Martha Street Studio

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  • Martha Street Studio response to COVID-19

    Martha Street Studio response to COVID-19

    April 23, 2020 update:

    Hello members, artists, and supporters of Martha Street Studio,

    The board and staff have made the difficult but prudent decision to suspend all in-person activities until July 1st. Unfortunately, this means all of our current courses and workshops will be cancelled, the physical gallery and shop will remain closed to the public, public, and the studio will not be open to individual artists. Staff will be in contact with anyone who requires a refund in the coming days.

    In the interim we will continue to operate to the best of our abilities. We have begun featuring member artists’ work on our social media platforms and can deliver any works purchased within the city. We have also added a number of items to our webstore that can also be delivered within the city (or mailed further afield). Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber graciously allowed us to re-use their timely and eerily prescient design from our BYOT fundraiser as well; orders for shirts can be placed until May 30th, check out the design here.

    Over the coming weeks we will begin cautiously re-offering digital printing services to artists. Although the suite itself will remain closed, files can be submitted digitally to our technicians and orders for printing can be arranged via email. This will be a slower process than normal, involving more communication through email and delivery time, but we are confident that your patience will be rewarded by our outstanding service. Additional technical services for traditional print-media will also be made available on a case-by-case basis as our capacity and access to the space increases.

    Exhibitions, artists talks and residencies will all be postponed with the expectation that normal programming will recommence on a shifted timeline as soon as it is safe to do so. We remain committed to all of the artists that have agreed to be a part of our upcoming programming and are eager to show their work to you. The process of rescheduling will be no easy task, but we will keep everyone informed of changes and new opportunities as they arise. This years Youth Outreach Program participants will be the first to have a virtual gallery of work that will be brought online soon. Education is also core to our existence and we will endeavour to re-offer all of the cancelled courses once the current threat has passed. The new reality for our courses and workshops will undoubtedly require significant changes, but rest assured, we remain committed to an exemplary and safe experience for all course participants. Studio access will be reintroduced on a similar timeline to our educational offerings. We will be in touch with key-holders and long-term renters with details once they are available.

    With the emerging abundance of online demands from work and school we recognize a potential for renewed interest in handmade slow-art that does not exist solely on our connected devices. The irony of a webstore offering tangible work and a virtual gallery is not lost on us. In an effort to give back to our community we have decided to start a poster campaign that will begin this weekend, with a new design appearing weekly. Keep your eyes open for our work on telephone poles and notice boards near you.

    We will reassess the health and safety risks on an ongoing basis, and will notify you of any changes as soon as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have regarding the studio.

    Be safe and take care of one another.

    Jamie Wright
    Executive Director
    director@printmakers.mb.ca

    April 15, 2020 post:

    Hello members, artists, and supporters of Martha Street Studio,

    The Manitoba government has extended the public health order to close all non-critical businesses to April 28, 2020. Martha Street Studio remains closed in accordance with the provincial mandate.

    This means key holders and studio renters are still not allowed access to the studio. The public health order details that business may “continue to sell goods to customers where those goods can be picked up ‘curbside’ or delivered to customers.” Our Webstore continues to be in operation and we can arrange for curbside pickup or delivery of purchases.

    We will continue to assess government directives and will notify you of updates. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have regarding the studio.

    Be safe and take care of one another.

    March 18, 2020 post:

    Hello members, artists and supporters of Martha Street Studio,

    We take our responsibility to our community very seriously. In light of the recent and evolving threat from COVID-19 we will be suspending all of our public programming and educational offerings at the studio. Public events, courses, workshops and youth programming will be cancelled until April 20th. A refund or credit towards upcoming courses/workshops will be available to anyone who has already paid. Students currently enrolled in a cancelled course will have their fee reimbursed on a pro-rated basis. 

