Wednesday 1 September 2021

Hecho A Mano opening -- Tortilla Printing in Santa Fe

We returned to Tortilla Print in Santa Fe, for the opening of the Oaxaca printmaker Alberto Cruz at Hecho A Mano gallery, at the top of Canyon Road, on August 27, 2021, 5 - 7 PM:

holding up the print she carved


Inking up another Kat Kinnick roadrunner print


Alberto Cruz did not make it to his opening, however I did meet him in 2017 at Burro Press in Oaxaca:
 




9 New Linocuts

Five Santa Fe artists gave us linocuts to print:
In total we printed 9 new linocuts on the Tortilla Press during the two hour opening.






Printmaking demo announcement


getting busy in front of Hecho A Mano gallery,
Raul Monarrez (l) and Manuel Guerra (r)


The crowd collected at the top of Canyon Road


The mighty Tortilla Press
surrounded by linocuts














Happy visitors holding up the prints they recieved




Showing off the Raul Monarrez print
(Raul printing on the left)






The Jason Garcia print




LOS TRES GATOS

Los Tres Gatos (Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares) from Guadalajara sent us two more round linocuts to print.  They had also sent two other round linocuts for the printing events earlier this month in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe.  Moreover they pioneered the Tortilla Press concept that we used:

The round prints arrived from Guadalajara via FedEx,




Happy visitors 
received a set of the Tres Gatos prints


This lady from Massachusetts
was very happy to receive her Tres Gatos print


A visitor was pleased to receive a print


At the beginning of the evening, Rex Culp brought the linocut plate that he cut:



Rex Culp watching his print being inked


Frank Rose (r, looking away)
is the owner of the Hecho A Mano gallery




Other Printing that Week

Horned Toad Prints also did live printing at the Casa Ortiz gallery in Socorro (south of El Paso) the night before for Francisco Delgado's closing, on August 26th.






On Wednesday Horned Toad Prints delivered an edition of a portrait print of Juan Sandoval to his memorial.  Juan Sandoval was an art collector from El Paso who collected works from Horned Toad prints.  He donated his collection to Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, which was exhibited until the end of August.  Juan Sandoval passed away earlier this year in January.


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