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Thank you so much for your support over the past year and welcome to 2022 at the Julianna Kirwin Printmaking Studio!

This January, the studio will be closed and will reopen on Saturday, February 5th. I’m so excited to be traveling to Alamos, Sonora Mexico during January where I’ll be working on a life-sized self portrait using a variety of printmaking techniques including woodblock, hand-cut stencils, and power tool drypoint. February will be an exciting time at the Julianna Kirwin Studio! Watch for upcoming printmaking sessions with HERSTORY and a linocut class on the weekend of February 12th and 13th!

Due to the rise in Covid cases across the US and travel restrictions, the Printmaking Tour of Oaxaca has been temporarily postponed, but will be rescheduled for late spring or early summer. Register for updates on my website.

 I was so excited to receive the 1st Place award for my woodcut print, “Maria Martinez and Francisco Toledo with Xoloitzcuintle” at the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City! The regional festival was the perfect 3-day habitat for a printmaker-I got to meet so many printmakers and enjoyed watching the steam roller printing process too.

I was also so pleased that my other woodblock print in the show, “Ancestral Corn II” was featured on the cover of the local newspaper!

I’m happy to invite you to participate in my new printmaking project, The Wells Park Neighborhood Mural! It will be the first community project to help inaugurate the future park, and the mural will be unveiled on Oct. 22nd! The public is invited to join in on the project Saturday, Oct 16th at the Johnny Tapia Community Center at 500 Mountain Road NW. I’ll be there along with Michelle Corte to help you create a print for the mural. All materials will be provided. Space is limited so please register here. Local schools and organizations such as Ace High School, Escuela del Sol, and Artstreet have already created their handmade prints on themes that relate to our Wells Park neighborhood– the attached pictures show some of their amazing work. Come join me and participate in this wonderful community project! Click here to sign up for the public printmaking workshop on October 16, and read all about the Wells Park redevelopment project here.

Corn is my signature printmaking expression. I grew up in Nebraska but moved to New Mexico to attend UNM. I quickly learned about the unique varieties of corn (grown by local farmers here) which have been cultivated over generations by saving the best seeds from each crop. Corn is part of our identity and our time honored New Mexico traditions. I like to celebrate those traditions with my images of corn, done in woodblock and linocut.

Come by to see the Together We Make Herstory, a paper mural of handmade prints that honor women tonight (First Friday) at the Julianna Kirwin Studio/Gallery 5-8pm as well as many new woodblock pieces I’ve created during the pandemic. Also open tonight on the Mountain Road Arts Corridor (8th through 12th streets): Richochet Gallery, Little Bird de Papel and the Golden Crown Panaderia!

I’m happy to announce a new class in relief printing! Please join us for this one day workshop with the theme of neighborhood/family portraits. To create the printing plates, we will use sticky foam- cut and pasted to a flat plastic surface, then inked and printed. It’s a very direct and simple way of creating a print! All materials provided, the class is $125.

 My woodblock print, “Blue Corn” was purchased by New Mexico Art in Public Places and is now installed at the Munson Senior Center in Las Cruces New Mexico! So excited to see it up and in such a good location!

https://www.krqe.com/krqe-plus/community-reports/making-herstory-new-mural-honors-female-pioneers/

We were on the news! Thanks to KRQE and Anna Padilla for airing the story about our mural, Together We Make Herstory! The four of us are hoping to continue the project in other educational settings, spreading visual reminders of the amazing stories of courageous women in our midst.