La Feria, the single-day media and print fair run by The Latinx Project at New York University (NYU), returned for its third edition on Saturday, October 3, just as the northeastern coast’s humidity retreated. Forty-six entities gathered to celebrate contemporary media and assert Latinx/e art’s place in the art historical canon, displaying zines, academic books, textiles, and prints of many sizes that embody a plethora of printmaking techniques — some even made in real time.
While artists are required to submit an application to table, there is no fee, unlike at other art and media fairs. La Feria also connects publishers and organizations with other artists, true to the ethos of access and experimentation that is at the heart of printmaking. Essye Klempner, director of Programming and Partnerships at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPW), presented works produced by both staff and workshop members, among them Shellyne Rodriguez, Belinda Lee Medina, and Moses Ros.
“What you see here is a collection of work by artists that use the workshop. This includes the work of interns, to show the true ecosystem of printing workshop communities,” Klempner told Hyperallergic.
