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Making Prints From Sticky Foam Sheets

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Making prints from sticky foam sheets is a very simple and rewarding process. All you need to do is make your drawing on the backing of the foam sheet, cut it out, peel off the backing, reapply the shapes to another sticky foam sheet, and roll with ink. Then turn over the sticky foam onto your paper underneath, rub carefully to all edges and when you remove it-there’s your print!

Printing the Blue Hollyhock bags

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Happy to announce my new series of flower linocut prints on cotton bags! These tote bags with bottom gusset and strong handles hold a lot of groceries and necessities in a beautiful bag that is reusable and environmentally friendly. You can wash this bag and the colors will remain permanent. Support your local artists-purchase this bag and others from the collection!

Banners on Mountain Road 2020

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Mountain Road Banners 2020 needs your support! We are hoping to get the banners installed on lampposts by May 2nd! Each new banner image is from an original woodcut by one of 13 artists and each represents an aspect of our neighborhood history! We will accept donations large and small at this GoFundMe link:

gf.me/u/xsfu9a

Thank you!

New Banners for Mountain Road Lamp Posts

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Mountain Road Banners 2020 is a community project involving our history and the talents of thirteen local artists! Each banner image is an original woodcut print representing an aspect of our neighborhood history. The artists each made a drawing, transferred it to the wood, carved the wood, inked it and put it through the press. Then each of those woodcut prints were photographed and enlarged into banners for the twenty six lampposts between 5th and 12th streets on Mountain. The project means so much to the artists and community!

“This new set of banners once again brings the history of our road and our city to life, making it possible for all of our visitors to see!” says Julianna Kirwin, project organizer. “History of the Neighborhood Through the Eyes of Contemporary Artists is a Public Art Project funded in part by the City of Albuquerque, and local businesses… and is now in its second year.”

Learn more about each artist’s banner at www.friendsofmountainroad.com 

 

Our Printmaking Tour of Oaxaca: A Big Success!

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 For the ten participants we had on our Printmaking Tour of Oaxaca, there was much to see and do, not to mention the actual tour of all the printmaking studios there! SO inspiring to hear how each one got started, and the way that they work collaboratively to create striking images, often of very large size. We also got to visit the Centro Cultural in San Augustin Etla where they were hosting a printmaking class by Edith Chavez. Probably the highlight though, was the three day class we took with Federico Valdez and Christopher Diaz at Cooperativa Grafica. Here’s a photo of our group!

Pan American Unity Opening at the NHCC

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Please join me for the unveiling of Pan American Unity, a mural in woodblock! I’ve been working on it since early September in order to have it ready for the Hispanic Cultural Center exhibit, El Voto Feminino. The opening is January 24th, 6-8 pm in the Literary Arts Building (fountain courtyard bldg). SO happy to be part of this exhibit!

Based on the 1940’s mural by Diego Rivera, my woodblock print replaces images of the founding fathers with eleven important contemporary women from across the Americas and two men who have inspired me and my work as a printmaker.
I want to thank Sarah Dewey, Mark Wallis and Ilene Weiss for their assistance during the process of carving and printing each of ten panels on cloth. And thank you to Valerie Martinez and Cassandra Osterloh for their guidance and invitation to include my piece in El Voto Feminino Exhibit at the NHCC!
http://www.nhccnm.org/event/el-voto-feminino-exhibit/
Contact me if you’d like to support the project…I will have giclee prints of the large piece for sale.
Hope you can join us Jan 24th!