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Printmakers around the world and several in Las Cruces will have their doors open, making prints and giving studio tours and demonstrations as International Print Day returns Saturday, May 6.
Visitors interested in learning more about printmaking and getting prints from local artists are invited to visit these studios 11 a.m.-5 p.m.:
- Black Bird Studio, 651 Watson Lane, Mesilla Park; Noël Sandino opens her home studio with demonstrations in multi-media monoprinting. Penny Scribner will be working on relief printing in linocut. Visit noelsandino.com.
- Gallery 925, 925 N. Mesquite St. in the Mesquite Historic District; artist Diane Alire’s print studio is behind the gallery. Alire’s medium is photogravure, fusing her love of photography and the intaglio method of inking metal plates and then printing them on an etching press. Visitors can learn about this art process and the prints it produces, along with etching, woodcut gel printing, linocut and screen printing. Alire and Gabriele Teich will give printmaking demonstrations. There will be a drawing for a free print. Artwork by Diana Ayres, Chris Bardey, Nancy Frost Begin, Francisco Delgado, Manuel Guerra, Karen Hernandez, Raul Monarez, Louis Ocepek, SABA, Noel Sandino, Penny Scribner, Gummi Thordarson, Roy van der Aa, Isaac Varela, Diane Vera, Shane Wiggs, Corinne Whitmill, Adriana Zavala and Naida Zucker will be on display through May 28. Alire will give a gallery talk 1-2 p.m. Sunday, May 7. Contact Alire at artserf@fastmail.com. Visit gallery925nm.com, Gallery925LCNM on Facebook, instagram.com/gallery925lc/ and instagram.com/gabrieles_prints.
- Reviver Printing, 801 W. Organ Ave.; serigraphy artist Chris Shelton will work on screen-printed apparel. Visitors can check out the large collection of printed posters, bandanas and more. Visit
reviverprinting.com/.
- Depress Press and The Crooked Man Press, 3405 N. Highway 28, just south of Mesilla; visitors will find Chris Bardey of Crooked Man Press and Matthew Garza and Anne Q of Depress Press. Bardey will be working on block printing using hand-cut cardboard plates. Garza and Anne Q work primarily in screen printing, with tee shirts, posters, bags and hats on display. Visitors can make a quick print for themselves and view other prints in many mediums in the collections of both presses. Visit instagram.com/depress_press/, facebook.com/christophbardey and instagram.com/thecrookedmanpress.
“Print Day celebrates the art and community of printmaking,” according to printdayinmay.com/about/. “It’s a day to get together in studios across the world to make prints.”
Follow the worldwide event @printdayinmay on Facebook and Instagram and search for #printdayinmay.
For more information, contact Chris Bardey at 575-312-9892 and csbardey@gmail.com and Noël Sandino at 916-224-1245 and noelsandino@yahoo.com.
