Monday, July 18, 2022

Santa Fe 2022 -- SUMMARY

This summarizes the 13 blog posts we made about showing 66 (plus 2) prints in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van during July 2022 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  



Thank you Matthew Chase Daniel and Jerry Wellman
of Axle Contemporary for showing our prints!!! 

  • Also note the wheat paste prints on the van from Tres Gatos Press of Guadalajara!!!

List of Axle Santa Fe links (in chronological order):




YouTube video by John Tollett
of the PRINTED MATTER Festival


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PREPARATION

Preparing for Santa Fe in July




PRINTED MATTERS Festival
July 10th, 2022


PRINTED MATTER Festival in Santa Fe


Skateboard Press


Printing on REAL TORTILLAS


Vendors -- Printed Matter Festival




OTHER AXLE POP-UP SHOWS
July 14 - 17, 2022


JULY 14th, 11AM - 2:30 PM


JULY 15th, 5-9 PM


JULY 16th, 9AM - 12 PM


JULY 16th, 1-8 PM


JULY 17th, 11:30AM - 2:30 PM


We had a great time showing prints in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van!  The audience in Santa Fe was very receptive to our prints.

Write-Ups


Article in the Pasatiempo
promoting the Printed Matter Festival,
featuring a print by Mario Alonso Perez of El Paso



UP NEXT


The Axle Contemporary mobile art van will show prints from both Jason Garcia and Vicente Telles -- "And She Dances..." from July 29 - August 22, 2022.


Son de Allá, Son de Acá

Vicente Telles is also one of the three curators of the "Son de Allá, Son de Acá" exhibitions  -- which are showing at four galleries in Albuquerque in August:

at four galleries in Albuquerque in August, 2022


Opening First Friday, August 5th in Albuquerque at:

Opening Friday, August 12th in Albuquerque at:

The exhibition "Son de Allá, Son de Acá" is also promoting artists from the Southwest USA, like many of the artists in our Bucket Exhibitions/Bucket Prints project.  Their aim seems to be similar to that of our earlier Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibitions, which was:

  • "The purpose of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is to make a BIG NOISE, and let everyone know that there is artistic talent in the heart of the old Wild West."




URUAPAN, MEXICO

Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints in El Paso is already receiving more 8x8 inch prints from Uruapan, Morelia, Mexico.  We connected with the MAPECO Taller in Uruapan on a trip back in 2019, when we were visiting the printmakers who participated in the Ambos Lado International Print Exchange:



El Paso is getting ready for the next 8x8 inch print show!

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Axle -- CHART Family Day -- July 17, 2022

Our last print show in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van was during the CHART final event and Family Day, at the Villa Linda Park in Santa Fe, on Sunday, July 17th, 2022, 11:30 - 2:30 PM:


CHART Family Day event flyer


Villa Linda Park
is right behind the Santa Fe Place Mall


The Axle van was parked next to Sanchez Taco Truck
in the parking lot, a little removed from the main activity


As seen from the other side of the kid's section


African drummers performing in the park


CHART
banner with website



From the CHART Santa Fe website:

The goal of the CHART project (August 2021 - August 2022) is to engage the diverse citizenry of the city and county of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in activities that will solicit their perspectives and opinions about issues that matter to them as well as to foster a mutual understanding of shared values.

 Though sparked by controversies about monuments and statues, the project is much broader in scope and purpose. The original proposal was for the formation of a committee that would deliberate and make recommendations for the disposition of monuments and statues that became controversial flashpoints in the summer of 2020.


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Axle -- ARTWALK at Santa Fe Brewing -- July 16, 2022

We parked the Axle Contemporary mobile art van at Santa Fe Brewing grounds during the ARTWALK on Saturday, July 16th, from 1-8 PM:


Mariachi Differencia
visited the Axle Contemporary art van


Desert Party ARTWALK
at Santa Fe Brewing


The ARTWALK was held
on the grounds of Santa Fe Brewing


Activities and vendors list



The Axle art van
parked at one end of the vendor/activities tents




Inside, 
looking up


Make Santa Fe
had a tent at the ARTWALK


Kami Herrera got into the spirit and hand painted a t-shirt next to the Axle art van:




Kami Herrera's final
handpainted t-shirt


Into the evening


Lots of concert goers
not too far from the Axle art van

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Axle -- Site Santa Fe -- July 16, 2022

We parked the Axle Contemporary mobile art van in front of Site Santa Fe during the morning of Saturday, July 16th, from about 9:30 AM to after 12 PM.


Site Santa Fe




The colorful banner in the background advertising Jeffery Gibson, 
and also Nani Chacon, who was showing her large mural-sized paintings 
in the front room of Site Santa Fe --
she participated in our Desert Triangle Print Carpeta


Nani Chacon's large paintings
were exhibited in the front gallery
of Site Santa Fe


From the inside of Site Santa Fe,
looking out


Across the street from Site Santa Fe
was the outdoor Farmer's Market
bustling with tent vendors and buyers lining the rail road tracks



SKATEBOARD PRESS

We made a few prints using the Skateboard Press in front of Site Santa Fe:

The first brave printmaker
using the Skateboard Press to make prints


Flash press one of Greta Young's new linocuts
using the Skateboard Press








Laura from the Argos Tuesday Night Drawing group,
and her husband visited the print exhibition

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Axle -- Santa Fe Railyards -- July 15, 2022

During the evening of Friday, July 15th, 2022 we parked the Axle Contemporary mobile art van at the Santa Fe Railyards during the concert by Hayes Carll (link to his website), from 5-9 PM.  In spite of the photos below, we had a steady trickle of visitors:


The Rail Runner Train 
ends at the Santa Fe Railyards


Soon the far end of this corridor
would be filled with concert goers


Open for business --
 on the Site Santa Fe side,
on the opposite end of the Railyards from the concert


The party train passed us as well,
on their way to Lamy, New Mexico


From the inside,
looking out


Concert goers lined both sides of the tracks
by the time the concert started, certainly by 8 PM,
and some of them visited our art van


Hayes Carll playing
some Austin-style country music


Visitors to the Axle art van
as viewed from afar


The Santa Fe Railyards


The last Rail Runner train
passing Axle, headed to Albuquerque


One of the most enthusiastic visitors was a one-and-a-half year old who loved crawling in and out of the van.  He cried when his mother tried to walk him to the concert, so she had to bring him back to re-visit the van.  I heard that later during the concert, he was still pointing at the van from a long distance.  There were a few other little boys his age that also loved crawling in and out of the van -- to look at our prints, I'm sure.

The evening started hot, but cooled down as the rain clouds built up, delivering another one of those  mystical New Mexico evenings.  I didn't run into any rain until I was heading back to Albuquerque on I-25.


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