    The following courses will be cancelled:

    • Youth Outreach Printmaking (YOP) and INKubator
    • Etching
    • Introduction to Coptic Bookbinding 2
    • Screen Printing Basics
    • Digital Darkroom
    • Intro to Screen Printing
    • Advanced Screen Printing
    • Stone Lithography

    In addition to the cancelled courses and workshops, the gallery and shop will also be closed to the public. For now we will endeavour to keep the studio open to keyholders. We would ask that anyone feeling unwell refrain from coming to the space. We also encourage those that do use the space to be mindful of current health recommendations, such as social distancing and enhanced hygiene practices.

    We will reassess the health and safety risks after April 20th and notify you of any changes. Our hope is to re-offer all of the cancelled courses at a later date once the current threat has passed. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have regarding the studio.

    Be safe and take care of one another.

    Jamie Wright
    Executive Director
    director@printmakers.mb.ca

  • Trace elements // Kelsey Stephenson

    Trace elements // Kelsey Stephenson

    Exhibition Dates:
    Thursday February 20 – Friday March 20, 2020

    Opening Reception: Thursday February 20, 5-8 pm
    Artist will be in attendance

    Artist Talk: Saturday February 22, 2pm
    ASL interpretation available by request. Requests must be submitted by 5pm on February 19 by emailing askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca or calling 204-779-6253.

    These events are free to attend and open to the public.

    Trace elements includes a series of small edition and monoprint works developed over the last two years, using eight larger format etching plates as the basis for imagery and printing. While some works have been printed and editioned, many utilize the traces left by ghost prints and a spontaneous approach to combining prints and plates together to create new works as monoprints. The installation divining in this exhibitionuses both audio and visuals to create a sense of place within the gallery. “Alberta,” by Alex Gray, plays on a loop in the background, allowing both visual and sound to draw viewers in. As our bodies enter the landscape of the gallery, the fragile paper is disturbed, making it move and rustle. Combined, the individual etchings making up divining present as a single piece as though seeing an aerial view of landscape, observing impressions left behind by thousands of years, or a short period of flood of erosion from water.

    Kelsey Stephenson is an Edmonton based artist working with ideas of place-based memory and identity, and the changes imposed on landscape through human agency, intentionally or not. She works primarily with printmaking and print based installation in her practise. Kelsey’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions across western Canada and in the USA, as well as nationally and internationally within juried group exhibitions. Recent group exhibitions include the 37th Bradley International, at Bradley University in Illinois (USA), the 2nd International Print Biennial Łódz 2018, in Łódz (Poland), and the 2018 Okanagan Print Triennial, in Kelowna, BC. Kelsey currently teaches at the University of Alberta, and has previously taught at the Alberta University of the Arts (Alberta College of Art + Design).

    Find more of her work online at www.kstephenson.ca or on Instagram at @kstephenson_print.

    Artist Statement:

    My recent work examines our dual relationship with place and landscape. The work draws on connections to places meaningful to myself, searching for how place has created an impact on identity, and how we in turn create changes and impressions to our immediate environment and beyond. The audio by Alex Gray in the installation divining consists of sounds and silences, thinking back to the prairies. The use of audio helps to immerse and transport viewers, pulling together the visual fragments presented in the gallery. The audio pieces draw on both water and wind as sources of inspiration. The individual works draw on the visual language of topographies and an overview of river systems. They draw on the process of monoprint, including ghost impressions, and the process of etching, carefully degrading and eroding the plate in specific places to create marks which bring to mind rivers and erosion.

  • What’s on next: Traversing the line, with no fixed point // Briana Palmer

    What’s on next: Traversing the line, with no fixed point // Briana Palmer

    Exhibition Dates:
    Thursday January 9th – Friday February 7th, 2020

    Opening Reception: Thursday January 9th, 5-8 pm
    Artist will be in attendance

    Artist Talk: Saturday January 11th, 2pm
    ASL interpretation available by request. Requests must be submitted by 5pm on January 8th by emailing askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca or calling 204-779-6253.

    These events are free to attend and open to the public.

