Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Monday, 10 March 2025
March 10, 2025
Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:
There were many artists that I know who were showing at the 34th ARTS THRIVE exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum: March 2 - 7, 2025. This is the last year of this annual exhibition:
EXHIBITIONS
Barbara Endicott has a large painting at the GALLERY 3017, in the bottom of the Albuquerque Artisans art store -- in the WOMAN'S EMPOWERMENT exhibition -- March 8th - April 8th, 2025:
Barbara Endicott standing in front of her painting
during the opening on March 8, 2025
of the WOMAN'S EMPOWERMENT exhibition
ARTS THRIVE
exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum
UPCOMING
MARCH 14, Friday:
- TOM BIRKNER of El Paso is part of a group exhibition -- Stories Retold: New American Perspectives -- at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe.
MARCH 16, Sunday:
- Luis Garcia and Terran Last Gun are going to have a DONUT TALK at Hecho A Mano gallery in Santa Fe on March 16th:
MARCH 21, Friday:
- MASTERWORKS NEW MEXICO is opening in the Hispanic Arts Gallery at New Mexico Expo/State Fair in Albuquerque on Friday, March 21, 2025, and continues until April 13, 2025
MARCH 27, Thursday:
MAY 13, TUESDAY:
- New Mexico Veterans Art -- next exhibition at the Placitas Community Library, NM, May 13 - June 12, 2025
Sunday, 9 March 2025
PORTABLE PRESS
The FISKARS FUSE Creativity System for Die -cutting promises to be the easiest portable press for making 8x8 inch prints. We saw this press at the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024, as Mark Zepezauer was printing with it:
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The best thing is that the press folds up and has a handle, for carrying it around to print on location (though it is not light):
However the FISKARS FUSE was originally made more for hobby die cutting -- and thus one needs to fashion a press bed in order to pull 8x8 inch relief prints from it.
(YouTube): Relief printing with Fiskars Fuse
The above video recommends a 3/4 inch thick board as a press bed, which I found to be too thick. Therefore I cut down a 5/8ths inch piece of particle board from Lowes to make a 24 inch long press bed (from a 24x24 inch square board):
FISKARS FUSE with a 5/8ths inch thick press bed --
with linoleum, paper, cardboard
The press bed still is not thick enough. We need an additional sheet of acetate or acrylic to protect the board (and make registration marks). Any additional slack could be taken care of with a blanket, or piece of gasket to put over the paper and linocut.
- Would a HDPE board - - 5/8th inch thick x 12 inch x 24 inches -- work the best?
PROOFING PRESS
MOKUHANGA
Toru Sugita, Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda,
Misayo Tsutsui and Fumiyo Yoshikawa (artist and Toru's wife)
A more detailed look into the Taller Grafica Libre studio in Zaachila, Oaxaca:
