Tamarind Institute: Lithography workshop and gallery

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staff

Marjorie Devon director	Bill Lagattuta master printer	Rodney Hamon education director	Shelly Smith development and marketing
Arif Khan gallery director	Becky Schnelker curator	Angie Rudy office administrator

left to right: Shelly Smith, Arif Khan, Marjorie Devon, Becky Schnelker, Bill Lagattuta and Rodney Hamon

tamarind advisory board
Tamarind is fortunate to have the advice and support of the following advisory board members.
Short bios for each member are available.

Lance Armer Santa Fe, NM	Tony Jones Chicago, IL	Melissa Rountree Santa Fe, NM
Michael Emerson Albuquerque, NM	Don Michaelis Albuquerque, NM	David Schorr New York, NY
Bud Johns San Francisco, CA	Frank Purcell Taos, NM	Ronald W. Stovitz San Francisco, CA

left to right: Bud Johns, Michael Emerson, Ronald Stovitz, Lance Armer, Marjorie Devon, Shelly Smith, Don Michaelis, Melissa Rountree, David Schorr, Frank Purcell

tours
We offer tours on the first Friday of each month at 1:30 p.m. The tour lasts for approximately 1 1/2 hours and includes information about the history of Tamarind and our current programs an award-winning video, Four Stones for Kanemitsu on the collaborative process; a tour of the workshop with a printing demonstration.

Space is limited, so please reserve your space by calling (505) 277-3901 or send us an e-mail message. There is no charge for the tour.
The 2009 schedule is as follows:

January 9
February 6
March 6
April 3
May 1
June 5

July 10 (2nd week due to July 4)
August 7
September 4
October 2
November 6
December 4

history
A brief synopsis of our history follows. For more details, see "An Informed Energy: Lithography and Tamarind", written by Clinton Adams, and published in Grapheion, 1st Issue 1997. (Prague, Czech Republic). Clinton Adams was a founding director of Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. and Tamarind Institute's director from 1970 - 1985.

Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. (TLW) was founded in Los Angeles in 1960 as a means to "rescue" the dying art of lithography. Fully funded by the Ford Foundation until it became affiliated with the University of New Mexico in 1970, founding director June Wayne (right), together with Associate Director Clinton Adams and Technical Director Garo Antreasian, established multiple long-range goals:

to create a pool of master artisan-printers in the United States by training apprentices;
to develop a group of American artists of diverse styles into masters of this medium;
to habituate each artist and artisan to intimate collaboration so that each becomes responsive and stimulating to the other in the work situation encouraging both to experiment widely and extend the expressive potential of the medium;
to stimulate new markets for the lithograph;
to plan a format to guide the artisan in earning his living outside of subsidy or total dependence on the artist's pocket;
to restore the prestige of lithography by actually creating a collection of extraordinary prints.

When considerable progress toward the achievement of these goals had been made after ten years in Los Angeles, it was clear that the innovative programs developed at TLW were filling a void. With Wayne's resignation as director and the end of the third Ford Foundation grant, TLW needed a new home.

June Wayne looks at destroyed lithographic stones. TLW moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where it became Tamarind Institute, a division of the College of Fine Arts of the University of New Mexico, under the directorship of Clinton Adams who served in that capacity until 1985 when Marjorie Devon was appointed director.

Tamarind Institute continues its programs of education, research, and creative projects with partial funding from the university. Tamarind also depends heavily upon revenue from contract printing and the sale of lithographs it publishes to support the costs associated with its educational and artistic programs. Grants from a number of federal and philanthropic sources have funded the Institute's many special projects, including a variety of international programs which have been developed over the past decade.

The tamarind Archives, housed in the Center for Southwest Research at Zimmerman Library at UNM, are another source of information about Tamarind Lithographic Workshop and Tamarind Institute. There are two series: Administrative Files, papers and correspondence relative to the establishment of the TLW in Los Angeles, continuing throughout the decade that the Workshop was located in Los Angeles (1960-70); and Research and Publications from TLW and TI, including research notes, manuscript material, and publications.