West End Art Depot -- Setting Up

We set up a quick pop-up gallery in Las Cruces, New Mexico, at the West End Art Depot, on Thursday.  Opening during the Art Ramble the next night, Friday, November 7th, 2014, 6 - 9 PM:

Update:  See link to the Opening

View looking down

Sign out front

This is where we started

Chris Bardey arranged the pop-up show for us

Chris Bardey and Kelley S Hestir

are the head lining attractions,

in the main gallery 

 We are in the 

Closet Pop-up Gallery

 Inside the closet

 Inside the closet

El Pueblo Viejo vs El Chuco -- Fine Art Print Exhibition

More detailed information at:  

YayBigPrintExchange.blogspot.com

YayBig 

Pueblo Viejo prints

Horned Toad Prints 

Chuco prints

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We will be showing the YayBig (Tucson) and/vs the Horned Toad Prints (El Paso) Print Exchanges together in two cities:

Tucson -- Sept 27 - Oct 4

• The Drawing Studio (33 S 6th Ave, downtown) 
• Reception Oct 4th (First Saturday), 6 - 9 PM 

El Paso -- Oct 10 - 12

• Chalk the Block 2014 festival (7th annual) 
• Downtown El Paso 

Rudy Flores is participating in

the YayBig Print Exchange

Click here to see the prints

submitted for the 

YayBig Print Exchange

Our Proposal for the El Paso, which won us a pop-up gallery at Chalk the Block 2014 (Oct 10 - 12):

El Pueblo Viejo vs El Chuco -- Fine Art Print Exhibition

(Tucson vs El Paso print exchanges)

We would like to exhibit fine art prints from both the YayBig Print Exchange (organized in Tucson), and the Horned Toad Print Exchange (organized in El Paso) -- showing works from about 50 different artists total. While all the prints are 8 x 10 inches, each will take a bit more wall space after framing. All the etchings, silkscreens and wood block prints were submitted in 2014.

At Chalk the Block last year (2013), we showcased printmakers from across the Southwest at the YayBig Southwest pop-up gallery, and then took the show to Albuquerque, Phoenix and Tucson. That momentum lead to YayBig sponsoring their own print exchange, modeled after the Horned Toad Print Exchange in El Paso. Naturally the sister exchanges are now begging to be shown together, in the same space. Thus this proposal is not just a follow-up of last year's exhibition -- it’s a different twist on promoting regional printmakers, and nudging them from 2 sides to raise the bar.

(Each artist sent an edition of 15 prints to YayBig. In return they get prints by 13 different artists back. YayBig keeps 2 prints for exhibitions. That is an example of how a print exchange works)

Homecoming -- Southwest Collection at YayBig Gallery in Tucson

Catalog  now for sale on Lulu -- $21.26 plus shipping

View catalog online for free at ISSUU

On Saturday, June 7th, we had a nice, steady opening of the YayBig Southwest Print Collection in two locations -- Yay Big Gallery, and the Academy of Wonderment (in the Arches building just down Toole Street) in downtown Tucson.

Slideshow of the opening by Eneida Colon

Main Gallery --

Yay Big Gallery

Overflow Gallery --

Academy of Wonderment

 Also, Rogo did live printmaking at the Opularium (next door to the Academy of Wonderment).

Printing live at the Opularium

Mik Garrison and Scott Kerr played live in front of Yay Big Gallery.

Mik Garrison and Scott Kerr

Titus Castanza lent us his bread truck, which we hung prints on, to illustrate the importance of a mobile art venue.  Reyna Marshall decorated the truck, which we christened "Planet Hamster" (after Planet Rabbit).

Artwork by Reyna Marshall

Gonzalo Espinosa painted a mural for the show, influenced by print technique, on the side of the Arches Building down the street:

We advertised in the Zocalo magazine:

Ad in the June issue of Zocalo magazine (page 19)

(write-up page 21)

Online listing on picture

Next door in George Strasburger's studio, Titus Castanza painted George Strausberger's portrait, and George painted Titus' portrait, and they showed off their masterpieces on our opening night:

Derys Lyttle showed her paintings

in the back studio

I silkscreened t-shirts using the laser cutter at Xerocraft:

It was a good night!

