CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - MAIN GALLERY
SNAP welcomes submissions from artists, collectives, and collaborations etc, practicing in all print and print-related mediums. SNAP’s Main Gallery Space is programmed through an annual call for submissions as well as through curated exhibitions.
The SNAP Gallery programs eight Main Gallery exhibitions every year. Programming is determined annually by jury from submissions.
SNAP Main Gallery Submission Requirements
Project proposals should consist of:
(i) 10 – 15 numbered high quality digital images on OSX Apple-Mac compatible disc (slides are not accepted)
(ii) Corresponding image list indicating the artist’s name, title of work, media and date
(iii) An artist statement which describes and contextualizes the work presented. (maximum 2 pages)
(iv) C.V. (artist resume) (maximum 3 pages)
(v) A project proposal explaining the specifics of the proposed exhibition. (maximum 3 pages)
(vi) 1 – 2 items of support materials as appropriate (DVD, Publications, Print Articles). These support items will not be returned.
(vii) Please indicate which work will be included as well as any extraordinary assistance required, including technical support)
PLEASE NOTE:
A) Going forward SNAP will be accepting submissions ONLY IN ELECTRONIC FORM. Please send all written support as a single PDF and images in JPEG form on one CD. Please do not send any paper or include a return envelope. Please do not email submissions.
B) Digital images: Should be in JPEG format, 300 dpi and sized to 1000 pixels maximum on the longest side. File names should correspond to the image list.
TIPS:
* PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL SUBMISSIONS
* Please burn all materials to ONE disc: application form, PDF written support and JPEG images. An additional DVD may be submitted for video work, however please ensure this does not exceed 5 minutes in length.
* Proposals should be clearly and concisely written.
* Make sure that your name and the title of your project is clearly marked on each part of your submission, including all of your support material(s).
* Please do not send Powerpoint presentations, slides, printed images, or VHS tapes as these will not be reviewed.
* Do not send original works of art.
* Do not submit a website address in lieu of digital files.
* Please ensure images are high quality and large enough to permit viewing
* All digital information submitted as part or in support of your portfolio must be viewable on a Mac OS X
* Due to the large volume of submissions, incomplete proposals or those that exceed the maximum number of requested pages/support material will not be reviewed.
For information regarding submissions and the review process, please contact SNAP staff.
Deadline for SNAP Main Gallery Submissions: mid October 2009 (exact date to be announced in 2009). *Please do not send submissions until the deadline date for 2009 has been announced.
Main Gallery Submissions should be addressed to:
Main Gallery Programming Committee
Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP)
10309 – 97 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5M 0M1, Canada
SNAP pays CAR/FAC fees.
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Click here for Snap Gallery floor plan PDF
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - STUDIO GALLERY
SNAP is currently accepting proposals for its front fundraising space. The Studio Gallery Space allows for exhibition of works for sale to the public in a highly visible location. It also allows for the exhibition of print and print-related art by emerging artists. Submission guidelines:
(1) 5-10 visuals (slides or photographs or OSX Apple-Mac compatible disc of high quality digital images (which have not been altered in photoshop or in any other way, and thus truly represent the prints appearance).
(2) artist statement,
(3) Exhibition proposal & description,
(4) current CV.
Submissions may be made on an individual basis or as a duo or a group/collective. Submitting artist(s) is a current member of the Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists. Works must be print-based. All works must be for sale. 50% of all sales will go to support SNAP’s ongoing programming, 50% is remitted back to the artist. Any unsold pieces will be returned to the artist. Works must be presentation ready. SNAP can lend artists frames, however, we do not pay for presentation costs or shipping of artwork. For more information, please contact SNAP Gallery at 780.423.1492 or snap@snapartists.com
Click here for Snap Gallery floor plan PDF
NOTE: No deadline for submissions to SNAP’s Studio Gallery. Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Studio Gallery Submissions should be addressed to:
Studio Programming Committee
SNAP
10309 – 97 Street NW
Edmonton, Alberta
T5M 0M1
Canada
Studio Gallery Submissions should be addressed to:
Programming Committee (Studio Gallery)
Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
10309 - 97 Street NW
Edmonton
T5J 0M1
Alberta
Canada
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varsolsa:
Senior Printmaking Exhibition 2009
This exhibition is the fourth annual senior print exhibition to be held at SNAP and is the result of the vital ongoing collaboration between SNAP and the printmaking area
at the University of Alberta. Showcased are over 60 print works produced by seventeen dedicated and talented students in senior printmaking classes in the Department
of Art and Design. For many of these young artists - Laila Aslund, James Boychuk-Hunter, Eric Burton, Nathan Grimson, Zoë Henry, Thalia Ip, Ula Kaniuch, Agnieszka
Koziarz, Martina MacFarlane, Nick Milette, Chae Sevier, Emily Soder- Duncan, and Nicole St. Jean- this show provides a bridge to a new phase in life as they complete
their BFA degrees and are poised to carry on as artists, to apply to graduate programs, or to work as professionals in fields related to Arts and Culture. For others - Matthew
Arrigo, Edith Krause, Patrick Reed, and Ryan Wolters - this work is indicative of another turning point. First year courses in graduate school have just been completed and
these four graduate students are now ready to embark on the development of their major solo thesis exhibitions for their MFA degrees.
