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CARVE-IT -- SUMMARY

We had a great live CARVE-IT event -- with 11 artists from Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Albuquerque -- printing at the Best Gallery in Santa Fe, HECHO A MANO -- from 6 - 8 PM, on September 14, 2024:

The "CARVE-IT" event was public

and attracted a nice crowd

Our goal was to bring the Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Albuquerque printmakers together (but not all by any means) to push printmaking a bit in our northern New Mexico area. As Tamarind Institute and Takach Press are both located in Albuquerque, and Santa Fe is a huge art center, New Mexico should be a bigger printmaking state.

The "CARVE-IT" event

at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe

We also continued our EXQUSITE TESSELLATION Print project by making 5 larger collaborative prints -- with the "hat" linocuts carved by the printmakers at the event:

We left this EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

with FRANK ROSE, the owner of HECHO A MANO Gallery

Karl had previously proposed the event in one of his blog posts

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CARVE-IT -- Set-up and Materials

CARVE-IT -- The Printmakers

CARVE-IT -- Printmaking Event at HECHO A MANO gallery

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

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CARVE-IT -- Set-up and Materials

JULIE SOLA

bringing in her cart of printmaking materials

CARVE-IT -- The Printmakers

AMY MAESTAS and ELIZA LUTZ

were two of the 11 printmakers

CARVE-IT -- Printmaking Event

at HECHO A MANO gallery

We had brisk crowds passing through

to see what the 11 artists were printing

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints

at HECHO A MANO gallery

We printed 5 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints

from the CARVE-IT artists

PHOTOS

The event was held at HECHO A MANO -- voted the BEST GALLERY in SANTA FE in 2024:

HECHO A MANO gallery

is close to the main plaza

at 129 W Palace Ave, in Santa Fe

A big THANK YOU to FRANK ROSE, the owner of HECHO A MANO, for holding the event at his gallery:

FRANK ROSE,

the owner of HECHO A MANO gallery

JULIE SOLA smiling

and taking a break from printing

RICHARD BARNES and NANCY CAMACHO

CONOR FLYNN carving

ANNA ARAGON

posted a view of the event from outside the gallery

Good thing our event was after the Mexican Independence Day celebrations in the main Santa Fe Plaza, as it would be hard to compete with the dancers below:

The dancers in the Santa Fe Plaza

just before our printmaking event

PREVIOUS PRINTMAKING
EVENTS

AUGUST

2024

JULIE SOLA recruited most of the CARVE-IT printmakers the previous month, at the PRINTERS PLANET Festival in the Santa Fe Railyard on August 11th, 2024. Julie owns FAT CROW PRESS in Las Vegas, New Mexico:

JULIE SOLA (right, yellow skirt)

at the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe,

on August 11, 2024

2023

KARL WHITAKER previously had driven up from Albuquerque to print with JULIE SOLA in Las Vegas, New Mexico on September 1st, 2023:

Albuquerque printing with Las Vegas, New Mexico

in 2023

2022

We also had printed live with a TORTILLA PRESS during the Grand Opening of HECHO GALLERY (now HECHO A MANO gallery) on Apri1 1st, 2022:

Tortilla Printing

at the grand opening of Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe

2016

We first met TODD CHRISTENSEN in 2016, during the fourth PRINT PRINTED PRINTING conference at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he is a professor of printmaking:

TODD CHRISTENSEN

heading the fourth annual PRINT PRINTED PRINTING conference

in 2016 at New Mexico Highlands University

UP NEXT

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

Next we are heading down to Silver City in October, for the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024 from the 11- 14th. JULIE SOLA designed the poster this year:

The poster for the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024

was designed by JULIE SOLA

We also intend to make an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print during the after party after the Southwest Print Fiesta vendor market, on Saturday October 13th, 2024.

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

We made 5 collaborative EXQUSITE TESSELLATION PRINTS during the CARVE-IT event at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe on September 14, 2024:

The framed example print, made in El Paso,

with a scrapbook of some individual tessellation tile prints

The inking and tessellation printing table

The participating printmakers contributed "hat" Tessellation tiles to make larger prints:

"Hat" Tessellation linocuts from different artists,

to be pieced together to make larger prints

The FIRST TWO Prints

Arranging the first Exquisite Tessellation Print

The final design

MIKE KIMBALL inking the whole tiles at at the same time

on the board

Cleaning the ink

off the vinyl board before printing

Hand printing with an IRON FROG Glass Baren

When hand printing on the Kitakata paper

one can see the print come through the back side,

and therefore knows when to finish

The FIRST Print

ARTISTS:

The SECOND Print

ARTISTS:

The THIRD Print

AMY MAESTAS printing

with the IRON FROG Glass Baren

The THIRD Print

ARTISTS:

The FOURTH and FIFTH Print

Eliza Lutz arranged and printed the fourth print

Printing with the Estampador Manual

The FOURTH Print

ARTISTS:

For the last print we inked the tiles individually, and then put them together on the board:

We inked each tile individually

for the last print

The FIFTH Print

We gave this print to Frank Rose,

the owner of HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe

ARTISTS:

Perhaps for the next event we should have Tessellation Cookies. At Quelab we 3D printed a "hat" Tessellation cookie cutter after designing it with COOKIE CAD:

Download -- "hat-monotile-cookiecad.STL" (295.88 KB)

to 3D print a Tessellation cookie cutter

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CARVE-IT -- SUMMARY

CARVE-IT -- Set-up and Materials

CARVE-IT -- The Printmakers

CARVE-IT -- Printmaking Event at HECHO A MANO gallery

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

CARVE-IT -- Printmaking Event at HECHO A MANO gallery

The "CARVE-IT" live printmaking event, featuring 11 artists, went really smoothly at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe on September 14, 2024, from 6 to8 PM:

A nice crowd showed up

for this public printmaking event

Cranking the press non-stop

for two hours

The event begin when JIM COOGAN

got a little printmaking help

JIM COOGAN printing

with a Japanese Baren

Individual Tessellation prints by JIM COOGAN

TODD CHRISTENSEN at work

(note the tiny bags of ink color in the upper left)

TODD CHRISTENSEN teaches printmaking

at Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico

ELIZA LUTZ carved a clever exquisite two piece "donut" linocut -- one that would make four different prints, simply by spinning the inner disc 90 degrees four time:

Inking the two part puzzle "donut" linocut

by ELIZA LUTZ

One of the four variations

that one can get from ELIZA LUTZ puzzle linocut

ELIZA LUTZ

Individual cat Tessellation prints

by ELIZA LUTZ

PRINTING IN COLOR

AMY MAESTAS also printed with the two piece puzzle "donut" linocut -- in two colors, yellow for the inner disc, and blue for the outside square frame: