FORGOTTEN REACH -- UNM/UTEP student Print Exchange

FORGOTTEN REACH is a black-and-white student print exchange between the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas at El Paso, from Spring Semester 2025:

FORGOTTEN REACH

Black-and-White student print exchange

between UNM and UTEP

UTEP Print Professor Manuel Guerra from El Paso

holds up the "FORGOTTEN REACH" portfolio

UNM Print Professor Aaron Bass (left)

receives the prints from UTEP Print Professor Manuel Guerra (right)

on November 29,  2025

The prints showing in the hallway of the art building at the University of New Mexico, in February 2026:

UNM PRINTS

Prints from the students at the University of New Mexico

UTEP PRINTS

Prints from the students at the University of Texas at El Paso

NOVEMBER SUMMARY -- 2025

Print Professors Aaron Bass (UNM -- left)

and Manuel Guerra (UTEP -- right)

exchanging prints at UNM in November 2025

Henry and Friends at the Juan Tabo Library -- Albuquerque Exhibition

Who is Juan Tabo? (Reddit)

HENRY MORALES hung his print show at the JUAN TABO PUBLIC LIBRARY in Albuquerque for the month of February 2026 -- and invited his print crew ELLIE WEADOCK and VIRGIL VELASCO to show prints with him:

Prints hanging at the JUAN TABO PUBLIC LIBRARY in Albuquerque

for the month of February 2026

Henry's Horse tessellation print hanging up front and center

greeting everyone who enters the library

Henry and Ellie hanging Henry's print

of the Sandia Mountains on January 31, 2026

We  showed two new collaborative

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

I made two previous blog posts about printing and framing for this exhibition:

• Printing Tessellations with Henry
• FRAMING and Printing HENRY'S

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GALLERY

ART WALL

The library has monthly exhibitions

on the Art Wall

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THE PRINTS

COLLABORATIVE PRINTS

Printing Tessellations with Henry

ARTISTS:

• Casandra Encinias
• Casandra Encinias
• Mary Sundstrom
• Ellie Weadock
• Henry Morales
• (bumpy roller)
• Virgil Velasco
• Karl Whitaker (carved by Henry Morales)

Printing Tessellations with Henry

ARTISTS:

• Virgil Velasco
• Ellie Weadock
• Casandra Encinias
• Mary Sundstrom
• Virgil Velasco
• Casandra Encinias
• Henry Morales
• (bumpy roller)
• Henry Morales

We hand printed the two EXQUISITE TESSELLATION pieces earlier in the month with glass barens and door knobs:

Printing Tessellations with Henry

Hand printing the EXQUISITE TESSELLATIONS

with glass barens and a glass door knob

The Collaborative BIG INK Print

by Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock and Virgil Velasco (l to r)

The BIG INK print was about White Sands, in New Mexico

The Print Crew -- Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock and Virgil Velasco -- collaborated on the White Sands print when BIG INK came to Albuquerque in 2024:

BIG INK Progress

Beginning the Collaborative BIG INK Print --

Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco in 2024

THE PRINTMAKERS -- BIG INK in Albuquerque

The fresh BIG INK print

on April 13, 2024

HENRY MORALES

This big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut

was originally part of a bigger collaborative print 

made with a Steamroller

at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025

Henry Morales Carving the Sandia Mountains

Henry Morales on site

carving the big Sandia Mountains print

Albuquerque Ambos Printmakers Steamrolling out

 of a Covid Summer

They made Henry's Sandia Mountains print

with a STEAMROLLER

FRAMING and Printing HENRY'S

Printing the fish in colors

ELLIE WEADOCK

"Mescalito"

(YouTube): Screen printing 2nd color

on the Mescalero silk screen print

"Carlos Becomes a Crow"

"Salinas Monument: Quarai"

"Pecos Mission"

"San Jose de los Jemez"

VIRGIL VELASCO

"Wood Snake's Reign"

"Leap" 

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Virgil hanging the prints

on January 31, 2026

We gave some EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linoleum tiles

to the Librarian to carve

Henry Morales

next to his Sandia Mountains masterpiece

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PREVIOUSLY

Henry Morales also had an exhibition and a printmaking workshop at the same Juan Tabo Public Library last year, when Star Wars came to make prints with the kids:

Styrofoam Printmaking at the Juan Tabo Library --

 with HENRY MORALES

Star Wars on the printing press last year

on May 31, 2025

NEXT EXHIBITION: MARCH 2026 , at the East Mountain Public Library in Tijeras, New Mexico (outside of Albuquerque, where Henry Morales exhibited previously in 2023, and gave a printmaking workshop for kids:

HENRY MORALES printmaking workshop for kids

Henry Morales showed this print in 2023

at the East Mountain Public Library