SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- SUMMARY

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We had a great time once again during the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 in Silver City:

We left an EXQUSISITE TESSELLATION Print

with Kyle Durrie,

the organizer of the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

(along with Jamie Karolich)

INDEX

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Print Exchange

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Light Gallery "Uncertain Boundaries"

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Vendors: PART 1

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Vendors: PART 2

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Axle Contemporary

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Tessellation After-Party

• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Steamroller Printing

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Steamroller Printing

This year there were two days of steamrolling printing at the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024.  The video and most of the photos are from the second day, when Chris Bardey and Adrian Aguirre reprinted the BIG INK collaborative carvings they did with Francisco Delgado (not present):

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Steamroller Printing

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BIG INK printing in Albuquerque

April 2024

Chris Bardey - Francisco Delgado - Adrian Aguirre

of Las Cruces/El Paso

The first prints

made by BIG INK in Albuquerque 

April 14th, 2024

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Tessellation After-Party

We made 4 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints for the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 After-party, at the Whiskey Creek Zocalo bar on Saturday, October 12th, 2024:

Whiskey Creek Zocalo bar

Rafa, the owner of Whiskey Creek Zocalo, accepts one of our 

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

Three of the good prints

Ready to ink

FIRST PRINT

We had to print the matrix twice, since the rubbing did not come out well:

Susan Gonzalez and her husband,

set up the stand with the individual El Paso tessellation prints

The first pressing

did not come out so well

Individual tessellation prints from El Paso

were available for a donation

People started crowding the little print room in the back on the second try:

Hand printing with an Iron Frog glass baren

on Kitakata paper

ARTISTS:

• Julie Sola
• Barbara Endicott
• Amy Maestas
• Daniel Allen
• Karl Whitaker
• Julianna Kirwin

SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Kathe Noe
• E Oscar Maynard
• John Tollett
• Henry Morales
• Nancy Camacho
• Greta Young

THIRD PRINT

Joe Marshall of Tucson

jumps in with the brayer

ARTISTS:

• Ellie Weadock
• Kevin Burke
• Mary Sundstorm
• Jeanette Cook
• Virgil Velasco
• David Brower

FOURTH PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Ken Romig
• Mark Woody
• Mike Crockett
• E Oscar Maynard
• Aaron Bass

KYLE DURRIE, the director of the Southwest Print Fiesta,

accepts a tessellation print 

Whiskey Creek Zocalo bar

Whiskey Creek Zocalo bar