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ResidenciesVisiting Artist Residency
next call for submissions: CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS. CHECK BACK IN 2012. The Visiting Artist program offers contemporary print based artists the opportunity to work for one month at the Malaspina studio free of charge. The residency is aimed at providing a new environment and stimuli for the artist to help expand her or his artistic practice. Given the unique geography of Vancouver, artists who produce site specific work have found this residency especially useful, as have artists who engage with communities and geographies as part of their research material. During the residency, artists are invited to give a lecture on their work and offer a workshop or demonstration of their specific technique(s). The program offers artists a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with other print artists and discover Vancouver’s internationally acclaimed arts community while further developing their practice. To maximize the potential for artistic growth, an exhibition is not a requirement of the residency. Artists may be invited to exhibit at a later date upon successful completion of the residency. The artist will receive an artist fee of $1600 and $100 worth of materials. No additional funds for accommodation and travel are supplied. Artists are encouraged to apply for funding from their local/national arts funding bodies. Selection:
A panel of arts professionals will select the visiting artist based on the artistic merit and clarity of the application, the suitability of the project for Malaspina Printmakers’ facilities, as well as the impact the residency will have on the artist’s practice. Submission: · CV
· Letter of Intent
· numbered image list
· 10-20 images of previous work (using Canada Council’s naming convention) · jpegs should not exceed 72-150 dpi
· please print off a copy of all your documents Student ScholarshipInformation is available on the Education menu. Recent Visiting ArtistsAnna Szul
Anna Szul, an emerging artist from Edmonton, will work at Malaspina Printmakers studio for the month of June. Her work incorporates many different print processes including photo-etching, lithography, relief and screen-printing. Her richly layered processes result in prints with highly charged evocations emotive memory. She will be working on photo-woodblocks, an unconventional application of photo-sensitive Image-on emulsion onto relief wood plates. Prior to attending the residency Szul will spend the month of May photographing source material for her images along the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island. She will instruct a workshop at Malaspina Printmakers to share this experimental process with members and the public. Szul’s experience at the Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers will also feed dialogue within the studio. Szul will also give an artist talk and presentation to the public and members of Malaspina Printmakers. Anna Szul graduated form the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2005. She was the recipient of the 2004 Printmaking Award of Excellence. She is an active member on the board of the Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP). She has exhibited in various venues in Edmonton the most recent being "ArtsHab in the Core: An Exhibition" which was a retrospective of the artists who for the past 8 years have been a vital part of Edmonton’s downtown city core. Thomas Iksiraq
Thomas Iksiraq will be traveling to Vancouver to share his unique stone relief printing skills and experience at the Baker Lake Print Cooperative with the British Columbia community. He will work in the Malaspina studio for a one-month period creating a suite of prints in addition to hosting demonstrations and talks. Baker Lake has a rich history of Printmaking. Originally established in 1970 with the assistance of renowned artist and educator Sheila Butler, the Baker Lake print workshop produced highly acclaimed art for the following decade. However, it declined in activity and was eventually shut down. Last year, Toronto-based Sheila Butler became involved as an unpaid mentor in the cooperative's renewal and oversaw the revival of the print cooperative. This is an exciting opportunity to increase knowledge of the history of printmaking within the Baker Lake Community. Thomas Iksiraq is an experienced artist, printer and the committed Director of the Baker Lake Printers Cooperative in Nunavut. Karen Kunc
During her residency, Karen Kunc has proposed to continue work on a series that she is beginning in New York. Her intention is to create a visual vocabulary that can be juxtaposed with her own core imagery, which has come from conceptualization of her rural surroundings in Nebraska. Her work in New York will initiated the development of this visual vocabulary as she is situated in the unfamiliar urban setting. She will continue her work at Malaspina by investigating the language further while experiencing Vancouver’s own contrast of nature and metropolis. Kunc hails from Nebraska where she is Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught at such institutions as the Fine Art Academy in Helsinki, The Centre for Book Arts in New York and the Kala Institute in San Francisco. She recently won the Southern Graphics Council “Printmaker Emeritus” award and has exhibited across the United States and Europe. Recent Print Research Residencies:Eli Bornowsky
Bornowsky's residency builds upon his focused abstract painting practice. For the second year of the Print Research Residency the length of the program will be extended to six months to facilitate increased experimentation and intensive study with a wide range of materials and processes. Bornowsky hopes to build upon the rich history of abstract artists experimenting with print media. Eli Bornowsky received his BFA in Visual Arts from the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver (2005). In 2007 his paintings were shown in the group exhibition Gasoline Rainbows at the Contemporary Art Gallery and he began working with the Blanket Gallery with solo exhibitions in 2007 and 2008. In 2008 he curated the exhibition Making Real at the Or Gallery. In 2009 his work will be included in the exhibition Enacting Abstraction at the Vancouver Art Gallery. His critical texts have appeared in Fillip Review, C Magazine, U.E., and Pyramid Power. The label Rundownsun has recently released a limited edition cassette of his experimental audio projects. He currently lives and works in Vancouver and is represented by Blanket Gallery. Elizabeth Zvonar
Elizabeth Zvonar’s practice considers concepts of hope, utopia and progress. Central to these possibilities and limitations are the potential for social, political, and aesthetic transformation. Works have spanned a variety of mediums, from performances and interventions to installations, and most recently, sculpture, digital collages, and text-based works. Zvonar’s role as an artist is similar to that of a catalyst, and her research-based projects have often examined informal cultural traditions, histories, and geographies. These interactions form vital ways to foster discussion and dialogue, and frame her work as part of a continuing discourse dependant on subjective relationships and local knowledge. Elizabeth Zvonar is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her most recent exhibitions include Parallel Dimension at Artspeak Gallery (Vancouver), Fade Away and Radiate at the Cohan and Leslie Gallery (New York), and Concrete Language at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). Zvonar has participated in professional development initiatives at the Banff International Curatorial Institute and was the winner of the Vancouver Art Development Award in 2007 from the Vancouver Foundation and the Contemporary Art Gallery.
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