    Traversing the line, with no fixed point uses various printmaking methods and mixed media to question the use and position of the railway system in national memory and history. It can be a reminder of one’s heritage, while for others it is a symbol of slavery, genocide, and colonization. In this exhibition the artist creates a fictional world with objects in constant flux of meaning and interpretation.

    Briana Palmer lives in Hamilton Ontario, and teaches in the studio arts program at McMaster University. Originally from the West Coast, Briana received her BFA from the Alberta Collage of Art and Design and MFA from the University of Alberta. Her primary practice is in printmaking, sculpture and installation; creating works that reflect an intersection between perception, experience, and social ideologies taken from her own cultural practices, up-bringing and daily experiences. Using unusual combinations of media and materials, she arranges enchanted worlds where the objects and images are transported from their original source, relocating their history, and becoming poised between the uncertainly of what we know and understand, and what must be reconsidered.

    Palmer’s works have been exhibited in Canada, U.S and Europe. Her prints are in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Southern Graphics Council International, and the University of Alberta.

  • Winter Printer Carnival

    Winter Printer Carnival

    Please join us for the Winter Printer Carnival on Friday December 13, from 6-10 pm. Save the date! (*Please note the time change*)

    The Winter Printer Carnival is free to attend, and will have carnival themed snacks to enjoy while playing printmaking themed Parlour Games (for a small fee). The 2019 INKubator Showcase and Trio: Print Exchange Showcase (featuring work by students from the University of Manitoba, Brandon University and graduates of the INKubator program) will be on view in the gallery. Additionally, toward the end of the night we will draw the winners for our Studio Editions Raffle and Winter Printer Prize Basket. Please note, the winner for the Winter Printer Prize Basket must be present to claim their prize. We will also accept donations of materials on behalf of the North Point Douglas Women’s Centre.

    Please note we will be closed to the public during our office hours on Friday December 13, 10am – 5pm.

    Thank you to the Exchange District BIZ for sponsoring the Winter Printer Carnival!

    Schedule:

    Gallery opens: 6 pm
    Parlour Games: 7-10 pm
    Studio Editions Raffle draw: 9:00 pm
    Winter Printer Prize Basket draw: 9:45 pm

    Printmaking Parlour Games:

    Buy tickets for a small fee and play any of the following: “Squeegenius” a screen printing bingo game, “Ace the Case Race” a race using letterpress type, and “Print n’ Putt” a minigolf print experience. Get your own “Monoportrait” done by Kelly Campbell, make a card with Ann Rallison, or BYOT-shirt (bring your own t-shirt) and print a one-of-a-kind design by Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber (Cost for BYOT-shirt printing is $20. A limited supply of t-shirts will be available at Martha Street Studio for an additional $10).

    All funds raised will go to Martha Street Studio’s programming and operating costs.

    Studio Editions Raffle:

    To purchase a raffle ticket in support of Martha Street Studio stop by the office, call us at 204-779-6253 or see one of our Board Members. Tickets are only $20, and there is a 1 in 200 chance of winning a limited edition print valued over $1,200! Win a prize of 1 of the following 3 Studio Editions:

    ∙Limited Edition Screen Print – All Numbers Are Equal (Four Ways), edition 17/20, by Micah Lexier (valued at $2,000)

    ∙Limited Edition Intaglio Print – Beaming, edition 9/10 by Mélanie Rocan (valued at $1,200)

    ∙Limited Edition Digital Print – Parquet Floor Variations, Prypiat, Ukraine, edition 2/15 by David McMillan (valued at $2,000)

    To view more details, please click here.
    License: LGCA 6164-RF-31894 valid between May 21 and December 13, 2019.
    Final Draw Friday, December 13th, 2019 at 9:00pm.

    Winter Printer Prize Basket:

    Thank you to the generous donors who have contributed to our Winter Printer Prize Basket! We will draw for these prizes Friday December 13th, 2019 at 9:45pm. The winner must be present during the draw to claim their prize.

