Sunday, April 19, 2026

ABQ PRINT CRAWL

The ABQ PRINT CRAWL happened in Albuquerque on April 18, 2026, organized by SHANA MORRIS of the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY:




9 PARTICIPANTS



9 Print Locations participated -- and visitors could get a stamp from each one on a PRINT CRAWL PASSPORT:

All 9 print locations
stamped on the back of this Print Passport

THANK YOU to SHANNA MORRIS of the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY for organizing the ABQ PRINT CRAWL:

Shana Morris holding the raffle tickets (right)
before pulling out a winning ticket
at the Richard Levy Gallery reception





THE TOUR

TAMARIND INSTITUTE

TAMARIND INSTITUTE trains lithography printmakers worldwide, and opened their doors and galleries at the University of New Mexico for the ABQ PRINT CRAWL:



Yoma Wilson had the one man exhibition


CHROMA PRINTMAKING

CHROMA PRINTMAKING is run by KRISTIN SARETTE, a Tamarind trained printmaker:



Visitors at CHROMA PRINTMAKING
during the ABQ PRINT CRAWL


We had to ink our own stamp
for the ABQ PRINT CRAWL Passport


A monoprint by Nani Chacon


NEXT CHAPTER STUDIO

NEXT CHAPTER STUDIO is a Risograph studio run by LAUREN HARMS:



Risograph printing demo


UNM ARTSLab

The UNM ARTSLab promotes the mixture of art and technology, including a Risograph studio run by DANIELA del MAR, which was featured on the ABQ PRINT CRAWL:

UNM ARTSLab Risograph studio
is run by Daniela del Mar


UNM Art Professor Rambod Vala
holds up his Risograph print




Risograph print by Lana Nguyen


CENTER FOR THE BOOK

BILL FARMER gave us an excellent tour of the PRINTING PRESSES at the CENTER FOR THE BOOK in the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY:

giving a print demonstration


The demo inking table and relief plate,
and the final blue print


Antique printing presses


Smaller sized wooden reproduction of the GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS (right)




BOBCAT PRESS by Richard Hicks




UNM PRINTMAKING
at the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

The UNM PRINTMAKING Department was printing  and exhibiting at the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY:







Yoshiko Shimano (left), head of the UNM PRINTMAKING DEPARTMENT,
next to the table with Adam Berman and Rosie (right) 


Adam Berman of the UNM PRINTMAKING DEPARTMENT
looks on as Mark Williams makes a print


making a print

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP


Jessica Krichels (left) and Lincoln Draper (right)
making prints during the ABQ PRINT CRAWL

Lincoln Draper, one of the owners of REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP
pulling a photogravure print


was also demo-ing printmaking


had announced the ABQ PRINT CRAWL on their website


RISOLANA

RISOLANA makes Riograph prints in the South Valley of Albuquerque, and printed the passports for the ABQ PRINT CRAWL:



The Risograph printing machine and studio


Michael Lopez loads up a Risograph cyclinder


Lana made some prints for me


I need to pump up the contrast on my drawing
before making another Risgraph print


A Risograph print


RICHARD LEVY GALLERY

The evening reception for the ABQ PRINT CRAWL was held in downtown Albuquerque at the RICHARD LEVY GALLERY, 5 - 7 PM:

evening reception at the RICHARD LEVY GALLERY downtown


Gallery owner RICHARD LEVY (left) 
helping Lauren Harm of NEXT CHAPTER STUDIO
pull a winning raffle ticket 


raffling off a Tamarind apron


John was the lucky winner
of the Tamarind apron
(and I'm jealous)


PRINT CRAWLS in other cities:

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

MO'PRINT 2026-- Denver

We went to the MO'PRINT Open Portfolio in Denver on March 28, 2026 (but did not make the other exhibitions):


The first room of Mo'PRINT OPEN PORTFOLIO


Tanya peering over the Mo'PRINT Open Portfolio sign
in front of the Denver Botanical Gardens

Tanya and I started continued our print troublemaking in Oaxaca back in 2014:

  

Tanya and Tina, her twin sister


We remember MEGAN MORGAN in Santa Fe in June 2023, August 2023, 2024 and 2025:




The second room of printmakers


TIM JAG organizes THE PRINTERS PLANET markets in New Mexico:




We remember DALE TANIS from Taos:

I bought this ball barring print "Baren Heart" from him


Front Range Printmaking Showcase & Art Fair
Laramie, Wyoming

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BRYAN DAHLBERG had a couple of impressive functional mini presses -- one that printed intaglio nicely, and a mini reconstruction of a Gutenberg Press:



MARC HOROVITZ had some excellent wood engravings:


Wood engraving plate

We remembered MERRILL SWIM from Santa Fe in 2022 and 2024:

GEORGE MICHAEL KARAS helped visitors to make their own prints:


We printed with the Lar Roeder's 3D printed baren
that I just bought



PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS

Note the Relief Printing with High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) with Johanna Mueller, which I missed:


Print demo prints stacking up


MAX ROATH

MAXWELL FOREST ROATH gave the first demonstration (which I missed):



LUIS PEREZ MORENO

LUIS PEREZ MORENO printed Mayan symbols:






ROSIE SHANLEY

ROSIE SHANLEY gave the last print demo, printing on dry point Tetra Pak with the intaglio method:

Rosie Shanley










We only came up for one day and barely saw only a few of the Mo'PRINT OPEN PORTFOLIO printmakers.  The Mo'PRINT Studio Tour has been going elsewhere in March 2026, all over Denver.

ABQ PRINT CRAWL

The ABQ PRINT CRAWL happened in Albuquerque on April 18, 2026, organized by SHANA MORRIS  of the  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY : ABQ PRINT C...