Thursday, December 17, 2015

Delivery to El Paso

We delivered most of the framed prints to the El Paso Museum of Art, for a show next year -- from January 31 to May 22.

The prints were framed at New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque.

Federico Villaba, co-agitator, contemplates in front of New Grounds.
He helped drive the prints down to El Paso.


 Tight Honda Fit
boxed prints at the El Paso Museum of Art
ready to be unloaded


 4 Boxes fit in sideways,
from the door (not through the hatch)


 On painting carts
in the loading dock



24 framed prints unboxed


The prints were delivered 17 Dec, 2015.















We are still missing a box of 6 prints.  Ultimately the exhibit should include 30 prints.



Update:  We delivered 5 more framed prints on January 7th, 2016.  Plus we switched out Matthew Poe's print with a cream mat, for one with a white mat:









Last print delivered January 20th:



Update (Sept 2016):  This is how I packaged the glass framed prints for the El Paso Museum exhibition, when I took them down from the Matrix Gallery show in Albuquerque:



6 prints fit in one cardboard box


Prints were enclosed in bubble wrap,
and fitted with protective corners 


2 prints in one bubble wrapped package,
face to face,
with a piece of cardboard in between


2 prints, face to face, in bubble wrap,
with cardboard protective corners


Thursday, December 10, 2015

Nani Chacon


"+++"
(three crosses)


Nani Chacon of Albuquerque had her print edition silkscreened at Proper Printshop in El Paso:

and Jonathan “JJ” Childress (co-owener of Proper Printshop)
hold up her print


Alan Hodson and JJ,
owners of Proper Printshop,
double team a squeegee,
as Eduardo looks on






















Zeke Pena helped Nani with her print
(Zeke also made a print for the Desert Carpeta)



Nani signing the print edition
in her house



Mural by Nani



Nani painted a mural in Santa Fe,
in the outdoor park of the