    Chris Krawchenko of Maximum Realty
    Destiny Seymour
    Parlour Coffee
    Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA)
    Niamh Dooley
    Roy Liang
    Urban Shaman
    Justine Barry
    Nonsuch Brewing Company
    PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts
    Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
    Sage
    Sean McLachlan

    North Point Douglas Women’s Centre:

    Martha Street Studio will accept donations of materials on behalf of the North Point Douglas Women’s Centre (NPD Women’s Centre), from December 13th – 20th. The NPD Women’s Centre is seeking donations of the following materials:

    • Non-perishable food
    • Feminine hygiene products
    • Personal hygiene products (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, lotion, toothbrushes/toothpaste, etc.)
    • Diapers – size 3 and up

    Less urgent materials needed at this time include:

    • Coffee—regular
    • Tea—regular
    • Containers of peanut butter—sugar free
    • Sugar
    • Sweetener
    • Jam—high fruit, low sugar
    • Margarine—canola or other healthier
    • Boxes of facial tissues
    • Toilet paper
    • Band aids and first aid supplies
    • Teaspoons
    • Rubber gloves—kitchen or latex free medical gloves
    • Hand soap
    • Phosphate free or greener dishwasher detergent
    • Phosphate free or greener laundry soap, liquid only
    • Garbage bags
    • Office supplies—pens, pencils, copier paper, business envelopes etc.
    • Adult and children bus tickets
  • Studio Editions Raffle

    Studio Editions Raffle

    Studio Editions Raffle tickets are on sale now! 

    To purchase a ticket in support of Martha Street Studio stop by the office, call us at 204-779-6253 or see one of our Board Members. Tickets are only $20, and there is a 1 in 200 chance of winning a limited edition print valued over $1,200! Win a prize of 1 of the following 3 Studio Editions:

    The draw will occur Friday December 13, 2019, 9pm during our Winter Printer Carnival.

    The Winter Printer Carnival will also feature fun, hands-on printmaking activities open to all skill levels, as well as opening receptions for the INKubator Showcase and Trio. Save the date!

    License: LGCA 6164-RF-31894 valid between May 21 and December 13, 2019
    Final Draw Friday, December 13th, 2019 at 9:00pm

  • The In-Betweens // Alison James

    The In-Betweens // Alison James

    Exhibition Dates:
    Friday November 1 – Thursday December 5, 2019

    Opening Reception: Friday November 1st, 5-8 pm
    Artist will be in attendance

    Artist Talk: Saturday November 16, 2pm
    ASL interpretation available by request. Requests must be submitted by 5pm on November 13th by emailing askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca or calling 204-779-6253.

    These events are free to attend and open to the public.

    Episodic memories lay the foundation of evolving human identities. A key aspect of long-term memory, they are a collection of personal experiences that occur in a specific time and setting and contain the emotional and contextual knowledge of each event. Their vital role in personal identity drives Alison James to ask: why are some experiences encoded, consolidated, and recalled successfully while others are not? What distinct characteristics do they share? What is derived from them?

    The In-Betweens addresses these questions through a series of looping, stop-motion animations of James’ episodic memories. Constructed from screen printed papercut figures and sets, the animations highlight the emotions of each memory portrayed. Unnerving movements of vivid screen printed papercuts draw viewers into quiet scenes fraught with emotion. The techniques used reflect the reconstructive nature of remembering. The process of screen printing is reconstructive; involving the construction of an image, its deconstruction to create positives and the subsequent reconstruction of layers when printing. Assembling of the papercuts reaffirms this notion. Continuous looping of the animations evokes the memories’ repeated recollection over time.

    Alison James is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In her research-based practice, she utilizes the technical processes of printmaking and animation to investigate the reconstructive nature of autobiographical memory and personal identity. Alison holds a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Past exhibitions and screenings include I Had a Feeling, Atelier Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, QC (2016), Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, MB (2015), Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation, Montreal and Québec City, QC (2014) and Animasivo, Mexico City, Mexico (2014). Alison has participated in residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Frans Masereel Centrum, and Atelier Graff.

