Monday, March 11, 2019

North Texas SGCI 2019 -- Second Day

SGCI NORTH TEXAS -- SECOND DAY
Thursday, March 7, 2019


Starting the day off right --
on the vendor floor with
the Amazing John Hancock (left) 
and equally amazing Carlos Hernandez (right)




PANEL
Social Practice and Printmaking Collectives

8:30 - 10 am:

Chairs: Celeste De Luna, Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Laura Berman, Professor, Kansas City Art Institute

Panelists: Laura Brown, Independent Artist and Educator, Adjunct Faculty, Augsburg University will present “Learning As We Go: Building a Socially Engaged Print Collective”

Luis Valderas & Kim Bishop, Social Engagement Artists, Educators and Curators will present “A3: Pop-Up Industrial Press”

Álvaro D. Márquez, Teaching Artist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and MFA student in Printmaking at California State University Long Beach will present “Pushing Tinta and Making Community”


Celeste De Luna speaking


Kim Bishop and Luis Valderas speaking


Álvaro D. Márquez speaking about Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles


Manuel Guerra with Lacy Mills


PANEL
Latinx Printmaking


Chair: Michael Menchaca, visual artist
Panelists: Paloma Mayorga, Director, Print Austin, Texas
Lisette Chavez, Creator of Show Me Your Print Shop, San Antonio, Texas
Alan Serna, Cofounder and Master Printer, feral editions, San Antonio, Texas




Madison Cowles Serna and Alan Serna

J Leigh Garcia and Manuel Guerra



AMBOS LADOS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE
Exhibition at the University of Texas at Arlington

THE PRINTS

On the second floor of the Fine Arts Building of the University of Texas at Arlington, 1 - 4:30 pm:



Video of the gallery


Gallery still photos:
Part 1
Part 2



Omar Gonzalez
Texas


Darlene Kalynka
Canada

Connor Furr
Ohio


Alan Serna
Texas


Madison Cowles Serna
Texas


Calliandra Hermanson
Albuquerque


Juana Estrada Hernandez
Albuquerque


Kimberly McCarthy
Albuquerque


Celeste De Luna
Harlingen, Texas


Lacey Mills
San Antonio


Marco Sanchez
Pennsylvania


Francisco Delgado
El Paso


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Raul Monarrez
El Paso


Manuel Guerra
El Paso


Fantastic representation from the print department at
the University of Texas at San Antonio!!!


Instagram


Tim Musso from Riverside (right)
standing in for Pavel Acevedo,
and Francisco Delgado,
pointing at work by the maestro



Karen Baden Thapa of the Bay Area,
former student of Toru Sugita








Limted edition books
by Connor Furr and company at Ohio University


Elsewhere on the 2nd floor of the Fine Arts building, was the
"UTA Collection Exhibition Imprint: The Impactful Spirit of the Printed Image," 
an exhibition that included this linocut by Swoon,
"Dawn and Gemma"



MAIN GALLERY
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON

There were 2 exhibitions in the main gallery of the Fine Arts Building, on the first floor:

SGCI Juried Members Exhibition



Visual Elegy




Manuel Guerra has exhibited at the UTA Art Gallery in 1999,
in the "Texas Paper: Works on Paper by Texas Artists" exhibition


EXHIBITON
Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us

At TCU (Texas Christian University) in Fort Worth, 3 - 7 pm:


 Moundy building on the TCU campus
 in Fort Worth

Opening at TCU


J Leigh Garcia


View the Entire Tejanos Exhibiton at this link




Finally -- dinner at Fuzzy Taco in Forth Worth


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North Texas SGCI 2019 -- First Day

SGCI NORTH TEXAS -- FIRST DAY
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
DALLAS


The big North Texas SGCI print conference started off in Dallas with a bang, on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 -- kicking off a big schedule of activities.


At the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas
***
Manuel Guerra receives a box of Voodoo Donuts from Austin,
a throw back to the Portland SGCI conference in 2016;
Francisco Delgado receives a bottle of the finest mezcal,
reminiscent of when he went down to Oaxaca
to make his relief print edition for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta


Checking in to SGCI
on the second floor of the Fairmont Hotel


Welcome SGCI


We were one of the first to put flyers out,
for our exhibition at the University of Texas at Arlington --
and they were all gone by the end of the conference


Omar Gonzalez with the crew from Booker T Washington arts high school,
making prints in front of the Dallas Museum of Art


The Booker T Washington crew 
had this strange printmaking device  -- the Uber Vibe,
from Whelan Press in Santa Fe
(I can find no information about this online)


The Nasher  Sculpture Center 
just down the street from the Dallas Museum of Art


Luis Valderas and Kim Bishop --
who came to El Paso to make steamroller prints in 2014-- 
came from San Antonio to participate in the 
"Social Practice and Printmaking Collectives" panel the next day



THEME EXCHANGE PORTFOLIO EXHIBITIONS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS


There was a good reception for 4 great portfolios exhibited at the University of Dallas, reception during the evening of March 6th, 2019.








Once the "celebrity bus" arrived,
the exhibition was packed


Marco Sanchez organized the portfolio
"Saints, Superheores, and the Demonnized:










Terri and Kim Bauer of UTEP,
stand in front of the print by one of their former students
Nabil Gonzalez


VIEW THE COMPLETE PORTFOLIO
Saints, Superheroes and the Demonized


See the complete portfolio at this link:
Saints, Superheroes and the Demonized


SEE SELECT PRINTS OF THE PORTFOLIO:
A Shrinking World 

See selected works of the excellent portfolio



in front of his print


SEE SELECTED WORKS OF THE FOLLOWING 2 PORTFOLIOS






Taken at the printmaking studio
of the University of Dallas


Juergen Strunck, professor at the University of Dallas,
had the print show in the main gallery


Juergen Strunck print


Dr Peter Briggs talks about the work of Juergen Strunck


Print celebrity Beauvais Lyons,
professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
graciously receives a Desert Triangle catalog from us


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