Sunday, 23 November 2025

PRINTMAKING SURGE

There is still a lot of printmaking activity going on until the end of the year.

HERSTORY

Julianna Kirwin lead the HERSTORY Printmaking Collective to create images of Albuquerque women, and wheat paste them all over Albuquerque -- ALBUQUERQUE'S FAVORITE WOMEN:


ALBUQUERQUE'S FAVORITE WOMEN


The map of the wheat pasted prints
in Albuquerque










There is an opening for the project on Thursday, December 4th, 2025, 5-7 PM, at Bow and Arrow Brewery (608 McKnight NW, Albuquerque):


Julianna Kirwin organized this specific project, seen below standing in front of one of the wheat pasted woman's portraits on the GIZMO Building:

GIZMO -- Sheri Crider
Julianna Kirwin organized the Herstory project,
and stands in front of some of the wheat paste prints
on the Gizmo Building

GIZMO -- Sheri Crider
On the GIZMO Building

GIZMO -- Sheri Crider
On the GIZMO Building

PRINT CRUNCH
Kirsten runs the Art Buddies drawing group,
portrait by Barbara Endicott

PRINT CRUNCH
At Zendo Coffee

UNM and Oaxaca Prints in Albuquerque
At Remarque Print Workshop

The Herstory project was funded by a previous FULCRUM FUND grant:

FULCRUM FUND Grant 2026

FULCRUM FUND Grant 2026


MORE
JULIANNA KIRWIN
ALBUQUERQUE

Julianna Kirwin is showing her prints
at FUSION in Albuquerque
in the month of November 2025

ABQ ARTWALK -- South Valley Studio Tour --
 November 2025
Julianna at her opening at FUSION
on November 7, 2025

I went to one of Julianna's bandana workshops on November 8, 2025, to print some of our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocuts:


Bandana Tessellation


Printmaking with Purpose: Julianna Kirwin


JOE MARSHALL
TUCSON

Joe Marshall met Julianna when she visited his Heart of the Sun gallery in Tucson on July 2025:

Joe Marshall and Julianna Kirwin
in Tucson

During the OPEN STUDIO Tour 2025 in Tucson, Joe Marshall encouraged visitors to make a quick print with the stiff foam tessellation tiles, like he did when he visited Albuquerque in June 2025:
 
Joe Marshall's Open House in Tucson


STEAMROLLER AFTERMATH
LAS CRUCES

Chris Bardey of Las Cruces, New Mexico, retrieved three of the big steamroller prints during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 when he passed through Silver City again:

Chris Bardey posted about the steamroller prints
from the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025


He kept two for exhibition, and dropped one off with Joe Marshall in Tucson:

This steamroller print is with Chris Bardey

This steamroller print is with Chris Bardey


The steamroller print that wound up in Tucson


OPEN PRINT EXCHANGE


My mini-print in the OPEN PRINT EXCHANGE has been shown four times so far, in the ongoing series of exhibitions:

The University of New Mexico Printmaking Department is having a student print sale at the UNM campus on December 4th, 5th (10 AM - 4 PM), and 6th (11 AM - 3 PM):

UNM Print Sale
December 4, 5, 6, 2025


TECHNIQUE

I'm enthused to try more printmaking techniques.  

I still have not been able to use my tessellation die to cut "hat" shapes out of linoleum and stiff foam:

April 7, 2025
The "hat" tessellation die

However perhaps with a leather press I could do such, on location:

10.2 x 5.9 inch leather press

And perhaps we could even use this leather press to make prints, if we use a soft yoga mat to cushion the pressure.

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Also I would like to laser cut images into silk screens, to print paper and t-shirts.  This apparently is possible if we use emulsion on a metal mesh screen, as the CO2 laser will not cut metal.  However the laser should cut the emulsion away:  

Laser Cutting an image into Silk Screen for printing
AI imagining using a laser cutter
to etch images into silk screens

The trick might be reclaiming the screens, to etch and make more prints.  We could probably use the regular emulsion remover, if that doesn't corrode the metal.  In the past we have reclaimed the screens with Clorox.  

We could probably just cut away all the emulsion, either with a blow torch or on the laser cutter.  We could also perhaps just recoat the screen, covering the holes.

Someone has already laser cut images, after coating the metal silk screen with guacamole.  The avocado works like the emulsion, as the fruit is related to latex:

Avocado and Laser to Make Screenprinting Screens?? 
Creality Falcon 2 Pro Laser Cutter Review

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Making your own silk screen frames from PVC pipes -- can we also do this with metal mesh screens:

Silk screen frames
from PVC pipes


OPPORTUNITIES

Axle Contemporary is soliciting entries for their BROADSIDES+INSTALLATION project -- pasting artwork on their mobile art van in Santa Fe in 2026:

BROADSIDES + INSTALLATION ART


Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque is soliciting for their annual print exchange, 8 x 10 inch edition, 11 prints, $35 fee. Deadline to apply is December 14, 2025:
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