Carpeta Ride in El Paso

We had a big week in El Paso, more than the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta reception at the El Paso Museum of Art (April 14):

Me, Juan Sandoval (print collector),

and Dr Patrick Shaw Cable 

(Senior Curator at the El Paso Museum of Art)

(April 14)

Update:  Read about the Magic Carpeta Ride during the whole month of April -- 

on the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta blog.

Arturo Negrete 

from Taller 75 Grados (in Mexico City)

did a live printing demo during our reception

and then posed on Tego's bicycle 

outside the El Paso Museum of Art

(April 14)

Arturo Negrete did a silk screening demo

at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

(April 15)

Arturo Negrete live silk screening (in back).

They gave away 1000 free serigraphs

during the reopening of San Jacinto Plaza

in downtown El Paso

(April 16)

Pavel Acevedo came to El Paso for the reception,

and also created two print editions.

He spoke about it at JVBs in El Paso

(April 15)

Taller 75 Grados

had an exhibition of the prints they created in Mexico City

at Proper Printshop in El Paso

(April 16)

Arturo Negrete

pulled a serigraph edition

at Proper Printshop in El Paso

of Malaquias Montoya's prints

(April 17)

Arturo Negrete did a live silk screening demo

at El Rey Bar in Ciudad Juarez

of one of Jellyfish's prints

(April 17)

Cynthia Evans started off the week

with a live relief print demo

at the El Paso Museum of Art

(April 9)

The catalog of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta 

We also got some press, good and bad:

• El Diario (April 18, 2016)

• El Paso Times (April 19, 2016) -- Opinion piece controversy

• KVIA TV (April 19, 2016) -- controversy