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Sense of Place opens at the Yukon Art’s Centre

September 9 to
October 29, 2010

YUKON ARTS CENTRE OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, September 9
7:30 pm

6:00 PM: FORUM
with Alistair MacLeod, Nino Ricci, Rebecca Belmore, IAIN BAXTER&.

YUKON ARTS CENTRE GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday to Friday:
10 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm to 5 pm
Open for theatre performances.

Sense of Place

Windsor Printmaker’s Forum

Organized and circulated by the
Windsor Printmaker’s Forum with guest speakers
Alistair McLeod, Nino Ricci, Rebecca Belmore and Iain Baxter&.

Sense of Place gathers works by thirty-six artists from across both sides of the Canada-USA border around the theme of place through printmaking. Ranging from traditional 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. The theme is largely conceptual; while there is some landscape imagery in the show, the works focus more on how our sense of place is linked to our sense of self.

The Yukon Arts Centre is located at:
300 College Drive
Whitehorse, Yukon

Mailing Address
Box 16
Whitehorse, YT
Y1A 5X9 Canada

Yukon Arts Centre - Sense of Place

The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario

Windsor Printmaker’s Forum is participating in the Walkerville BIA’s 8th ANNUAL – 2010 ART WALK & ROCK

Friday, July 16th & Saturday, July 17th, 2010 in Historic Walkerville.

Friday WPF hours are 4:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
Saturday WPF hours are 11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

This year the event is taking place right outside our door! The Walkerville BIA will be closing off Devonshire Road to traffic to accommodate the festival where there will be open air artists’ booths, music and food. Our studio and gallery will be open and we are pleased to be part of this exciting summer neighbourhood event.

Submissions

Members are invited to submit works to display and sell in the gallery. We will be accepting framed, matted or shrink-wrapped work at our studio July 5th, 6th and 7th from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. WPF receives 30% of any work sold.

Read more about this event at the
Walkerville BIA site.

WPF Volunteers needed:

Members are invited to help WPF with this event. Your assistance with gallery preparation or greeting guests in the gallery would be appreciated, and don’t forget the fun factor! If you can give us a few hours of your time for gallery prep or hosting during the two day event please contact us.

For further inquiries email info@wpfstudio.org or call the office at 519-253-9493.

We are pleased to announce that the Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) has donated a booth to Windsor Printmaker’s Forum for this years Art in the park. We have been assigned booth 112A. We will have the opportunity to promote printmaking and Windsor Printmaker’s Forum to the public at this event.

Teachers submit your student’s work

Our Student show is moved to Art in the Park this year. We are inviting teachers to submit their student’s work. The winning student entries will be exhibited in our booth. If you have not already done so, please bring your student’s work to the office on Wednesday May 26th. between 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Alternatively, on Wednesday June 2nd between 10 A.M. to 2 P.M.

Members submit your work

Current members may drop off their work at the office on Wednesday May 26th. between the hours of 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Alternatively, on Wednesday June 2nd between 10 A.M. to 2 P.M.
Note: Because the booth is a donation to WPF, no work may be sold. You may however leave your business cards at the booth.

Volunteers Needed

We could use some help with the event. Maybe you can help with set-up, tear down, do a demo, or work in the booth for a few hours? Please let us know what you can do to help out.

Contact us for more information via email at: printmakersforum@cogeco.net or call the office at 519-253-9493.

Windsor Printmaker’s Forum
420 Devonshire Rd, (North entrance, Lower Level)
Windsor, On.
519-253-9493

Some information about Art in the Park.

Art in the Park is held the first full weekend in June of each year, and is the signature event that launches Windsors festival season. This event is one of Ontario’s largest outdoor arts and crafts shows with exhibitors from all over Ontario, Quebec and the state of Michigan. The exhibitors display and retail their wares in booths set up around the 15.5 acres of gated grounds surrounding the beautiful and historic Willistead Mansion in Walkerville (Windsor), Ontario.

Art in the Park Admission Hours:

Friday, June 4th - 5:00pm to 11:00pm - Spirit Tent Only
Saturday, June 5th - 10:00am - 7:00pm - All Exhibitors open
12:00pm - 11:00pm - Spirit Tent open
Sunday, June 6th - 10:00am - 5:00pm - All Exhibitors open
12:00pm - 5:00pm - Spirit Tent open

Admission is $5 per person (advanced tickets $4)

Children 12 and under get in free when accompanied by an adult.

