TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025

We made 4 large collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Steamroller Prints 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:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Steamroller Prints

Transporting wet prints

We printed indoors

in the Imaginary Forge building

Western New Mexico University

PRINT

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

The students of Western New Mexico University

 in front of their fresh print

FIRST PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Virgil Velasco  (Albuquerque)
• Ellie Weadock  (Albuquerque)
• Henry Morales  (Albuquerque)
• Debi Crawford  (Tucson)
• Joe Marshall  (Tucson)
• Julie Sola  (Las Vegas, NM)
• Adam Berman  (Albuquerque)

Debi Crawford of Tucson

inking her large tessellation linocut

Ellie Weadock

riding the steamroller

SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Sarah Hart  (Taos, NM)
• Manuel Guerra  (El Paso)
• Chris Bardey  (Las Cruces, NM)
• Virgil Velasco  (Albuquerque)
• Ben Brockman  (Tucson)

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:

• Julie Sola  (Las Vegas, NM)
• Henry Morales  (Albuquerque)
• Adam Berman  (Albuquerque)
• Joe Marshall  (Tucson)
• Walter F Allen-Henderson  (Tucson)

FOURTH PRINT

ARTISTS:

• Adriana Zavala -- small linocut  (El Paso)
• Sarah Hart  (Taos, NM)
• Manuel Guerra  (El Paso)
• Ellie Weadock  (Albuquerque)
• Chris Bardey  (Las Cruces, NM)
• Virgil Velasco  (Albuquerque)
• Manuel Guerra -- small linocut  (El Paso)
• Ellie Weadock -- small linocut  (Albuquerque)

Joe Marshall of Tucson

lecturing about the aperiodic tessellation monotile

discovered by David Smith in 2022

Adriana Zavala

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:

Steamroller Traffic in Silver City, NM