1. Bring Your Own Home Movie Day
2. Collaging Myself | Jonathan Culp
3. Upcoming NAC Workshops
4. Tobey C Anderson | CRAM
5. Shoot High - Go Low
1. BRING YOUR OWN HOME MOVIE DAY
Saturday 22 May 2010
Home movie clinic: 12nn - 2pm
Home movie screening: 2pm - 5pm
Niagara Artists Centre
A FREE EVENT
Home movies are more fun than you think!
Watching home movies together allows communities to share and learn about our past. From the 1920s to the 1980s, countless families shot home movie footage - at home and on vacation, getting married and goofing around. These forgotten films contain scenes from our personal, local and global histories that can't be seen anywhere else.
At noon on Saturday 22 May, the Niagara Artists Centre will host a 'home movie clinic'. This is your opportunity to view, organize and repair your old 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm home movies (no video) at personal viewing stations. Technical assistants will help you to work the machines and offer information about film storage and preservation.
At 2pm, please join us for a community home movie screening. You are welcome to bring in your own home movies to share. Share a bit of your own history and learn about everybody else's.
The screening will begin with images from the collection of Vineland's Edra Thompson. Edra used super 8 film extensively in her educational work during the 60s and 70s. Her forty-year-old films feature stunning color images of steam engines, extreme closeups of feeding hummingbirds, and time lapse photography of butterflies emerging from their chrysalis.
The screening will be hosted by Jonathan Culp, who has spent many years working with 16mm and Super 8 film. He recently shot five rolls of home movie footage on the Galapagos Islands, and will be sharing that film at this event, as well as showing some of his many 'orphan' home movies with footage dating back to the 1939 royal visit!
For more information, please contact psauce@gmail.com or call 905-562-7267.
2. Collaging Myself
Installation by Jonathan Culp
Reception Saturday 22 May 2010 7pm
Saturday 22 May - Friday 4 June 2010
During many years of outward-looking, socially engaged collage video production, I have simultaneously pursued appropriation-based work in various other media, for my own pleasure and on self-directed themes. It is this more intimate work which forms the backbone of this retrospective exhibit. Collaging Myself features objects created over three decades, many of which will be on public view for the first time.
Comic strips, T-shirts, toys, family photographs, (literally) dirty magazines, and various other artifacts of everyday life are incorporated into a great variety of original work, from hung art to zines to audiotape to slides to an 11' x 5' quilt.
-- Jonathan Culp
3. Upcoming NAC Workshops
Screen Printing | Instructor: Adam Tisdelle
Saturday 29 May & Sunday 30 May, 10am - 3pm
Located at Royal Crown Graphics: 7 Frank Street, St Catharines
$125 for 2 days
Work with Royal Crown Graphics to learn the process of screen printing in a professional print studio. This workshop will teach you everything you need to know to create a distinct design and screen print your own images onto almost any surface.
Note: Participants should bring a digital format image to reproduce and materials to print on, like a t-shirt, bag or pillowcase etc. Project materials are included in the fee, if you wish to purchase additional materials please inform the instructor ahead of time.
About the instructor:
Adam Tisdelle is part of Royal Crown Graphics, a printing studio in St. Catharines. He has worked professionally as a screen printer for many years.
www.royalcrowngraphics.com
Analog Darkroom Photography | Instructor: Lindsay E Slavin
Mondays in July 5, 12, 19 & 26. 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Located at NAC: 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines
$150 for all 4 classes
This workshop covers all the basics of black and white photo processing. Learn how to process your own film and maneuver around NAC’s dark room with your eyes closed. Discuss and work through the challenges of creating high quality prints and experiment with different photographic techniques to create desired effects.
Note: Participants will be supplied with chemicals and paper for all 4 classes. Each participant will be given 15 additional hours of free time in the darkroom outside of workshop hours.
About the instructor:
Lindsay has been living in St. Catharines for the last two years. She has a BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in photography and major in stone lithography. She’s been taking pictures for many, many years and her favourite is high contrast black and white. She loves the drama! She often thinks about a question a professor once asked, “Can images move us, still?” Her favourite colour is green.
Space is limited.
Please contact Kasia Smuga, NAC’s Principle Officer of Pedagogy
at 905 641 0331 or by email at ksmuga@gmail.com
4. Facing Rembrandt
New Work by NAC Member Tobey C Anderson
CRAM Gallery
Opening Reception Friday 21 May 8pm
On display until 8 June
At 24 years, Rembrandt confronted himself in the mirror and with various expressions etched small self portraits. While he was only beginning his life's work, the early prints and drawings are spontaneous and dynamic studies of light, form, and character. These attributes of Rembrandt, his mastery of line, and the bite of his prints are the vehicles for his compulsion to find the essential character of his subjects.
Tobey C. Anderson's Facing Rembrandt is also an exploration of waterless lithography. Editioned at the newly established CRAM Press, this suite of small prints considers this technique in relation to Rembrandt's etchings. As Rembrandt studied his own face to convey mood and the complex attributes of the sitter, Anderson encounters the essence exposed to others. In his pensive reflection, Anderson focuses on the relationship of his own place and the people around him inspired by Rembrandt's introspection.
CRAMplex
24 James Street - 2nd Floor
Downtown St. Catharines
cramart.ca
5. Shoot High - Go Low: Arts & Sports in St.Catharines
City of St. Catharines' 6th Annual Juried Show
On display until Friday 13 August
Second Floor of City Hall
Download the press release here