BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: 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

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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: