PRINTED MATTER Festival in Santa Fe

PRINTED MATTER Festival

During the PRINTED MATTER Festival in Santa Fe on Sunday, July 10th, 2022, we exhibited prints in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van.  We also made 8x8 inch prints on the Tortilla Press and Skateboard Press, and gave them out free to the public.

Tim Torres printing with a Skateboard Press, 

while Rich Hasler mans the Tortilla Press, 

as Jerry Wellman of Axle Contemporary looks on.

The Santa Fe Railyards about 9 AM,

during set-up for the PRINTED MATTER Festival

Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman

wheat paste the final Axle sign on their art van

Flyer for our print show

in the Axle Contemporary van

Lacey Crisco visits the exhibition

inside the Axle Contemporary van

(New Mexican prints hung on the port side)

The starboard side of the van

featured prints from El Paso, Mexico,

Tucson, San Antonio and Australia

Two folders labeling the six rows of prints, 

plus the Ambos Lados catalog of our last print project

Krrrl making prints on the Tortilla Press,

to give out free to visitors

One of the first visitors

requested the collaboration print

between Krrrl and Henry Morales

Julianna Kirwin  posted this photo during the festival

of one of our first visitors

receiving a free print

WE TOOK THE IDEA of printing with a Tortilla Press from 3 Gatos Press -- Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares --  with Meño Miranda, of Guadalajara.  In 2019 they took Manuel Guerra, Marco Sanchez and Krrrl to make prints with the Tortilla Press on the streets of Tlaquepaque.  

Making prints with the TORTILLA PRESS in 2019

with 3 Gatos Press in Guadalajara

Live printing with the TORTILLA PRESS 2022,

during the PRINTED MATTER Festival in Santa Fe

We handed out 6x6 inch linoleum squares before the festival, for artists to bring to have made on the Tortilla Press.  Four artists from Santa Fe gave us linocuts -- Yuki Murata, Jerry Wellman, Nina Mastrangelo and Kathleen McCloud:

We received three prints from the Santa Fe artists

to print for the public

Yuki Murata and her linocut

Jerry Wellman and his linocut

Nina Mastrangelo and her linocut

We inked and printed a copper plate

by Beryl Markowitz

on the the Tortilla Press

Julianna Kirwin took over the Tortilla Press for us,

and printed the linocuts of her granddaughter and her boyfriend

James Santistevan and Emma Kirwin

show off their prints

Julianna Kirwin

making a print of Anne Steen's linocut

Stephanie Weiner

brought us a linocut to print

Ilene Weiss

brought us a linocut to print

The HerStory Printmaking Collective

from Albuquerque

Rich Hasler from Albuquerque

stepped up and took over the Tortilla Press in the afternoon

Rich preferred to give a little TLC with the large Iron Frog glass baren

before taking the print off the Tortilla Press

THANK YOU!!!

Thank you Rich Hasler!

Thank you Tim Jag for organizing the PRINTED MATTER Festival

Thank you Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman 

for exhibiting our prints in the Axle Contemporary mobile art van

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