 Coronado
Studio was born in 1991, when Sam Coronado rented his
own personal painting space at 1504C E 5th Street.
A trip in 1992 to Self-Help Graphics, a community art
center in Los Angeles, inspired Coronado to create
a printmaking studio.
There are very few printmaking
studios in the United States, and he believed that
converting his space to one devoted to serigraph (silk
screen) printmaking would make the technique more readily
available to artists. Hoping to attract more artists,
and especially Latina/o artists, to the medium, Coronado
founded the Serie
Project, and began inviting artists
to come to Coronado Studio to create editions of serigraph
prints.
In its ten-year history, over 150 artists have
come through Coronado Studio to create original prints.
Coronado Studio stood next to Café Mundi from
1991 to 1998. In 1998, Coronado Studio moved to its
present location at 901 Vargas, in East Austin’s
Montopolis neighborhood.
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