El Consejo Gráfico

Consejo Grafico in South Bend, IN

2011-06-16T07:28:00.000-07:00

Consejo Grafico members will be meeting the South Bend area during the week of June 19th, 2011.

The Consejo Gráfico (Graphic Council) is an independent network of print workshops that has formed to advance the legacy and viability of Latino printmaking in the United States. In addition to promoting the communication and collaboration needed to preserve and continue the critical-activist orientation that spearheaded Latino printmaking, the Consejo Gráfico also works to foster opportunities for Latino youth to engage in printmaking and for a larger community to appreciate the importance and value of the Latino printmaking tradition.

Holding their first ever retreat, the Consejo Gráfico will engage in a number of meetings and oral history interviews on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Members will also work together on a number of printmaking projects. In addition, the Consejo will be sponsoring a limited number of community-based events engaging area youth through presentations and workshops. Other activities include public art exhibits and receptions with the entire week culminating in a sale of prints by the Consejo.

Highlights of the week are as follows:

El Campito Preschool--Local artists Joe Segura, Ramiro Rodriguez, and Laurie Rousseau will work with the children developing relief prints.

Summer Internship Program @ The Snite Museum of Art--Members of Consejo Gráfico will introduce themselves and show their works to area high school students participating in the Summer Internship Program.

Oral History Interviews--In collaboration with the Julian Samora Library at the Institute for Latino Studies, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, noted scholar of the arts and humanities, will conduct oral history interviews with members of the Consejo Gráfico. Ybarra-Frausto has documented the development of Chicano art in the United States, chronicling the political and artistic movement from its beginning during the 1960s to the present.

Public Events:

Galería América--Opening Reception featuring the work of San Francisco artist Juan Fuentes. Fuentes, a cultural activist, artist, and printmaker, has dedicated his art to supporting and being part of a global movement for social change. Reception: Monday, June 20, 2011. 5:00-7:00 pm. at 230 McKenna Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana. This exhibit runs June 20-August 12, 2011.

Crossroads: an Institute for Latino Studies Gallery—Opening reception for the exhibition Consejo Grafico: Borrando la Raya/Erasing the Line. Featuring a variety of printmaking media, this portfolio seeks to give voice to the voiceless and raise awareness about the plight of immigrants today. Reception: Wednesday, June 22, 2011. 5:00-7:00 pm. 217 South Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana, 46601. This exhibit runs June 3-August 12, 2011.

Print Sale and Reception at Guerrilla Galería--The week will culminate with an exhibition and sale of prints by the Consejo Gráfico. For one night only the public will have the opportunity to purchase fine art prints that were created and printed during the week-long meeting. Each print will be $75. Friday, June 24, 2011. 5:00-8:00 pm. Guerrilla Galería @ Monroe Street Studios, 439 South Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana, 46601.

Member studios of the Consejo Gráfico:

Arceo Press Segura publishing
Chicago, Illinois Tempe, Arizona

Coronado Studio Self Help Graphics
Austin, Texas Los Angeles, California

El Nopal Press Pepe Coronado Studio & Print Projects
Los Angeles, California Hastings on Hudson, New York

La Mano Press Taller Arte del Nuevo Amancer
Tacambaro, Michoacan, Mexico Woodland, California

Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective Taller Boricua
Los Angeles, California New York, New York

Modern Multiples Taller Tupac Amaru
Los Angeles, California San Leandro, California

Pajaro Editions Yollacalli Arts Reach
San Francisco, California Chicano, Illinois

RioMar Studio
South Bend, Indiana

CG @ Guerrilla Galeria

2011-06-16T07:25:00.000-07:00

Consejo Gráfico presents:

For one night only
Print Sale and Reception
Friday June 24, 2011
5:00–8:00 pm
Guerrilla Galería @ Monroe Street Studios
439 South Michigan Street
South Bend, IN 46601

Consejo Gráfico (Graphic Council) is having a one night only exhibition and sale of prints on Friday June 24 from 5 – 8 p.m. Every print for sale will be $75 or under.
The Consejo Gráfico is an international independent network of print workshops that has formed to advance the legacy and viability of Latino printmaking in the United States.
The Consejo Gráfico promotes the communication and collaboration that enable the preservation and continuity of the critical-activist orientation that spearheaded Latino printmaking. Similarly, it works to foster opportunities for Latino youth to engage in printmaking, and for a larger community to appreciate the importance and value of the Latino printmaking tradition.
Prints in this sale will have been created and printed during the week-long meeting of Consejo Gráfico in South Bend, IN.
Exhibit and print sale is for one night only: June 24, 2011 from 5 – 8 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
“Guerrilla Galería” is a one night only gallery occupying the former Witmer McNease Music Store across from the downtown Post Office.
For more information about Consejo Gráfico and this special exhibit please contact Laurie Rousseau at: laurierousseau2@gmail.com or (574)315-8728.

