Southwest Print Fiesta 2018 -- Vendors

We saw a lot of familiar printmakers as vendors, and met new ones, on Saturday, October 6, 2019,during the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City.

3rd Annual Southwest Print Fiesta

Vendor Guide

SCARLETT CORTEZ AND LEROY GRAFE

(Santa Fe)

Scarlett Cortez

TALLER 75 GRADOS

(Mexico City)

Ramon from Los Dos,

with Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados of Mexico City,

pointing at the augmented print that 

Arturo did for Los Dos

UNM PRINTMAKING

(Albuquerque)

Karsten Creightney, Yoshiko Shimano (director),

Brooke Steiger, Richard Barnes (back)

Karsten Creightney, professor from UNM 

in the above photo,

is also featured on the cover of the current (Oct 2018)

THE Magazine of Santa Fe

PRINT NOW -- RIOT LATER

(Tucson)

Axel Roessler and Ellen Wagner

THE CROOKED MAN PRESS

(Las Cruces)

Chris Bardey

FRANCISCO DELGADO

(El Paso)

Francisco and Barbara Delgado

WILDLAND PRESS

(Madrid, NM)

Blossom Merz

Blossom Merz also showed off the

3D printed printing press, 

like we did for our Horned Toad II opening

-- (downloadable files on Thingiverse) --

Blossom was also grinding down New Mexico stones,

and making watercolor paint from them,

for sale from his website online

VILLAGE PRESS PRINT STUDIO

(Magdalena, NM)

Laurie Taylor Gregg

WAREHOUSE 1 - 10

(Magdalena, NM)

Catherine DeMaria

RED COLLAR PRESS

(Tucson)

Alex! Jimenez and Amy Brueggeman (Red Collar Press)

BURNING DOG GRAPHICS

(Albuquerque)

Dale Tanis

TWO GUN PRESS

(Taos)

Luis M Garcia

TERRAN LAST GUN

(Santa Fe)

Terran Last Gun

BRYCE McCLOUD

Guest Visiting Artist

(Nashville, Tennessee)

Bryce McCloud

POWER AND LIGHT PRESS

(Silver City)

HOME AND RANGE

(Cortez, Colorado)

Rosie Carter

RIO SANGRE PRINT COLLECTIVE

(Las Cruces) 

Anne Quinones and Matthew Garza

TANLINE PRINTING

(Tucson)

Jeik Ficke and Amanda Beekhuizen and baby

REVIVER PRINTING

(Las Cruces)

Chris Preciado-Shelton

SANTO PRESS

(Scottsdale, Arizona)

Brent Bond

BISCUIT PRESS

(Austin, Texas)

Dan Grissom

ARGOS STUDIO GALLERY

(Santa Fe)

Eric Thomson

Christopher Singleton,

prints at the Santa Fe Etching Club

at the Argos Studio Gallery 

TAKACH

(Albuquerque)

Marcos Polaco and Aaron Bass

work at Takach Press

Other vendor tents (that I didn't get pictures of):

• Hart Print Shop (Taos)

• Gustavo Muniz (Los Angeles)

• Carmen Ruiz (Silver City)

• Ocular Mantra (Albuquerque)

• Metal the Brand (Albuquerque)

• Brooke and Adelyn (Albuquerque)

• Sundry Products  (Albuquerque)

• Skyline Type Foundry (Prescott, AZ)

Also there was steam roller printing going on during the vendor market.

Southwest Print Fiesta -- Horned Toad II Opening

We exhibited the Horned Toad II Print Exchange in the Seedboat Gallery -- during the 3rd Southwest Print Fiesta, in Silver City New Mexico.  The opening was on Friday, October 5, 2019, and the exhibit will be up through the month of October.