In September 2008, for the senior students, the year started with a very unique and special experience. Their first assignment involved a practicum that brought them into
intimate contact with outstanding prints from around the world. As they helped to install the Edmonton Print International show (EPI 2008, organized by SNAP and
presented at the Capital Arts Building and SNAP Galleries), they each selected and wrote about a few artists whose works they found inspiring. Eight months later the experience and exposure to such diverse and exciting work resonates in many of the prints presented in this exhibition.
Varsolsa represents a broad variety of conceptual concerns expressed with a range of printmaking techniques and media. Zoë Henry explores notions of transience, impermanence and time through her layering of disappearing and appearing veils or surfaces. Her use of repetition, rhythm and the material richness of media such as etching and collagraph give these prints an enduring timeless presence. James Boychuk-Hunter challenges our understanding of the urban monument. Through his mastery of photography, his sensitive choice of image, and his use of etching, letterpress
and combinations of word and image, he elevates overlooked remains of structures to re-present them as monuments to daily urban living. These prints and bookworks are rich with a sense of a history of the everyday. Also working with ideas of memory, history and the “ordinary” through both bookwork and print is Emily Soder-Duncan. Through a “hands on” physical and gestural approach to her photographic sources, she deconstructs and re-presents both home and industrial constructs in a variety of transient states.
Narrative is evident in the works of the following artists: Eric Burton collages sources into existential fantasies, creating rich and colourful litho and screen prints, and mixed media collages; the bookwork of Laila Aslund retells a familiar tale through simplified graphic forms; and the prints of Nathan Grimson reveal his interest in popular culture symbols and their unexpected narrative value as signs when they are re-contextualized.
Martina MacFarlane and Chae Sevier are exploring the human figure as subject and, in both cases, their own bodies have been the source of some prints this year. Martina’s investigations deal with issues of identity, considering both the importance of hairstyle in constructing notions of self, and hair as an important genetic identity marker. These works also explore the attraction and repulsion duality of our emotional responses to hair.
On the other hand, Chae’s use of the figure and her own body is based on a desire to play “with ideas of hiding and concealing as well as revealing the body” and “to move away from the obvious representation of the figure and rather address a trace or presence of the body”. Wax casts of sections of her body are transformed into suggestive, mysterious and sensual prints through the use of soft ground drawing and
photo etching.
Agnieszka Koziartz, Nick Milette, Ula Kaniuch, Thalia Ip and Nicole St. Jean are all inspired by investigations into nature and/or issues of ecology. Ula and Nicole address the tension between our desire to conserve and our tendencies to exploit using a combination of digital and screenprinting techniques. Thalia works with gesture as nature, exploring her own expressive instincts in large screenprints that are informed by traditional Chinese landscape. Agniezska’s obsessively drawn lithographs often originate from organic remnants in nature; piles of dead leaves are transformed into
floating or pulsing unfamiliar life forms. Nick Milette interrogates traditional notions of
landscape in his large bookwork and in his other prints in the show. His inventive experiments with technical methods combining UV screenprinting and collagraph have resulted in a rich and varied vocabulary for his investigations, which visualize the invisible and insidious aspects of our environment often created as
by-products of technology.
The rich variety of visual sensibilities, conceptual concerns, and technical methods represented in this show offers the viewer a challenging and provocative experience that
hopefully will raise questions and bring pleasure and contemplation. Congratulations are due to all the participants who have worked so hard. It has been a great pleasure
for me to have worked with each of them over the past year. This exhibition represents a celebration of imagination, hard work and the creative spirit!
