Remarque Open House

Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque had their annual Open House on Saturday, January 7th:

SCREENPRINT

Lee Ginsburg and Anne Steen

Lee Ginsburg (Art Thief) and Anne Steen (The Rabbit) had a great time demonstrating the silk screening technique:

Instant-gram Fame!

Lee Ginsburg

Anne Steen

They used water-friendly

Speedball Acrylic Screen Printing inks

LINOCUT

Holland Hardie

Holland Hardie, one of the four owners of Remarque, demonstrated relief linocut printmaking:

LETTERPRESS

Jessica Krichels

Jessica Krichels, one of the four owners of Remarque, demonstrated letterpress printmaking:

Letterpress printing

from a hand carved linocut

PHOTOPOLYMER

Lincoln Draper

Lincoln Draper, one of the four owners of Remarque, demonstrated photopolymer printing with the "À la poupée" multi-color technique:

Beautiful color print

DRYPOINT

Mary Sundstrom

Mary Sundstrom demonstrated alternative drypoint techniques in the main studio:

ETCHING

Pam Wesolek

Pamela Wesolek is a master etching printmaker:

Pam used a heavy metal block

 for multi-color registration --

to hold down the paper

while she switched the plate out 

from underneath the paper

Pam's multi-color robin print

Eli Levin

Pamela Wesolek also printed some of Eli Levin's plates:

Eli Levin's copper plate

I visited Eli Levin last November 2022

in his studio in Dixon, New Mexico

We currently have a BUCKET EXHIBITIONS of small prints hanging at Remarque until the end of the month:

BUCKET PRINTS

26 framed small prints 

hanging in Remarque

They also had an Open House last year, on April 30th, 2022.  I am surprised at how much I learn when I attend these Open House printmaking events.