NEWS & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
PRESSURE ISLAND X: LA DECADA DE GRABADA
February 2025
Austin, TX
A fresh new art show is up for February: Pressure Island X : La Decada de Grabada at Central Machine Works on Saturday, February 8, 2025.
Pressure Island is an annual survey of works by Full Court Press - a printmaking organization that represents faculty, alumni, current MFA candidates and select undergrads from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, including lithographs, etchings, relief prints, and screenprints - curated by Ryan O’Malley for the tenth year.
UNTITLED GALLERY
SMALL WORKS SHOW
December 2024
Tucson, AZ
‘The open-themed Small Works show features works by local artists that are less than 200 sq in size. The incredibly popular exhibit is known for its diverse range of mediums and subjects.’
THE ART OF DREAMS, VISIONS, OTHER WORLDS: INTERVIEWS WITH TEXAS ARTISTS
December 2024
Everywhere
‘Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds.’
SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA
October 9, 2024
Downtown
Silver City, NM
The Printers' Market will take place on Saturday, October 12th from 10am - 4pm in downtown Silver City. The market is open to artists working across all handmade print mediums, including but not limited to: silkscreen, letterpress, lithography, and all intaglio and relief processes, handmade zines and books.
Organized by Tonja Torgerson, the portfolio exchange titled “Human Nature, ” will be exhibited at the Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference held at Kansas State University.
October 2-6, 2024
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
2024 MAPC ART CONFERENCE
KCAI: VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK
September 18, 2024
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MO
Artist talk with Socorro Rico’s Junior Printmaking Seminar class on Wednesday, September 18th.
CREATING ENCUENTROS: CHANGARRITO 2012-2024
April 12- August 24, 2024
Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX
A group exhibition featuring the work of Changarrito resident artists at the Mexic-Arte Museum from 2012- 2024.
INTERVIEW: MEET LISETTE CHAVEZ
January 2024
Article on Canvas|Rebel
An interview with Lisette Chavez for CANVAS|REBEL.
MAPC PRINTSTREAM STUDIO TOURS
May 2023
Virtual Talk
This Zoom event will give you a behind-the-scenes look at a breadth of print studios by the artists that use them. MAPC PrintStream Studio Tours is inspired by the work of MAPC member Lisette Chavez and her work with the Show Me Your Print Shop platform that highlights innovative solutions for alternative print shop organization.
SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW
Feb 15-19, 2023
Los Angeles, CA
SPRING/BREAK will return for its fourth edition in Los Angeles in February 2023. Booth will be curated by Julia Curran & Melissa Vogley Woods.
MADISON | SGC INTERNATIONAL ART CONFERENCE
April 2022
Madison, WI
Storytellers panel organized by Ryan O’Malley at the SGC International Conference.
MCNAY MUSEUM: DRAWN IN SAN ANTONIO
2022
San Antonio, TX
Drawn in San Antonio—Today highlights the work of twenty-two San Antonio-based artists and expands on the definition of drawing.
DEATH AND THE DEVIL…
October 2021
Article on Glasstire
‘The threads of belief and disbelief are thoroughly interwoven into the fabric of Lisette Chavez’s art. They are the warp and weft that give it substance and form. On theological details, as well as family oral histories, she gravitates between thinking “How can this be true?” and “How can this not be true?” without any kind of resolution.’ - Ruben C. Cordova
REMEZCLA
December 2020
Virtual Art Gallery
Art Gallery: 40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know, a virtual gallery curated by Barbara Calderon.
HELLO, PRINT FRIEND INTERVIEW
October 2020
Podcast
In this episode Miranda speaks with Lisette Chavez. When we recorded this episode Lisette was joining us at a very vulnerable time, just a few weeks after she’d lost her husband Craig suddenly and unexpectedly. She shares a lot about that loss, how she’s coping with it through art and community, as well as how she feels making work about death for many years prior to his death helped to prepare for the grief that comes with a loss such as this.
RUBY CITY
May 2020
Online Interview
At Home: Lisette Chavez
This new project was born out of an effort to feel more connected and learn up-to-date information artists and curators across the country. Every week, creators from across different disciplines share their new projects, quarantine hobbies and what gives them hope about art today.
ARTS AND CULTURE TEXAS
Jan 2019
Houston, TX
‘In a world that doesn’t often value the healing spaces made collaboratively by women, the community knowledge of otherworldly experience, and the inexplicable, we talk about the solace that comes from female friendship and collaborative practice.’ - Laura August
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
May 2018
Houston, TX
Review on an exhibition featuring works by 16 contemporary artists from San Antonio.