CARVE-IT -- SUMMARY

We had a great live CARVE-IT event -- with 11 artists from Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Albuquerque -- printing at the Best Gallery in Santa Fe, HECHO A MANO -- from 6 - 8 PM, on September 14, 2024:

The "CARVE-IT" event was public

and attracted a nice crowd

Our goal was to bring the Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Albuquerque printmakers together (but not all by any means) to push printmaking a bit in our northern New Mexico area. As Tamarind Institute and Takach Press are both located in Albuquerque, and Santa Fe is a huge art center, New Mexico should be a bigger printmaking state.

The "CARVE-IT" event

at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe

We also continued our EXQUSITE TESSELLATION Print project by making 5 larger collaborative prints -- with the "hat" linocuts carved by the printmakers at the event:

We left this EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

with FRANK ROSE, the owner of HECHO A MANO Gallery

• Karl had previously proposed the event in one of his blog posts

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• CARVE-IT -- Set-up and Materials

• CARVE-IT -- The Printmakers

• CARVE-IT -- Printmaking Event at HECHO A MANO gallery

• CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

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CARVE-IT -- Set-up and Materials

JULIE SOLA

bringing in her cart of printmaking materials

CARVE-IT -- The Printmakers

AMY MAESTAS and ELIZA LUTZ

were two of the 11 printmakers

CARVE-IT -- Printmaking Event

 at HECHO A MANO gallery

We had brisk crowds passing through

to see what the 11 artists were printing

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints

 at HECHO A MANO gallery

We printed 5 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

from the CARVE-IT artists

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PHOTOS

The event was held at HECHO A MANO -- voted the BEST GALLERY in SANTA FE in 2024:

HECHO A MANO gallery

is close to the main plaza

at 129 W Palace Ave, in Santa Fe

A big THANK YOU to FRANK ROSE, the owner of HECHO A MANO, for holding the event at his gallery:

FRANK ROSE, 

the owner of HECHO A MANO gallery

JULIE SOLA smiling

and taking a break from printing

RICHARD BARNES and NANCY CAMACHO

CONOR FLYNN carving

ANNA ARAGON

posted a view of the event from outside the gallery

Good thing our event was after the Mexican Independence Day celebrations in the main Santa Fe Plaza, as it would be hard to compete with the dancers below:

The dancers in the Santa Fe Plaza

just before our printmaking event

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PREVIOUS PRINTMAKING 
EVENTS

AUGUST

 2024

JULIE SOLA recruited most of the CARVE-IT printmakers the previous month,  at the PRINTERS PLANET Festival in the Santa Fe Railyard on August 11th, 2024.  Julie owns FAT CROW PRESS in Las Vegas, New Mexico:

JULIE SOLA (right, yellow skirt)

at the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe, 

on August 11, 2024

2023

KARL WHITAKER previously had driven up from Albuquerque to print with JULIE SOLA in Las Vegas, New Mexico on September 1st, 2023:

Albuquerque printing with Las Vegas, New Mexico

in 2023

2022

We also had printed live with a TORTILLA PRESS during the Grand Opening of HECHO GALLERY (now HECHO A MANO gallery) on Apri1 1st, 2022:

Tortilla Printing

 at the grand opening of Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe

2016 

We first met TODD CHRISTENSEN in 2016, during the fourth PRINT PRINTED PRINTING conference at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he is a professor of printmaking:

TODD CHRISTENSEN 

heading the fourth annual PRINT PRINTED PRINTING conference

in 2016 at New Mexico Highlands University

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UP NEXT

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

Next we are heading down to Silver City in October, for the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024 from the 11- 14th.  JULIE SOLA designed the poster this year:

The poster for the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024

was designed by JULIE SOLA

We also intend to make an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print during the after party after the Southwest Print Fiesta vendor market, on Saturday October 13th, 2024.