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News
Thank you to our Folk Festival Volunteers!!
We just concluded another wonderful One Stop Print Shop weekend at the Winnipeg International Folk Festival!! Huge thanks to our staff and volunteers: Kristin, Jenny, Peter, Sarah, Lisa, Bram, Mariana, Talula and Chanelle!! As you can see Peter got quite carried away!
Celebrate 10+ Years of YOP!!!
This summer we are celebrating the 10+ years of YOP with a series of collaborative workshops, free to YOP graduates and a series of lectures, free to all. All the work from the collaborative workshops will be exhibited in our gallery in an exhibition that changes each week as the artwork is created.
Longtime volunteer Gary Styrchak nominated for WAC Arts Award
Martha Street Studio is pleased to have nominated Gary Styrchak for the Winnipeg Arts Council's Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Outstading Volunteer Arts Award for his long history of volunteer service to Martha Street Studio and his many contributions to the Winnipeg arts and culture community.
Gary is Martha Street Studio's longest serving board member, having served since the reorganization of MSS in 2001. He has acted as secretary to the board with consistent attendance and is a solid team player and contributor to all matters of the board. It is acknowledged by the former and current membership of MSS that without the sustained effort by Gary and other volunteers, involving countless hours, the current MSS facility would not have been developed or become operational.
Aside from being a valued board member and volunteer, Gary is an artist, graphic designer, exhibit designer, instructor, and woodcarver who holds a diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba.
Winners for the WAC Arts Awards will be announced at the Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts on June 8th, 2017.
The Passing of the Torch - Welcome Jenny Western!
Martha Street Studio Welcomes Jenny Western as our New Professional Programming Coordinator!
Jenny Western comes to Martha Street Studio with an extremely long list of credentials and experience in the field of professional programming. She has a Master of Art History and has curated a breadth of exhibitions from craft to new media, and has worked both independently and within artistic institutions and as curator in residence for Plug In ICA and Urban Shaman. Jenny was notably one of the curatorial collective for Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years and Hovercraft: Navigating the shorelines of art and craft. She is a member of the art collective The Ephemerals. She has worked as both Adjunct Curator and Curator at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, has taught at the University of Manitoba and has written for many publications. Jenny has just begun her position at MSS and we invite you to come and say hello to her next time you come around. Welcome Jenny!
Remembering Former Winnipeg City Councillor Harvey Smith
Martha Street Studio wouldn't be the same without former Winnipeg City Councillor Harvey Smith. Smith was a proud supporter of the arts. From advocating for the Manitoba Printmakers Association Inc. in early days, through print workshops organized at the Daniel MacIntyre School Division through to being the driver in our first ever Steamroller Print Festival (as pictured above). We will miss you Harvey!
New Studio Edition by Simon Hughes
work in progress
John Graham’s Mural 'Northern Lights' (1963, mosaic tile, aluminum and acrylic) at the Winnipeg International Airport (now destroyed)
by Simon Hughes
New folio of prints by Denis Lessard
h_éros by Denis Lessard
h_éros by Denis Lessard
Folio of three screen printed images in folder, edition of ten
printed by Andrew Lodwick
Image size: 12 x 9 inches on 21 x 15 inch paper
$750
Each print presents a pairing of images in two vibrant colours : historical artworks in printmaking by Crispijn van de Passe and Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, superimposed with figures from vintage and current advertising.
As suggested in the project’s title, the idea is to put forward the homoreoticism in the mythological or advertising hero figure. The project was triggered especially by my discovery of the very sexy works by 16th century Dutch printmaker and painter, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem. As well, h_éros is a continuation of my earlier printmaking projects such as L’Air/Maillol and La cuisine, which I have developed in the 1990s (printed by Peter Braune at New Leaf Editions in Vancouver) and Tendresses in the early 2000s (printed by Francine Turcotte at Atelier Presse Papier in Trois-Rivières).