Seedboat Gallery

-- 214 W Yankie Street --

Amos and Ray played in the courtyard,

and drew visitors to the gallery

Natalie Good organized the gallery,

and also the "Power of Print" political poster print show,

which was also in the Seedboat Gallery

Kevin Lenkner, director of the Mimbres Regional Arts Council,

which put on the Southwest Print Fiesta,

with Jane Janson, director of the 

New Mexico Small Business Center

at Western New Mexico University

Manuel Guerra of El Paso,

who organized the Horned Toad II Print Exchange,

shows off the 3D printed printing press,

to Gabe (who 3D printed brayers)

and Eric Thomson of Argos Gallery/Studio in Santa Fe

3D printed printing press demo

Manuel Guerra with the mini printing press,

showing it to Bryce McCloud, 

the featured guest artist of this Southwest Print Fiesta,

and Kyle Durrie of Power and Light Press

Susan “Skuishi” Gonzalez

standing in front of her print

Francisco Delgado, 

standing in front of his elephant print --

Francico was in both the "Power of Print"

and the "Horned Toad II Print Exchange" 

exhibitions that shared the gallery

Francisco Delgado,

Arturo Negrete of Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City,

and Manuel Guerra

Featured Guest Artist, Bryce McCloud,

was the judge for the "Power of Print" exhibition

Los Dos won the $300 prize

from the "Power of Print" exhibition

Trouble Makers Line Up

Thanks again 

to Amos and Ray

This link shows the pure gallery views.

The Arizona Print Group also had an exhibition during the Southwest Print Fiesta, in the Light Art Space Gallery.  Two printmakers were in both the Horned Toad II and the Arizona Print Group exhibition -- Eric Hodgins and Ashley Cranney.

Setting up in Silver City

We are showing the Horned Toad II Print Exchange in Silver City -- the geographical center of the Desert Triangle; ie Tucson, El Paso, and Albuquerque.  This is for the 3rd annual Southwest Print Fiesta.

Southwest Print Fiesta

Our opening is on Friday, October 5, 2018 -- 5 - 8 PM -- at the Seedboat Gallery in Silver City.

Our exhibition is at the Seedboat Gallery

-- 214 W Yankie Street --

First, we picked up the framed prints from Jules Floss, near Yuma, Arizona.  The Horned Toad II Print Exchange was previously shown at the Arizona Western College annex, in San Luis, Arizona (right on the Mexican border).

Picking up the framed

Horned Toad II prints,

from Jules Floss, 

near Yuma, Arizona

We are hanging the show the previous Wednesday and Thursday.  Moreover, we sharing the space with a political print show.  Francisco Delgado is in both shows, so there is some poetic overlap.  Los Dos is prominent in the political poster print show.

Hanging the prints

at the Seedboat Gallery in Silver City

The political poster show

is in the other half of the Seedboat Gallery

Also, the Arizona Print Group

is exhibiting at Light Art Space,

opening the next night,

Saturday, Oct 6th, 5 - 7 PM

Manuel Guerra, the head honcho at Horned Toad Prints, is driving up a day early, prepared with 2 bottles of 400 rabbits, ie good mezcal.

Manuel Guerra

with 800 rabbits

Manny is bringing the

3D printed printing press

(fromThingiverse)

as an extra bonus

Meanwhile, on Thursday night, Taller 75 Grados from Mexico city, will be selling serigraph print at the PDA pop-up gallery, on San Jacinto Plaza, in downtown El Paso.  They 

Print Sale in El Paso

Same print sale in El Paso

Meanwhile again, during the same weekend as the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, Carlos Hernandez is having an Inkslinger show with other Texas printmakers -- John Hancock, Dennis McNett, Dirk Fowler,  Amber Kaiser, Tess Doyle, Bird Bonez, and more.., in Lubbock.

Texas printmakers slinging ink in Lubbock,

during the same weekend as the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City

Side note: We are furiously working on the next print exchange -- the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange -- and setting up our next exhibition, of the Ambos Lados print exchange in Arlington, Texas next March, for the SGCI 2019 print convention in North Texas next year (see write-up).  We are looking forward to seeing Carlos Hernandez there, along with rest of the Texas printmakers, and others from around the countryand world.