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.

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...