I produced three prints especially for the show; all the editions were done at the Gloo Factory.  The one below was taken from an Instagram image by John Paul Gutierrez:

Now Metalphysic is converting this print into a 3D digital file, to make a sculpture (possibly bronze):

We also bought 5 pieces by Southwestern printmakers on Etsy to put in this show.  There were a lot of good prints on Etsy, which inspires me to have a show entirely of Etsy prints worldwide.

Later we had print workshops every Thursday evenings in June:

Masterpiece from the first print workshop

A week after the opening, June 14th, we had a Print Fair, where the artists came to sell selected prints:

Gonzalo at the Print Fair

Outside during the Print Fair

Next-- The Yay Big Print Exchange.  An edition of 15 prints, on 8 x 10 inch paper, due September 15th, 2014.  More details online at YayBigPrintExchange.blogspot.com:

1st piece for the YayBig Print Exchange,

done by Joe Marshall

 Update:

January 31, 2015

Metalphysic foundry constructed a 3D model from John Paul Gutierrez's print, using Zbrush, and sent it out to Shapeways to get it 3D printed.  We showed that 3D print at the Tucson Sculpture Festival 2015.

Page 67

in the Tucson Sculpture Festival 2015 catalog

May 29, 2015

The Metalphysic foundry cast John Paul Gutierrez's image in bronze.  The 3D print it was based on, was shown at the Tucson Sculpture Festival 2015:

2016

John Paul's sculpture was poured in bronze, and then chromed:

Main Gallery -- Yay Big

Show at the Mothership with Print Exchange

~Yay Big Gallery Website ~

YayBigSouthwest is showing in June at the mothership -- the Yay Big Gallery!  These are prints that we have collected from artists all over the Southwest; and have shown in pop-up galleries in  El Paso, Albuquerque and Phoenix so far...

• 174 E Toole Street, Tucson, Arizona.       NEW:  We will also be showing prints down the street (31 E Toole) at the new Academy of Wonderment, and Rogo will do live printing at the Opularium next door.

• Opening on June 7th, 6 - 9 PM.  This is during the First Saturday Art Walk, and also the night of the Tucson Art Safari.  

• The show runs through June 29, 2014.  Gallery hours will be from 3 - 8PM, Thursday, Friday and Saturdays in June.

174 East Toole,

Tucson, Arizona

(Location of Yay Big Gallery)

Facebook Event

YAYBIG Southwest Print Show

Ad in the June issue of Zocalo magazine (page 19)

(write-up page 21)

Online listing on picture

Our event listed on Print People

I also posted our event on the Xerocraft hackerspace website.

Hanging the show

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Prints for Sale!

Print Fair -- June 14th, 5 - 9 PM

Also, there will be a Print Fair at the Yay Big Gallery during the following Saturday, June 14th, from 5 - 9PM, where selected prints will be for sale.

Posted on Craig's List.

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DRINK and CUT

Thursday nights in June, 7 - 9:30 PM, at Yay Big Gallery.  Make woodcuts and other prints, BYOB.

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Yay Big is also launching a Print Exchange.  8 x 10 inch works due by September 15th.  More information at YayBigPrintExchange.blogspot.com!

Download Print Exchange Form

This baby press will make 8 x 10 inch prints,

for the Yay Big Print Exchange!

Gonzalo making silk screen monoprints

at the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson

This print exchange was inspired by both the Horned Toad and the Dialogos E Interpretaciones print exchanges (other exchanges might be listed at Print People).

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Classes at the Academy of Wonderment (35 E Toole) with printmaker Joe Marshall.  Mini-comic and bookmaking, Saturday mornings 10am - 12 noon (Starts June 7th).  $10.

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Tucson is starting a print collective! -- Tucson Community Printshop on Facebook.

We bought some prints on Etsy from Southwestern printmakers. There is a nice, reasonably priced selection there.

Also I favored a lot of Etsy prints worldwide, from outside the US.

We are self-publishing a catalog of the Yay Big Southwest print collection on Lulu. The catalog should be finished in the middle of June.

Laser cut stencils

for silkscreening T-shirt at Xerocraft

You and Your Bigger Ideas  -- Go Fund Me campaign:

The goal of this Go Fund Me is to expand YAYBIG and integrate it with the newly forming Tucson Community Print Shop.