Ambos Lados Closing

On July 15th, 2023 we had a fantastic closing for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange at the El Paso Museum of  History for Family Day, from 1 - 4 PM:

Live printing and live streaming

during the closing of Ambos Lados

Someone shows a preference

There were three activities going on during the closing:

• Manuel Guerra and Tres Gatos Press live streaming and printing from Guadalajara from Instagram
• The BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP run by Vanessa Ramirez at the EP History Museum
• Print table and live printmaking by Aron Venegas at the EP History Museum

Manuel Guerra live streamed in 

from a tianguis in Guadalajara

with Tres Gatos Press

 

An excellent t-shirt created during the 

BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP

Aron Venegas printing live 

with a REAL Tortilla Press

LIVE STREAMING

from GUADALAJARA

While we were printing live at the El Paso Museum of History, Manuel Guerra and Tres Gatos Press were also printing live in a tinaguis in Guadalajara.

The announcement 

for the live printing event in Guadalajara

They printed live 

in a tianguis in Guadalajara

View this post on Instagram

Live Streaming from Guadalajara

They used the linocuts

to print temporary tattoos in Guadalajara

They also printed round linocuts in Guadalajara

some of which were from Texas and New Mexico

Manuel Guerra organized the US artists of the Ambos Lados print exchange from El Paso, while Taller Grafica Libre  (Adrian Aguirre and Beatriz Rivas) organized the Mexican artists from their studio in Oaxaca:

Manuel Guerra caught on the live stream

from Guadalajara

BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP

Vanessa Ramirez of the Fashion Technology Program at the El Paso Community College, put on the BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP.  She carved out motifs based on the Ambos Lados prints to make all over t-shirts:

Vanessa Ramirez (right)

beginning the block printing workshop

I was very impressed at how nicely the t-shirt designs came out:

The t-shirts had a lot of character

The block printing workshop

was very popular

BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP by Vanessa Ramirez of the Fashion Technology Program at the El Paso Community College.

Featuring motif choices inspired by the following artists;

• Ashley B Cranney
• Samuel Garcia
• Leonel Villegas
• Michelle Martinez
• Lorena Rocha Williams
• Lacey Mills
• Deborah Kotaka
• Ramiro Ordonez
• Beatriz Rivas
• Jon Stahly
• Pablo Lopez
• Alfonso Pola Castaneda

More pictures on the Instagram page

of the El Paso Museum of History

More pictures on the Facebook page

of the El Paso Museum of History

There was a lot of activity

in the BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP

TACO PRINTS

Aron Venegas answered the live streaming from Guadalajara by live printing two prints by Tres Gatos Press (Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares) on a REAL Tortilla Press.  Tres Gatos Press was streaming their live printing event from Guadalajara via Instagram.  Also we printed the "Javalina" linocut by John Tollett of Santa Fe:

Top prints by Xavier Moreno,

bottom prints by John Tollett and Alejandra Mares

All the round linocuts were laser engraved

Aron Venegas also set up on a table to sell his prints:

Aron Venegas

selling prints

The prints by Aron Venegas

THANK YOU

A big THANK YOU to the staff at the El Paso Museum of History, especially to Nora Rose who conceived and organized the closing:

Nora Rose, Natasha Norman and intern

PRINT EXCHANGE CAMP

Ambos Lados also inspired a print exchange between young artists on both sides of the border, from workshops sponsored by the El Paso Museum of History (lead by Susan Gonzalez) and the La Rodadora Espacio Interactivo in Juarez:

SIN FRONTERAS

print exchange camp

For information about the whole exhibition at the El Paso Museum of History see:

• El Paso Museum of History -- Summary