BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: April 2023

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Tortilla Press Printing during the MiniPrint opening

Sometimes we have to make prints to put in the BUCKET, in order to keep the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS fresh. And sometimes we get too enthusiastic and do some live printmaking in public!

We made prints with a Tortilla Press in front of Hecho A Mano gallery, at the top of Canyon Road in Santa Fe, on Saturday, April 29th, while they had the opening for the MiniPrint exhibition inside, as part of PRINT SANTA FE.

Kevin receiving a fresh print

designed by 3 Gatos Press of Guadalajara

We printed live with a Tortilla Press

in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

at the top of Canyon Road in Santa Fe

MiniPrint Opening

We did live printmaking in front of Hecho A Mano gallery during their MiniPrint opening:

Inside Hecho A Mano gallery

was the MiniPrint opening

Julie Sola of Las Vegas, New Mexico

and Francisco Delgado of El Paso, Texas

standing next to their MiniPrints at the opening

LIVE PRINTMAKING

Henry Morales carving in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

before the live printmaking

Across the street from Hecho A Mano gallery

at the top of Canyon Road in Santa Fe

is The Teahouse

Ellie Weadock (left)

also came up from Albuquerque

to help Henry and Krrrl print

FIRST PRINT

Ellie Weadock inking John Tollett's plate

This inked Celtec "expanded PVC foam" plate

was first created by John Tollett

by pushing hard with a pen and pencil

Henry Morales operating the Tortilla Press

Fingers crossed

SUCCESS!

John Tollett

holding up a fresh print

of the image he created

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Anna Aragon jumped in

to make a print

Karina Hean jumps in to ink a print

Raye Leith stopped by

Greta Young receives a print

After pressing the print with a Tortilla Press we used a small glass print baren from Iron Frog Press from Dallas, which we just bought from the PRINT SANTA FE art fair the day before:

We also bought a "Cool S Baren" from Lars Roeder at the Print Santa Fe art fair. This is a 3D printed baren with over 200 small ball bearings on the bottom, made for printing by hand:

After pressing with the Tortilla Press,

a little hand printing with the "Cool S Baren"

3D printed baren

for printing by hand --

Cool S Baren

Visitors hand pressing the prints

that they will take home

Ellie Weadocks' fish block print

was quite popular

Ellie Weadocks frog print plate

Ellie Weadock's "eye" plate

Ellie Weadock's skelaton plate

Ellie Weadock

donated this print for future BUCKET EXHIBITIONS

Henry Morales' linocut plate

made from a life drawing session

The new proud owner

of Henry Morales' frogman print

PREVIOUS

Live Printmaking

2019

We got the Tortilla Press idea from Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares of 3 Gatos Press. When we visited Guadalajara in 2019 they took us to Tlaquepaque to make prints on the Tortilla Press:

Making prints with a Tortilla Press

with 3 Gatos Press in Guadalajara

The video:

Printing with a Tortilla Press -- Tlaquepaque --

with 3 Gatos Press (part 1)

2021

The first time we did live printmaking in front of Hecho A Mano gallery, on August 7th, 2021, we printed linocuts that 3 Gatos Press had sent us, one from Xavier Moreno and another from Alejandra Mares. Manuel Guerra came up from El Paso to show us how to do it right:

We printed and framed the linocut

from Alejandra Mares

Manuel Guerra on the left,

Henry Morales on the press

And then Manuel Guerra and Raul Monarrez came back up later on August 27th, 2021 to do some live printmaking again in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

THANK YOU!

