Joe is recruiting artists in Tucson by handing out tessellation linocut tiles, and will amass a stack in Arizona to make their own EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints. And then, at some point, he will meet with Manuel Guerra in El Paso and Karl Whitaker in Albuquerque, to make tessellation prints from all the Southwest artists.
Joe Marshall jumped in to make tessellation prints during the after-party for the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024 in Silver City:
UAMA museum visit
and Exquisite Tessellation project
In 2023 Joe Marshall was part of the Desert Triangle exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum:
FIRST TUCSON TESSELALTION
Exquisite Tessellation Print Project
Below are tessellation prints by Joe Marshall and Josephine Thomason. They've handed out about two dozen linocut tiles to Tucson artists so far:
LASER CUTTING
Laser cutting gives us tiles that tessellate exactly. We are cutting "hat" tiles that are 7 inches at the widest:
FILES:
- 7inch_hat_square.lbrn2 (15 KB) -- LightBurn file of a single "hat" shape
- EinStein.SVG (689 bytes) -- the raw vector file of a single "hat" shape
7 inches at the widest point
So we sent a stack of 12x18 inch sheets of linoleum from Takach Press in Albuquerque, to Xerocraft makerspace in Tucson, and they laser cut a stack into "hat" linocuts for us, for a fee:
Laser cutting "hat" shapes from linoleum
using the laser cutter at Xerocraft
They got six "hat" shapes in one pass
from a 12 x 18 inch piece of linoleum
7 inches at the widest part
Beautiful stack of "hat" linocuts
Ready to be picked up by Joe Marshall
We look forward to big tessellations from Tucson, as this project grows throughout the Southwest.
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