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Culture Days 2019 Activities

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September 27 to 29, 2019 Ontario Culture Days will be a vibrant weekend of expression to explore the intersections of creativity, the arts, and well-being. During the Culture Days in Ottawa On, the Ottawa-Gatineau Printmaker’s Connective will open its print studio to the public, and hold a vernissage for its current show in the Gallery, where you can meet the artists.

OPEN PRINT STUDIO

Meet printmakers at work, inking, using the press and making prints!
Dates and time:
Thursday Sept. 26, 2019: 6-8PM
Friday Sept. 27, 2019: 10AM-5PM
Location: Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Rd in Bells Corners.

VERNISSAGE

The vernissage for the current show on collagraph prints will take place on Thursday Sept. 26, from 5:30PM- 8:30PM in the Gallery space.
Thirteen local printmakers have over 20 original hand pulled prints in this show.
A collagraph is basically a printed collage, allowing the artist a lot of freedom to get texture and colours in a print. Everyone welcome! Bring a friend!
15% of sales of prints are donated to the City-run Young at Art Program.

Location: Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Rd in Bells Corners.

OGPC Members in Arts Network Ottawa Show

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Photo courtesy of Francine Walker

R. Lindal, Tina Petrovicz and Francine Walker have prints in a group show at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans during the month of September 2019. The show is a selection of artwork by members of the Arts Network Ottawa. The show can be seen in the large vitrine facing the main entrance of the Shenkman Arts Centre 245 Centrum Blvd Orleans On.

Making Impressions: New Collagraphs

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The latest OGPC group show is up and ready for visitors at the OGPC gallery at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road in Bells Corners. The show, curated by Mark Glassford, features a wonderful variety of collagraph prints by 13 Connective members. Vernissage details will be available shortly!

Group Show at Bluebird Coffee 1-31 August 2019

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OGPC will hold a group show exhibit titled Making an Impression at the BlueBird Coffee café for the month of August 2019. The show includes: Cheryl Ann Billiard, Louise Butler, Susan MW Cartwright, Mark Glassford, John Graham, Denise Lachance, Louise Lépine, Rosemary Lindal, Shaylah Marsh, Debra James Percival, Rod Restivo, Madeleine Rousseau, Beth Shepherd, Katherine Stauble, Francine Walker and Shirley Yik. Various printmaking techniques will be deployed to make an impression.

Location: BlueBird Coffee, 261 Dalhousie St Ottawa (in the Byward market area)
Show dates: 1-31 August, 2019
Please join in on Sunday August 11 from 1-3PM to meet the artists, and bring a friend along!

Works on Paper at the Stone School

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Many members of the OGPC including Tina Petrovicz, Murray Dineen, Valerie Bridgeman and Freida Hjartson are participating in an exhibition featuring original 5″x 7″ artwork from the 2019 PAA “Works on Paper Exhibition and Exchange”. One piece from the exchange is being exhibited and sold unframed as a fundraiser for Pontiac Artist Association. The vernissage is on July 26 6- 8 PM. The show runs until Aug 18th at the Stone School Gallery in Portage-du-fort, Quebec.

Reclaimed – Recycled materials

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OGPC members Valerie Bridgeman and Tina Petrovicz are participating in a a group exhibit which challenged participants to create artworks from recycled materials. The show includes functional and decorative pieces, all of which underscore the imagination and creative spirit of our members.

“Reclaimed”
Vernissage July 26 6-8PM
Stone School Gallery, Portage-du-Fort, Quebec
Runs until Aug 18th

AFIELD: Exhibition by Deidre Hierlihy/ AUX CHAMPS: Exposition de Deidre Hierlihy

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AFIELD: Exhibition by Deidre Hierlihy |AUX CHAMPS: Exposition de Deidre Hierlihy
July 18 to August 11, 2019 | 18 juillet au 11 août 2019  La Fab Arts Centre, 212 Old Chelsea Road, Chelsea Vernissage : Thursday, July 18 4-8pm | Jeudi 18 juillet, 16 h – 20 h

In her exhibition “Afield”, printmaker Deidre Hierlihy presents landscapes from two different places: the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa and Northern Ireland. The prints of the Central Experimental Farm were created over a period of 2 years. The prints of Ireland were created during a four-month Artsland artist-in-residency in 2019.

Dans son exposition “Aux Champs” la graveuse Deidre Hierlihy présente des paysages inspirés de deux lieux différents : la Ferme expérimentale centrale à Ottawa et l’Irlande du Nord. Les gravures de la Ferme expérimentale centrale ont été créées sur une période de deux ans. Pour leur part, les gravures d’Irlande ont été exécutées au cours d’une résidence d’artiste de quatre mois en 2019, dans le cadre du programme Artsland.

Stone to Plastic – a 200 Year Journey

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at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre is now up. And what a beautiful space it is too!

Entitled “Stone to Plastic: A 200 Year Journey,” the exhibition now available to the print artist. Alongside the traditional techniques of stone lithography, the exhibit shows certain new lithographic trends. These include waterless and polyester plate lithography, as well as the technique of mokolito – the Japanese practice of plywood lithography. The exhibition includes both representational and abstract works, as well as works combining both lithography and other printmaking techniques. The exhibition is up from June 5th to September 6th.

To celebrate the re-opening of the gallery, there will be a get-together on Friday June 28, from 7PM- 8:30PM at the Gallery. Please bring a small snack (two or three portions) to share, e.g., cheese, fruits, veggies, chips or baked goods. OGPC will supply drinks and plates.  Thank you!

We are very pleased with the new exhibition gallery, which increases the space available for prints considerably, and which is painted in a colour designed to complement the artworks. To Penelope Kokkinos and Lisa Zanyk: thank you for all your hard work in putting this new space together!

Pictures are by Roger Sutcliffe. The following artists are participants: Freida Hjartarson, Beth Shepherd, Katherine Stauble, Murray Dineen, Susan Cartwright, Rod Restivo, Charmaine Swain, Deidre Hierlihy, and Roger Sutcliffe (curator/organizer).

Part of the New Gallery for OGPC prints at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre
The third wall of the New Gallery