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Winter Classes!

Our winter 2009/10 class brochure is available now!

Dream team.

Drex and Andrew, doing their 'thang.

Photographic evidence.

Martha Street studio is very photogenic (film photographs by Meg Kroeker).

Member looking to buy a used press!

Experienced printmaker setting up intaglio studio, looking to buy a gently used press, blankets, vertical etching tank, etc. Please contact vw528 at yahoo.ca.

Youth Outreach Participant Dany Reede Showing at Fleet Gallery

A Life in Print, Jan Boning Opening

A Life in Print; Jan Boning
Opening September 10th at 7:00pm - Show runs until October 15th, 2009


Seriously check this show out.





Jan Boning immigrated to Canada from Holland in 1956 with a certificate in the graphic arts and claims to being a poet.








The crew holding down the bar!



Kristin's new hair!




My personal favorite...the viewbox!



Looking inside.







Frieso Boning and Sheila Spence worked together to curate the exhibition of work by Jan Boning.




After his death in 2006, his son Frieso Boning re-discovered this accomplished and long unseen body of work under a bed. Jan Boning's exhibition is a celebration of his artistry and his contribution to Winnipeg's and Canada's artistic legacy. He ruled and so does this show!

Member's Show at 8th Wave Studio Tour

The 8th WAVE Artists' Studio Tour

Sat. & Sun., Sept 5 and 6, 2009

10 am – 6 pm

Come visit my creative chaos!

Summer arrived just in time for the fall Wave tour. Hard to believe it's that time again! This Labour Day weekend at the Runs with Scissors Studio, I will be exhibiting the work of printmaker Leslie Gillies, along with my mother Jean's stunning ceramic work. Plus, I've got a new shipment of those funky San Miguel shoes and boots to kick off the fall season (samples are on my website). My studio is #17 on the map right next door to CF Casey Guitars #18.

For downloadable maps and brochure, visit http://www.watchthewave.ca/ (If links in this email don't work, you'll have to type the URL into your browser)

Hope to see you out!

Heidi Hunter
http://www.runswithscissors.ca

The Forum Art Centre is looking for instructors

We are looking for an instructor for a Saturday afternoon class. The class is for parent and child together called "Doing Art Together". It would cover a variety of media- drawing, painting , sculpture (we have 2 kilns) etc. The class is ten weeks. If we get enough students signed up (6 or more) the class will start Sept 19. We are also always on the lookout for artist/instructors in other mediums for our day or evening classes or artists wanting to do Sunday workshops.


The criteria for an instructor is someone in the final years at the art school or with a BFA or equivalent experience in art that is interested in being an instructor. A very strong interest in teaching art is the most important element.


If you are interested send a resume - call/email Art Director Tom Andrich at 667-1345- hogshair@yahoo.ca or Exec Director Daryl Dumanski at the The Forum Art Centre Mondays or Thursdays 9-4 235-1069 forumart@shaw.ca.

Summer Screen Printing Class

Andrew Lodwick's Monday Night Screen Printing Class was nice enough to let me sit in on there class and capture the process of screen printing. Thanks guys!

The Printing Process.




In 8 weeks at the Beginner Screen Printing class, you learn a highly versatile printing process which allows participants to print in multiple colours on numerous surfaces.

Measure, cut, print




Print Making Fun!



Andrew teaching the art of registration.



First layer.




Drying Rack!




The next Beginner Screen Printing class will be starting Tuesday September 22nd, 6-9pm, it is an 8 week class. For more info on registration visit Martha Street Studio's website http://www.printmakers.mb.ca/education/classes.html

Blankstein Art Gallery

The BLANKSTEIN ART GALLERY at the Millenium Library hosts the Manitoba Printmakers Associations' Archive Exhibit!
Come and see work by many of Manitoba's best printmakers at the Winnipeg Library's exhibit on until the end of August, 2009. The Manitoba Printmakers Association holds work by Prominent Manitoban artists, not usually seen by the general public. Open during library hours on the second floor.

Hot Off the Presses: Fall Class Brochures are Here!

Fall is fast approaching...time to register and be inspired by Martha Street Studio Fall Classes.(pdf)



Happy Printing!

Welcome to the Martha Street Studio BLOOGGG!

The new Martha Street Studio blog is a space where we can post community-based happening in art & culture! Watch for new posts coming soon!



A little bit about us: The Martha Street Studio a.k.a. Manitoba Printmakers Association is an incorporated member-based non-profit organization and was initially dedicated to artistic and technical excellence in the fine art of printmaking--intaglio, relief, lithography, silkscreen and monoprints. The studio has now expanded to include digital prints and printing.