It was wonderful to be able to print my two large woodcocks last weekend at Big Ink for their set-up at the Arvada Center for the Arts near Denver! Here are some photos from the one-day event. Now I have two of my self portraits completed for the grant I received from the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund in Albuquerque. Stop by to see these prints if you’re in my neighborhood!
I’m so excited to be invited to print with https://www.bigink.org/
The Herstory printmaking collective has been creating prints of women since 2020, and we are thrilled to have been selected to exhibit them as part of the Axle Contemporary mobile exhibit series in Santa Fe! On February 21, Herstory members installed
nineteen images on the Axle truck, which will be touring around Santa Fe until May 15. You can learn more about the exhibit and the upcoming schedule for the location of the truck on the Axel Contemporary website. I encourage anyone visiting Santa Fe to visit the truck and take the quiz if you have a chance! Here are a few photos of the printing process and please come by the studio on march 19 (10-4) to celebrate Herstory and watch us wheat paste these new images to the wall! Julianna Kirwin Printmaking Studio is located on 8th and Mountain Road in Albuquerque, NM.
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!