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Links in Lithography: St. Petersburg Russia/Albuquerque, New Mexico We are pleased to announce a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding which will connect Tamarind with lithographers in St. Petersburg, Russia. An exhibition of Tamarind lithographs will be shown at the Anna Akhmatova Museum April 20 - May 14, 2006. Tamarind staff printers as well as two students will conduct workshops in St. Petersburg from May 14 - May 26; and six Russian artists will be in residence at Tamarind during the month of June.   Tamarind Master Printer, Bill Lagattuta demonstrates printing techniques in St. Petersburg, Russia (left)

Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art Grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts will provide partial funding for Migrations, a project developed to identify and showcase emerging Native American artists who are working with a contemporary vocabulary. Six artists have been selected to collaborate with professional printers at Tamarind Institute or Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. A traveling exhibition, with a comprehensive catalogue, will include the prints as well as several works in other mediums by each artist. The exhibition will open at the University of New Mexico Art Museum on October 13, 2006. It is available to travel. Click here for more information on the project

Kyoto Hanga
Five North American workshops--Tamarind Institute, Paulson Press (Berkeley, CA), Solo Impression (New York, NY), Segura Publishing Company (Phoenix, AZ), and Pyramid Atlantic (Baltimore, MD)--will exhibit prints they have published in conjunction with Japanese printmakers in Tokyo and Kyoto.

LA Print Fair - 2008

The Governor's Gallery
June 22- September 22, 2007
Fourth Floor, State Capitol
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Addison Arts
April 4 - May 5, 2007
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://addisonarts.com/

See our gallery page for exhibition currently in the Tamarind Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

print fairs

Editions New York Fine Print Fair
October 31-November 3, 2008
The Tunnel
261 11th Ave.
New York, NY 10001

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Re:connections

As a follow-up to our Connections project, we are pleased to announce that the Trust for Mutual Understanding awarded Tamarind a grant for Re:Connection to continue the dialogue established during the artists' visit in 2002. The same six artists returned to New Mexico in January/February 2004 where they completed a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute.
The artists created new work that was shown, with the prints they did at Tamarind in 2002, in an exhibition at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, February 24 - June 14, 2004.

	Left: Mirjana Vodopija from Zagreb, Croatia checks color for her first print at Tamarind Institute, June 5, 2002. Collaborating printer: Erin Maurelli
	Left: Adam Pantic of Serbia and Tamarind's master printer Bill Lagattuta processing a stone, June 5, 2002.

Funded by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Connections project brought together artists from the former Yugoslavia to encourage meaningful dialogue that promotes understanding and cooperation among different ethnic groups. During the month of June, six artists were in residence at Tamarind Institute. The artists, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia, once lived in the same country, but are now divided by politics, ideology, and national borders. During their one-month residency, artists also participated in a course offered through the History Department at the University of New Mexico in conjunction with Tamarind Institute. The visiting artists shared their experiences of remaining creative under conditions of societal disintegration, civil war, economic atrophy, and nationalist rhetoric. The artists participating are: Zlatan Filipovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Mirjana Vodopija, Croatia; Tahar Alemendari, Kosovo; Ana Stojkovic, Macedonia; Adam Pantic, Serbia; Damijan Kracina, Slovenia.

A public reception was held on Friday, June 7th from 5 to 7 pm at Tamarind Gallery in honor of the artists, and the artists spoke about their work and experiences in New Mexico on Wednesday, June 26th at 5:30 in Tamarind Gallery

 

Antiques Roadshow

Public Television's Antiques Roadshow taped a segment at Tamarind in July 2002, which was broadcast as an intermission for their Albuquerque roadshow. Host Dan Elias rolled up his sleeves to assist Master Printer Bill Lagattuta at the press as they pulled an impression of a lithograph by visiting artist, Teo Gonzalez.

Artist, Teo Gonzalez, Master printer, Bill Lagattuta, and Antiques Roadshow host, Dan Elias, at the press in the Tamarind workshop.	Production crew with artist Teo Gonzalez in the workshop.

Bravos Award

On April 6, 2002 Tamarind Institute was presented with its first Bravos Award. Given by the Arts Alliance, the local arts council serving the greater Albuquerque area, the award recognizes Tamarind for excellence in the visual arts. We are very honored to be recognized by our local community!
Artext
City of Albuquerque has provided a grant to Tamarind for "Artext." Ten artists--five by invitation, and five selected from an application process open to New Mexico artists--made montypes at Tamarind inspired by a text of the artist's choosing. Two monotypes, together with the relevant texts, are on permanent display in the downtown branch of the Albuquerque Public Library as part of the City of Albuquerque's Public Art Collection. Participating artists: Enrique Chagoya, LaVerne Harper, Spencer Kimball, Susan Linnell, Hung Liu, Georgia Marsh, DeLoss McGraw, Robert Pelegrin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and William Wiley.

Fundacion Andes

Rebecca Schnelker, who has been Tamarind's curator since 1978 will give a two-day workshop in Santiago, Chile, in mid-January 2004. The project is offered as part of the program funded by Fundacion Andes, in cooperation with Amigos del Arte of Santiago.
The Fundacion Andes and Amigos del Arte, both of Santiago, Chile, have provided funding to promote Chilean printmaking through the interaction of Tamarind Institute and the Chilean art community. Plans include residencies at Tamarind for three lithography professors from Chilean universities, print exhibitions in Chile, and one week seminars in art marketing and management for three consecutive years.

Artstreet

The College of Fine Arts Outreach Program awarded a grant to Tamarind to sponsor a project with ArtStreet, a division of Healthcare for the Homeless, Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the spring of 2002, Tamarind students conducted a series of four workshops on printmaking in the ArtStreet studio and several of the participating artists made monotypes in the Tamarind workshop. A reception for the Artstreet artists was held at Tamarind on July 12, 2002.

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