Day of the Dead Albuquerque

Lots of printmakers converged at the Day of the Dead event in Albuquerque at the South Broadway Cultural Center on Saturday, October 28, 2017.  Perhaps this foreshadows something yet to come.

Henry Morales 

shows off the progress of his new block print

at his print table

El Moises 

designed this year's event poster

Printmaker Julianna Kirwin

admires Henry Morale's print selection

Printmaker Anastasia Andersen

was also selling prints

Printmaker Jon "Jonito" Sanchez

Printmaker Jeremy Montoya

Jon "Jonito" Sanchez

posted this collage on Instagram

(note Augustine Romero, curator at the South Broadway Cultural Center,

in the second window, between Jon and Jeremy)

Artist Juliana Coles

poses in front of Henry Morale's print (below),

and should soon translate her work

into prints

Desert Triangle printmakers --

Federico Villalba and Zeke Peña

showed up from El Paso

(Federico's b/w photo hanging between them)

Great Reception!

Brandon Maldonado's painting

"El Mojado"

Chris CJ Vasquez's painting

"Zia Girl"

Greg Tucker's sculpture

"Dia de los Muertos Air Force"

The Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque

put up an altar

dedicated to the victim's of the

earthquakes in Mexico in 2017

An altar under the hood

UPDATE (Nov 5, 2017):

Henry Morales did live printing at the Los Muertos y Marigold Parade in Albuquerque's South Valley:

Henry Morales

getting two guys from Scribendi

(the literature and arts magazine at UNM)

to do live printing

OTHER ART SHOWS in ALBUQUERQUE

 It was a busy weekend with other good art shows in Albuquerque:

The Tortuga Gallery showed work from Joshua Franco, Derrick Montez, Santiago Perez, billing the show as Los Tres Fantasticos.

Los Tres Fantasticos!

Also Monty Singer, Brian Gonzales, Vera Neel and Lubov Udalova filled up Art Gallery 606 on Broadway -- with a show called "Four Corners" during the month of October, closing on Oct 28th.

"Four Corners" art show

at Gallery 606

in Albuquerque