    The artist would like to thank the School of Art at the University of Manitoba for their support.

    Artist Statement:

    We are what we remember. This notion troubles me. In the last number of years, I have come to realize that the majority of my episodic memories, and thus my life narrative, are tied to documentation — photographs, home videos, and verbal storytelling. What does this mean, when such records are created and presented in a way that makes life seem to largely consist of a string of joyful experiences — smiling faces partaking in celebrations, vacations, holidays?

    My recent work converges on the in-betweens — personal episodic memories that do not conform to life scripts documented in my family’s archive. Through screen printing and stop-motion animation, I endeavour to reconstruct strong episodic memories that share three common threads; they do not exist in the form of material record nor were they relayed to me as a story, I seldom shared them, if at all, and most notably — they possess a significant emotional charge. What does it take to encode such a memory, I wonder? Are they truer than those connected to documentation? More meaningful?

    When recalling a memory, it is impossible to conjure a perfectly preserved experience. Rather, we reconstruct the past from a personal present, introducing errors and imbuing the memory with our present-day mood, values and outlook on life. I meditate on memory reconstruction through screen printing: a highly deliberate technique that involves  composing an image, deconstructing it to create layers, then reassembling it through the printing process. Animation breathes life into these constructions, seeking to conjure the elusive core of the memory — emotion.

  • Obscura // Angela Snieder

    Obscura // Angela Snieder

    Exhibition Dates: Friday September 6th – Friday October 18th, 2019

    Opening Reception: Friday September 6th, 5-8 pm

    Artist Talk: Saturday September 7th, 2pm

    Martha Street Studio is pleased to present Obscura, a solo exhibition of work by Angela Snieder (ON). Obscura will be on display at Martha Street Studio from Friday September 6th to Friday October 18th. An opening reception will be held on September 6th from 5-8 pm with the artist in attendance. Snieder will present an artist talk on Saturday September 6th at 2pm.

    Obscura engages with questions of truth and artifice related to experience, perception, and lens-based processes. Through various photographic forms, including photopolymer prints, large-scale pasted prints and moving analog projections, the works in the exhibition aim to prompt a negotiation of reality and its representations that calls into question the truthfulness of photography.

    The role of illusion is central to the printed and projected scenes. Photographic textures and surfaces offer a sense of familiarity, recalling physical spaces such as mineshafts, caves, undergrowth or mountains, but incongruities in scale and subject matter unsettle the scenes and allude to their artifice. What is happening in the shifting moment when the eye catches on to the trick; and how does the knowledge of this conspiracy alter the experience of the image? The feeling of certainty comes in and out of focus as tall grass undulates or an illuminated fog floats in a snow-filled room. 

    The newest work, Field (2019), is a moving analog projection created with two camera obscura devices. Whereas historically the camera obscura projected an image of the external world (reversed and inverted), the devices in the exhibition reveal fabricated physical spaces, projected through apertures onto the walls of a darkened room.

    Artist Statement

    How can we think about the relationship between physical and psychological spaces? My creative practice explores the possibility that the intersection of the two can foster deeply contemplative experiences and enable attentive and empathetic consideration of our relationship with the world.

    Working in photo-based print media and installation, I make use of the mimetic qualities inherent to photography, with the hope of drawing attention not only to the photograph’s capacity for deception, but also to the duplicitous nature of perception and memory. Since their invention, photographic impressions have held an evidentiary power due to their indexical relationship with the physical world. Using the diorama as a creative device, I construct spaces that play with this implicit sense of trust. The resulting printed and projected images reference built structures, but exist in a state of transformation, as if being reclaimed by natural materials and processes. These dream-like scenes serve to explore an ‘in-betweenness’; spaces of both protection and entrapment, of natural and built, of fascination and fear. They are settings in which something is on the verge of taking place.









