THE PRINTERS PLANET -- TAOS 2026

I went to THE PRINTERS PLANET in Taos on June 20th, 2026 (the more substantial post is on the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS blog): 

The Space Cat

could not resist licking it's fishbowl helmet

Poster at the World Cup Coffee

in downtown Taos

I finally got to meet John Wenger,

a retired UNM painting professor I've admired for decades

The Vendors Market ended

when the main tent blew over after 4 PM

Tim Jag recovering

at the end of the day

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MORE PRINTMAKING

ENRIQUE FLORES, printmaker in Oaxaca, passed away on June 2, 2026:

Enrique Flores and PRINT SANTA FE

Enrique Flores in Santa Fe in April 2023

This print hanging at the UNM PRINTMAKING Department says it all:

FAKE!

I updated Tanya's print with AI Animation -- which she first made for the YayBig Print Exchange, and then later painted it on the TUCSON wall in 2015 during the TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL:

FLOW

EzGIF

Tanya riding a printmaking scorpion

Mural during the 

2015 TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL

YayBig Print Exchange edition

Tanya did a print of me

VIRGIL

Virgil Velasco 

holding up the silk screen of his drawing

that Ellie burnt into a screen for him

Virgil Velasco made this marble print holder

FRANCISCO

Francisco Delgado was featured on Glasstire

PRINT PACHANGA coming on

 July 16, 2026 at the El Paso Museum of Art

The SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA will be celebrating their 10th year with a PRINT RALLY -- where selected printmakers will make a print edition in two hours, from start to finish:

PRINT RALLY

at the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

Shoe Printmaking

This Cooper's Hawk skimmed my head with its talons, on the UNM campus in front of the printmaking department about 6:15 AM on June 20th, 2026.  I believe it was the same one someone posted on iNaturalist four days earlier. I was at UNM to catch a ride to Taos for the PRINTER PLANETS print market:

I took this photo

of the Cooper's Hawk that attacked me