January 6, 2022

 I drew the model for two hours at the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson:

RELIEF PRINTING

We drew in the morning, and later that afternoon I got Marcus Robiason to carve a 6 x 6 inch plate at Cartel coffee house in downtown Tucson:

Marcus Robiason carving 

at Cartel coffee house in downtown Tucson

We printed Marcus' plate with a Tortilla Press

at the Sculpture Resource Center

Marcus Robiason's final 8 x 8 inch print

made on the Tortilla Press

TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART

We went to the Tucson Museum of Art on the free Thursday night, January 6:

Tanya Rich peering down

from a higher gallery

Kites by the late Mexican printmaker

 Francisco Toledo

Tanya Rich, Marc Leviton and Patrick Cobb

at the Tucson Museum of Art

in front of the Ice Block installation by Olivier Mosset

We also went to the Tucson MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art on January 8th, to see the two exhibits associated with Desierto Mountain Time:

Mujeres Nourishing Fronterizx Bodies: 

Resistance in the Time of COVID-19

rafa esparza and Timo Fahler: were-:Nenetech Forms

Desierto Mountain Time

• I first heard about the Desierto Mountain Time exhibitions on David Sokolec's blog -- Border Art Dialogue

On January 5th we visited Michael and Neda Contreras at their gallery in Tucson -- Contreras House Fine Art -- and showed them the BUCKET PRINTS:

• The "Nuevo Orden Carpeta Grafica" is posted on the Contreras House Fine Art website.  This is a print portfolio organized by Martin Quintanilla, now running MICROGALLERY MANDIBULA in Patzcuaro, Mexico.