Cuentos Y Memoria: "Dia de los Muertos ofrenda installation"

2009-10-13T08:48:00.000-07:00

Opening: Thursday, October 15 at 5:00pm

Event: Cuentos Y Memoria
"Dia de los Muertos ofrenda installation"
What: Exhibit
Where: Metropolitan Community College Elkhorn Valley Campus

829 North 204th Street
Omaha NE

Description:
A Dia de Los Muertos ofrenda (Day of the Dead offering/altar) installation by Ramiro Rodriguez with accompanying ofrendas by community members as well.

http://www.mccneb.edu/campuslocations/evc.asp

Watch Taller Boricua & G4 on Channel 34

2009-10-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

There will be an final showing: Tuesday, October 13th at 8:30 pm on channel 34

Manhattan Neighborhood Network will air a previously recorded interview between Marcos Dimas, Artistic Director / Founder of the Taller Boricua, and the artists of the collective G4: Vicente Fabré, Luis Leonor, Moses Ros, Renaldo García Pantaleón.

Check MNN schedule for future air dates.

For additional information about G4: Vicente Fabré, Luis Leonor, Moses Ros and Reynaldo García Pantaleón please contact the Taller Boricua: tallerboricua@yahoo.com

Taller Boricua / The Puerto Rican Workshop is a 40-year old artist-run nonprofit art gallery and multi-disciplinary cultural space in El Barrio. Our mission is to be a proactive institution for the community in East Harlem by offering programs that stimulate its social, cultural and economic development through the promotion of the arts.

About MNN:
Manhattan Neighborhood Network is responsible for administering the Public Access cable television services in Manhattan. Our purpose is to ensure the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise their First Amendment rights through the medium of cable television and to create opportunities for mutual communication, education, artistic expression and other noncommercial uses of video facilities on an open, uncensored and equitable basis. In providing services, we seek to involve the diverse racial, ethnic and geographic communities of Manhattan in the electronic communication of their varied interests, needs, concerns and identities.

Public Access Television is supported by TimeWarner Cable and RCN Cable, under a franchise agreement with the City of New York. MNN is made possible by the work and support of thousands of individuals and groups in New York City

Surveillance & Spirituality: A survey of works by Gabriel Villa

2009-10-13T08:33:00.000-07:00

Date:	Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Time:	6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	Visual Arts Gallery/ E-Lounge, College of Arts & Sciences
Street:	Governors State University, One University Parkway
City/Town:	University Park, IL

http://gsuvisualartsgallery.blogspot.com/
www.gabrielvilla.net

"Like alchemists, academics, graffiti artists, poets, rebels and paratroopers aflame, the art of Gabriel Villa is anything but a stationary traveler; like Ulysses under the double concaveness of a lake and the sky, his gaze is the site of visions: The most beautiful and loneliest woman, the inverse area of the umbra that rises inversely and proportional to the greatness of the city, the modern Metropolis like a Leviathan...Knowing how to carefully place everything, it all fits in a gaze: The light of a candle, a neon light, dust and snow, chalk and ashes; los inabarcable filos de la vida,great heights and the great cavities of the earth: This is what makes the work of Gabriel Villa a search where a discovery is what the classic teachers understood it to be: Thousands of mixtures and hard work fail to transfigure the immutable nature of matter: The Transfiguration, the only true change into another state occurs in the innermost part of nature, the mass of the shadows, titillating lights, a variable fogginess that lives in the heart of the Alchemist." - excerpted from "Gaze as Hunger: The Art of Gabriel Villa" by Alejandro Perez Cervantes

September 30 through October 23, 2009

Hello Consejo Members

2009-02-23T16:39:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to introduce myself to all of you. I am Teresa Hayes-Santos, and I have been assisting Gil at the Institute for Latino Studies since June of 2008. Recently, I began working as Art Coordinator and will be working with Maria Elena on Consejo. I am looking forward to meeting all of you at the September 2009 meeting here at the University of Notre Dame. Please feel free to contact me at: tsantos1@nd.edu or (574) 631-5224.

