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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250720
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SUMMARY:1990 ArtWalk
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nThis year’s annual ArtWalk festival will be held in September. Work from A/P will be on display in both The Petro-Canada Gallery and Image 54\, with Image 54 showcasing works and prints of a smaller scale. Thank you to Pauline Lindland and Mark Dicey for jurying this exhibition. \nArtists included in the exhibition: \nLeslie Minions\, Joan Weiser\, Helen Mackie\, Carole Bondaroff\, Gwen Frank\, Malcolm Brekkie\, Robbin Yager\, Todd Johnson\, June Thomsen\, Lenore Dyke\, Setsuko Moulton\, Colleen Shepstone\, Vera Greenwood\, Kevin Jones\, Janet Lowry\, Nick Meijer-Drees\, KarenMacRae\, Marda Wright\, Vivian Herman\, Bill Laing\, Catherine Baillies. 
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/1990-artwalk/
LOCATION:Image 54
CATEGORIES:Other Exhibition Past,Past
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
DTSTAMP:20250730T164653Z
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SUMMARY:Local Imprint
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nA/P is organizing\, Local Imprint\, a juried exhibition for A/P members to showcase their work. \n\nThis exhibition is intended to: \n\nCelebrate A/P members while welcoming new and returning members\nFoster community through an inclusive group exhibition\nConnect with local and global printmakers and showcase the breadth and depth of their print-based work\nPromote sales that will support individual artists and raise funds for sustaining A/P’s community programs\n\n  \nArtists included in the exhibition: \nAlden Alfon\, Elizabeth Allen\, Carole Bondaroff\, Rosemary Brown\, Katherine Cregan\, Irén Gibson\, Kenzie Housego\, Ursula Knight\, Eveline Kolijn\, Kathryn Mathias\, Larissa McLean\, Michael Leeb\, Shinobu Mitsuashi\, Sara Norquay\, Anne Petrie\, Stan Phelps\, Carrie Phillips-Kieser\, Evan Smibert\, Heather Stump\, Margot Van Lindenberg\, Caitlin Wells\, Andie Wicherts\, Andrea Williamson\, Tracy Wormsbecker\,
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/local-imprint/
LOCATION:Alberta
CATEGORIES:Other Exhibition Past,Past
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181013
DTSTAMP:20250801T205444Z
CREATED:20250801T205444Z
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SUMMARY:Wasteland / Wanderland
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nWasteland / Wanderland  – exhibition essay by Shaun Crawford \nAny soul born from childhood will connect with the universal experience of growing up\, a sensation that Laura Peturson implores with apparent effortlessness – and capitalizes on as a space to draw attention to the world that today’s children are destined to inherit. Within large scale murals\, Peterson immerses her audience in a fantasy land that at first glance seems separate from the adult world. And yet\, there is something looming in the margins. Some hunch that two realms are in a quiet conflict with each other. The innocence of children\, so enchanting in the ease of their wonderment\, is being invaded by the greater\, corruptible\, ever more complicated context that  cradles them. The world we live in now.  \nLaura Peturson is based just outside of North Bay\, Northern Ontario\, a place known as “the gateway” between North and South. And so it is no accident that Peturson’s work also serves as a gateway\, a journey between two worlds. Her journey includes a B.F.A from York University in Toronto in 20011\, followed by an M.F.A from New York Academy of Art in 2005. And for the last decade\, Peterson has given her time as Associate Professor of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Nipissing University in North Bay Ontario. She has shared a myriad of exhibitions along the Eastern artistic hubs of Canada and the U.S\, including numerous shows through both Ontario and New York. Those shows have featured Peturson;s printmaking with a focus on relief\, screenprint\, and papercut processes. Though\, like any artist\, describing her simply by her academic history and preferred mediums falls drastically short of capturing her body of work- a narrative- based exploration of the defining experience of childhood and how its imprint and resulting identity interacts and resonates with place. And like many of her themes\, the notion of “place” represented an interconnected series of manifestations\, including geography\, internal space\, familial environments\, a globalized planet\, and no doubt much more than that. For Peturson is an artist that doesn’t seem too concerned with operating inside these constraints.  \nHer work is likewise ungoverned by arbitrary rules or constrained by boundaries\, be they artistic or imposed – most importantly those often self-imposed. And yet\, as much as her work exists in a boundless world\, it also lives on a razor thin edge\, that place that Peturson herself describes as\, “The line between peril and safety\,” a notion echoed in the title of her exhibition\, Wasteland/Wanderland. And “wander” and “wonder” and in doing so blurs the line between each. And wonder most certainly has a place in this exhibition as well. Be prepared to be immersed in an uncanny world\, an experience carrying with it both the familiar and the deliberately unknown. This Wasteland/Wanderland\, most definitely evoking a forest as a totem that immediately conjures a sense of both danger and whimsy\, borrows well from the history of children’s stories. Should anyone have had the good fortune to come across the original images from the wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland there will be a familiarity in the artistic style of Peturson’s work\, clearly influenced by earlier print images in children’s books. Within these woods\, overgrown\, dead\, or dying\, there is an instant sense of both nostalgia and fear. Nostalgia for the uninhabited and explorative experience of childhood and fear in the wisdom that burdens adulthood\, the recognition of peril and decay. But the dread that seeps out of every chasm and fissure in every root and every tree\, is still so easy to ignore\, even as it threatens to overtake the children that recall such a sense of enchantment.  \nChildren have been called the world’s most valuable natural resource\, and the irony of that claim is apparent in Peturson’s world\, intended or not. This precious resource\, incumbent with inheritance\, children are unwilling participants in the chapter-book of our collective worlds. Just as we all were once. And now\, in a space where we’re allowed to stand on the edge between that penultimate innocence and the gravitas knowledge we now possess\, what will it mean to each of us? What will we walk away with? What will we leave behind? Because in the answers to those questions\, may be the world that we entrust to the children.  \nAbout the Artist \nLaura Peturson is a printmaker based in Northern Ontario. Her work uses narrative to explore themes of childhood\, gender\, and place. She is interested in the ways the domestic spaces we inhabit as children form our identity and a conception of our place in relation to family\, geography\, and nature. Peterson’s recent work has been exhibited at Flowers Gallery (New York\, NY)\, The Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Thunder Bay\, ON)\, White Water Gallery (North BAy\, ON)\, and Idea Exchange (Cambridge\, ON). In January 2017\, she installed a 9 x 16 ft printmaking mural at the Gladstone Hotel as part of Come Up to My Room\, an exhibit in the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. Her recent curatorial projects include a national artist residency for the creation of site-specific installations in North Bay entitled You are Here: Visualizing Place at the Gateway to the North. Peterson teaches printmaking\, painting\, and drawing at Nipissing University. 