Liz Ingram, May 2009
Joscelyn Gardner
Missionary Position
Exhibition Duration: January 8 – February 21, 2009
Venue: SNAP’s Main Gallery
Diary entries made by 18th century Jamaican plantation overseer, Thomas Thistlewood, in which he shamelessly recorded his countless sexual encounters with dependent female slaves, inspire the elegantly stylized lithographs in Joscelyn Gardner’s exhibition Missionary Position. Both attractive and repellant, these hybrid images of the tools of torture used during slavery entwined within exquisitely braided hair seduce the viewer and open up a space for contemplating the shared (repugnant) experience of slavery and its after-effects. While giving a voice to the women who were often lost to anonymity on colonial plantations, they simultaneously veil the repulsiveness of the painful history they both trace and subvert. By referencing colonial printed portraiture and “natural” history books that functioned to confirm particular forms of (constructed) knowledge, the work questions the depravity of the plantation system and leaves the viewer to ponder the wider implications of a colonial discourse which supported the violent subordination of enslaved peoples as a ‘natural’ right of white (male) privilege.
Biography
Joscelyn Gardner is a Caribbean/Canadian visual artist working primarily with print-making and multi media installation whose practice focuses on her (white) Creole identity from a postcolonial feminist perspective. She has an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA & BA from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in the USA, Canada, and the Caribbean. Recent group exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007), International Print Center New York (2007), International Print Triennial Vienna, Austria (2007); Fondation Clement, Martinique (2008). She currently teaches in the School of Contemporary Media at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, and works as an artist between Canada and the Caribbean.
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Joscelyn Gardner
Quasheba
2007
stone lithograph on frosted mylar
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Eric Steenbergen
Triage: an illustrated guide to tree surgery
Exhibition Duration: January 8 – February 21, 2009
Venue: SNAP’s Studio Gallery
Eric Steenbergen attempts in his work to create a satirical history of scientific progress; in this case, a fictional guide to tree surgery, which presents an absurd methodology. The work in ‘Triage: an illustrated guide to tree surgery’ is largely based on W.S. Merwin’s poem Unchopping a Tree, which evocatively details the process of righting a tree after chopping it down. It the artist’s hope that the poem’s muted instructional tone and the incongruity of the prescribed methods and goals find voice in these images. The poem and Eric Steenbergen’s work ask us to question the effectiveness of our regulatory institutions with the goal to spark critical discussion of our most pressing environmental issues. This exhibition is part of SNAP’s ongoing ‘In Progress’ series featuring works by University of Alberta MFA candidates.
Biography
Eric Steenbergen is a print artist from Toronto, Ontario. He is a master in Fine Arts Candidate Printmaking at the University of Alberta, and received a Bachelors in Fine Arts (Honours) from York University, Toronto. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston Artist Association, Kingston ON (2001), the Centre for Fine Arts Gallery (2002) and AKASA Gallery (2003) at York University. Recent group exhibitions include Edmonton Prints, Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists, Edmonton AB (2008); None of the Above, Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists, Edmonton AB (2007); AP Sale, Open Studio, Toronto ON (2006). He was awarded the Melba Sadler Graduate Scholarship (2008) and MFA/MDES Scholarship (2007-2009) and the from the University of Alberta. www.steenbergen.ca
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Eric Steenbergen
Thoroughfare
2008
etching
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Mitch Mitchell
Tar Plane Wayfarer
Exhibition Duration: January 5 – 23, 2009
Venue: Red Strap building (adjacent to SNAP)
Tar Plane Wayfarer is an art piece involving elements of installation and sculpture. The focus is not a finished work fixed in time and space, rather the nature of the work is temporal and exists as a performance in an architectural space for a predetermined time. Within a limited set of parameters I will construct a landscape with no definite end in order to explore the repulsion /attraction dialectic surrounding the aesthetics of humanity’s dramatic impact on landscape. As an event in perpetual creation/destruction this work is designed to mimic the current dialogue of the Tar Sands project in northern Alberta and the relationship with a human audience.
The venue brings to the work an element of voyeurism with a relationship to consumer culture which implicates the audience in the process. When looking upon the work the audience becomes purveyor of the social argument embedded in the structure of the creative process making fluid the elements of time and place in the work. The relationship of the audience to the work is integral as the work will be in constant flux much like that of the Tar Sands Project, a piece for which we have all become implicated as an audience.
