Art Exhibition: Mexican Prints from the Calle Collection
Date(s):
Starts on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 1:00 am
Ends on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 1:00 am
Location:
University Art Museum, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street
Price:
FREE
Mexican Prints from the Calle Collection: The Taller de Gráfica Popular and Graphic Commitment
From 1937 to 1960 the Mexican printmaking collective, known as the Taller de Gráfica Popular (the People’s Graphic Workshop; hereafter TGP), produced thousands of prints, posters, broadsides, portfolios, and books. This Mexico City-based organization flourished in spite of the prominence of the more widely known Mexican Muralist Movement. The TGP had an open, anti-elitist policy whereby women, the poor, indigenous peoples, and artists of color were welcome. This inclusiveness extended from the TGP’s broad acceptance of stylistic difference to collaborative working practices. Despite an extremely productive output and a prestigious record of exhibitions, awards, and museum purchases, the art of this prolific printmaking atelier remains under the radar in the history of modern art. This exhibition will introduce the TGP through the prints of the Calle Collection, placing them within a national context and into the scope of international modernism. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue and bi-lingual labels and wall text.
Museum Hours: Tues. – Sat., 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Closed on University Holidays.
The exhibitions and programs at the University Art Museum are sponsored, in part, by the FUNd Endowment at Colorado State, the City of Fort Collins’ Fort Fund, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Fund and Colorado Humanities.
