In fact, we conceived of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta at the 2014 Chalk the Block festival, after a discussion with Los Dos.
Christin Apodaca has a great mural
at the Dream Chasers Club gallery,
in downtown El Paso (200 S Santa Fe St)
Ramon and Christian Cardenas of Los Dos,
were also the curators
for Chalk the Block
Tim Razo painted a mural
from his Art en Vivo serigraph,
TINO ORTEGA
Tino Ortega was one of the invited
sidewalk chalk artists
Ben Fyffe of MCAD
awards Tino Ortega First Place
at an Art en Vivo event June 16th,
at Proper Printhshop in El Paso
Other chalk artists:
paint a mural outside of the Purple Pop-up Gallery,
where she is the curator
was selling prints
in his booth at Chalk the Block
Chalk the Block has been essential for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta. Krrrl bought prints from Main-tain Creative Coalition at Chalk the Block in 2012; and then returned from Tucson to show prints in 2013, as the YayBig Southwest Print Collection. In 2014 he showed the YayBig Print Exchange at Chalk the Block, with the Horned Toad Print Exchange from El Paso.
2013 Chalk the Block
2014 Chalk the Block
MEANWHILE, in other events:
October 13th (Thursday before Chalk the Block), Adrian Lopez was the guest artist of the Art en Vivo event at Proper Printshop in El Paso:
Borderland Jam happened the previous weekend (October 7 - 9) in El Paso. Street artists painted murals on warehouses on Cotton Street, between 3rd and 5th.
This area in El Paso is also known at "the Barnyard." See end of this post for the graffiti murals done in 2014.
Also, Lincoln Park in El Paso (underneath the bridges of I-10 freeway) has a lot of Chicano murals, many by Gabriel Gaytan.
started as a photo taken
in front of a mural at Lincoln Park
In 2015, artists painted many murals across the border in Ciudad Juarez -- for the Colorwalk.
Los Dos of El Paso
painted a mural in Ciudad Juarez
(as well at painting/curating at
Chalk the Block -- see top of post)
Jellyfish Colectivo of Ciudad Juarez,
painted many murals in an abandoned building
for the Colorwalk
(as well as painting a mural
for Chalk the Block -- see top of post)
Malakkai from Spain,
painted a mural in Ciudad Juarez
Los Calavera
mural in Ciudad Juarez
Werc from El Paso
painted a mural in Ciudad Juarez
New mural in Ciudad Juarez now,
though done long after the Colorwalk mural project
TUCSON MURALS
(emphasizing those on 7th Avenue)
In the summer of 2016, the Tucson Arts Brigade produced 9 new murals in the downtown Tucson area.
at 6th Street and 7th Ave
at 7th St and 7th Ave,
on the railroad tracks
(on the back of Borderlands Brewery)
at Toole Ave and 7th Ave
(Solar Culture complex)
There was a forum discussion of the project on October 26th, at the Center for Photography on the University of Arizona campus.
Michael Schwartz discussed the big mural project,
which he helped direct in Tucson,
at a University of Arizona lecture hall,
In 2012, Eric Firestone brought in a bunch of artists to paint murals on the mothballed airplanes at the Boneyard in Tucson.
Meanwhile, in a city not that far away, Kehinde Wiley showed up for the big First Friday reception at the Phoenix Museum of Art on October 7th.
Kehinde Wiley the artist,
dressed in a colorful suit and pointing
at a child leaning back on his twin brother
Robert Williams had his art opening in Santa Fe on September 23rd (there was a UTEP bus outside the opening). He is also the founder of Juxtapoz Magazine.
Robert Williams (native of Albuqquerque)
gives a gallery tour on Sept 24th,
University of Arizona
Professor Alfred Quiroz
next to his painting of George Washington
This has been a strong art fall in the Southwest.