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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. |
Scholarships, sponsored by the Tamarind Foundation, have made it possible for students from many parts
of the world to participate 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.
Mexico NueveThe 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.
México Nueve
Lithographs created for the México Nueve project were exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City in 1987, then circulated by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ecuador and Venezuela.
An exhibit of the eighteen lithographs plus three paintings by each artist was circulated by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services in the United States between 1989 and 1991.
Tamarind Impressions: Recent Lithographs
1986-1989
An exhibit of forty lithographs made by twenty three artists in collaboration with Tamarind printers circulated abroad under the auspices of the USIA's Arts America program. Between 1986 and 1989, the exhibit was shown in twenty-three European and Eastern European countries; it was also shown in a number of countries in the near and far East as well as in New Zealand, Australia, China, Burma and Russia.
Collaborations: Artist+Printers
1991-1998
An exhibit of fifty lithographs made by twenty-eight artists in collaboration with Tamarind master printers toured Latin America, Spain, and Portugal under the auspices of USIA's Arts America program.
Do Brasil!
July - August 1994
In conjunction with the College of Fine Arts' (University of New Mexico) Arts of the Americas program, Tamarind organized a series of exhibitions of works by 23 Brazilian artists in ten Albuquerque galleries and museums.
Odas y Cantos
The Odas y Cantos portfolio, including nine lithographs and nine texts by Pablo Neruda, made its public debut at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. in April, 1997. It has also been shown at the University of New Mexico Hospital Gallery (1997), ArtForum, Quito, Ecuador (1997); the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1997); La Casa de Chavón, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1998); Amigos del Arte, Santiago, Chile (1998), and at Pablo Neruda's home in Valparaiso, Chile (1998).
Pintores en grabado: litografías del Tamarind Institute
1998
A selection of twenty-one lithographs by twenty artists who collaborated with Tamarind printers during the past several years illustrating diverse technical and aesthetic approaches to the medium of lithography. Shown in conjunction with Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca in Ecuador under the sponsorship of the U.S. Embassy, Quito, and the Banco Central, it was subsequently shown in several Ecuadorean venues and at the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano in Santiago.
| 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. |
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Workshops for high school students
(ongoing)
Participants
in Tamarind's educational programs
Exhibitions
sponsored by Tamarind
Lectures
and workshops by Tamarind staff