Mark Christian

"False Idols Win Titles"

Mark Christian cut his woodblock relief board in Tucson, and then we sent it to El Paso to have it printed, by Manuel Guerra and Raul Monarrez,  at Horned Toad Prints:

Mark Christian signing his prints,

in the hallway of the

 Pleasure World Artist Studios and Galleries building,

in Tucson 

Raul Monarrez helped press Mark's print.

Raul also contributed a print to 

the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Manuel Guerra adjusting his press.

Horned Toad Prints is his personal studio.

Manuel also contributed a print to the 

Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Job well done!

Printed at Horned Toad Prints

 Update:  Manny would have preferred to print Mark's edition with a large roller.  But he did not have one then.

Later he got one from Takach Press (in Albuquerque) -- 28 inch long, 10.5 inch diameter, 60 durometer:

Grinding the larger roller,

to take out any imperfections

Joe cleaning the ground roller,

with a quick drying solvent,

that "flashes" quickly

Lauren Moran

"Final Thoughts Before the Reconstruction"

Lauren Moran, while she was in Tucson, created her multi-colored relief print at the Tucson Community Print Shop:

Lauren Moran shows off her big print,

in front of a show that she curated,

in the new Tiny Town Gallery in Tucson

She is leaving us soon, for graduate school at Portland State University.  We hope to see her again when we show the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at the Southern Graphics Council conference in Portland next March, 2016.

Masterpiece pulled at the 

Tucson Community Print Shop

Printed at the
Tucson Community Print Shop

Update:  Lauren Moran is one of the Inkubator presenters at the SGCI Portland (Southern Graphics Conference) 2016.

Mykl Wells

"Santa Muxe"

A "muxe" is a Oaxacan reference to the third sex.  Mykl takes that concept one step further, and makes the muxe into a saint.

Mykl Wells of Tucson spray painted over many silk screens frames, to create this 3 color serigraph print at the Tucson Community Print Shop:

Mykl used spray paint

to create the transparencies

which he burned onto silk screens

(one for each of 3 colors)

Jeik (director of the Tucson Community Print Shop)

setting up the screen for printing

Joe and Jeik assisted Mykl in the

Tucson Community Print Shop

Printed at the
Tucson Community Print Shop

Mykl Wells 

does the Cardboard Ball every year,

to support the All Souls Procession in Tucson

Update:  Mykl Well's image was spotted in the gift shop of the El Paso Museum of Art, selling as a postcard (March 2020).

Lower right hand corner

is Mykl Well's Desert Triangle image

as a post card,

selling in the gift shop of the El Paso Museum of Art

Martin Quintanilla

"El Ultimo Taco"

Martin Quintanilla printed his relief prints with a spoon at home in Tucson:

Martin in his studio

on the back porch of his house

Relief image carved in Mexican shoe rubber -- Neolite,

and printed with a spoon

Martin Quintanilla and Marcy Miranda Janes run the Microgallery Mandibula gallery in Tucson:

Martin next to the painting version of his print,

in his gallery

Martin standing in front of 

some of his other large prints

Martin standing in front of his large print,

at the huge Tohono Chul opening, 

"Dia de los Muertos" exhibition,

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Martin Quintanilla's prints

featured at the Tohono Chul exhibition,

"Dia de los Muertos" exhibition,

August 28 – November 8, 2015

Martin Quintanilla leading the huge skull he created,

in the All Souls Procession of 2012 in Tucson.

This segment recreated one of Michael Contreras' prints,

which was used for the poster of the 2011 All Souls Procession.

(see page 100 and 101 in the YayBig Southwest catalog)

Martin Quintanilla

and his float for the 

2011 All Souls Procession 

in Tucson