About Us

101 Prints is back!

The popular event that guarantees you go home with a print returns to the Roundhouse on October 28, 2011.
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Malaspina Printmakers is a non-profit artist-run centre that supports the development of printmaking as a contemporary art form and promotes and preserves traditional print practice.  The centre’s main objectives are to advance knowledge of printmaking in the community and facilitate the critical and technical exploration of printmaking in contemporary visual art practice.

As a production studio, gallery and educational centre, Malaspina’s vision is to become a premiere resource centre for print culture by actively engaging the visual arts community and attracting new enthusiasts to this dynamic medium. These activities, in tandem with Malaspina’s continued support of printmakers to actualize their practice and develop their skills, come to fruition through the state-of-the-art facilities that are Malaspina’s subsistence.

The Centre is dedicated to:

• Attracting a diverse array of contemporary artists and students to explore printmaking in their practice
• Offering accessible, safe, affordable and up-to-date studio facilities and promoting safety standards to artists working in those facilities
• Increasing knowledge of the medium in the community through our courses, tours, open houses and lectures
• Supporting printmakers in their professional development and practice
• Presenting exhibitions that showcase printmaking’s contemporary relevance and technical complexity as well as artists’ unique explorations of the medium.

HISTORY

Malaspina Printmakers was registered as a society in 1975 by faculty members at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr Institute).  Their objective was to create an environment where graduating students could continue their print practice in a state-of-the-art studio environment.

For the last 30 years Malaspina has developed into a resource centre for print culture and has built strong relationships with artists and other print organizations across Canada and the world and has developed programs that include the Malaspina Printmakers Student Scholarship and an Artist in Residency program.

LOCATION

Malaspina Printmakers has been situated in the unique community of Granville Island since 1981. From the outset of its redevelopment in the late 1970s, Granville Island has been a haven for the arts. All across the Island, former empty sheds have been reawakened as studios, stages, theatres and galleries.  Some of Canada’s most renowned artists and arts organizations have worked on the island and still call it home today.