Magic Carpeta Ride

PRINTMAKER INDEX

April 2016  has been one big Magic Carpeta Ride, pushing prints:

Portland SGCI Conference

(March 30 - April 2)

We were lucky enough to show the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at the big SGCI print conference 2016 in Portland:

Our prints hung

at SGCI Portland

Blog entries:

• Portlandia
• SGCI Print Conference
• SGCI Open Portfolio and events

Manuel Guerra

at the Open Portfolio session

showing off prints 

Spark Saturday

(April 9)

Cynthia Evans of El Paso, and Marcus Robiason of Tucson, gave a relief print demonstration at the El Paso Museum of Art on a baby press, for Spark Saturday:

Cynthia Evans helps some young printmakers

on Spark Saturday at the 

El Paso Museum of Art

Blog entry:

• Cynthia Evans Spark Saturday in April

Catalog

The catalog came out

Blog entry:

• Catalog

El Paso Museum of Art Reception

(The week of April 14)

We brought Maestro Arturo Negrete from Taller 75 Grados up from Mexico City, to do a live print demonstration during our reception at the El Paso Museum of Art .  He also did many other print demos in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez:

Taller 75 Grados (Mexico City)

unites with Proper Printshop (El Paso)

to give several print demonstrations

during the week of our reception 

at the El Paso Museum of Art

Blog entries:

• Taller 75 Grados in El Paso -- Schedule
• La Chamba
• Reception at the El Paso Museum of Art
• UTEP -- Taller 75 Grados demo
• Pavel Acevedo guest printmaker
• San Jacinto Plaza Reopening
• Like in Japan -- prints by Taller 75 Grados
• To TANA with Love
• Silk Screening in Juarez

Maestro Arturo Negrete

giving a live print demo

at our reception

Printmaker reception

at the El Paso Museum of Art

UTEP demo

Pavel Acevedo came out for the reception

and also made a couple of editions

at Horned Toad Press

San Jacinto Plaza Reopening

live demo

Silk screening demo

in Ciudad Juarez

Tucson vs Portland

(April 20)

"Old Pueblo vs Portlandia" -- we hung a print show in a Tucson coffee house with some prints we bought from Portland artists, across from a few Desert Triangle prints from Tucson.  I would like to see more prints shows like this -- of one region vs another region/city.

Portland wall at Cartel Coffee Lab in downtown Tucson

Blog entry:

• Old Pueblo vs Portlandia

Press Reaction

A letter to the editor of the El Paso Times spawned a controversy about our print exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art, which continued that night with television coverage.  Also, Fusion magazine did an article on Maestro Arturo Negrete and his silk screen studio Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City:

Article in Fusion magazine

Blog entry:

• Press reaction

Houston Print Fair

(April 24)

We sold Desert Triangle prints at the "It Came from the Bayou" print fair in Houston

Grey and Cynthia Evans

representing El Paso

at the Houston Bayou print fair

Blog entry:

• Houston Bayou 

Printmakers Talk

(April 28)

8 printmakers spoke in front of their prints

during the mobile tour/artist talk

at the El Paso Museum of Art

Blog entry:

• Printmakers Talk at the El Paso Museum of Art

Las Vegas, New Mexico

(February 13 - March 18)

We got a running start in February and March, showing a few Desert Triangle prints, at the Print, Printed, Printing IV print conference in Las Vegas, New Mexico:

Francisco Delgado's print

hanging in Las Vegas

at the Print, Printed, Printing IV print conference

Blog entries:

• Print, Printed, Printing IV
• Print Demos at Highlands University -- first day
• Print Demos at Highlands University -- second day
• Highlands University Exhibitions

Good Times

Printmakers Talk at the El Paso Museum of Art

8 printmakers spoke about their print at the El Paso Museum of Art, on Thursday night, April 28th.  This was a "Speed Dating" mobile tour:

