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Come by for tea and conversation

Every Friday from 1-3pm during the duration of Dylan Miner's exhibition

June 26th- August 7th

Based on his work with Indigenous youth and elders across Turtle Island, Wiisaakodewini (Métis) artist Dylan Miner has begun to explore the ‘methodology of visiting,’ an Indigenous way of working.  While conducting an oral history project with retired Anishinaabe autoworkers, many elders shared the idea that we don’t visit as much as we used to.  Because of urbanization and the necessities of wage labour, many Indigenous people do not visit one another was frequently.  In other words, ‘The Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore.’ 

As such, Miner wondered what it would mean to simply create a time and place to share tea and conversation within the context of the art gallery, museum, or Indigenous community centre.  It is here that ‘The Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore’ emerges. Through this particular socially engaged artist practice, Miner simply organizes tea times where anyone can stop by to share tea and conversation, creating new and maintaining existing social relationships. 

MSS welcomes Kristin Nelson in her new role as Co-Director.

It’s Official! Larry Glawson and Kristin Nelson are now sharing the former full-time Executive Directorship position. Staff and Board are very excited to welcome Kristin on board. Larry and Kristin will be job sharing all aspects of the position. Kristin will be available Wednesday to Friday for greetings, meetings, coffee and cake. So please feel free to drop by/phone/email/Facebook/Instagram/send pigeons to welcome her to the fold.

 

Draw Date: April 20th, 2015

Martha Street Studio

LIcence Number: LGA 6164-RF

Making Our Mark II is a mentorship program from Arts & Disability Network Manitoba in partnership with Martha Street Studio. This program will provide up to 6 mid-career, professionally identified, local artists with disabilities the opportunity to explore the art of printmaking, digital art and professional art career practices. This initiative (started in 2013) is the first of its kind in the Winnipeg arts community, supporting the full inclusion of artists with disabilities within the contemporary arts stream through discourse and skill development identified by the artists themselves. Selected participants will receive technical training, full studio access and group directed professional development seminars. They will also meet and engage with group selected visiting artists and curators via presentations and critiques.

Martha Street Studio is a fully accessible and inviting creative space. An accessible entryway, washrooms and centrally located wheelchair lift make Martha Street Studio a more accessible and welcoming space for this city’s immensely talented community of artists with disabilities.

Although only open to members of ADNM, membership with ADNM is free to self-identified artists with disabilities.

Martha Street Studio is currently accepting program applications. If you are interested in being considered for the program, please submit the following:

 

• Curriculum Vitae

• Artist Statement (General)

• Artist Bio

• Up to 15 images of recent artwork in digital format (jpegs, 1800 pixels maximum longest side). Please include image list. Alternatively, you may send a link to a website, blog, Tumblr or Flickr account, but please clarify which 15 images you want considered with your application.

• Statement describing your interest in the program and what you hope to achieve through the program.

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Please email applications to director.printmakers@mymts.net  (cc to: info@adnm.ca), you may also send via snail mail to:

Program Coordinator

Making Our Mark II

c/o Martha Street Studio

11 Martha Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1A2

Application deadline is extended to Friday, April 17, 2015.

Participation is free to selected artists.

Participating artists will be selected by representatives of Martha Street Studio and Arts and Disability Network Manitoba.

Only applicants that are short-listed will be contacted for interviews/studio visits.

Final selection will be made following the interview process.

If you have any questions about eligibility and disability, please contact ADNM @: info@adnm.ca

Martha Street Studio aka The Manitoba Printmakers Association Ltd. will hold its Annual General Meeting Monday, April 20th at 7 pm at 11 Martha Street here in Winnipeg. The evening will feature updates on the Gallery's current activities, the annual financial report (2014), the announcement of the raffle winner and the election of this year's Board of Directors. For more information please contact the Gallery.

Between March 9th- April 9th customers will receive 10% off purchases of artwork. Martha Street Studio members get an additional 10% off their existing 10% giving them a total of a 20% discount. Browse the sales section of the website to see some of the large variety of work available. To view the work in person come by the studio between 10-5pm Monday- Friday or email gallery.printmakers@mymts.net to book an appointment.

*Printshop purchases not included.

Event Cancelled

Interplay – Gravity is one image from a new series by Wanda Koop (called INTERPLAY) that combines high-resolution representations of her paintings paired with never before seen images of original photographs taken by the artist. This particular image pairing is exclusive to Martha Street Studio.

 

The rest of the edition of Interplay – Gravity is available for sale at MSS. We also have a limited edition (3 prints only) of the same image sized 27.5” x 72” available for $5200 unframed.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Wanda Koop is one of Canada’s most important and inventive contemporary artists. Her career spans over four decades and includes more than 50 major solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Most notably, the National Gallery of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibited a comprehensive survey of her work in 2010-2011.

Koop is known for charting new directions in painting, pushing the boundaries of presentation and display with her monumental-scale painting installations, in which she incorporates poetic video and performance work. Her practice explores scenes of urbanization, industrialization, and robotic technology as it interfaces with the natural world, asking us to reconsider imagery that is delivered to us through both cultural history and contemporary broadcast media.

The National Gallery of Canada holds a major collection of her work. Other private and museum collections include the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Reykjavik Museum in Iceland, the Shanghai Museum of Modern Art in China, the Caldic Collection in the Netherlands, as well as the Bank of Montreal, and the Royal Bank of Canada.

Over the course of her career, Koop has been the recipient of numerous national and international honours. In 2006, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada, in recognition of her outstanding lifetime achievement. Koop has also been honoured with the Queen’s Diamond and Golden Jubilee Medals, and is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Winnipeg, the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, and the University of Manitoba.

In 2011, she was the subject of a critically-acclaimed film titled “KOOP,” from Site Media Inc., directed by filmmaker Katherine Knight. Koop is also well-known for her community work and social activism. In 1998, she founded Art City, a storefront art-centre, bringing together world-class contemporary visual artists and Winnipeg’s inner-city youth to explore the creative process.

Rules and Restrictions:

1. Board and staff members cannot purchase tickets for themselves 

2. 3 tickets will be drawn. The first drawn ticket will be the winning ticket. If the prize is not claimed within one month that person automatically forfeits the prize and the prize will go to the second drawn ticket holder. After one month, if not claimed the 3rd ticket holder will be contacted.

3. Prize must be accepted as awarded

4. No cash or monetary equivalent or substitution of any kind.

The deadline to apply for the Winter 2015 Session of our Youth Outreach Program has been extended to this Friday January 30 at 12:00 noon.     Please click on our Education page to see the schedule, course details and to download an application form.