Just saying Hello

2009-02-23T12:24:00.000-08:00

Hey Consejo!

I just spoke with Gil and he reminded me of the blog! I am not sure who checks this, if anyone but I figured it would be a good way to say hello! I hope that the last meeting of the Consejo in Austin was a success and many good things came out of it! I would love to be able to stay in touch with everyone (which I know I have not been stellar at). So keep me posted on what is going on, consejo and non-consejo news!

Can't wait to hear from everyone!

Warm Wishes and Smiles,

Lauren

lauren.m.magnifico@gmail.com

Architectural Museography

2008-02-15T05:51:00.000-08:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Francesco X Siqueiros,
“Architectural Museography”
Selection of Prints from El Nopal press
February 14, 2007

El Nopal Press
109 West 5th Street (between Spring and Main St.)
Los Angeles, California 90013
(213) 239-0417
E-mail, nopalpress@aol.com
Web site, http://www.fauxpop.com/nopalpress
Hours: By appointment Only

El Nopal Press is pleased to present an installation by Francesco X Siqueiros.

Acknowledging the print studio space as a coherent whole. A museography was
articulated using the collection of prints of El nopal press and their
architectonic equipolent relationship; punctuated by equivalent color swatches.

The project is a study in alternative exhibition presentation ideas. The art
work can be viewed individually as well as dependent on the dynamic of the
whole.

The artists include: Linda Stark, Sandra de la Loza, Frank Ryan, Roger Herman, Yishai Jusidman, Victor Estrada, Adela Osuna, Spencer Lewis, Peter Liashkov, Aemon Ore Giron, Diane Gamboa, Harry Gamboa Jr., Susan Bolles, Lino Martinez, Alexis Disselkoen, Dr. Lakra, Dominique Liquois, Carlos Somonte, Mariana Botey, Glenn Kaino, John Baldessari, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Mario Rangel Faz, Gronk.