All proceeds raised by this event go toward supporting the restoration of Willistead Manor and supporting local childrens charities such as: The John McGivney Centre for Children and Maryvale Adolescent and Family Services.

DEADLINE AND VENUE CHANGE

New Deadline Date: Wednesday May 26th, 2010 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
New Location: Art in the Park, booth 112a
New Exhibition dates: June 5th & 6th

The Windsor Printmaker’s Forum is inviting your school to participate in our 2010 Annual Juried Student Exhibit, Prints & Works on Paper. The competition is open to students from St. Clair College and all area high schools in Windsor and Essex County. The call is for work created in the 2009 - 2010 school year.

The Windsor Printmaker’s Forum is pleased to partner with the University of Windsor for the student competition: Dr. Michele Tarailo has kindly offered to serve a juror. Additional jurors will be announced. Awards will be presented.

Students may submit original works on paper created from any media: traditional or experimental. Please see the attached submission form, for details.

The NEW deadline for submissions is: May 26, 2010 at 5:00 P.M. The Winning student’s work will be exhibited at the NEW location of ART IN THE PARK. Our booth number is 112A. Art in the Park takes place on the 15.5 acres of gated grounds surrounding the beautiful and historic Willistead Mansion on 1899 Niagara Street (at Kildare Street) in Walkerville (Windsor), Ontario. in Windsor, ON.

The winning entries of Prints and Works on Paper will run at Art in the Park for the weekend of June 5th and 6th. To encourage all schools to participate Windsor Printmaker’s is waiving exhibition submission fees.

Teachers, please consider enrolling your school as a member of Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. Membership for a school entitles your art students to 3 weeks of exhibition time and also allows up to 5 students to attend workshops, taught by professional artists, at a discounted rate of 10% off. We hope that you too, as an educator, will consider the opportunities to join our organization as an individual member. Your membership helps to ensure that Windsor Printmaker’s continues to be a vibrant part of our cultural community.

Please contact us at The Windsor Printmaker’s Forum at 519-253-9493 or by email: printmakersforum@cogeco.ca We look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,
The Board of Directors of Windsor Printmaker’s Forum

Windsor Printmaker’s Forum’s most recent exhibition, On Crossing, a cross border collaboration between Jessica Ann Mills (Omaha, NE) and Jodi Green (Windsor, ON), opened with a bang on Friday night with a large crowd in attendance to see the work and to meet our out-of-town artist.

If you missed the opening, there are still opportunities to see the work for the duration of the exhibition (until November 30). The WPF gallery will be open for viewing during our office hours on Wednesdays between 10am and 2pm, and Tuesday evenings between 6:30 and 9:30pm. You can also contact Jodi Green at wpfstudio@yahoo.ca to arrange for a private viewing outside these hours.

Some images from the reception (all photos courtesy Peter Zimmerman):

Details of On Crossing, a collaborative print project mailed back and forth across the Canada/United States border ten times during its production over ten months in 2008-09:

A few of the other works in the exhibition:

Jessica Ann Mills, Behind Lyndon House, trace monotype, 2007

Jessica Ann Mills, Bramble, trace monotype, 2009

Jodi Green, The Blue of Distance 2, woodcut and trace monotype, 2009

Jodi Green, The Blue of Distance 2, woodcut and trace monotype, 2009

Windsor Printmaker’s Forum invites you to join us for On Crossing, a cross-border collaborative exhibition between Jessica Mills (Omaha, Nebraska) and Jodi Green (Windsor, Ontario). The exhibition is built around the collaborative print/mail art project “On Crossing”, which was recently featured in Graphica Creativa ‘09, an international print triennial at the Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking in Jyväskylä, Finland.

photo courtesy Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking

On Crossing
Friday, November 6, 7 to 10pm
Windsor Printmaker’s Forum Gallery
420 Devonshire Road (north entrance, off Assumption St)

For more information on the project, read the statement for On Crossing

See more images of the work installed at the Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking on the project’s Graphica Creativa ‘09 page

See images of the work in progress at the On Crossing flickr pool

See more work from Jessica Mills on her flickr portfolio and from Jodi Green on her website

photo courtesy Jessica Ann Mills