October 2021 - Julianna Kirwin

1st Place at Southwest Print Fiesta!

October 27, 2021 by julianna

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!

Upcoming Neighborhood Mural Project Event: Saturday, October 16

October 11, 2021 by julianna

October has been a busy month, with my new Wells Park neighborhood mural printmaking project coming up soon! I invite you to join me for the public printmaking project on Saturday, October 16, at the Johnny Tapia Community Center at 500 Mountain Road NW. There are a few registration spots still available, with all materials provided, and you can sign up here. We will be helping to inaugurate the new park by creating a community mural around themes relating to the Wells Park neighborhood. We have already had great participants from Ace High School, Escuela del Sol, and Artstreet creating wonderful handmade prints. Please come join Michelle Corte and I for this fun printmaking project on October 16, with the public unveiling to be held on October 22. I hope to see you there!

Southwest Print Fiesta

October 7, 2021October 1, 2021 by julianna

So excited to have two of my pieces in the exhibit at the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City- a weekend-long celebration of printmaking Oct 8,9 and 10! Please come! southwestprintfiesta.org (I can’t wait to meet more printmakers from both sides of the border!) They have chosen “Ancestral Corn II” and “Maria and Francisco with Xoloitzcuintle” which are both recent woodcut prints, hand-printed at my studio in Albuquerque on a Takach press. The subject of Native corn has been a long-term interest of mine and was part of my thesis and curriculum development at the University of New Mexico. “Maria and Francisco” is a portion of a very large woodcut print that was exhibited at the Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque in 2020, a piece I titled “Pan American Unity” after the 1940’s mural by Diego Rivera. Both woodcut prints have a lot of meaning for me and I’m very glad to have more people seeing them at this event!