LINE SUMMER 2018 EDITION THE PHOTOGRAPHY ANGELA SNIEDER ARTIST: FEATURED SNAPLINE SUMMER 2018 1 2 SNAPLINE SUMMER 2018 society of northern alberta print-artists 10123–121 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, t5n 3w9 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD 780.423.1492 \[email protected] \ snapartists.com It is summer!!! Grasses are green and of traditional photography and 2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MESSAGE FROM gardens will soon be fruiting delicious printmaking. The methodology of [email protected] THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR goods for harvest. Alas, the cold, harsh photography, light creating images president days are behind us and now top priori- through photosensitive films and Megan Bertagnolli Welcome to the summer edition of SNAPline. ty is being outside as much as possible. emulsions, is the basis of collaboration vice president The theme of photography is one of endless inter- I am the Printshop Committee Chair and manipulation between mediums. Andrew Benson est and excitement for me. I started my very early on the Board of Directors at SNAP. Today, a photograph could live its treasurer professional career as a photographer and even- First and foremost a printmaker and entire life on digital platforms or as a Elliot Kerr tually found my meandering way to printmaking a visual artist, I have been involved physical printed object. A photograph secretary years later. The camera is, and always will be, my at SNAP in varying capacities since can intersect printmaking through Marian Switzer primary image creation tool. I love thinking about, 2012. SNAP is a wealth of support digital layers printed via large format directors talking about, and learning about ways of seeing and inspiration for the Edmonton inkjet printers, or negatives and Chelsey Campbell our world through lenses. Manipulating light and Community – through thoughtful, positives exposed onto a silkscreen Émilienne Gervais chemistry or pixels and ink to create an impres- technically insightful exhibitions or a photolitho/etching/polymer Mark Henderson sion that communicates an idea or feeling is the and programs, space for artists to plate. Photographic layers could be Ashna Jacob Joanne Madeley crux of my artistic practice. There are so many work in the studio, and introductory, figurative, abstract or graphic. Laura Ritchie varied perspectives on the relationship between intermediate and professional If you are curious to see examples in Megan Stein photography and printmaking, we’ve captured development courses and workshops real life, an exhibition featuring the Matt Whitson a wide range within this publication, but I would offered for variable skill levels. Direct collaboration between photography publications committee encourage you to head over to SNAP’s newly donations, Sponsor Membership and and printmaking titled Light/Matter: Cindy Couldwell launched website at snapartists.com to explore the Print Patron Program are ways that Art at the Intersection of Photography Charlie Crittenden Carolyn Jervis our upcoming summer and fall workshops and try anyone can support and advocate for and Printmaking runs between May Alex Keays your hand at a new photography or printmaking the artists, programs, exhibitions 11 and June 2 at the Gallery A (Telus Sergio Serrano technique yourself! and communities that SNAP supports Centre) and Fine Arts Building Gallery Thanks for continuing to follow along with us and fosters. on the University of Alberta campus. STAFF at SNAPline - we are working toward some great This summer at SNAP is a particular All work displayed is influenced executive director themes for fall and winter of 2018. By joining exciting one as we host a number of by or uses photography to produce April Dean our SNAPline membership you can receive this events in the print studio such as: the final print. [email protected] publication along with a limited edition fine-art the Members Print Exchange, Put a Thank you for supporting SNAP! communications coordinator print commissioned especially for this project in Bird on It, and Drink and Draw. New I hope you enjoy this issue of SNAPline Morgan Wedderspoon your mailbox each quarter. exhibitions in the gallery include: and look forward to seeing many of [email protected] Micheline Durocher: Home and Garden you over the next few months in the printshop & programs and Megan Gnanasihamany: Copy studio, gallery, events, or exhibitions! coordinator Tropic June 15 – July 21, and Wendy Amanda McKenzie [email protected] April Dean, Tokaryk: Doilies (The Meaning of Life) Executive Director and Carly Greene: Construct from SNAP loves all the volunteers, members, supporters and funders August 3 – September 8 to bring us Megan Stein that make our organization not across the Summer Solstice. This June Director, just possible but also a thriving we will be welcoming our third Visiting SNAP Board art community. A special thanks to our funders and supporters. Artist, Kim Morgan, an Associate of Directors Professor at NSCAD University, SEASON SPONSORS FUNDERS who will be