A Presión/Under Pressure

Consejo Grafico in South Bend, IN

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

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"

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

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:
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Surveillance & Spirituality: A survey of works by Gabriel Villa

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

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.