tzompantli call to artists

(ended October 29, 2021)

UPDATE (December 17, 2021):

Tres Gatos Press pasted-up  the Tzompantli in the Panteón de Mezquitán, and posted photos on Instagram:

Tzompantli pasted up in Guadalajara

A Tzompantli

is an Aztec trophy skull rack

Part of Tzompantli

pasted elsewhere in Guadalajara

UPDATE (January 3, 2022):

There is an article in Spanish in the Informador newspaper from the 2nd of January, 2022 about the Tzompantli paste-up in the Panteon de Mezquitan:

The Informador.Mx article

about the Tzompantli paste-ups

MapHub shows the locations of all the Tzompantli paste-ups in Guadalajara:

MapHub locations of all the paste-up prints

ALL 70 Individual Skulls

View all the Calavera Skulls individually at this LINK:

tzompantli-paste-up.blogspot.com

Julianna Kirwin also pasted up her skulls

outside her studio in Albuquerque

Artists from all over emailed skull drawings to Guadalajara -- from Mexico, USA, Guatemala(?), Croatia, Scotland, England, Canada, France, Colombia, and Ireland

• pencils2pixels.art posted about this blog post on Instagram!!!

Tortilla Press printmaking

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We followed the example of Los Tres Gatos Press and used a Tortilla Press to make 8 x 8 inch prints on the streets of New Mexico -- in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Silver City.

Horned Toad Prints of El Paso

(Raul Monarrez (l) and Manuel Guerra (r),

cranking out prints on the Tortilla Press

at Hecho A Mano gallery in Santa Fe

Los Tres Gatos of Guadalajara innovated the Tortilla Press for making prints.  Joseph Velasquez of Drive By Press sold us one of these Tortilla Presses made with their design.  

The Tortilla Press which we bought,

innovated by Los Tres Gatos

and built by Joseph Velasquez

Joseph Velasquez made a YouTube video about how to use the Tortilla Press:

Joseph Velasquez

demonstrating how to use the Tortilla Press

NEW MEXICO

TORTILLA PRESS PRINTING

Albuquerque

August 6, 2021

Printing with the Tortilla Press

in Albuquerque, August 6, 2021

Santa Fe

August 7, 2021

Manuel Guerra

working the Tortilla Press

in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

at the top of Canyon Road

Video of the Tortilla Press printing

Santa Fe

August 27, 2021

Five artists from Hecho A Mano gallery carved linoleum plates for us to print on the tortilla press.  Also Alejandra Mares and Xavier Moreno of Los Tres Gatos Press, sent two plates from Guadalajara for us to print as well.

Some of the linocuts

for tortilla printing

Silver City

for the Southwest Print Fiesta

October 9, 2021

Horned Toad Prints

cranking out prints on the tortilla press

at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2021 in Silver City

Printmaking during the fuzzy Covid era

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