All members are welcomed and encouraged to attend this Fall Print Swap - a leisurely evening of trading your work for that of your peers.
ANY MEDIUM, AND SIZE, AND SUBJECT MATTER… the more diverse, the better! Bring your photos, paintings, drawings, DVD’s, ‘zines, t-shirts, silk-screens, what-have-you, and trade to your heart’s content!
Refreshments will be served.
This next installment of the 2009 series of off-site Salons is offered to PLATFORM members exclusively, free of charge. This is an opportunity to meet with an artist in the studio, to discuss modes of work, and how one series can potentially inform the next.
Studio Visit: Thursday 24 September 2009 @ 7PM (meet at PLATFORM)
Space is limited; register asap
To register, please contact Natasha at outreach@platformgallery.org, or call 204.942.8183
Sandee Moore is an artist working in a variety of media, including performance, video, installation and interactive electronic sculpture. Her work has been screened and exhibited across Canada at venues such as the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Images Film and Video Festival, the Blackwood Gallery, the Dalhousie Art Gallery and the Mendel Art Gallery. Through her artworks, she proposes to animate social relationships through personal exchange. She just stepped down from her four-year term as Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg in order to pursue her art practice on a full-time basis.
Visit Sandee’s website at: www.sandeemoore.com
Please Note: Sandee Moore’s studio is located on the fourth floor of a building that has no elevator. If you have trouble with stairs, you may want to make arrangements to come to PLATFORM’s next Salon Night, which will be hosted in-house.
This next installment of the 2009 series of off-site Salons is offered to PLATFORM members exclusively, free of charge. This is an opportunity to meet with an artist in the studio, to discuss modes of work, and how one series can potentially inform the next.
Salon Night / Studio Visit: Thursday 23 July 2009 @ 7PM (meet at PLATFORM)
Space is limited; must register prior to Friday 17 July to attend.
To register, please contact Natasha at outreach@platformgallery.org, or call 204.942.8183
Aganetha Dyck is a Canadian artist who is interested in environmental issues, specifically the power of the small. She is interested in inter species communication. Her most recent research asks questions about the ramifications all living beings would experience should honeybees disappear from earth. Dyck received the Arts Award of Distinction from The Manitoba Arts Council in 2006 and a Governor Generals Award in Media and Visual art in 2007. Website: http://members.shaw.ca/ahtenaga/home.html
Please Note: Aganetha Dyck’s studio is located on the fourth floor of a warehouse that has no elevator. If you have trouble with stairs, you may want to make arrangements to come to PLATFORM’s next Salon Night, which will be hosted in-house.
Salon Night In Conjunction with Members’ Show
We are pleased to announce that Sarah Crawley will host this year’s member’s show Salon Night. This evening will take place
Tuesday 14 July 2009 | 7 - 9PM @ University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03.
Salon Nights are open to all members, no registration required. Come-one-Come-all! They are free evenings of informal critique and feedback where members are welcome to participate in the salon night that is being held in conjunction with the members show. Anyone PLATFORM member that has submitted work is welcome to attend to receive an crit, or feedback on their work. Whether you wish to present or not, you should come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios. Each session is hosted by a different local or visiting artist who will facilitate discussion and weigh in with their own experience.
Sarah Crawley is a visual artist who lives and works in Winnipeg. Her lens-based art practice revolves around explorations into different aspects of memory, identity and communication. She is interested in how memory impacts identity and the non-verbal ways that identity is communicated. Crawley’s generational approach, utilizing multiple photographic processes, allows for possibilities provided by the accidental with each process both obscuring and embedding information. Subverting proper photographic techniques, Crawley creates images that are based in reality but not bound by it and that make visible the photographic technologies used to create them.
Crawley’s photographic works have been presented across Canada in solo and group exhibitions and she has recently begun to exhibit internationally. Solo exhibitions include The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon), Gallery Connexion (Fredericton), The Photographers Gallery (Saskatoon), The Stride Gallery (Calgary), Gallery 1C03, The Floating Gallery, aceartinc and Gallery 803 (Winnipeg), among others. Group exhibitions include The Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg), The Belgrade Cultural Centre (Belgrade, Serbia), The Dunlop Gallery (Regina), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Gallery 111 (Winnipeg), and Open Space (Victoria), among others. Crawley enjoys sharing her passion for photography through teaching workshops and delivering artist lectures and is an active member of the visual art community in Winnipeg.
Salon Nights are open to all members, no registration required. Come-one-Come-all! They are free evenings of informal critique and feedback where members can bring in their art projects for discussion.Whether you wish to present or not, you should come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios. Each session is hosted by a different local or visiting artist who will facilitate discussion and weigh in with their own experience.
Rosalie Favell is a visual artist constantly searching the universe for her true self identity. Born and raised in Winnipeg she currently resides in Ottawa where she is a pursuing a PhD in Cultural Mediations at Carleton. Rosalie received her M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Photographic Arts from the Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Toronto. Her art practice has taken her many places around the world. Favell has an extensive record of exhibitions, critical reviews, and awards dating from 1985. She has held many solo exhibitions since 1993, the most recent one Rosalie Favell: I searched many worlds at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2003). Favell is a recipient of numerous awards from visual arts funding bodies that include the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, the City of Winnipeg, and the Canadian Native Arts Foundation. Favell’s work is held by public collections of the Canadian Contemporary Museum of Photography/National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, the Indian Art Centre, the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, Mount Saint Vincent University, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Woodland Cultural Centre.
