BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTS -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025

STEAMROLLING in the RAIN -- 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:

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Steamroller Prints

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:

Revving Up for STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Printing

EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Prints

Laser cutting large 20 inch wide "hat" linocuts

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:

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 of Albuquerque

riding the steamroller

SECOND PRINT

ARTISTS:

Sarah Hart (Taos, NM)
Manuel Guerra (El Paso)
Chris Bardey (Las Cruces, NM)
Virgil Velasco (Albuquerque)
Ben Brockman -- non-tessellation shape (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 -- non-tessellation shape (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 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: