Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist
Torontoist has a fantastic article on the Sense of Place exhibition opening at University of Toronto Art Centre. Read it here.
The work pictured is “I Guess I Need More Grace Than I Thought” by Toronto artist Yael Brotman.
JOIN US FOR Sense of Place
Featuring Alistair MacLeod and Iain Baxter& in a conversation facilitated by Nino Ricci
“It will make you happy, thoughtful people and enable you to spread goodness and wisdom throughout the land.”
Alistair MacLeod
Our three speakers need little introduction. They are internationally renowned, and we are incredibly delighted to present this event as part of the opening celebrations for the exhibition, Sense of Place, Organized and Circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum.
Alistair MacLeod is the author of No Great Mischief which has received multiple accolades including the 1991 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Trillium Award for Fiction. He is also internationally acclaimed for his collections of short stories The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and other Stories (1986). He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
Iain Baxter& an international pioneer of conceptual art has been nationally celebrated with the 2004 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the 2005 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, and the 2006 Gershon Iskowitz Foundation Prize. He is Professor Emeritus at the School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor.
Nino Ricci is the winner of two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction. His 1990 novel, Lives of the Saints was followed in 2008 with the award winning, The Origin of Species. Nino Ricci is the recipient of the 2006 inaugural Alistair MacLeod Award for Literary Achievement. He lives and works in Toronto.
The evening will also be the occasion for the launch of the Sense of Place exhibition catalogue which is co-published by the University of Toronto Art Centre, the University of Windsor and the Art Gallery of Windsor.
This is how our evening will unfold:
6:30 pm Cocktails: Meet the authors and artists
7:00 pm Alistair MacLeod and Iain Baxter& in a conversation facilitated by Nino Ricci
9:00 pm Exhibition Opening Reception (Cash Bar)
Tickets for complimentary cocktails and conversation: $10 for UTAC Members and $20 General Public. Limited Seating. Non-Members can take this opportunity to join and apply $10 of the ticket price to the UTAC Membership Fee. Cocktails are complimentary until the Opening Reception.
To purchase tickets please contact Maureen Smith 416-946-7089 or maureen.smith@utoronto.ca
Sense of Place Exhibition:
5 May to 1 August 2009
Sense of Place is a cross-border print exhibition organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum and juried by Iain Baxter&, Nancy Sojka and James Patten. The show brings together works by 30 artists from Canada and Michigan exploring the theme of place through printmaking. Ranging across traditional print techniques on traditional surfaces (such as monotypes, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and silkscreens) to digital prints and found objects, the show maps out the broad field of contemporary printmaking practice.
The works’ approach to the theme is largely conceptual. While there is some landscape imagery in the show, the works selected focus more on how our sense of place is linked to our sense of self. As cultural geographers explain, place is a way of describing meaningful space; one of the ways of converting space into place is developing a sense of belonging or connection. For some, a sense of place is inevitably connected to home, for others, who start from a fundamental sense of displacement; it entails movement and the search for a fit. This disjunction in the experience of place is foregrounded by the works’ engagement with printmaking. By drawing on printmaking’s capacities for reproducibility and circulation through the production of images by impression or transfer, the works in the show move from an engagement with rootedness and the anchoring of belonging to an evocation of loss, distance and longing. The use of reproduction to create a singular image or the creation of multiple and circulating images of an intense and personal engagement with the specific opens up the experience of place as an ongoing process rather than a fixed and natural given.
Participating Artists:
Joseph Banh, Nadine Bariteau, Mark Bovey,Yael Brotman, Dacia Celeste-Fauth, Patricia Coates, Meena Dhar, Lisa Driver in collaboration with Milky Way, Christopher Durocher, Erik Edson, Joel Fullerton, Sue Gordon, Dieter Grund, Libby Hague, George Hawken, Liz Ingram, Hannamari Jalovaara, Melody Krauze, Bill Laing, Tara Lynn MacDougall, Judy Major-Girardin in collaboration with Briana Palmer, Adam Medley, John Montminy, Rory O’Connor, Gary Olson, Terry O’Reilly, Kenneth Pattern, Shannon Phair, Dianna Rae Borel, Victor Romão, Carol Rowland-Ulmann, Dan Steeves, Michele Tarailo, Susan Turner, Terry Vatrt.
Photo Credit: LtoR: Kevin Kavanaugh Photography (A. MacLeod and I. Baxter&); Paul-Antoine Taillefer (N. Ricci)
The Sense of Place event and exhibition are supported in part by Peter A. Allen as part of the UTAC Art with Insight Series, Manulife Financial, UTAC’s 2009 Supporting Sponsor, the Ontario Arts Council and our Event Sponsor à la Carte Kitchen Inc.
The works for our Sense of Place touring exhibition are all packed and ready to be shipped to the University of Toronto Art Centre. The exhibition at UTAC will run from May 5 to August 1 2009, with guest speakers Alistair McLeod, Nino Ricci and Iain Baxter& in attendance for the opening gala on May 5th.
WPF Board of Directors members Marna Vacratsis, Patty McCoy, Sandra Ellis and Jodi Green generously gave of their time to clean and repair the framing on the artwork and package and label each piece for the journey to Toronto.
Stay tuned for a sneak peek at the exhibition catalogue, currently at the printers!
Here is the print created by students in our recent litho workshop. The original state, printed in black:
From here the image was printed in yellow, then reductions were made and a second press run was printed in dark green. Further reductions and additions were made and the third press run was printed in orange. The final colour print:
Over the weekend of April 18th and 19th the Forum hosted another lithography workshop taught by WPF Board member Jodi Green. This time around the class was a refresher course for two former University of Windsor printmaking students who hadn’t used a lithography studio since 1994, which meant that we were able to cover much more ground in our short time than is normal for an introductory workshop. We printed up a storm while trading funny stories about Daniel W. Dingler, with whom both teacher and students originally studied lithography. As a fun bonus, we happened to run into our former intaglio instructor, Adele Duck, while taking our lunch break at Taloola Cafe across the street.
Some photos:
Rolling up
Pinhole registration
The good pull
Demo stone
More at the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum flickr group!
APRIL
INTRODUCTION TO STONE LITHOGRAPHY
April 18-19, 2009 :: 9 am to 3 pm :: $300 (includes $50 1-year membership)
$250 for current WPF members
This two-day intensive course will provide you with all the basic skills for full-colour stone lithography. Learn how to prepare, etch and print a lithographic image using both additive and subtractive methods. All materials are included in the course fee. Limited to 5 participants.
MAY
LETTERPRESS BASICS
May 16, 2009 :: 9 am to 3 pm :: $200 (includes $50 1-year membership)
$150 for current WPF members
Explore the relationship between typography and image, learn how to set movable type and print it using a power-driven Vandercook proofing press. All materials are included in the course fee. Limited to 10 participants.
WOOD INTAGLIO
May 17, 2009 :: 9 am to 3 pm :: $200 (includes $50 1-year membership)
$150 for current WPF members
An introduction to the use of side-grain woodblocks as a matrix for intaglio printing. Participants will create a wood intaglio image and test print it using Western and Japanese papers. All materials are included in the course fee. Limited to 10 participants.
WHOA, HOLD ON! Register now for BOTH May courses and pay a super-special print weekend extravaganza rate of only $300 ($250 for WPF members). What a deal!
JUNE
INTRODUCTION TO SCREENPRINTING
June 7, 2009 :: 9 am to 3 pm :: $200 (includes $50 1-year membership)
$150 for current WPF members
This course covers the basic steps for producing full-colour images using silkscreen. Learn how to print posters, cd sleeves, fabric, shirts and more in this hands-on course. Limited to 10 participants.
To register, please contact the studio at 519-253-9493 or by e-mail: jodi@jodigreen.ca
On February 16th and 17th, the Forum hosted a two-day whirlwind intro to stone lithography. Three enthusiastic participants happily gave up valuable vacation time during their spring break in order to grind stone, sling chemicals and get inky in the cold basement studio with instructor Jodi Green. We managed to get through stone graining, drawing, etching, printing, deletions, counteretching, additions and colour printing in just ten hours of studio time, and had a blast doing it.
Applying rosin to the stone
Applying the etch
Rolling up
See more photos from the workshop and other Windsor Printmaker’s Forum events at the WPF flickr group page.
A show and sale of original prints by St. Clair College and Windsor-Essex County High School Students
December 7, 2008 - January 9, 2009
December 7, 2008 Opening Reception 1 - 4pm / Awards: 3pm
James Patten - AGW Curator
Michele Tarailo - Acting Director, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor
Jennifer Willet - Printmaking Professor, University of Windsor
Funding for this project has been supported in part by: The OAC, University of Windsor, Windsor Art Supplies, Essex Rotary
Music and hors d’oeuvres courtesy of St. Thomas of Villanova High School, LaSalle, Ontario
Please see the Call for Artist form for details.
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Call for Entries
Deadline for submitting work has been extended to Friday, July 18th!
The Windsor Printmaker’s Forum invites members and anyone interested in becoming a member to submit applications for the 2008 Members’ Exhibition.
Submission Guidelines
1. The exhibition is open to all members. If you are not a Windsor Printmaker’s Forum member, you must first register as a member to be eligible for the exhibit. Regular membership fee is $50.00.
2. Works in all media are eligible (including, but not limited to painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, film and video). All works must be original and completed within the last three years.
3. All selected works must be ready for display. Two dimensional work must be suitably framed and wired. Windsor Printmaker’s Forum reserves the right to refuse any submission.
4. Submissions must be received by Friday July 18, 2008 during office hours.
5. WPF will receive 30% commission on any artwork sold during this exhibition.
6. Artists are responsible for transporting their works to and from Windsor Printmaker’s Forum.
Please call 519.253.9493 for more information or to arrange a time to drop off your work.
Members’ Exhibition Invitation
July 25th - September 5th, 2008
Be a part of the Walkerville ArtWalk!
Opening Reception: Friday July 25th from 7pm - 11pm
Please join us in celebrating our annual Members’ Exhibition and participate in
the annual Walkerville ArtWalk. Enjoy viewing original hand-made prints created
in Windsor’s only artist-run printmaking studio!
Food, drinks and entertainment will be provided. This event is complimentary
and open to the public.
Opera at the Forum: Rehearsal for Disaster by Libby Hague
Friday, May 23rd 7pm - 9pm
Catherine McKeever and Peggy Dwyer respond to The Dream of the Red Room.
All are welcome to join this opera performance featuring soprano Peggy Dwyer and mezzo Catherine McKeever who will be accompanied by Michelle Richardson.
7:00pm: Doors open to meet with Toronto artist Libby Hague.
8:00pm: Opera performance begins.
The cost is $20, which includes the opera performance and hors d’oeuvres by Bamboo Catering. Refreshments will also be served.
Limited seating available so please call 519.253.9493 for reservations.
Extreme Woodcut Workshop: The Sequel
Saturday, May 24th 10am - 4pm
This workshop will continue to expand the expressive range of a single matrix and free up thinking about working with paper.
Artists will experiment with printing oil-based ink as a resist for the painterly monoprinting effects.
Participants will explore the huge potential of modular construction as they cut and reassemble their prints in 2-D and 3-D ways. Artists who took the first workshop can pick up where they left off; those starting with the sequel will cut and print the blocks that they will manipulate afterwards.
Cost: $50 members • $75 members and students • All materials included
All events will be held at the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum located in the lower level of 420 Devonshire Road, Windsor, Ontario. Please call 519.253.9493 to pre-register.
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