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i’m sarah howarth and i’m with um

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artist run center nonprofit society

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called print

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and what we do is we’re bringing

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awareness of printmaking

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to the crd area and across vancouver

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island and our mandate is really to

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connect printmakers and

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one in the gulf islands and across

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vancouver island so we can all get to

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know each other

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and we can promote printmaking to those

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that aren’t very aware of what it is

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so one of our big programming pieces is

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we highlight a print artist

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every four months in what we call the

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print gallery

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and it’s essentially a hard copy gallery

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featuring a solo printmaker

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they do an original piece that gets

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printed

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hand printed on the back of the gallery

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so that

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we can share original art with

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with the public it’s accessible and

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it’s often done with a lot of passion

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we’re in the print studio right now so

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we do offer some studio space to print

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makers

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and our past three galleries have had

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the artist the print artist come into

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the space

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and print their edition and these we do

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addition of 50

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so we have 50 original pieces to sell at

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a very accessible price

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but we also do a whole bunch of offsets

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which are commercial printing

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and they’re all free and so we hand

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those out through art stores bookstores

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framing shops and and just by word of

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mouth

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so we you know we get people interested

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and excited about printmaking

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through a gallery that you don’t

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actually have to visit um and come into

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a space

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we actually bring the gallery to you so

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these are the print galleries

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and and what they are is their

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information

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about what printmaking is so every uh

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four months we put one of these out

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we’ve done three volumes artists apply

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to be in this show and in the print

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gallery because it’s it’s just like a

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regular exhibition

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so they apply to us we go through an

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application process

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and then the artists are awarded

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essentially gallery space and so this

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one

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is zoe silliers and she does a lot of

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litho she does a lot of poetry

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and she works with text and so what she

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did is on the

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inside is the original lino and wood

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carvings

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that she did and then she printed and

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auditioned them for

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50 of them the what we call offset

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prints are free

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and so we’ll mail one to you you can

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always pop down the studio when we’re

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open and pick them up from us directly

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we do have them at local art stores in

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victoria

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as well as some used bookstores um but

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we are kind of expanding that

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so this month’s our artist is natasha

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van netten

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she’s been spending her time printing

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last weekend and today we’re finishing

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up the print run of 50.

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my name is natasha van netten and i’m a

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local artist from victoria

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i’m also the third artist for

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the victoria print society’s print

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gallery edition yeah so so these are

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the distributed print gallery this one

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is the one that i’m working on

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currently uh it folds open um

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to an interview inside and then the

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print

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is on the inside there and that’s

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that’s the north there so um this

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particular piece

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is um coming from

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my own practice i i focus on

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whales and whale research and so this

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image is actually a location on the

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north coast sort of going up towards

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kitimat and you have the

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inside passage going through and so it’s

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an area of

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high activity for humans for boats for

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sea life

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and everything is sort of converging in

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that area and even though the the

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passageways are very small it’s sort of

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a hive of activity that i wanted to

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highlight

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the different uses and

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so i started off by making a lino

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cut plate which is here we ran them

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through last week

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printing them in the gallery space and

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today we are

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layering the embossing on top and the

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embossing is what

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it’s representing the um the undersea

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contour lines that are going through

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those spaces and showing the depth

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creating sort of a map but um focusing

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more on the underwater elements

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like if it were a map for a whale for

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example

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i applied to their art call it was an

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open art call last i think it was in

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september

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and i uh so i just i just put together a

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submission and i applied

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and um was really excited to have this

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opportunity to

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um create this print and to start to

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sort of branch out with my own work as

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well

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and uh yeah which is sort of neat

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because that’s the

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um the purpose of the print society is

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to sort of extend and reach out to

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people that are not within that group

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and so

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to come into it is really quite quite

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cool

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but we’ve really evolved it into being

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this because it initially was gonna be a

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whole bunch of stuff about printmaking

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not just one artist

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and then we were talking about like why

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don’t we run it like a show like why

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don’t we run it on the same premise that

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you would if you were applying

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to a gallery and so we have submissions

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we have

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the artist statements we have the

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interview which the interview is

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essentially the artist talk

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so we have all of it it’s just in this

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paper

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format right

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