Tuesday, November 21, 2023

SUMMARY -- Exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum

We were honored and delighted that the University of Arizona Art Museum exhibited the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in Tucson.  The exhibit runs from June 10th, 2023 to December 21st, 2023.

stands next to the Desert Triangle legend



LIVE PRINTMAKING -- on a Tortilla Press, during the reception:

(L to R) Chelsea Farrar (curator), Olivia Miller (museum director)
Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker holding the pink bucket,
Joe Marshall and Linda Marie Garcia


Chelsea Farrar, the Curator of Community Engagement,
gets the best out of printmakers Manuel Guerra and Joe Marshall
by giving them a free drink ticket


Six from Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso,
showed up for the reception --


The main reception was for the exhibition in the large gallery -- PULSE: Weavings and Paintings by Marlow Katoney:

The main reception was for the exhibition in the large gallery --




BLOG POSTS
about the exhibition
at the University of Arizona


Click on the photos to go to the blog post about that topic:











INSTAGRAM Posts

From the University of Arizona Art Museum:
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During the reception we met Alejandro Macias, the new painting professor at the University of Arizona:

Manuel Guerra (l), printmaking professor at UTEP,
with Alejandro Macias, painting professor 
at the University of Arizona




Painting by Alejandro Macias
currently hanging in the gallery
of the University of Arizona Art Museum


We met Alejandro Macias back in 2015, when we showed two Desert Triangle prints, in the art museum of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas:



The print studio
at the University of Arizona


UofA students
reflecting on the meaning of Art
in the hallway








The main gate to the University of Arizona in Tucson,
leading to the main road, lined with palm trees


Manuel Guerra in Tucson,
standing in front of where the 


The Desert Triangle
in other venues

We saw Cristina Cardenas' print hanging in the Tucson Art Museum:
  • Oliva Miller, director of the University of Arizona Art Museum
  • Chelsea Farrar, director of Community Engagement at the University of Arizona Art Museum
  • Sophie Briley, the curator for the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" exhibition
  • Albert Chamillard, Exhibition Specialist for the University of Arizona Art Museum
  • Linda Marie Garcia, student intern who helped us with live Tortilla Printing
  • Federico Villalba, who took all the best photos of the gallery and the reception


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