To celebrate the international extravaganza of DIY photography aceartinc. and PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts are joining forces and pooling resources to provide the opportunity to develop the skills required for experimental pinhole photography available to our members. Conducted by local photographer, Sarah Crawley, participants will learn how to make several cameras, take pictures with them, develop their images and finally upload them onto ace’s website as well as the official W.P.P.D. website.
The workshop will take place over 2 consecutive weekend afternoons: Sunday the 19th of April and Saturday the 25th of April.
Participants need to bring scissors, masking tape, a smock and 3 to 6 containers such as shoe boxes, pringle cylinders, biscuit tins, film canisters etc. (round containers are preferable) but all other supplies (photo paper, film processing, and all associated materials) are included in the subsidized tuition of $60 - a deal if ever a Winnipegger saw one!
There are very limited spaces and these will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, so hurry!
To register please contact Natasha at np.platformoutreach@gmail.com, or call 942-81833
(”Print Swap” includes any medium: photography, painting, collage, zines, embroidery, knitting, etc.)
Now, there are many advantages to a good barter exchange such as:
- The opportunity to meet fellow artists/PLATFORM members and trade old or new prints
- The possibility to contribute to a social and convivial atmosphere
- To participate in a non-hierarchical, and non market-driven environment for exchange
1.Members are invited to bring between 5 and 15 prints
2.You will swap, trade and exchange your prints for others
3. You are guaranteed to leave with as many multiples as you provide
4. This swap is open to all mediums,
5. You must be a member to participate, but can become a member the day of the swap
6. You can drop buy and swap at anytime throughout the event
7.Rules are meant to be broken
Space will not be limited | Refreshments will be served | All are encouraged
PLATFORM is pleased to announce the continuation of Salon Nights as part of our Outreach Initiatives.
No better way to kick off PLATFORM’s 2009 Salon Nights then with local artist, Diana Thorneycroft. Thorneycroft will host an intimate evening Salon in her studio, where she will discuss her work and career. This first installment of the 2009 series of off-site Salons is offered to PLATFORM members exclusively, free of charge. This is an opportunity to meet with an artist in the studio, to discuss modes of work, and how one series can potentially inform the next. Space is limited; please contact the Centre directly to register prior to Friday 20 March.
Salon Night / Studio Visit: Thursday 26 March 2009 @ 7PM (meet at PLATFORM)
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council, several Senior Arts Grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her work has been the subject of national radio documentaries and a CBC national documentary for television. Thorneycroft’s photo-based exhibition, The Body, its lesson and camouflage was on an eight city tour from 2000 to 2002. A book by the same name was published. Thorneycroft’s work has been included in the 2002 released Phaidon Press publication Blink, which presents the work of 100 rising stars in photography. They have been selected by 10 world-class curators, each proposing 10 photographers who they consider to have emerged and broken new ground in the last five years. Canadian Art Magazine selected Thorneycroft’s most recent body of work “Group of Seven Awkward Moments” as one of The Top 10 Exhibitions of 2008. www.dianathorneycroft.com
Please Note: Thorneycroft’s studio is located on the fourth floor of a warehouse that has no elevator. If you have trouble with stairs, you may want to make arrangements to come to PLATFORM’s next Salon Night, which will be hosted in-house.
PLATFORM and Martha Street Studio are pleased to offer an Intro to Digital Printing Workshop.
Martha Street Studio has generously opened this workshop up to PLATFORM members, with a waived membership fee.
This offer is exclusively for PLATFORM member’s only!
Intro to Digital Printing Workshop
Photographic printing possibilities have expanded from the traditional silver gelatin method to the modern digital pigment process. Previously called “Iris Prints” but now referred to as “Giclee” (zhee clay) they represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. This class will offer an introduction to Photoshop managed digital files, digital gamut, image quality control and different printing papers. Each student should bring a 300 dpi (dots per inch) digital file of photographic or computer based art or an original piece (smaller that 11”x 14”) from which to print a 16”x 20” inch print. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! Sign up now space is limited!
When: Saturday March 28th from 2:30pm-4:30pm
Where: Martha Street Studio, 11 Martha Street
Cost $50 members, non members add the price of membership
($35 regular, $20 student or senior) (Does not include PLATFORM members)
To register please contact: Suzie Smith at edu.printmakers@mts.net
Coordinator/ Education and Outreach Programs
Martha Street Studio
Manitoba Printmakers Association
Centre for Printmaking, Digital and Photographic Arts
11 Martha Street Winnipeg Manitoba R3B 1A2
telephone: 204 779 6253
fax: 204 944 1804
PLATFORM is pleased to announce the continuation of Salon Nights as part of our Outreach Initiatives.
The first of the Fall 2008 Salon Nights will see local artist, William Eakin, host an intimate evening Salon in his studio. In the inaugural off-site Salon, offered to PLATFORM members exclusively, free of charge, Eakin will open his studio and discuss his career. This is an opportunity to meet with an artist in the studio, to discuss modes of work, and how one series can potentially inform the next. Space is limited; please contact the Centre directly to register prior to Friday 19 October.
William Eakin’s photographic work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and included in numerous group shows over the last thirty years. Eakin’s practice comprises a reconsideration of cultural iconography as as diverse as The Space Race, Modernism, Eastern Political Figures, and car culture. The artist’s work has appeared in publication produced by Winnipeg Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, St. Norbert’s Art Centre, and PLATFORM, and was most recently included in Image and Inscription, An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Photography edited by Robert Bean and co-published by Gallery 44 and YYZ Books (Toronto).
Please Note: Eakin’s studio is located on a fifth floor of a warehouse that has no elevator. If you have trouble with stairs, you may want to make arrangements to come to PLATFORM’s next Salon Night, which will be hosted in-house.