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/wasteland-wanderland/
LOCATION:Alberta
CATEGORIES:Exhibition Past,Past
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150601
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SUMMARY:Natural Resources
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\n“Our identity includes our natural world\, how we move through it\, how we interact with it and how it sustains us” – David Suzuki (The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature) \nNatural Resources is an observation of the current state of Canada’s iconic landscape. Through the use of handmade objects Natural Resources explores human intervention\, Canadian imagery\, concepts of natural space along with the idea of constructed versus natural landscape. \nArtist Bio: Tait Wilman is an artist currently based in Calgary\, raised on the prairies and by the sea of the West Coast. Experiencing the Canadian heritage\, landscape\, and our connection to nature are some aspects of inspiration to Tait’s practice. Creating artworks that revolve around these influences and using a sense humour fuels my creativity.
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/natural-resources/
LOCATION:Alberta
CATEGORIES:Other Exhibition Past,Past
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150607
DTSTAMP:20250806T055945Z
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SUMMARY:Gathered Mass
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nExhibition essay by Christie Kirchner  \nRooted in printmaking\, multidisciplinary artist Audrey Hurd’s practice explores the notion of the trace\, and the meaning that is inherent in the gestures of making. As we move through the world\, following cycles of growth\, movement\, sorrow and joy\, marks are left upon us and we leave our own traces on the other people\, places and objects we encounter. Documenting the marks and gestures invoked in the careful creation\, archiving\, and ultimate disassembly of three amorphous sculptures\, Hurd’s work in the exhibition Gathered Mass is centered on the physicality\, intimacy\, and tangibility of the traces that are around us and within us\, and how they act as a material echo of human experience. \nCreated from the slow\, meticulous layering of ephemeral domestic materials such as paint\, stucco and wallpaper\, the sculptures in Gathered Mass were gradually grown from tiny cores into dense\, weighty objects that belie the lightness and delicacy of their constituents. With the intimate\, time consuming ritual of growing the masses daily in her studio\, the addition of each new layer of material became a trace of a gesture\, of a moment\, and of a thought for Hurd\, all held within the object and sealed between each carefully applied coating. As each new strata of material was applied\, what is underneath was concealed\, and yet that material history is held within the sculpture and is inherent in its form – as each layer shapes that which came after it. The physical formation of the masses and the traces of the thoughts and gestures retained within them give a heavy\, tangible physicality to the intangible weight of the reflections and emotions carried by the artist throughout their creation. \nHurd further emphasizes the importance of the act of making and physical transformation of these objects by chronicling their progressive development through a set of three photo- based lithographs that accompany the sculptures in this exhibition. The three prints document the sequential growth of the sculptures by layering images of the masses in various stages \nof completion\, providing a visible archive of the now invisible gestures of creation. Resembling three giant\, haunting irises\, the layered prints accentuate Hurd’s interest in the act of making by looking backwards in time to recount the history of each sculpture’s creation. Once fully formed and documented through the accompanying prints\, the dense\, visceral sculptures were then slowly deconstructed until all that remained was a small\, cross-sectioned piece of each mass that can easily fit in the palm of one’s hand. This cathartic act of carving\, chipping and tearing the masses apart reduced them to piles of their material elements\, which Hurd once again photographed and printed as four-colour separation lithographs. Conjuring images of piles of ashes or other lifeless remains\, the residual traces of the heavy\, burdensome objects and the prints that depict them again give a physical tangibility to the incorporeal\, emotional process of letting go. Shown together\, the prints and sculptures in Gathered Mass offer a material and gestural narrative that speaks to the cyclical nature of life\, death\, and transformation\, and the deep impressions such experiences leave upon us.  \nArtist Bio: Based in St.John’s Newfoundland\, Audrey Hurd approaches a variety of media from the perspective of a printmaker\, interested in both the act of and motivations behind the creation of an impression. She has a BFA from NSCAD University and has participated in residencies and exhibitions in Canada and the US.
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/gathered-mass/
LOCATION:Alberta
CATEGORIES:Exhibition Past,Past
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150531
DTSTAMP:20250730T164844Z
CREATED:20250730T034450Z
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SUMMARY:2015 Members Show
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nAlberta Printmakers has been invited to show print related work in the Calgary Public Library Central Location\, This is a non-juried exhibition. All work must be framed or install ready.  \n  \nArtists included in the exhibition: \nTracey Lawson\, Irene Gibson\, Scott Baird\, Christine Nalder\, Barbara Sutherland\, Nicole Fernandez\, Jenna Rae\, Kathryn Dutchak\, Alison Frank\, Kate Baillies\, Nicole Fernandez\, Jenna Rae
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/2015-members-show/
LOCATION:Alberta
CATEGORIES:Other Exhibition Past,Past
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