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Tamarind has had
a significant impact on the field of fine art lithography internationally
since its founding in 1960. The Institute has promoted lithography extensively
on every continent through exhibitions, exchange programs, lectures, and
workshops. Grants from a variety of governmental and philanthropic agencies
have provided opportunities for Tamarind to host artists and printers
from abroad, and for our staff to share their expertise in many countries
around the world.
Students from many parts of the world have participated in our educational programs. In a recent Professional Printer Training class, students from South Africa, Australia, England, Russia, Sweden, and Bulgaria outnumbered the three American students. |
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Links in Lithography: St. Petersburg Russia/Albuquerque,
New Mexico This project was funded by a grant from Trust for Mutual Understanding. An exhibition of Tamarind lithographs were shown at the Anna Akhmatova Museum. Tamarind staff printers as well as two students conducted workshops in St. Petersburg; and six Russian artists were in residence at Tamarind during the month of June.
Tamarind Master Printer, Bill Lagattuta demonstrates printing techniques in St. Petersburg, Russia (left) |
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Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art Grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts provided partial funding for Migrations, a project developed to identify and showcase emerging Native American artists working with a contemporary vocabulary. Six artists were selected to collaborate with professional printers at Tamarind Institute or Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. A traveling exhibition, with a comprehensive catalogue, includes the prints as well as several works in other mediums by each artist. The exhibition appeared at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in 2006. It is currently traveling. Click here for more information on the project |
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.
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Left: Mirjana Vodopija from Zagreb, Croatia checks color for her first print at Tamarind Institute, June 5, 2002. Collaborating printer: Erin Maurelli |
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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
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Mexico Nueve
1984-1986
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, nine Mexican artists (Alfredo Castañeda,
Olga Costa, José Luis Cuevas, Gunther Gerzso, Alberto-Castro Leñero,
Luis Lopez Loza, Gabriel Macotela, Vicente Rojo, and Roger von Gunten) were
invited to make lithographs at the Tamarind Institute. The lithographs were
shown in New Mexico and at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, and an exhibition
of the lithographs together with three paintings by each of the artist was circulated
to ten institutions in the United States.
The lithographs were shown in New Mexico
and at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, and an exhibition of the lithographs
together with three paintings by each of the artist was circulated to ten institutions
in the United States.
A catalogue, which documents the project, is available.
Cultural Exchange with the Soviet
Union of Artists (Moscow)
1987 - 1990
Two important Russian graphic artists worked for two weeks at Tamarind Institute
in the spring of 1987. In the fall of 1987, a Tamarind master printer and artist
visited Moscow, Leningrad, and Talin, Estonia. Two Russian printmakers participated
in the Tamarind printer-training-program in the fall of 1990 and 1991, and Tamarind's
education director visited Russia in 1990.
Workshop Exchanges
Month-long workshops at Tamarind sponsored by the United
States Information Agency's Creative Arts Division of the Office of Citizen
Exchanges gave artists from Bulgaria, India, Poland, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia
a strong technical foundation which they drew upon when they, with the help
of a Tamarind printer, subsequently taught workshops for painters and printmakers
in their countries.
Creative Collaborations
1993
Tamarind staff members traveled to Brazil, Chile, Colombia to select three artists
and three printers for a month-long workshop at Tamarind. While at Tamarind,
the artists produced lithographs in collaboration with printers from their own
countries as well as with Tamarind printers.
Do Brasil!
June 1994
Three Brazilian artists were invited to work at Tamarind.
Workshop
in India
February 1995
Tamarind Master printer and artist Roberto Juarez spent one month in India.
They collaborated with each other as well as with Indian artists and printers
in workshops in Bhopal and New Delhi.
Odas y Cantos
March 1995 - December 1996
Tamarind staff members traveled to participating countries-- Dominican Republic,
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela--to
select an artist from each one who came to work at Tamarind during 1996. Their
lithographs were inspired by artist-chosen pasages written by Nobel Laureate,
Pablo Neruda. The project resulted in a portfolio of one image by each artist
plus the related texts, printed in handset letterpress, in the original Spanish
and in English translation. The portfolio has been exhibited in many of the
participating countries, and other venues in the United States.
The Trickster
June 1999
Four San (also known as "bushpeople") artists from Botswana visited
four New Mexico pueblos where they exchanged traditional stories about the trickster
figure with artists from each pueblo. The four African artists and four Pueblo
artists then worked at Tamarind for ten days, making lithographs related to
the stories that had been told. A portfolio of sixteen handcolored lithographs,
two by each artist, resulted from the activities. The prints from this project
are available through our gallery.
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.
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!
Generations
1993 and 1994 Seniors were invited to collaborate with children and create lithographs
during several day-long workshops at Tamarind. The images were sewed together
in large composite images, resembling quilts, and are on permanent display in
city libraries and senior centers.
Pueblo Project
1994-1995
One artist from each New Mexico pueblo made monotypes at Tamarind. Two monotypes
created by each artist are hung permanently in the City/County administrative
building.
Artext
City of Albuquerque 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.
Workshops for high school students
(ongoing)
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.
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| 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.
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Participants
in Tamarind's educational programs
Exhibitions
sponsored by Tamarind
Lectures
and workshops by Tamarind staff
