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Call for submissions: Annual Members’ Show + Sale
Artwork by Jenna Li All current Martha Street Studio members are invited to submit one print-based artwork to our annual Members Show. All works must be dropped off during regular office hours. All work submitted will be shown. If possible please provide a digital image to askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca for promotional purposes. This showcase is a fundraiser for the studio. We are planning a number of fun fundraising activities to take place during the exhibition month. Stay tuned! Drop off dates: October 10 – 25, 2024Pickup dates: December 3 – 7, 2024 Artwork drop off and pickup during our regular hours only: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am- 5pm. Please note we are closed on Saturdays of long weekends. Exhibition dates: November 1 – 30, 2024Opening reception: Friday, November 1st, 5-8 pm * Examples of “print-based” work may include bookbinding, digital prints, and cyanotypes, as well as more traditional print media such as etchings, letterpress, and screen prints. Please note that the artwork does not need to have been made at Martha Street Studio. Contact us at askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca or 204-779-6253 with any inquiries. ** The work must be no larger than 24″ x 24″ x 36″. If the work is framed it must have a wire across the back. If the work comes unframed we will hang it with magnets. 3D objects will be placed free-standing on plinths as available. Anything that requires other hanging/install must come with the special equipment required to display it, and instructions on how to install. *slider artwork by Monique Fillion or Suzie Smith Renew your membership
Within the Wider Landscape // Cassandre Boucher
Exhibition Dates: September 6 – October 18 Opening Reception: Friday September 13 @ 5 – 8pmArtist Demo Workshop: Saturday September 14 @ 1pm at Martha Street Studio This workshop is free to attend and open to the public. Exhibition Text by Bronwyn Watson // Martha Street Studio is pleased to present Within the Wider Landscape, a solo exhibition by Cassandre Boucher (FRA). Having grown up in the forests of the St. Lawrence Lowlands, and now living in the heart of urban density in Paris, Cassandre Boucher reflects on the connections that unite human and nature. For the exhibition Within the Wider Landscape, she blends printed works and woven textiles to evoke contact with nature as a source of sensory and emotional experiences. Delicate, colored papers with diaphanous transparency sit alongside wide-meshed textiles that allow light to pass through. Folded and crumpled, sometimes torn, intertwined, and hand-woven in other places, they reveal fragments of photographic images. A wayward tree has fallen across the road; hands begin their weaving; the field of flowers has become a drape. Within the Wider Landscape calls for slow contemplation and introspection. It is an invitation to dive into our memories and consider the natural spaces that surround us in their entirety as places of interaction and interdependence, rather than simply as a resource to be controlled and exploited. // I am interested in the temporal and emotional relationships that link human beings to their environments. I pursue a protean approach to textile arts where weaving, etching, and the pictorial possibilities of screen printing are combined and utilized within both two-dimensional and installation-based works. Driven by an interest in nature as well as traditional methodologies of craft and labour, I draw inspiration from recent social histories and the rural Quebec surroundings in which I grew up, in
to be held in two hands // Sonali Menezes & Snack Witch Joni Cheung
Exhibition Dates: July 12 – August 24, 2024 Closing Reception: Friday August 23, 2024 @ 5 – 8 pm Artist Demo Workshop: Saturday August 24, 2024 @ 1pm at Martha Street Studio.This demo workshop is free to attend and open to the public. Exhibition Text by Alana MacDougall Martha Street Studio is pleased to present to be held in two hands, a duo exhibition by Sonali Menezes (ON) and Joni Cheung (QC). // It takes two, hands to clear off a table wash a tower of dishes cut a mango serve a meal feed others nourish ourselves We are reaching, for a plate of food for connections to the lands and waters we currently call home to the places our ancestors cared for and flourished with We call back through food patiently waiting for our voices to intertwine over long distances Staring at bright marigold stains that are probably older than we are our minds wander to meals shared with family members While eating alone Something we have had to learn growing up in so-called Canada Getting lost in the messiness in the markings and spaces between are our (hi)stories and relations // Snack Witch Joni Cheung and Sonali Menezes grew up eating food. Often with two hands: to pull apart a steamed bun, to rip off a piece of bhatura to dip into channa; to offer a serving, to cut a mango. Sometimes the messiness was cleaned up with a good morning towel, marks revealing the history of what food was shared. Other times, haldi stains remain on skin, wooden spoons, and under nails. Both artists are part of Asian diasporas born here in so-called Canada, originating in Hong Kong, and Goa, India respectively. As they navigate the in-betweenness of being settlers and second-generation immigrants, they reach back to
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