It rained and rained but we wheat pasted our Herstory images at the Southwest Print fiesta anyway! We also conducted a public printmaking event and gave a presentation about how Herstory got started using our Womanifesto as the theme. Such a fun festival-always great to see printmakers from the whole region. The steam roller event was super fun. Thanks to our sponsors Power and Light in Silver City!
We had such an amazing time on my Printmaking Tour of Oaxaca! The five day tour was packed with visits to local printmaker’s studios, twelve in all.
Each one has a little different focus, most are collaborative. The printmaking scene in Oaxaca is alive and well! Special thanks to Federico Lopez who gave us a three day class in the art of woodblock, Oaxacan style.
It was a wonderful experience teaching at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. My five students learned to do linocut and woodcut, using a variety of inking and printing techniques. Each of them took home many prints in their own unique style! We were hand printing in the beautiful landscape that is so unique to Ghost Ranch.
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!