    Angela Snieder is an artist working primarily in photo-based print media and installation. She completed her BFA at York University (2013) and her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Alberta (2017). Angela taught for several years at the University of Alberta in Printmaking, Foundations, Drawing and Intermedia, and at the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP). She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in a solo show at Alberta Printmakers in Calgary, and in group shows including the 7th International Guanlan Print Biennial in Shenzhen, China, and the Krakòw International Print Triennial in Krakòw, Poland. She is the recipient of a SSHRC graduate scholarship and a Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for an ongoing project with collaborator Morgan Wedderspoon. Angela currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario.

  • Written Response: Not yet Earth: The work of Madeline MacKay

    Not Yet Earth: The work of Madeline MacKay
    By Kelly Campbell, 2018

    While I live, my body is flesh. When I die, it will be meat. My consciousness will cease to exist, but my corpse will persist. It will be buried in a box in the ground. The chemical bonds that hold the organic materials of my meat together will be broken down, their energy released and repurposed to suit the needs of whatever living thing consumes my remains. Just as I digested the meat of countless plants and animals to fuel my earthly vessel while I was alive, my carcass will pass through and become part of thousands of bugs, bacteria, and plants, until it is unrecognizable as what it once was. It will become part of the environment; traces of me will be spread throughout the soil, the air, the grass. I will no longer be a single entity, but a small piece of everything. I will be the earth, and the earth will be me.

    While poetically compelling, the process of rot and decomposition is often viscerally disgusting in practice. A dead body is sad. A decomposing body is repulsive. Why?

    Troubling the line between what is self and what is not in the context of the body creates disgust. For example: on your head, your hair is beautiful, luscious, and thick. You toss it from side to side as though you are in a shampoo commercial. Enjoy this moment, puny human, for several weeks later, balled up in the drain, removed from and perversed of its original context, it is revolting. That you used to find it so appealing makes its present state all the more vile. Look at what it has become! Look at what you have become.

    I am watching a video. A thin person with long brown hair, wearing a white t-shirt and underwear, arranges irregular strips of a stringy grey material in a muddy puddle. The video is titled Meat Drawing. Without this titular designation, I doubt I would recognize the pale flesh in the artist’s fingers as such. 

    The creator of and performer in this work, Madeline Mackay, doesn’t think of meat as food – she’s a lifelong vegetarian. I’m not. Is this why I find the video so difficult to watch? I rarely look at meat this long even – especially – when I’m eating it. Raised on fish sticks and chicken nuggets, I prefer my meat pre-butchered, shredded, dyed, and pressed into familiar shapes and textures. The wet crunches of tendons between my teeth and the jiggling wetness of fat on a bone makes me lose my appetite. I didn’t grow up thinking of meat as dead creatures and I don’t like to be reminded.

    While it is true the meat we see comes from an animal intended for human consumption – the sinew, fat, and skin in Not Yet Earth‘s video and print works were pulled from a butcher’s trash and cut into strips by the artist – to fully understand the discomfort and impact of the work we must look further than meat’s relationship to food. Juxtaposed with the artist’s living body and a muddy pool, the meat shreds are forced into relationship with both. Recognizable as an indistinct part of an animal body, but not yet unrecognizable enough to be part of the earth, the flesh exists in a transitory state.

    The artist was compelled to create this work after contracting a flesh eating disease wherein her immune system attacked her own blood platelets. In reference to her illness, she states, “I have never been more aware that my flesh has an existence that is independent of mine.” Sickness, much like gore and guts, has a way of forcing one to recognize the disconnect between a sense of self and the bodily vessel within which it is carried. The body and the mind become two distinct parts of the self, one over which we might have dominion and another over which we do not. Mackay’s artistic investigation into dead meat manipulates this unique substance in an effort to regain control and understanding of the materials of which she is made. Through observing this work, we gain a new understanding of self – what we are made of, where what we are made of ends, and what happens when what we are made of is no longer us, but not yet something else.

