Thursday, October 30, 2025

Quick Tessellation -- SWPF 2025 -- PART 1


PART 1

During the workshop at FUTURE FORGE Makerspace in Silver City on Friday, October 10th, 2025 --visitors gouged a design with ball point pens, into curvy tessellation foam tiles.  Then we printed them on an adjustable Tortilla Press (like this):

Printed with an adjustable Tortilla Press
on 8x8 inch paper


Printmaking Workshop
listed as one of the events


The tessellation workshop was held at
the FUTURE FORGE MAKERSPACE


The tessellation tiles, adjustable Tortilla Press, and a fresh print

We first CNCed these curvy tessellation shapes at Quelab in Albuquerque from Expanded PVC Foam.  They are six inches at the widest:

Curvy tessellation  tiles

THE PRINTS

Photos of most of the prints that visitors made.  Apparently 52 people came to the workshop.  30 print masterpieces are shown below:






The idea was to make big collaborative tessellation prints, but the workshop was too busy to get to that.  The UNM printmaking department however did get to make a big collaborative tessellation print:

Adam Berman from the UNM printmaking department,
holds up the collaborative print the UNM crew made during the workshop


We were unable to make any more collaborative tessellation prints during the workshop -- however we did make one the next day during the after-party at the Whiskey Creek Zocalo bar on October 11th, 2025:

The Future Forge crew
holds up the collaboration tessellation print
made the following night at the after-party at the Zocalo


The collaboration tessellation print made at the Zocalo bar,
from tiles designed at FUTURE FORGE the previous day


THE PRINTMAKERS

































Gabe Farley looks on

















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EXHIBITION EXQUISITE TESSELLATION -- Southwest Print Fiesta 2025

EXQUISISTE EXHIBTION

We put up an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION exhibition at Power & Light Press for the Southwest Print Fiesta from October 9th - 12th, 2025:

The EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Exhibition
at Power & Light Press in Silver City


INDIVIDUAL PRINTS


Individual tessellation artists:
  1. Lisa Casaus  Albuquerque collection
  2. Gabriele Teich  Albuquerque collection
  3. E Oscar Maynard  Albuquerque collection
  4. Juan Wijngaard  Albuquerque collection
  5. Christin Apodaca  El Paso collection
  6. Judith Amaya  El Paso collection
  7. David Bravo  El Paso collection
  8. Manuel Guerra  El Paso collection
We wanted to include tessellations from Tucson, but it was too late

COLLABORATION PRINTS





When we hung the tessellations,
they were arranging the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange in the back

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Friday, October 3, 2025

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025 -- Preparation

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We are showcasing the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints at the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025 -- October 10th - 13th.  We are featured in FOUR ways -- with two casual workshops, a big steamroller printing event, and an Exquisite Exhibition:

We hung our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION exhibition
at Power & Light Press on October 9th
during the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025


  • Daniel Gonzalez will be giving a Workshop (Sunday and Monday) and an Artist's Talk  (Sunday, 6:30 to 7:30 PM)

We are also concurrently showing 163 individual EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints in the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition at the University of Juarez in MEXICO:

We are simultaneously showing 163 individual tessellation prints
at the University of Juarez in Mexico


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION 

We laser cut linoleum into small tessellation "hat" shapes, and passed them out to artists to carve. Then we piece them together to make larger tessellation collaborative prints.  Finally we exhibit both the individual and collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints.  


EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints -- 2024 SUMMARY
We will be printing EXQUISITE TESSELLATIONS in two workshops, and also making steamroller prints -- as listed on the EVENTS SCHEDULE webpage: 


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10TH
2- 5 PM

Easy Tessellation Workshop/Demo
@ FUTURE FORGE MAKERSPACE


As one of the SPECIAL PROGRAMS -- Visitors to the FUTURE FORGE MAKERSPACE will make designs into curvy tessellation tiles, by gouging into them with ballpoint pens.  Then we will print them individually with a Tortilla Press on 8x8 inch paper.  Finally we will put them together and hand print a large collaborative tessellation piece on Kitakata paper:

We will be printing designs that are gouged/carved
 into these curvy stiff foam tessellation pieces

ATOMIC 66 -- Printmaking at QUELAB
We has this workshop at Quelab makerspace
in Albuquerque on June 13th, 2025

Quick Prints -- TUNEL GRAFICO
We also had this workshop in Juarez
during the TUNEL GRAFICO opening on August 22nd, 2025


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
7- 9 PM

@ WHISKEY CREEK ZOCALO


During the after-party at the WHISKEY CREEK ZOCALO bar, we will hand print large collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION designs on Kitakata paper -- from carved "hat" linocuts from Tucson, El Paso and Albuquerque:

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Tessellation After-Party
We had the same workshop last year,
during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024 


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
11 AM - 2 PM

TESSELLATION STEAMROLLER PRINTING


We will be making BIG Collaborative steamroller prints on 42 x 42 inch paper on Sunday, the second day of steamroller printmaking.  These will be made from 20 inch wide hand carved "hat" tessellation linocuts.  We are also bringing extra red and blue ink, in case we want to try printing in multiple colors:

Revving Up for STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Printing
The steamroller printmaking
is always a big highlight every year

Revving Up for STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Printing
Henry Morales' 20 inch wide big linocut
for the stream roller press


EXQUISITE EXHIBITION

We will be showing some EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints in POWER & LIGHT PRESS -- on a floating wall 96 x 79 inches. We will emphasize the COLLABORATIVE PRINTS from the Tucson, El Paso and Albuquerque collections, reflecting the theme of the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA:

We will be showing prints in POWER & LIGHT PRESS
on this floating wall, 96 x 79 inches


Mock up


6 x 48 inch banner
Banner__ExquisiteTessellation.SVG (2.98 KB)


ALBUQUERQUE

FAT CROW PRESS -- Color Tessellation SUMMARY
23x 36 inches
Collaborative Print from the 
ALBUQUERQUE collection

EL PASO

Print from the 
EL PASO collection


TUCSON

25 x 19 inches
Collaborative Print
from the TUCSON collection

We will also hang the image below on the floating wall:

13 inches wide sidebar,
noting the Juarez exhibition



CONCURRENTLY in MEXICO

We are also concurrently showing 163 individual EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints in MEXICO -- at the University of Juarez, as part of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition:

Concurrent exhibition of individual tessellation prints
at the University of Juarez, in Mexico --
part of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition

The Juarez opening was on August 22, 2025

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EL PASO Tessellations -- TUNEL GRAFICO
55 tessellation prints hanging in Juarez
from the El Paso collection

TUCSON Tessellations -- TUNEL GRAFICO
39 tessellation prints hanging in Juarez
from the Tucson collection

ALBUQUERQUE Tessellations -- TUNEL GRAFICO
69 tessellation prints hanging in Juarez
from the Albuquerque collection


During the Southwest Print Fiesta, on October 11th, 2025 -- Luis Roacho and Jorge Otte will be giving another print workshop in Mexico, as part of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition at the University of Juarez:

PAN & PRINTS
workshop on October 11, 2025
as part of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition


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Also there is a great Oaxaca Print Exhibition running in downtown Albuquerque at the Mothership Alumni -- from October 3rd to November 22nd, 2025:

This print by Eric Povs Posos
is in the Oaxaca exhibition in Albuquerque


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Southwest Print Fiesta 2025


FAKE PRINTMAKERS

AI Fake Printmakers Generated in SORA 2
"A drawing of printmakers in a coffee house discussing art"

BUCKET LIST

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SUMMARY -- SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025

  • SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2025 -- Preparation


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