Friday, 26 September 2025

Southwest Print Fiesta -- Preparation

We are preparing for the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City, New Mexico -- October 10th - 13th, 2025:

Southwest Print Fiesta 2025
(Poster by Daniel Gonzalez)

Southwest Print Fiesta 2025


SILVER TESSELLATIONS

We are preparing  to put on THREE EVENTS and an EXQUISITITE TESSELLATION exhibition during the Southwest Print Fiesta weekend:

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10th
TESSELLATION WORKSHOP
2 - 5 PM

Visitors to FUTURE FORGE Makerspace will use ballpoint pens to make designs on stiff foam tiles -- which we will print individually on a Tortilla Press.  Then we will print many together to make collaborative curvy EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints:

On the SWPF EVENTS Page

We have done this before recently in both Albuquerque and Juarez, Mexico:

ATOMIC 66 -- Printmaking at QUELAB
We had this workshop before in June 2025
at QUELAB makerspace in Albuquerque

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP in Juarez
We also had this workshop in August in Juarez, Mexico
during the opening of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11th
PRINTING AFTER-PARTY
7 - 9 PM

We will be hand printing collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION masterpieces by hand, from selected linocuts El Paso, Tucson and Albuquerque:

On the SWPF EVENTS Page

We did this last year at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024:

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 --
 Tessellation After-Party
Making collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints
during the after-party last year in Silver City


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th
STEAMROLLER PRINTING
11 AM - 2 PM

We will be making big collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints from big (20 inch wide) linocuts -- on 42 x 42 inch paper -- during the second day of steamroller printing:

On the SWPF EVENTS Page

Revving Up for STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Printing
This is the first year they will be printing
collaborative tessellation masterpieces with a steamroller


EXHIBITION

We will also exhibit EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints at POWER & LIGHT Press on a moving wall, 96 x 79 inches:

We will be exhibiting EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints
on this 96 x 79 inch floating wall
at POWER & LIGHT PRESS

I would like to hang select individual EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut prints from TUCSON, EL PASO and ALBUQUERQUE collections (perhaps as many as a bucket/10 of each):

We won't hang all the individual tessellation prints, 
like we did in Juarez
(this is just the wall of El Paso tessellation prints shown)


I would also like to hang big collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints from TUCSON, EL PASO and ALBUQUERQUE collections:


BIG TESSELLATION LINOCUT

Meanwhile I nudged at all our Big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION artists, letting them know that we will need their big linocuts by Sunday, October 12th, 2025, when we print them together with the Steamroller.

On September 25th, 2025,  Adam Berman cut out one of the big "20 Inch Wide" linoleum tessellation pieces on the Rabbit laser cutter at the University of New Mexico Art Department:


The big 20 Inch Wide tessellation linocut --
now ready to carve


The Rabbit laser cutter 
at the UNM Art Department


Adam Berman laser cutting




The BIG tessellation tiles
are "mirrored" from the little ones that we have been using






Next to the big CNC at UNM


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