Summary -- 3rd Annual Southwest Print Fiesta

Silver City is at the very heart of the Desert Triangle -- in the center of Tucson, El Paso and Albuquerque.  That is why we are enthused to show prints at the 3rd annual Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, New Mexico (Oct 5-7, 2018);  and have been there every year since it began in 2016.

This year we exhibited the Horned Toad II Print Exchange, organized by Manuel Guerra, UTEP printmaking professor, and head of Horned Toad Press in El Paso.

What a great opening!!!

We exhibited the Horned Toad II Print Exchange

at the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City

October 2018!!!

Photos from the Southwest Print Fiesta website

of the festivities in 2018

2018 Southwest Print Fiesta

on YouTube

We have been to the 2 previous Southwest Print Fiestas in Silver City:

2016

2017

 This adventure started off  a week earlier, when we picked up the prints from Yuma, Arizona, where they were previously exhibited:

Picking up the prints from Yuma, Arizona,

where print professor Jules Floss exhibited them

We exhibited the "Horned Toad II Print Exchange" with the "Power of Print" exhibition, at the beautiful Seedboat Gallery in Silver City.  

Our exhibition is at the Seedboat Gallery

-- 214 W Yankie Street --

The turnout for the opening exceeded our expectations

(and was bigger than any opening we have had in Albuquerque)

The Horned Toad II Print Exchange

(see link for more gallery fotos)

 The "Power of Print" exhibition,

organized by Power and Light Press,

invited us to show with them at the Seedboat Gallery

Manuel Guerra discussing prints,

when the students from Aldo Leopold Charter school

visited in the afternoon, just before the opening

Manuel Guerra showed off the 3D printed printing press,

during the opening

Blossom Merz also had a 

3D printed printing press,

which he showed off in his vendor tent

during the main sale event the next day

The Arizona Print Group also exhibited prints,

in the Light Art Space Gallery

(a couple of these printmakers were also in 

our Horned Toad II Print Exchange exhibit)

The main event was the print vendor sale,

on Saturday, Oct 6th, 2018

(click link to see more vendor fotos)

Many steamroller prints were made during the vendor sale,

on Saturday, October 6th, 2018 --

Mike Kimball stands in front of his large steamroller print

THANK YOU!!!

We want to give a big "Thank You" to the folks in Silver City who organized the 3rd Southwest Print Fiesta.

Natalie Good, from Power and Light Press, organized and hung the "Power of Print 2018" political print show, and curated the gallery.  She also hired the musicians and added those other special touches.  We really enjoyed working closely with Natalie Good, and she made a huge difference.

Natalie Good

Kyle Durrie, owner of "Power and Light Press" in Silver City, stepped in and helped organize this year.  She helped arrange our exhibition through email, and with her staff supported the exhibition.

Kyle Durrie

Kevin Lenkner is the executive director of the Mimbres Region Art Council, which runs the Southwest Print Fiesta.  We have been working with Kevin Lenkner for the past 3 Southwest Print Fiestas.

Kevin Lenkner,

with Jane Janson, director of the 

New Mexico Small Business Center

at Western New Mexico University



75 Grados Pop-Up

On October 4, 2018, the Thursday before the Southwest Print Fiesta, 75 Grados from Mexico City had a pop-up print sale in downtown El Paso, on San Jacinto Plaza.

75 Grados Pop-Up Print Sale

in El Paso

on Oct 4, 2018

Summary of all Print Fiesta links:

• Setting Up in Silver City

• Horned Toad II Opening

• Southwest Print Fiesta 2018 -- Vendors

• Seedboat Gallery (photos of both exhibitions)

• Power and Light Press

• Aldo Leopold School Tour

• 3D printed printing press

• Steamroller Prints 2018

• Arizona Print Group Exhibition

• 75 Grados Pop-Up in El Paso

Also, we are currently thick into organizing the next big print exchange -- the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange.

Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

Meanwhile, Carlos Hernandez and those other Texas ink slingers, were showing prints in Lubbock during the same weekend at the Southwest Print Fiesta -- in their show "UFOs Over Lubbock."

UFOs over Lubbock,

print show on Oct 5th, 2018