San Jacinto Plaza Reopening

Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados (from Mexico City) did a live silk screening demonstration in El Paso for the reopening of San Jacinto Plaza (April 16, 2016), and gave away 1000 prints of Charlie Ramirez's alligator image:

By Charlie Ramirez

of San Luis Potosi

Two lucky recipients of the free print

The main attraction 

is the fiberglass sculpture of the alligators

by native son Luis Jimenez

Arturo Negrete pulling a print

YouTube video

of Maestro Arturo Negrete

pulling the squeegee

JJ Childress of Proper Printshop (in El Paso)

handing out the prints to the public

There were long lines of people waiting to receive a free alligator print.  Someone joked that the line went clear back to the Kentucky Bar in Ciudad Juarez.

End of the line

Katherine from the El Paso Museum of Art

receives a print

Carlos Alejandro of Taller 75 Grados

helps, and sports an alligator t-shirt

Alligator Power!

Mykl Wells, 

and Ben Fyffe of MCAD

The band entertained the crowd

Dave "Grave" Herrera 

paints faces

Young cheerleaders

The Purple Pop-up Gallery opened

Tino Ortega was selling his print

at the Purple Pop-up Gallery

Comic Con vistors

passed through the Plaza

Odd-Lab performers

with maestro Arturo Negrete