BIG INK pulled 14 different prints (about 3 copies each) in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 13th and 14th, 2024:
Lyell Castonguay leads
the BIG INK print workshop
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The BIRTH of a BIG PRINT
LIST of BLOG POSTS
BIG INK stopped in Albuquerque during the "Making HISSTORY" tour of 2024 -- but is also printing in Massachusetts, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado, Washington, Minnesota, California, Oregon, Michigan, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Maine:
shown here holding our little Bucket-o-Prints
Lyell Castonguay directed the printmaking:
adjusts the BIG TUNA press
Carand Burnet also co-directed the printmaking, and played psychedelic surf music for us about noon on both days:
BLOG POSTS
These are the links to the six Bucket Exhibitions blog posts about BIG INK in reverse order. Click on the photo to go to the blog posts:
THE PRINTS
SUNDAY
SATURDAY
BIG PRESS
PROGRESS
IT BEGINS
VIDEOS
All four Albuquerque BIG INK videos big printmaking in Albuquerque are on on this YouTube PLAYLIST:
THE PRINTS
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
BIG PRESS
***
- BIG INK also has their own YouTUBE Channel
With these two playlists:
We had a lot of fun printing with BIG INK in Albuquerque!!!
The whole printing process went very smoothly. Not only was BIG INK quite organized, but all the printmakers worked impressively well together to make loads of big prints -- at least three each of 14 different prints.
contributed a small print
to our BUCKET PRINTS
We hung one of Virgil's framed BUCKET PRINTS
on the wall with a magnetic hook
We donated a stack of 6x6 linoleum squares
to OFFCENTER ARTS,
as they are hosting the a print art market in Albuquerque --
Barbara appreciates the Adjustable Roller Stand,
which keeps the press bed from falling on her ankles
when it is extended
Chuck checks out the Anchovy Prints --
the small prints made by
the small 3D printed OPEN PRESS PROJECT press
Celebrity visit from Cassandra,
who has been watching the process from the beginning
A celebrity visit from Kyle,
who organizes the annual Southwest Print Fiesta
in Silver City, New Mexico
Some happy BIG INK printmakers
EXHIBITIONS
MAY 2024
JUNE 2024
The BIG INK print by BUCKET EXHIBITIONS was shown at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque, June 13th - August 17th, 2024, in their POST COVID BOMB exhibition:
White Sands Collaboration Woodcut Print
Artists (left to right): Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco
Sponsor and art agitator: Karl Whitaker
This print was generated from three woodcut carvings on April 13, 2024, at a printing workshop event conducted by Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink (bigink.org). During the workshop weekend, prints from a dozen artists or teams of artists were collaboratively printed on the Big Ink traveling press.
A summary of the weekend’s printing, and activities leading to it can be found here:
The image concept:
It was during 2023 that Karl Whitaker suggested to a small group of printmakers that we embark on a print exhibition focusing on the history of New Mexico.
In 2021, national attention in the scientific community descended on White Sands when fossilized human trackways were radiocarbon dated to be made between 21,000 – 23,000 years ago. This discovery has challenged the long-established theory that the Clovis people were the first to set foot in the Americas. A few years later, in 2023, the film “Oppenheimer” brought popular national attention to the history of the detonation of the first atomic bomb, also in White Sands, NM.
These events enabled us to think about White Sands in a cross-section of sorts, both through place and time. We can see in one image the footprints, fossils and beings of ancient times alongside modern-age creations, beings and natural phenomena, as envisioned by three colleague artists.
By conceptualizing our past, we can understand the brevity of our own existence while holding hope that modern human society will learn from the past with a focus on the future.
OCTOBER 2024
The El Paso/Las Cruces group -- Chris Bardey, Adrian Aguirre and Francisco Delgado -- printed their BIG INK print again -- with a STEAMROLLER -- on October 16th, 2024 during the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City, New Mexico:
***
BIG INK BLOG POSTS
No comments:
Post a Comment