Exhibits:
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The latest exhibit at the MMFA is a collection of Japanese woodblock prints that have been in storage for 20 years. We speak with the Curator of Asian Art for the MMFA, Laura Vigo, who talks about the incredible story they tell about Japan's history.
Learn about linocuts:
Two colours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8lhESQ-bKs
Twelve colours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfqOcyExlPE
Deserres has all the tools and tips you need:
Speedball Art
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Member Fridays at the MMFA:
Discover the enchanting music of Best Fern, a duo formed of Nick Schofield and Alexia Avina, whose soothing ethereal compositions skilfully blend pop with ambient synth. Performance times: 5:30 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:30 p.m.
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Film and photography:
Looking ahead to Fotografia Europea 2024. The Reggio Emilia showcase is themed Nature Loves to Hide, with shows by Arko Datto, Lisa Barnard and Susan Meiselas.
Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like paintings.
Nickel Tailings #34, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1996.
Venice Biennale photography review: Is truth enough? In the main Foreigners Everywhere exhibition and around Venice, photography fulfils an earnest documentary function.
Aravani Art Project, installation view of Diaspore, 2024, at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, “Foreigners Everywhere,” 2024. Photo: Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
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“Hedge” photography - Gareth Gardner
What could be a more fitting symbol of British suburbia?’ … photographer Gareth Gardner was transfixed by this hedge in Cheshire. Photograph: Gareth Gardner
Gareth Gardner is a UK photographer, curator, filmmaker, and writer specialising in architecture and design. He runs a photography gallery in Deptford dedicated to architecture and place.
Hedge photography by others curated by Gareth:
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Caitlin Cronenberg on her eco-catastrophe film Humane and her famous last name. The Canadian photographer and filmmaker discusses her debut feature film.
Caitlin Cronenberg is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker who's known for her celebrity portraits. She's the daughter of legendary horror director David Cronenberg and the sister of director Brandon Cronenberg. (Maggie Devereux)
Caitilin’s web site: https://www.caitlincronenberg.com/
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History and heritage:
The Next Great Save contest for Canadian heritage sites looking for funding. We get the details on a competition for heritage sites across Canada that are vying for funding. It's called The Next Great Save, and you can vote for your favourite to win. There are two Quebec sites in the running. One is a heritage building in Montreal. Another involves restoring buildings that used to be occupied by a lighthouse keeper and his family on Greenly Island, on the Lower North Shore. We speak with Patricia Kell, Executive Director of National Trust for Canada.
Effort to save historic lighthouse site on remote Quebec Island up for $50K prize. Greenly Island has had a lighthouse in operation since 1878.
Jenny Thomas, treasurer of the Corporation de l’Île Greenly, walks on Greenly Island in eastern Quebec. Her grandfather was the island's last lighthouse keeper. (Lambert Gagné-Coulombe/Radio-Canada)
Canada Next Great Save Contest - People across Canada cast votes for the Next Great Save.
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Buried rivers flow under Canadian cities, hidden in a labyrinth of tunnels and sewer pipes. Will we revive them or let the waterways fade from memory? The island of Montreal has lost about 82 per cent of its original waterways — including the Saint-Pierre River.
Saint-Pierre creek, Meadowbrook Golf course (Heritage Montreal)
Jaela Bernstien and Emily Chung uncover hidden rivers across Canada.
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« S’il vous plaît, n’enlevez pas la forge ! » Un édifice patrimonial sauvé de l'abandon par un forgeron passionné.
« S’il vous plaît, n’enlevez pas la forge ! » Un édifice patrimonial sauvé de l'abandon par un forgeron passionné | JDM (journaldemontreal.com)
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Explore the Coronation Roll, the official State Record of the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
The artist/calligrapher - For at least 700 years, monarchs have been given a "Coronation roll". Stretching for 69ft, the hand-stitched manuscript was written by calligrapher Stephanie von Werthern-Gill.
Stephanie von Werthern-Gill focused for 56 consecutive days on her copperplate handwriting of the 11,500-word document.
Studio Gill: https://studiogill.uk/
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Textile art:
How Hangama Amiri's extraordinary textile portraits bridge her past and present. Listen to the artist's conversation with Q's Tom Power and follow along using this visual companion guide:
Hangama Amiri is an Afghan Canadian artist who works predominantly in textile to create images that reflect on ideas of home. (Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto. Photo by Denis Gutiérrez-Ogrinc)
Her exhibit: https://coopercolegallery.com/artist/hangama-amiri/
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One Embroidered Red Dress Is Made by 343 Artists From the Around the World Over the Course of 13 Years (sent in by Diana Bruno):
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News and other events:
Courtesy of ELAN:
What does mental health and wellbeing mean as it relates to artists? Hosted by musician and teaching artist Louise Campbell, the Creative Care podcast dives into fostering one’s own creativity, mind-body connection, community building, and risk factors for burnout and addiction. Guests Adela Kwok, Alyssa Kuzmarov, Andy MacDonald, Ariana Pedrosa, Emmanuelle Meunier and Guy Rex Rodgers share their experience and knowledge based on their multifaceted careers that weave together their passion and skills as artists with their respective work in community, social work, and various creative art therapies. Your host for this series, Louise Campbell is a Montreal-based musician whose professional hats range from conductor to cultural mediator, community arts facilitator to musicians’ health therapist. As a composer, performer, improviser and community organizer, Louise seeks to interrogate and renew the ways in which we make music by creating new works with everyone, regardless of age, ability, level of prior experience, or training. For more information, visit Louise’s website at: https://louisecampbell.ca/wp/en/biography/
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A stunning book:
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