The PRINTERS PLANET -- Santa Fe

We exhibited and made prints during THE PRINTERS PLANET, on June 24th, 2023, in front of the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Festival at the Santa Fe Rodeo/State Fairgrounds:

THE PRINTERS PLANET

in Santa Fe, June 24th, 2023

(in front of the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition)

We set up at the very entrance of the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition:

Ellie at our table

at the entrance of the CURRENTS exhibition,

during the PRINTERS PLANET pop-up

BUCKET EXHIBITION

We showed 8 prints from Mexico:

Prints hanging on a wire cage

Mexican prints

• Juan Manuel Toledo  (Michoacán)
• Samuel Diaz  (Michoacán)
• Eloy Alvarez  (Michoacán)
• Cristhian Diaz  (Michoacán)

• Igor Galvez  (Monterrey)
• Sra Hernandez  (Guadalajara)
• Adrian Aguirre  (Oaxaca)
• Pavel Acevedo  (LA/Oaxaca)

And we showed 8 prints from New Mexico:

New Mexican prints

• Henry Morales
• Ellie Weadock
• Cody Kamrowski
• Virgil Velasco

• Ilene Weiss
• Chris Bardey
• Mark Williams
• Krrrl

TORTILLA PRESS

This time we made prints on a REAL TORTILLA PRESS, and handed them out for free to the public.  We printed round linocuts, 4 inch diameter:

Our set-up

for printing with the Tortilla Press

 Printmaker Amy Maestas

with the print she made

Printmaker Julie Sola

with the print she made

Printmaker Mike Kimball

with the print he made

COLLABORATION

We collaborated with Desiree Hamm from Rolling Thunder:

Desiree Hamm at the Rolling Thunder booth

She carved these erasers (like Serena Rios McRae), so we asked her to stamp some of our Tortilla Prints:

The carved erasers

Desiree Hamm making a collaborative tortilla print

Desiree Hamm about to add her stamp

Stamped Ellie Weadock's print

Stamped Virgil Velasco's print

We definitely have to follow up on this spontaneous printmaking collaboration, perhaps at the next PRINTERS PLANET event on August 13, 2023 in Santa Fe.

GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER

A guest photographer made a print for us, and then took pictures with our camera.  Unfortunately I did not catch her name, but I appreciate the good photos:

Our guest photographer printing

The next six photographs are from our guest photographer:

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MORE PRINTMAKING PHOTOS

Ellie Weadock did most of the printmaking on the Tortilla Press, and perhaps her linocuts were the most requested:

Ellie Weadock (right)

printing for Tim Jag (left)

Ellie Weadock's print

AI (artificial intelligence)print by Krrrl,

engraved into linoleum on a laser cutter

Krrrl holding up

another of his AI prints

GUADALAJARA

All the small round linocuts are going Mexico, for a "Print Off" in Guadalajara, from both Mexican and El Paso (plus New Mexican) printmakers.  In fact, we borrowed the ideas of both the tortilla press and the small round linocuts from 3 Gatos Press of Guadalajara:

The round linocuts

are going to Guadalajara

for a "Print Off"

The first "Print Off" in 2019

on the streets of Guadalajara

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Ellie and one of the hosts of the CURRENTS exhibition

with a print she made

We kept very busy making prints and had a good time visiting with the public and the other printmakers.  I am indebted to Ellie Weadock for helping out and making most of the prints, she made the event a big pleasure.

OTHER LINKS

• SUMMARY -- PRINTERS PLANET Pop-up at CURRENTS

• The PRINTERS PLANET -- Vendors