Desert Triangle Print Carpeta: Printing on the Streets of Las Cruces

Monday, November 18, 2019

LIVE PRINTING!

During the night of opening at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta/Impress 2 Express exhibition on November 1st, 2019 -- there was printing on the streets! HORNED TOAD PRINTS of El Paso joined CHRIS BARDEY and crew of Las Cruces to print free artwork, live, and hand fresh prints out to the public.

Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints of El Paso,

receives a print from Chris Bardey of Las Cruces --

(both artists are in the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta)

Receiving their fresh free prints

by Chris Bardey and Devin Lowther

Printing on the Streets of Las Cruces Part 1,

November 1st, 2019

Printing on the Streets of Las Cruces Part 2,

November 1st, 2019

EARLIER, IN GUADALAJARA

Back in July 2019, Manuel Guerra and crew did live printing on the streets of Guadalajara, with the local crew of los Tres Gatos Press, using their tortilla press to mint prints:

Printing live in Guadalajara

with a tortilla press

Videos from the summer of 2019,

previously printing in Guadalajara

That happened during the greater tour of Mexico for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange project.

CRUCES CREATIVES

The images from the Tres Gatos Press artists of Guadalajara, were cut again into woodblocks, at the hackerspaces in both Las Cruces -- CRUCES CREATIVES -- and Albuquerque -- QUELAB. They were then printed again on the streets of Las Cruces on November 1st, 2019.