Article from Gil

2008-02-08T12:26:00.000-08:00

New York 2008

2008-02-06T11:39:00.001-08:00

News from Byron Brauchli of a New Project

2007-06-13T12:27:00.000-07:00

Ediciones Izote y el
Heliograbado en México
Desde la popularización de la fotografía como práctica cultural a finales del siglo XIX, ha existido una larga trayectoria de ediciones de alta calidad relacionada con México. Ya sea que contemplemos las vistas mayas de Désiré Chamay, los paisajes de Hugo Brehme, las clásicas imágenes de Paul Strand o las recientes colaboraciones de Francisco Toledo y Graciela Iturbide con talleres norteamericanos y europeos, podemos encontrar un constante interés por la impresión fina y permanente de las imágenes. El portafolio de heliograbados sobre México elaborado por Paul Strand es, quizás, no sólo uno de los más renombrados ejemplos, sino que su calidad no ha podido superarse. No obstante, hoy día, pese a los enormes cambios tecnológicos y estéticos, las imágenes, son cada vez más ubicuas por su cotidianidad y proliferación. Si a esto aunamos la revolución digital, encontramos que el significado de muchas de estas imágenes se convierte más en un sound bite o email y, cuando se imprimen (si es que acaso las imprimen), estas imágenes son cada día más iguales una a la otra, por su manera estándar de producción con equipos, tintas, y papeles transnacionales. Es en este contexto que Ediciones Izote: Taller de Gráfica y Heliograbado propone el rescate y difusión de la técnica del heliograbado en el mundo artístico de México moderno.
Es necesario señalar que se habla de rescate--pues el proceso del heliograbado en cobre remonta a los inicios de la fotografía, cuando las imágenes impresas con sales de plata aún no eran muy estables ni permanentes. Por esta razón, los pioneros de la fotografía como William Henry Fox Talbot, buscaron por medio del grabado una alternativa más durable a las efímeras impresiones en plata. A lo largo de varias décadas se fue mejorando la técnica hasta perfeccionar lo que conocemos como heliograbado en cobre: un proceso de reproducción único en la historia fotográfica hasta hoy día.
El gran fotógrafo modernista norteamericano Alfred Stieglitz solía decir que las reproduccio¬nes—en heliograbado—que se hacían en su revista Camera Work,(1903-1917) no eran reproduccio¬nes sino múltiples originales. Es precisamente la sutil distinción en la calidad técnica de este proceso de im¬presión lo que lo diferencia de otros procesos y donde quizás reside el atractivo estético del que actualmente gozan los llamados procesos alternos donde se ubica al heliograbado. Lo que le da la calidad de “original” a una estampa en helio¬grabado sobre una reproducción litográfica, o de offset, o incluso digital, es el carácter binario de estos últimos tres procesos: o sea se imprimen o no se imprimen, pues no hay medios tonos. Un heliograbado se graba continuamente en el ácido mientras se forma la imagen. Con una litografía, un offset, ó una imagen digital, hablamos siempre de la resolu¬ción o nitidez de la trama que contiene la imagen: se traducen los medios tonos de una fotografía a una serie de puntos tramados. Además de la distinción binaria en que se forman las imágenes, merece mencionarse que la estampa de un grabado deja la imagen literalmente impresa dentro del papel, con un minucioso relieve de tonos y de la marca de la plancha. Todos estos detalles hacen verdaderamente únicas las copias del heliogra¬bado.
La producción de un heliograbado en cobre se puede dividir en cuatro fases: Elaboración de positivos ampliados, insolar y grabar las planchas, hacer pruebas de impresión (y color) de las planchas hasta llegar a un bon à tirer (B.A.T.—“bueno para tirar” en español), y finalmente realizar el tiraje de la edición. La primera fase consiste en ampliar análogamente el negativo original sobre película del tamaño final del grabado. Este positivo se emplea en la segunda fase como la matriz para insolar la imagen en un relieve de gelatina sobre la plancha, el cual se sumerge en ácido para grabar el cobre. Después, en la tercera fase, se muele y condiciona la tinta hasta obtener las características de tono y color deseadas, escogiendo a la vez el papel que se usará en la edición. Una vez decididos y de acuerdo con la calidad de las estampas que el taller obtiene para el artista, se firma una impresión como un B.A.T., la cual se respetará como guía para igualar la edición. La última fase consiste en completar el tiraje de acuerdo al B.A.T. ya establecido.
El conocimiento y práctica de Ediciones Izote tiene como fundamento los más de 25 años de experiencia que tiene su maestro impresor y grabador Byron Brauchli. El maestro Brauchli ha trabajado con artistas de renombre como Robert Rauschenberg, Kate Breakey, Lee Smith, William Wittliff, Leticia Tarragó, y José Lazcarro, entre otros. Además tiene una trayectoria reconocida en la formación de recursos humanos. Ha impartido clases y talleres en instituciones como El Centro de la Imagen, El Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo de Oaxaca, La Fototeca de Veracruz, La Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, El Corredor fronterizo en Sonora y La Universidad Veracruzana. Ediciones Izote, asociación civil sin fines lucrativos, está integrada por el maestro Brauchli junto con dos socios, Guillermo Espinoza, artista plástico y Leticia Mora investigadora y crítica de arte. Tiene como propósito constitutivo el rescate de técnicas fotográficas y de grabado a través de la impresión de portafolios de artistas y talleres. Asimismo contempla la elaboración de tintas molidas a mano y de manera artesanal con el propósito de fabricarlas localmente y evitar su importación. Y, por último, contempla llevar a cabo exposiciones que ayuden a rescatar, conservar y trasmitir la práctica de la fotografía alterna.

Primero

2007-04-04T18:52:00.000-07:00

this is my first post. Ta da!

Gil.

aquí estamos, aquí quedamos

2007-02-23T07:41:00.000-08:00

We just got back from Oakland, CA where we had our 4th meeting. We were hosted by Eastside Arts Alliance and Taller Tupac Amaru in their fantastic space on International Blvd. Over thirty individuals participated. Highlights include:

We changed our name! No longer "El Consejo Nacional de Talleres" we are known as simply "El Consejo Gráfico"
A website and brochure are in the works thanks to Tumi's
We initiated an annual membership fee of $150
The committees consist of website, biannual exhibit/print fair, and membership
Brookes Ebetsch has agreed to be the Consejo "task jefa" to get stuff done five hours a week
Keep your eyes open for "Creando Fuerza" our group's first print portfolio. It will be available for sale in early November. It's currently on exhibit at the Institute for Latino Studies' Galería América at the University of Notre Dame. It can be viewed here.
Next meeting is already scheduled for November 8-11, 2007 in NYC. We'll be hosted by Taller Boricua in East Harlem

Gabriel of Self Help Graphics, author Daniel Alarcón, Favianna Rodriguez of Tumi's