Introducing the printmakers

Dr Patrick Shaw Cable

(senior curator at the El Paso Museum of Art)

began the printmaker talks

Refreshments in the gallery

Federico Villabla

speaking in front of his print

Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado

speaking in front of his print

Manuel Guerra

speaking in front of his print

Zeke Peña

speaking in front of his print

Francisco Delgado

speaking in front of his print

Raul Monarrez

speaking in front of his print

Tino Ortega

speaking in front of his print

Krrrl talks about his green print

with Steampunk helper

(and fellow life drawer from the Glasbox)

The gift shop was opening during the talk

(note our catalogs for sale in the upper left corner)

Also, we donated a carpeta of prints to the El Paso Museum of Art earlier that morning:

Signing paperwork

with the donated carpeta

Houston -- Bayou

We showed the Desert Triangle in Houston, at the 5th Annual  "It Came from the Bayou" Inkslingers event, on Sunday, April 24th, at St Arnold's Brewery.

Last year I came to the previous "It Came from the Bayou" print fair, and was very impressed.  So I really wanted to come again.

Grey and Cynthia Evans representing El Paso,

at the Desert Triangle table

(Cynthia Evans also did the print demo 

at the El Paso Museum of Art

earlier in the month)

Flipgram

video snapshots of the print fair

Cynthia showing off Augmented Reality

on her iPhone

Attendees in the beer hall

amongst the fresh steam roller prints

Print Matters of Houston

sponsored the larger event --

ROCKIN' ROLLIN' PRINTS 2016

STEAM ROLLER PRINTS

ROCKIN' ROLLIN' PRINTS 2016

In 2014, there was a steamroller printing event in El Paso during Chalk the Block.  Later those prints were shown at a museum in downtown San Antonio.  So Cynthia Evans signed up to do a steamroller print in Houston, and follow that tradition:

Lil' Steamroller

Cynthia Evans from our El Paso team

did a large steamroller print

Inking and steaming,

Cynthia Evans makes a steamroller print

One of the steam roller prints earlier in the day

(before the rain)

PRINT COLLECTING

We bought prints at the print fair, to show back in El Paso:

Alley Cat Press -- from the Heart of Texas

Amber Borowski and Aubrey Carroll

Amber Kaiser

Cameron Gray from St Louis

Carlos Barberena from Chicago

Carlos Hernandez of Burning Bones of Houston,

organized the "It Came from the Bayou" print fair

Christopher Wallace of Houston

Emmett Merrill

 from Evil Prints

Eric Piper of Oklahoma

Julia Curran, outlaw printmaker from Nashville

Nathan Eclavea of the Dallas area

Rebecca Brooks

Ryan O'Malley of Corpus Christi

Tom Huck of St Louis

Xenia Fed of Beaumont

Also bought prints from Tyler Joseph Krasowski (of Illinois?) and Alana Miller (of the Dallas area), and John Hancock of Beaumont Texas.

BURNING BONES PRESS

Burning Bones Press welcomed all the printmakers to Houston on Friday, April 22nd, and hosted the Weiner Welcome poster show:

Entrance of Burning Bones Press

Weiner Welcome poster show in background

Rebecca Brooks live printing t-shirts

I bought a t-shirt with Rebecca Brooks' design

AUSTIN

Thank you very much to Carlos Hernandez, for hosting the Burning Bones Welcome, and organizing the "It Came from the Bayou" print fair.  He had a print show at Flatbed Press in Austin:

Carlos Hernandez's prints exhibited at Flatbed Press in Austin

While in Austin I also visited the Mexic-Arte Museum, which had a great print show up -- Obra Gráfica: Selections from the Mexic-Arte Museum Print Collection.

Only one room of prints

at Mexic-Arte

Houston was great!

Yay!

We sold 8 prints at the print fair -- 2 from Zeke Peña, Tanya Rich, Rogo, Tim Razo, Mykl Wells, Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado, and a non-carpeta print from Gonazlo Espinosa.