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Sunday, 8 March 2026

ABQ ARTWALK -- MARCH 2026

The downtown Albuquerque ARTWALK happened on Friday, March 6, 2026, and featured the artwork of JOHN PAUL GUTIERREZ (Instagram) on the cover of the guide:

John Paul Gutierrez's artwork

was on the cover for the ARTWALK guide for March 2026

PRINTMAKING

ADAM BERMAN and crew made me another t-shirt during the ABQ ARTWALK -- printing with black ink on a black t-shirt, but then spraying with "free-range unicorn tears" (bleach) to bring out the orange color:

Black print on black t-shirt --

sprayed with unicorn tears

Selection of blocks

to print t-shirts with

Karsten Creightney's design

on the front of the t-shirt

Aniol Barris' design

on the back of the t-shirt

UNM PRINTMAKERS

Kade Lamb

Anna Maraziti

Katie Butler

ACE BARBERSHOP

ENRIQUE HARRISON was showing at ACE Barbershop:

Enrique Harrison

PHOTOBOOTH

Glimmer Photo Booth set up on the street and took my picture:

Glimmer Photo Booth

JONITO and JEREMY MONTOYA

JONITO (Jon Sanchez) and JEREMY MONTOYA were showing again at the Red Door Brewing Co. (like they did last month):

Jeremy Montoya and Jon Sanchez

Inside the Red Door Brewing Co.

I have been running into these printmakers in Albuquerque in the last decade:

"Prints by Southwest" Opening

Jonnito next to his raven print in 2017

at the "South by Southwest" exhibition

"Prints by Southwest" Opening

Jeremy Montoya next to his hummingbird print in 2017

at the "South by Southwest" exhibition

Day of the Dead Albuquerque

Jonito in 2017 at the South Broadway Cultural Center

at the "Dia de los Muertos" exhibition

Day of the Dead Albuquerque

Jeremy Montoya in 2017 at the South Broadway Cultural Center

at the "Dia de los Muertos" exhibition

RICHARD LEVY GALLERY

The RICHARD LEVY Gallery always has high class exhibitions:

Carl Smith

Julie Green

Kim Largey

KUKANI

The KUKANI Gallery hosted a UNM Graduate art exhibition:

OT CIRCUS

ANGIE REHNBERG was showing at the OT CIRCUS:

Angie Rehnberg at OT CIRCUS

Meet the Artist | Episode 3: Angie Rehnberg Art

Angie Rehnberg also curates Merge Modern Art Gallery inside Catalyst Coffee

SECRET GALLERY

BON LAS ART was painting again during the ABQ Artwalk -- this time in front of the SECRET GALLERY:

OUTSIDE

BON LAS ART painting

in front of the SECRET GALLERY

INSIDE

France Pancake

Kyle Velez

Scene in front of the KIMO Theatre

during the March 2026 ARTWALK

Saturday, 7 March 2026

ARTIE 3000 drawing robot

Adam got the ARTIE 3000 robot to draw one of my figures:

The robot would have completed the image,

had we not moved it after it drew part of the leg

The ARTIE 3000 at work

before we refined the SVG image

FIRST we had to reduce one of my simpler drawings into a vector SVG file:

June PNG -- Part 2

Best PNG Drawings 2020 -- Part 1

PRINTMAKING -- UNM/UTEP Print Exchange,

plus Die Cutting Tessellations

We converted this image into a vector file

With a bit more massaging, Adam reduced image into a simple SINGLE line vector SVG file in Inkscape:

Autotracer

Inkscape

Vector Paint

Download: "ARTIEman.SVG" (8.16 KB)

Adam used Visual Studio Code with the Claude Sonnet 4.6 model to write a Python program that would translate the vector file into the ARTIE 3000 software:

Download draw_diecut.py (11.13 KB)

Adam vibe coding with VS Code

Perhaps we can now download the Python code and upload different SVG files to it -- to get ARTIE 3000 to make other drawings.

Adric first brought the second hand ARTIE 3000 (~$80 new on Amazon) to hack night at Quelab on March 4th, 2026. He then opened the program -- http://192.168.4.1/ -- and drew a cat freehand in the ARTIE interface, to get the robot to then draw the cat on paper:

March 4, 2026

Freehand drawing in the ARTIE interface

to get the robot to draw a cat

One can also talk to ARTIE 3000 through -- local.codewithartie.com -- as long as both he and ARTIE are connected to the router at Quelab.

Download the ARTIE 3000 python code to write "QUELAB"
Drawing Robot -- Hackaday

Mark Surguy writes geometric art software, which might somehow be ported into the ARTIE 3000

Maybe the next step is to activate ARTIE's eyes, then train him on my drawing style -- so that he can make figure drawings all by himself. That looks possible with a DRAW ME BOT.

UPDATE (March 10): Adric linked to this post from a Reddit thread -- "I ported a Go library to javascript-- creative coding for SVG plotter art"

iPHONE SCULPTURE

For over a decade I have been wanting to make sculptures that viewers can control with their smart phones -- since it's hard to get people to look up from their mobile devices. The ARTIE 3000 is a small leap in that direction.

In 2014 in Phoenix, we quickly put together a robot that moved on the sidewalk, controlled by a tablet in real time, in front of the HeatSync hackerspace:

March 22, 2014

Tucson Sculpture Festivals (2012 - 2015)

Sculpture Posts

Sculpture controlled by an Android tablet

as Southwest Maker Fest (2014) -- 01

The Styrofoam sculpture was milled at MetalPhysic in Tucson, from a full body scan we made at the Tucson Sculpture Festival in 2014:

Tucson Sculpture Festivals (2012 - 2015)

Scanning visitors to the

Tucson Sculpture Festival 2014

March 1, 2014

February 6, 2014

Metalphysic milled out the body scans

in Styrofoam

Adam at Quelab also built a robot car that he can control remotely. Maybe we can stick a piece of chalk on it, hook it up to his smart phone, and make drawings in the street with it:

The bigger version of ARTIE 3000?

Remotely controlled cart

JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ in Santa Fe

SANTA FE

JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ was showing her prints in Santa Fe at HECHO A MANO gallery, and I went to her Donut Talk the day after the opening, on March 7, 2026:

Juana Estrada Hernandez at HECHO A MANO

with gallery owner Frank Rose in Santa Fe, NM

JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ

showing at HECHO A MANO in Santa Fe

I went to the Donut Talk

on Saturday, March 7, 2026

Frank Rose (gallery owner) and Juana Estrada Hernandez

at her Donut Talk

Juana's print

of the USA as a piñata

Juana's statement

PREVIOUS

We have been following JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ since she was a graduate student at UNM in 2019. Now she is an assistant professor of printmaking at RISD:

2024

At the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 in Silver City, New Mexico:

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 --

Light Gallery "Uncertain Boundaries"

Juana was the juror

for the Uncertain Boundaries print exhibition

ART AND MIGRATION exhibition at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque:

Prints and Exhibition November

Juana was on the panel talk at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque

for the ART AND MIGRATION exhibition

SON DE ALLÁ Y SON DE ACÁ exhibitions organized by Vicente Telles in Albuquerque -- when she hung out with printmakers Tim Pauszek, Miranda K Metcalf of "Hello Print Friend" and Marco Sanchez of El Paso:

August 11, 2022