The SNAP Gallery's mission is to support printmaking and related activity.
The gallery's goals are:
- to increase the local community's understanding and appreciation of
printmaking and print-related work
- to provide a forum for local artists to gain exposure to print techniques
and print-related issues
- to facilitate the exchange and exhibition of work from local, regional, national and international artists
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Marc Siegner at work in the early days of SNAP
In 1982, a handful of artists established SNAP as an independent,
cooperatively run fine art printshop in the historic Great West Saddlery
Building, in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. SNAP's mandate is to
promote, facilitate and communicate printmaking as an art form. In
1996 SNAP opened a gallery. In 2000, the society built its own gallery,
the SNAP Gallery, which exhibits print and print-related art. In that
year SNAP also added its second printshop.
Currently, SNAP Gallery has a program schedule of about
ten exhibitions per year. Gallery exhibitions are primarily jury-selected
from submissions
made by artists from around the world. SNAP has presses and related
equipment for etching, lithography, screenprinting, woodcut, letterpress,
and photobased print art. An education program using the printshop
areas is directed towards many learning levels.
Since it began, SNAP's main goals have been:
- to encourage exploration and appreciation of print
and print-related art, in traditional and innovative media
- to provide practicing artists working in print and
print-related media with professional (paid) exhibition opportunities,
and
exchange or artist-in- residence opportunities
- to offer a conducive working environment to local artists
through printmaking facilities access, memberships and
volunteering opportunities
- to offer qualified instruction to adults, children and youth
in a number of printmaking (and related) techniques, and
printmaking opportunities
in cooperation with city school systems
- to stimulate an exchange of ideas and information by addressing
issues about printmaking art, practices and applications
in contemporary culture.
As
a print production and exhibition centre, SNAP is unique in Alberta,
and exceptional in Canada.
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