working in the studio experimenting with silkscreen on latex. This issue’s theme, Photography, is an exciting look at how the medium can be balanced between the worlds CONTRIBUTORS SNAPLINE SUMMER 2018 CHARLIE CRITTENDEN CANDACE MAKOWICHUK, is a writer living in visual artist, arts edu- Edmonton. He contrib- cator and arts manager, utes articles to SNAPLine specializes in historical and edits speculative poetry for On photographic processes and tech- (detail), Spec, Canada’s oldest English language niques for her artwork. Committed to science fiction magazine. After gradu- the unique and multi faceted aspects ating from the University of Alberta in of photography, Makowichuk spe- Angela Snieder, Cover: Front Unearth chine Photopolymer Print, 2018, 8 x 10” 4 ½ x 7” (image), collé, (paper) 2011, he has spent a great deal of time cializes in the following historical inventing alien species and working photographic processes: Cyanotype, in bookstores. Gum Bichromate, Silver Gelatin, Bro- ARTIST moil and hand tinting. Candace has Angela Snieder: STATEMENT DANIELLE HOUGHTON extensive experience in educating the is a practicing Street public on the importance and impact In the edition made Photographer based in the visual arts have on our commu- Featured Artist for SNAPline, I draw Dublin, Ireland and is a nity and lives. Through workshops, from historical and member of the International ‘Observe’ residencies and exhibiting her artwork contemporary photog- collective. She has been exhibited inter- in historical photographic processes, Angela Snieder is a visual artist working in print- raphy, print-media, and nationally and has won various street she has instilled a renewed interest in media, photo-based printmaking, and installation. theatre/film traditions; photography competitions including analogue photography – film and other Her practice explores relationships between namely through my 2015 Irish Times Amateur Photogra- non-digital processes. Her work is physical and psychological spaces, and the use of the diorama. In pher of the Year. represented in public collections within transformative potential of contemplative attention. making this image and Alberta, private collections within She holds a BFA from York University and an MFA other sculpturally based WALTER JULE is known Canada and exhibitions. in Printmaking from the University of Alberta. print works, I look for as a curator, printmaker, She has exhibited nationally and internationally, a feeling of the photo- book, and poster designer, WENDY MCGRATH’s most with upcoming solo shows at Alberta Printmakers graphed space being Walter Jule has shown in recent project is BOX—an (Calgary 2019) and Martha Street Studio (Winnipeg somewhere between over 300 exhibitions in 43 countries adaptation of her epony- 2019). A series of her photo-print work will be concealing itself and winning 12 national and 16 interna- mous long poem. BOX is exhibited this June in the upcoming group show giving itself away. I am tional awards. He helped establish a genre-blurring collaboration of jazz, Proof 25 at Gallery 44 in Toronto. This summer she motivated to create Canada’s first MFA program at the experimental music and voice with the will be completing a collaborative residency with photographic images University of Alberta and was a found- group “Quarto & Sound.” McGrath has Morgan Wedderspoon at St. Michael’s Printshop in that elicit feelings of ing member of SNAP in 1982. His work written three novels and two books of St. John’s, NL. Angela currently lives and teaches in familiarity but that also can be found in over 60 major public poetry. Her most recent poetry collec- Edmonton at the University of Alberta and at the contain areas that seem collections including at the National tion, A Revision of Forward (NeWest Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP), obscure or inaccessible. Galleries of Canada, New Zealand and Press 2015), is the culmination of a where she makes her work. Constructing dioramas India; National Museum in Warsaw; collaboration with printmaker Walter allows me to play with and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Jule. McGrath recently travelled to the photograph’s capac- In 2015, he received the SGC Interna- Houston to read from her work during ity for deception while tional Teaching/Practice Award. Jule is the PRINTHOUSTON 2017 exhibition also thinking about the a member of the Royal Canadian Acad- “A Revision of Forward,” which fea- ways uncertainty and emy and the City of Edmonton Arts & tured Jule’s prints. She is at work on surprise are inherent to Culture Hall of Fame. several projects including the final our personal experienc- novel in her “Santa Rosa Trilogy.” es of the world. SNAPLINE SUMMER 2018 5 SNAPLINE SUMMER 2018 WRITTEN BY Whether Vermeer used a camera just happened, was happening, or had My Process WENDY MCGRATH obscura when he painted is debatable, happened. It is evocative of the feeling but, there is no doubt printmaker of unease that I’m interested in.” Angela Snieder makes innovative use She also took double exposure of the camera obscura in her work.