Today we speak to Rene Arceo: In Arceo’s words: My first experience participating in a print portfolio was in 1983; while studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I took my first printmaking class with David Holtzman. All class participants created a print to share with everyone else in the form of a portfolio. In 1990 Tomas Bringas, an artist from Durango, Mexico, suggested to a group of Chicago printmakers that they compile a print portfolio. All class participants created a print to share with everyone else in the form of a portfolio. In 1990 Tomas Bringas, an artist from Durango, Mexico, suggested to a group of Chicago printmakers that they compile a print portfolio. Thus, “El Canto del Papel” was born of the labor of seven artists: Nicolas de Jesus, Gerardo de la Barrera, Tomas Bringas, Carlos A. Cortez, Arturo Barrera, Carlos Villanueva, and myself. The images created were inspired by a set of poems by Duddley Nieto. Within the year, this group decided to develop the Taller Mexicano de Grabado (The Mexican Printmaking Workshop, now Casa de Cultura Carlos Cortez) in the Pilsen/Chicago neighborhood.