    Kelly Campbell is an artist, musician, and songwriter. Their artistic interests include labour, gender, colour, craft, disposability, horror, fantasy, and cute pictures of animals. Find them on the internet @kellygrub.

    Kelly grew up in so-called Nova Scotia, territory of the Mi’kmaq people, and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which sits on land lived on, travelled over, and protected by Anishinaabe, Néhiyaw, Dakota, Dené, and Métis people long before Kelly or any of their ancestors knew it existed.

    Martha Street Studio gratefully acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council for their dedicated support of our professional programming.

  • Spring Youth Outreach Program Showcase!

    Please join us in celebrating the hard work of the Spring Youth Outreach Program participants at a Showcase Reception

    Thursday June 27 from 5-7pm.  

    Most of the young artists will be in attendance and refreshments will be served.  This event is free and open to the public!

  • Want to be a Studio Intern at Martha Street Studio? Apply before May 28th!

    Organization Description
    Martha Street Studio (Manitoba Printmakers Association Inc.) is Manitoba’s only printmaking artist-run centre, studio and gallery. It has 2,000 square feet of open studio space and a custom printing area. Another 2,000 square feet houses additional studio space, gallery, project space, archives and sales area, a small gift shop, digital suite and administrative offices. Martha Street Studio (MSS) supports artists by providing professional skills, tools, equipment and environment, which result in a diversity of programs that focus on individual goals at every stage of artistic and creative growth. MSS programs classes, short courses and workshops in response to community and professional needs. The Youth Outreach programs have been run at MSS with success since 2006. Enthusiastic and committed participants from all over the city develop skills in etching, linocut, screen print and monoprint, and further these and additional critical and printmaking skills during the self-directed INKubator program. MSS shows 5 CARFAC fee paid exhibitions per year based on an open call for submissions. MSS finds opportunities for additional programs through special project funds when appropriate, working with diverse communities and partnering with other organizations. MSS Studio Editions showcase printmaking through their ingenuity, innovation and technical excellence. MSS also offers residency exchange and other self-directed programs. MSS embraces inclusivity and open access to printmaking as an art-form and as a form of visual communication.

    Job Description
    The summer Studio Intern will work in a dynamic team environment assisting Studio Technicians and the Digital Suite Manager in daily tasks that will include: assisting with digital print production, preparing materials for workshops and classes, assisting Studio Technicians and Volunteers with screen printing brochures, designing MSS promotional materials, distributing MSS specific posters and mailings, cleaning and organizing, and monitoring and maintaining equipment and supplies under the guidance of the Studio Manager. The Studio Intern will also work with the current archives project leader to label and organize MSS's collection of print archives through an ongoing print archives project, and will additionally work with the Professional Programming Coordinator to intake and organize artworks for the annual members exhibition showcase. The Studio Intern will develop new skills in client services, teamwork and communication. The successful candidate will have a basic knowledge of printmaking and the ability to screen print is an asset. 

    When
    The Studio Intern 2019 position will begin on June 11th and run to August 10th, 2019 (with one week off during our scheduled studio summer closure) for a total of 8 weeks at 33 hours per week and from Tuesday to Saturday.

    Wage
    $13/hour. 
     
    How 
    Please submit a letter of interest or cover letter, and current curriculum vitae to Kristin Nelson at director@printmakers.mb.ca by 5pm Tuesday May 28th, 2019. 

    The Studio Intern position is made possible through Services Canada and Canada Summer Jobs and is funded in part by Martha Street Studio and by the government of Canada. Applicants must be between 15 and 30 years of age.
     
    Martha Street Studio is an equal opportunity employer and encourages youth from underrepresented, LGBTQ2, new immigrant, disability and Indigenous communities to apply. It is the Manitoba Printmakers Association's policy to hire employees solely on the basis of the ability of the applicant to do the job. MPA will make every effort to provide additional adaptations and professional supports to accomplish tasks and responsibilities for successful candidates identifying specific needs and accommodations.