Even With Sharp Teeth You Can’t Bite Water is an exhibition of new works investigating The Diasporic Imaginary and the complications of self-fashioning while still in the midst of grappling with a fraught inheritance. The print works presented as part of this solo exhibition use abstraction and fragmentation as entry points to meditate on the spatialisation […]
February sold out so fast so we got another one for ya!
Screen printing (or silkscreen) is a printmaking technique where layers of ink are pulled through a mesh screen to create a wonderfully detailed image, often with multiple layers of transparent ink interacting with one another. In this comprehensive workshop, students will gain an understanding of the processes involved in creating a screen print on paper within a professional printmaking studio and will leave with the knowledge and experience required to produce work independently.
No experience required.
Print(ed) Word is a collection of artist books that were created through pairing 12 local writers with 12 local print-artists who collaborated in reimagining existing texts into hand-made book forms.
This project was led by A/P and Loft 112 with funding support from Canada Council for the Arts. The permanent installation in Calgary's Central Library was made possible through the support of Calgary Public Library, Calgary Public Library Foundation, and the J K L MacLachlan Family Foundation.
February sold out so fast so we got another one for ya!
Screen printing (or silkscreen) is a printmaking technique where layers of ink are pulled through a mesh screen to create a wonderfully detailed image, often with multiple layers of transparent ink interacting with one another. In this comprehensive workshop, students will gain an understanding of the processes involved in creating a screen print on paper within a professional printmaking studio and will leave with the knowledge and experience required to produce work independently.
No experience required.
From October 2023 - March 2024, Mountain Standard Time Performative Art (M:ST) and Alberta Printmakers (A/P) have had the pleasure of working with residents Jules de Guzman and Kamika Bianca Guerra-Walker.
This exhibition showcases the fruits of their labour and learning during their time participating with: Printmaking and Interdisciplinary Creation: an Expansive Residency, coordinated in partnership by both organizations.
February sold out so fast so we got another one for ya!
Screen printing (or silkscreen) is a printmaking technique where layers of ink are pulled through a mesh screen to create a wonderfully detailed image, often with multiple layers of transparent ink interacting with one another. In this comprehensive workshop, students will gain an understanding of the processes involved in creating a screen print on paper within a professional printmaking studio and will leave with the knowledge and experience required to produce work independently.
No experience required.
DATES: April 2, 9, 16, and 23
TIME: 6pm - 9pm (each day)
INSTRUCTOR: Matt Dunlop
COURSE SUMMARY:
This intro to the reduction woodcut technique will teach the basics of the process through the creation of a 2 layer reduction woodcut at the Alberta Printmakers studio over 4 evenings.
This is a great way of introducing colour into your relief printing without carving multiple blocks!
You’ll be shown everything from designing your image, to carving the block and finally setting the press and printing.
NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.
