Southwest Print Fiesta 2023

I went to the Southwest Print Fiesta 2023 in Silver City, New Mexico, on October 6th and 7th:

Southwest Print Fiesta 2023

MANUEL GUERRA put up the 8x8 SHOW and included my AI print:

The 8x8 SHOW

at the Diana Ingalls Leyba Gallery

I was carrying Deborah's cat

The Southwest Print Fiesta

Print Exchange 2023

My print for the 

Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2023

My print was enhanced

with Augmented Reality

On October 4th Adam made some stickers for me with a QR code, which allowed people to see the AR (Augmented Reality), but the process was really arduous.  After scanning the QR code people had to scan my print, and hopefully a 3D tapir would appear in real space, in the smart phone viewer:

QR Code stickers

being printed by Adam at Quelab

I brought a stack of stickers to Silver City,

but didn't pass out many 

to those participating in the print exchange

I saw a lot of Provisional Presses during the Southwest Print Fiesta:

Provisional Presses

These might work like Henry Morales' letterpress proofing press, which gives us a great print after one pass through. 

August 8, 2023

Virgil and Henry Morales

printing with an old

letterpress proofing press

John Tollett posted the picture below on his blog.  It's in the "Javelina Viewing Area" outside of El Paso, Texas, featuring the mugs and coasters that he designed, with javelinas:

Javelina Viewing Area

posted on the website

A Gallery Somewhere

• I also learned that Power and Light Press has an Art Residency in Silver City for $250 a week.

UPDATE (Nov 7):  Ellie gave me this 8x8 inch scrapbook to store and show the 45 prints I got from the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2023:

The 8x8 inch prints

fit perfectly!