Arts Warehouse opening in Delray
A big "Thank You" to the Arts Warehouse, in Delray, Florida (just north of Miami), for having the Desert Triangle. The gallery space is beautiful, and we had a wonderful opening on July 6, 2018, during the First Friday Artwalk. And "thank you" to Tanya Rich also, who brought the Desert Triangle to Delray.
Joseph Velasquez, co-founder of Drive By Press, did live printing at our opening, on t-shirts and paper -- using a skateboard! This was the first public skateboard printing event.
Joseph Velasquez
at FAU
Warehouse Market
Joseph Velasquez of Drive By Press,
selling prints at the Warehouse Market in Delray
at FAU
Warehouse Market
On August 3rd and 4th, Joseph Velaquez came back to see prints at the Warehouse Market art fair, in the Delray Arts Warehouse. The Desert Triangle exhibit was still up in the front gallery.
selling prints at the Warehouse Market in Delray
Tanya Rich and Krrrl took a fabric printing workshop with Sammi McLean, at IS Projects at Fat Village, in Fort Lauderdale.
Wynwood Walls
Wynwood Walls was buzzing on Saturday evening, July 7th, as the crowds enjoyed all the graffiti murals. All art museums should be this busy.
CUBA
So close to Cuba, we flew down to Havana, July 9 - 13, to check out the printmaking and art down there.
We bought prints at the famous Taller Experimental de Grafica, in Habana Viejo.
Taller Experimental de Grafica
now surrounded by restaurants
Collecting Cuban Prints
now surrounded by restaurants
Collecting Cuban Prints
We bought Cuban prints to bring back to the United States.
master printmaker in Habana
We participated in a printmaking workshop with master printmaker Octavio Irving (link goes to the Ambos Lados blog), former director of the Taller Experimental de Grafica . We signed up for his workshop through AirBnB.
Octavio Irving also printed Tanya Rich's edition for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.
Octavio Irving also printed Tanya Rich's edition for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.
We took a tour given by Andy de Calzadilla of 6 artists studios -- we signed up for this great tour on AirBnB.
The Artists:
The Artists:
We went to the Fábrica de Arte Cubano on July 13. With galleries, discos, theaters, restaurants inside -- it was quiet impressive.
Delray, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Havana -- what a whole new wonderful art experience!
We went to Cuba under the "public performances, clinics, workshops, athletic and other competitions, and exhibitions" category of authorized travel. Perhaps this link explains travel to Cuba better.
What is amazing is that we could not have traveled to Cuba when we conceived of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta during Chalk the Block in 2014 -- according to this timeline, the US and Cuba restored diplomatic ties two months later, in December 2014, and things unfolded quickly since then.
What is amazing is that we could not have traveled to Cuba when we conceived of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta during Chalk the Block in 2014 -- according to this timeline, the US and Cuba restored diplomatic ties two months later, in December 2014, and things unfolded quickly since then.
