Toronto Craft Alert

QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS: Genevieve Jodouin

Interview and photos by Sara Titanic

Describe the process of creating your work. What is involved for you to make one of your pieces?
Once I’ve come up with my initial idea for the piece, I take many photos that will act as reference for my drawings. I’ll then draw all the figures in the piece, as well as the decorative and background elements.   I draw everything on tracing paper so that all the layers fit together. Once the drawings are done I’ll move [...]

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March Workshops

ETCHING
Learn one of the oldest forms of printmaking and become part of this rich history with our introduction to the intaglio printmaking. This course will take you from a blank piece of copper to a rich black and white print. Learn all steps of this printmaking practice from plate preparation, the use of different grounds for drawing and the final printing.

4 week workshop, March 9, 16, 23 & 30
6:00 – 8:30 PM
$220.00 a person, max 6 people
Materials included

MOLD MAKING
Create a rubber mold for casting [...]

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Screen printing Workshop With Sharon Epstein

This exciting course gives an insight into the skills of silkscreen printing onto a variety of fabrics and papers. You will learn how to translate your ideas into prints through stencils and preparing , exposing images onto screens utilizing water based materials. This course is designed for those who enjoy experimentation and new methods of using color, texture and a variety of print techniques and processes.

All levels of experience are welcome.

February 13 – March 6, 2010
Saturday 9:30-12:30
@Contemporary Textile Studio (401 Richmond St., [...]

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DEADLINE: All submissions must be received on or before 5:00 PM on January 30, 2010

Submissions are now being accepted for exhibitions in the Open Studio Gallery in 2011. Open Studio is an artist-run printmaking centre that presents a wide range of print media-based works from traditional to experimental, including work that, although not produced using traditional printmaking techniques, shares through its conceptual concerns a relationship to printmaking. Accepted formats include: 2- and 3-dimensional works, bookworks, digital and multi-media installation-based work. Proposals by individual artists, groups and curators [...]

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Winter 2010 Education Registration Opens January 4, 2010

Please read thoroughly before you call to register or inquire. Our office is closed from December 20th and will not reopen until January 4, 2010. We are unable to take registrations or answer questions regarding the education program until January 4th. Registration is limited for all courses and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that we will not open registration until 11:00 AM on Monday, January 4th. Please do not call the office to register until after 11:00 AM [...]

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100 PRINTS is Open Studio’s biggest fundraising event, providing much needed revenue in support of the Studio’s programs and operations. Taking place on Wednesday May 12 at Toronto’s Palais Royale, 100 PRINTS 2010 is shaping up to be another fabulous event! We need artists to help support this event by donating your best printmaking works to us.

All work selected for inclusion by the jury is eligible for one of the three 2010 Open Studio National Printmaking Award cash prizes valued at $3,000, $1,500 and $500, to be announced [...]

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