Biography
Mitch Mitchell is an interdisciplinary artist from Illinois. He is a master in Fine Arts Candidate in Printmaking at the University of Alberta and received a BFA with Honors in Illinois State University. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at The Green Door Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Flat, New Orleans, LA; Honolulu International Airport, Oahu, HI; Illinois State University, IL; Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists, Edmonton, AB. Recent group exhibitions include Edmonton Prints, Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists, Edmonton, AB; None of the Above, Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists, Edmonton AB; Successors: Illinois State University Printmaking Alumni Portfolio” Illinois State University; Landscapes and Mud Bogs, Improv Artist Studio, New Orleans, LA; and recently been included in the Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec (upcoming); Beyond Printmaking” Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX (upcoming). He is the recipient of many grants and awards including Faculty of the Arts Dean’s Recruitment Fellowship, UofA, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship in Art and Design, Elizabeth Stein Art Scholarship, and Best of Show at the Sangamon County Art Fair.
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Mitch Mitchell
Image from Tar Plane Wayfare
2008
mixed media
variable dimensions
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Wieslaw Haladaj
Wieslaw Haladaj Prints
Jan 11 to Feb 24, 2007
Reception: Jan 11, 7-9 pm |
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Lynne
Allen
Truth is Like a Slippery Fish
Oct 13 to Nov 25, 2006
Reception: Oct 23, 7-9 pm |
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Helen Gerritzen
trachea and the hero and other such stories
Oct 25 to Aug 7, 2006
Reception: Sept 7, 7-9 pm |
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Print Arts Northwest
Golden Thread
July 20 to Aug 16, 2006
Reception: July 20, 7-9 pm |
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Giorgia Volpe
Inside Out
June 1 to July15, 2006
Reception: June 29, 7-9 pm |
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Florin Hategan: 10
Steps
April 13
– May 25, 2006
Linda Carreiro: Bind
February 23 –
April 8, 2006
David Scott Armstrong: Now
then and otherwise
January 5 –
February 18, 2006
Glendale Elementary School
October 20 - November 26, 2005
John Ford
September 8 - October 15, 2005
Jennifer Yorke
July 28 - September 3, 2005
Andy Fabo
June 16 - July 23, 2005
Patrick Mahon
May 5 to June 11
Tomoyo Ihaya (Vancouver, B.C.)
March 24 – April 30, 2005
Kelly McCray (Toronto, Ontario)
Feb 24 – Mar 19, 2005
Cindy Baker (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) Janice
Wong (Vancouver, BC), Matt Pulford (Bloomington, Illinois) and Christopher
Shepard (Bloomington, Illinois)
Jan 6 – Feb 12, 2005
Barbara Robertson (Seattle, Washington) &
Julie Voyce (Toronto, ON)
November 25 – December 23, 2004
Ludmila Armata, Montreal,
Quebec
October 21 – November 20, 2004
Kim Tae-Huk, Masan, Korea
September 16 – October 16, 2004
Kevin Haas, Pullman, Washington
August 12 - September 11, 2004
Janet Lowry and Rhonda Neufeld
July/Aug 2004
Karen Kunc, Pullman, Washington
May 27– July 3, 2004
"Terrestrial Forces"
Darlene Kalynka, Kamloops, BC
March 18 – April 17, 2004
Steven Dixon
February 12 – March 13, 2004
“Untitled”
Mark Bovey
January 8 – February 7, 2004
“ Between States”
Alejandro Magallanes
Nov 22 – Dec 20, 2003
Floor to ceiling posters by the Mexican artist!
Group show
Marjan Eggermont, Wendy Tokaryk, Lori Doody,
Amy Schmierbach, Ryan McCourt, Kayoko Sakamoto
Oct 17 — Nov 15, 2003
Bart Gazzola & Darren
Bertrand
Sept 12 – Oct 11, 2003
Duo exhibition
Nancy Fox
August 8 – September 6, 2003
Solo exhibition of prints by the London, Ontario artist.
Nick Dobson
July 4th - August 2nd, 2003
Libby Hague
May 30 – June 28, 2003
Solo installation of mixed media print-based
work by the Toronto artist.
To visit the artists web site click here www3.sympatico.ca/libbylibby
Brant Schuller
April 25– May 24, 2003
Solo exhibition by the American artist.
Daryl Vocat
March 21 - April 19, 2003
Lisa Puopolo
January 9- February 8, 2003
Solo installation of contemporary print-based
three-dimensional pieces.
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