International Mini Print Cantabria

VIII Edition - 2025
Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center

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    February 17, 2025.


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    July 31, 2025.


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    From September 2 to December 31, 2025.


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    Around September 18, 2025.

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Cantabrian Sea Award sponsored by

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Jury

David Arteagoitia

First Prize in the VII Mini Print Cantabria. Artist and Doctor in engraving from the University of the Basque Country where he is a permanent professor in the Graphic Techniques section and Director of the Drawing Department. He is a founding member of the IAPA International Academic Printmaking Alliance (Beijing), international advisor at Proyecto´ Ace (Argentina) and Director of the Open Portfolio FIG Bilbao International Meeting for Emerging Graphic Artists.

As a teacher, he has organized and directed various theoretical-practical seminars on contemporary graphic work in centers of recognized international prestige such as the CAFA Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (China), the George Enescu University of Art in Iasi (Romania), the Camberwell College of Arts in London and the London College of Communication (England) or the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal).

It regularly collaborates with relevant institutions in the field of research, production and dissemination of the arts such as the BilbaoArte Foundation (Bilbao), the FIG International Engraving Festival (Bilbao), the CIEC International Center for Contemporary Prints (A Coruña), the Miró Foundation (Palma de Mallorca), the BilbaoArte Foundation (Bilbao) or the Casa Falconieri Foundation (Italy). He has published more than a dozen articles and books specializing in graphic art and original author work www.arteagoitia.com  

Juan Lara

Juan Lara (Madrid, 1971). His interest in graphic techniques led him to train in the most prominent workshops in Madrid (Benveniste Contemporary) and London (Thumbprint Edition). He specialises in photoengraving and image transfer techniques and, after creating his own workshop, in 2009 he founded the graphic art publishing company Ogami Press. He collaborates with cultural agents such as the Banco Santander Foundation, the Prado Museum and the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He works for such outstanding artists as Alberto García-Alix, Antonio López, Chema Madoz, Alberto Corazón and Jaume Plensa. As a teacher, he has given courses and lectures at the Real Casa de la Moneda (Madrid), at the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation (Palma de Mallorca), at BilbaoArte (Bilbao), at the CIEC in Betanzos (A Coruña), at the Fuendetodos Foundation (Zaragoza), at the University of Fine Arts in Seville (Seville), at the MNCARS (Madrid), at the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain (Madrid), at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University (Madrid) or at the San Pablo CEU University (Madrid).

The projects published by Ogami Press have been shown at national fairs such as JustMad, Estampa, Art Madrid, Arco-Arts Libris, Drawing Room and international fairs such as Multiplied London or Art-O-Rama (Marseille). www.ogamipress.com

Margarita González Vázquez

Margarita González Vázquez holds a PhD in Fine Arts and works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where she lectures in the Master’s program in Drawing and Contemporary Printmaking (MUDIG). As a professional, she has developed an extensive career in the editing of prints, with her research focusing on contemporary graphic languages through collaborative projects with both national and international artists and institutions. Among the seminars and projects in which she has participated are: "Typology of Prints and Printmaking" (IPCE, 2019); "Relevant Factors in the Development of an Artistic Career: Context, Strategies, and Involved Agents" (XXXV Summer Courses of El Escorial, 2022); "Diagrammatics of Knowledge: Applications of Drawing in Academic Research" and "Research in Fine Arts: The Useful Act of Drawing. Cognitive and Methodological Resources" since 2021, as well as the International and Interuniversity Congress on Research in Contemporary Drawing (2024).

 https://bellasartes.ucm.es/margarita-gonzalez - https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/investigadores/140588/detalle