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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!

I’m happy to announce a new class in relief printing! Please join us for this one day workshop with the theme of neighborhood/family portraits. To create the printing plates, we will use sticky foam- cut and pasted to a flat plastic surface, then inked and printed. It’s a very direct and simple way of creating a print! All materials provided, the class is $125.

 My woodblock print, “Blue Corn” was purchased by New Mexico Art in Public Places and is now installed at the Munson Senior Center in Las Cruces New Mexico! So excited to see it up and in such a good location!

https://www.krqe.com/krqe-plus/community-reports/making-herstory-new-mural-honors-female-pioneers/

We were on the news! Thanks to KRQE and Anna Padilla for airing the story about our mural, Together We Make Herstory! The four of us are hoping to continue the project in other educational settings, spreading visual reminders of the amazing stories of courageous women in our midst.

A small crowd gathered as the four of us installed our mural, “Together We Make Herstory” on an outside wall at my studio on 8th and Mountain Road this past Saturday! It was cold and windy but we had so much fun putting up our colorful prints with wheat paste (a common technique used by Oaxacan printmakers) and they are expected to endure the elements for at least six months.  

We are hoping to extend the project into other communities and settings.

Stop by the Julianna Kirwin Printmaking Studio this Saturday, April 17 at 10am to see our new mural being mounted on the outdoor wall along Mountain Road and 8th St!  Four women have created hand printed portraits of eight women. “We each chose two women that we wanted to showcase in our mural titled Together We Make Herstory,” states Lena Weiss. Pictured in the mural are Georgia O’Keefe, Dolores Huerta, Deb Haaland, Augusta Savage, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Amanda Gorman, Emma Gonzalez and one self portrait.

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I just started printing these bags in my studio this past week– so happy to have my woodcut of Ruth Bader Ginsburg now on a tote bag. Washable with inks that won’t fade, this sturdy tote can carry your groceries, or any items on you daily list of errands. Go to my store page to get more details and purchase info. Thanks!

This week I made a hand printed map of Mountain Road using the technique of linocut. It was quite a project (!) trying to fit the local businesses, museums, art studios and restaurants into a regular sized paper and do it more or less to scale. The map covers a span of Mountain Rd from Rio Grande to 4th street. I’m going to distribute this map to our local coffee shops and art studios, and I’m hoping that people will want to walk down our road, and visit my studio of course!