We look forward to welcoming printmaking artists Ericka Walker (Halifax) and Laine Groeneweg (Hamilton) to the analog studio at Smokestack where they will be taking participants on a Free 2-hour journey into collaborative relief printmaking. Come and enjoy some time around the press as we print blocks to create a collection of collaborative works. There will also be lots of shop-talk and inky stories!
- Date: Sunday November 22
- Time: 10Am – 12PM
- Location: Smokestack Analog Studio (270 Sherman Ave. N)
- FREE
Ericka Walker
Ericka Walker received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives and works in Mi’kmaqi (Atlantic Canada) where she is an Associate Professor at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Walker’s practice operates on vernacular histories of the graphic arts. Her print works and site-specific murals subvert the propagandistic function of nostalgia in contemporary culture, disputing the civilizing influence and assumed moral authority of nation building in North America. Walker exhibits widely throughout North America and internationally. Her prints are housed in multiple public and private collections and have been selected for numerous awards.
Laine Groeneweg
Laine Groeneweg is a Hamilton-based artist and collaborator. He received his BFA from York University and went on to train at Fondazione Il Bisonte Per Lo Studio Dell’Arte Grafica in Florence, Italy. In 2013 he founded Smokestack where he has since developed a reputation for his energetic and audacious printmaking practice. In Laine’s personal practice, he embraces the possibilities of traditional technique in the wake of more contemporary methods. He approaches the printmaking medium as a means of production, inspiration, and preservation. His prints are as stylistically and conceptually diverse as the medium itself. Laine’s work has been exhibited Nationally and Internationally across North America, Europe, and Asia and are held in a number of public and private collections.
