Friday, October 31, 2025

SUMMARY -- SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025

We loved going to Silver City, New Mexico for the 9th Annual SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA -- October 10th - 13th, 2025 -- in spite of a some rain:




More specifically, we put on 4 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION events:



At the after-party we hand printed collaborations from linocuts from collections in the three desert cities -- TUCSON, EL PASO and ALBUQUERQUE -- that surround Silver City, New Mexico:


Photos of the weekend by the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025:

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OPENINGS

The Southwest Print Fiesta kicked off at the OPEN SPACE BREWERY on Thursday, October 9, 2025, with an exhibition of past big Steamroller Prints:



LIGHT ART SPACE EXHIBITION

The LIGHT ART SPACE had the main print exhibition -- BLURRING THE LINES -- juried by Anna Hepler:




next to her print (in the middle)

in front of his print

DIANA INGALLS LEYBA GALLERY

DAN GRISSOM of Austin, was showing his prints at the Diana Ingalls Leyba Gallery:

Dan Grissom at his opening


SILCO THEATRE

TRAVIS SMITH of Austin gave a talk at the Silco Theatre -- "Exploring the Press Room Collection" -- about letterpress movie posters from the past on Friday, October 10, 2025:

Travis Smith talks about The Press Room Collection of movie letterpress images
at the Silco Theatre in Silver City

Afterwards Kyle printed some of the movie letterpress images, and gave them out for free to the public:

Kyle used a letterpress
to pull sheets of movie letterpress images


ARTISTS TALKS

DANIEL GONZALEZ and ANNA HEPLER gave artist talks at the A Space Gallery on Sunday evening, October 12th, 2025:
 
Daniel Gonzalez giving his artist talk at the A Space Gallery

Anna Hepler also gave an artist talk --
seen here in front of her collaborative wheat paste mural in Silver City

Wheat pasted javelinas

John Rutledge came from Dallas
to film and participate in the Southwest Print Fiesta



THANKS!

Thank you KYLE and ROGER, for organizing the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 this year:

Roger in the blue, to the left

before the print fiesta gets fully underway


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Driving the steamroller home afterwards:






PREVIOUS Southwest Print Fiestas

TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025



TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER

We made 4 large collaborative large EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Steamroller Prints (on 42 x 42 inch Rives BFK paper) on Sunday  October 12th, 2025, during the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, New Mexico. We printed indoors as it had been raining the previous day, during the market and the first day of the steamroller printing:


On April 16, 2025, Ethan laser cut 12 large 20 inch wide "hat" tessellation linocuts, and handed them out for other artists in the Southwest to carve:



Transporting wet prints


We printed indoors
in the Imaginary Forge building


Western New Mexico University
PRINT

The first prints on Sunday were made by the students at Western New Mexico University:

 in front of their fresh print


FIRST PRINT


ARTISTS:







Debi Crawford of Tucson
inking her large tessellation linocut












Ellie Weadock of Albuquerque
riding the steamroller




SECOND PRINT



ARTISTS:

We used Blue and Ruby Red inks
from Kennedy Inks
(as used by Hatch Show Print)




Manuel Guerra of El Paso,
inking next to Adriana Zavala




Do not try this at home


Chris Bardey from Las Cruces, NM
inking his large tessellation linocut










THIRD PRINT

ARTISTS:















FOURTH PRINT

ARTISTS:





Joe Marshall of Tucson
discovered by David Smith in 2022






Adriana Zavala of El Paso
holding her small tessellation linocut
















DANIEL GONZALEZ PRINT

The last print of the festival was by one of the two featured artists -- Daniel Gonzalez of Los Angeles.  They were supposed to print his large linocut on the previous day, but the rain slowed things down, so they had to print on the second steamroller day:



Daniel Gonzalez next to his steamroller print


Daniel Gonzalez signing his prints


At the end of the day they drove the steamroller home, down the main street of Silver City, New Mexico:


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More Big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Printing at CNM

On Monday, November 10, 2025, we made 3 more big collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints at the westside CNM campus ( Central New Mexi...