A big THANK YOU to Frank Rose, the director of HECHO A MANO gallery, for letting us print in front of his gallery. We always meet the most interesting people, from all over the world, and have a good time printing in front of his gallery:

Frank Rose

of Hecho A Mano gallery

Also a big THANKS to Sir Henry Morales and Ellie Weadock for coming up from Albuquerque to do some live printmaking in Santa Fe:

Henry Morales and Ellie Weadock

relaxing after the printmaking event

John Sherill Houser's horse head

at the top of Canyon Road

PRINT SANTA FE -- Summary 2023

Tim Pauszek Relief Printmaking Workshop (April 7th)
Enrique Flores and PRINT SANTA FE (April 7th)
Nexo Entre Raices -- exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (April 21st - September 10th)
MONOTHON -- Print Santa Fe 2023 (April 22nd - May 26th)
Guadalajara Laser Engraved Relief Prints
PRINT SANTA FE
PRINT SANTA FE -- Art Fair (April 28th - 30th)
Tortilla Press Printing during the MiniPrint opening (April 29th)

PRINT SANTA FE -- Art Fair

The Fistful of Prints art fair happened from April 28 to April 30th at CCA. This print market was the jewel of Print Santa Fe as printmakers came from all over the country to sell prints -- Los Angeles, Spokane, Colorado, Oklahoma, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Missouri, Chicago, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, New York and of course Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

Fistful of Prints

Art Fair

(poster by Carlos Hernandez)

Print Santa Fe video
of the Fistful of Prints Art Fair
from Instagram

Snow kicked off the Art Fair, as Santa Fe enjoyed a little blizzard on Friday morning on April 28th; however all the snow had melted by 5 PM, when the opening started:

Snow on the ground at CCA on April 28th 2023

while they were setting up for the opening night

Setting up for the Fistful of Prints Art Fair

on Friday, April 28th

Miranda K. Metcalf (yellow, left) organized Print Santa Fe,

standing next to Cathy Savage, who co-founded Print Austin

Krrrl went on opening night, Friday April 28th, 5 - 9 PM, looking for more BUCKET PRINTS, and took all the pictures below:

The front room,

on the left as one walks in

The middle room

The back room

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We were very pleased to meet PESARE -- a collective of three artists, Pepe Coronado (Austin), Sandra C Fernandez (New Jersey) and Rene Arceo (Chicago):

The PESARE art collective

Rene Arceo is originally from Michoacán, Mexico, so we delighted in showing him our BUCKET PRINTS from MAPECO in Uruapan, Michoacán. And they showed us their stack of "carpetas" (portfolios):

Rene Arceo, Pepe Coronado and Sandra Fernandez

checking out the BUCKET PRINTS from Uruapan

Rene Arceo in front of his prints

Sandra C Fernandez is the executive director of Consejo Grafico Nacional, a coalition of Latino printmaking studios across the United States:

Consejo Grafico Nacional

Consejo Grafico Nacional had a nice collection of prints on view, which we had previously seen at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, during PRINT AUSTIN 2020 (Janauary~February), right before the Covid pandemic broke out:

The Consejo Grafico Nacional prints --

Note: we also saw these prints exhibited at Mexic-Arte

during PRINT AUSTIN 2020 (January~Februrary)

Sandra C Fernandez

standing in front of her prints

***

We were delighted to see that Iron Frog Press came all the way to Santa Fe from Dallas:

Iron Frog Press of Dallas

Matt and Sharon of Iron Frog Press had a workshop for kids at the Santa Fe Children's Museum right before the Art Fair:

Matt and Sharon of Iron Frog Press

made prints for kids at the Children's Museum --

with their portable printmaking studio -- Print Shop A GO GO

Naturally we had to buy a small "tadpole" size glass baren to help print with our Tortilla Press printmaking:

The smaller glass print baren

works perfectly in conjunction our Tortilla Press

The next day we used the small glass print baren for a live printmaking event in front of Hecho A Mano gallery, at the top of Canyon Road in Santa Fe, during the MiniPrint opening:

Printing with the small glass baren

in front of Hecho A Mano gallery

on Canyon Road in Santa Fe

We also bought a 3D printed plastic print baren -- Cool S Baren -- from Lars Roeder:

Lars Roeder

The 3D printed

"Cool S Baren"

Naturally we used the "Cool S Baren" with the Tortilla Press, while printing live during the MiniPrint opening, at Hecho A Mano gallery on the top of Canyon Road the next day: