PAVED Arts

May Is Photography Month At PAVED arts

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In light of PAVED Arts’ recent photo related acquisitions and equipment upgrades, we would like to offer a series photography based workshops for our members! Local photographer and educator Barb Reimer will lead the workshops, which will cover darkroom practices, lighting essentials and large format printing. Her expertise and technical knowledge will be a valuable experience for any member both beginner or advanced. At the end of the month, PAVED Arts will host an exhibition of the works produced at the workshops. All workshops are free unless otherwise indicated.

Epson 9900 Large Format Printer Workshop, Saturday, May 12, 12-3pm

This introductory workshop will provide an orientation to PAVED Arts’ Epson Stylus Pro 9900 printer. It will cover introduction to the digital media lab and equipment, as well resolution, file formats, types of paper, ink and print setting associated with the Epson printer. Please bring a file you would like to print in a large format on a thumb drive. Files should be min 300 dpi and a jpg or a photoshop file. Workshop fee is $20 and covers paper and ink. Maximum 4 participants.

Epson 9000 Large Format Printer Workshop, Saturday, May 13, 12-3pm

This introductory workshop will provide an orientation to PAVED Arts’ Epson Stylus Pro 9900 printer. It will cover introduction to the digital media lab and equipment orientation as well resolution, file formats, different types of paper, ink and print settings associated with the Epson printer. Please bring a file you like to print in a large format on a thumb drive. Files should be min 300 dpi and a jpg or a photoshop file. Workshop fee is $20 and covers paper and ink. Maximum 4 participants.

Darkroom Practices, Wednesday, May 23, 6-9pm

This workshop will give a detailed introduction to PAVED Arts’ wet darkroom lab. It will cover film and print development with a focus on black and white photography. It will also include safe darkroom practices and setting up chemistry. Maximum 4 participants.

Lighting Essentials, Wednesday, May 30, 6-9pm

This workshop will give members an orientation of PAVED Arts’ photography lighting equipment. It will cover our tungsten and newly acquired strobe light kits. The workshop will orient members with light meter practices, colour temperature, lighting for film and digital cameras as well as camera settings for correct lighting. Members can bring their own digital or analog camera or use PAVED Arts’ Canon 5D or 7D.

Instructor Biography

All workshops will be taught by Barb Reimer. Barb is an accomplished photographer who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She is the photo and digital technician at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Saskatchewan. Barb’s work can be viewed at: www.reimereason.ca and includingmyself.tumblr.com

Employment Opportunities at PAVED arts

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PAVED ARTS Job Call : Archival Coordinator

The Inaugural Exhibition of Toon’s Kitchen: The Saskatoon Screening Room

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Paul Atkins & Ian Campbell’s “Video Club Retrospective”
June 1 – June 16, 2012

Please join us for a special opening reception on Friday June 1st from 8-10pm!

Paul Atkins and Ian Campbell are video artists who formed a two-person video production club in 2007 in the City of Saskatoon. Their mandate was to meet weekly and make videos as quickly and experimentally as they liked. Their processes involved machinima, green screens, puppetry, animatronics and song writing. Utilizing Atkins’ desire to tell funny stories, and Campbell’s technical prowess,they assembled their videos in a flurry of improvisation. Although their videos have been shown in Toronto, Winnipeg and Saskatoon, their exposure has been very brief in comparison to the breadth of their work. Now the club has agreed through unanimous vote, to assemble a compilation of their works to be screened at Toon’s Kitchen. They will present the most compelling and widest spectrum of videos from their library. Each video will be between one to ten minutes in length, to a total duration of approximately one hour.

PAVED Arts acknowledges the support of our members, volunteers and partners, and of our principal funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the City of Saskatoon and the National Film Board of Canada.

For more information, contact: David LaRiviere, Artistic Director tel. (306) 652-5502 ext.1 artistic@pavedarts.caPAVED Arts: 424 20th Street West Saskatoon SK. S7M 0X4 www.pavedarts.ca
Free admission to the public with barrier-free accessibility.

Stéphanie Chabot: Me, My Hat and My Blue Hand

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There will be a public artist talk delivered by Stéphanie Chabot just before the reception, beginning at 7:30 PM, Friday, May 4, 2012.

PAVED Arts is proud to present Me, My Hat and My Blue Hand, a multimedia installation and the first exhibition to expose the work of Stéphanie Chabot to Saskatoon audiences. The dark psychology that underpins her work, coupled with a trouble-making critical sensibility, lends this project a sense of imperative that is at once serious and playful. From the PAVED Arts publication:

At heart Chabot is compelled by a decidedly feminist-punk impetus to problematize dominant narratives and their attendant explanations, investing in even the most familiar or mundane object a surplus value that resists encapsulation. Understood in the light of an acerbic wit, these objects are not confessional revelations of some festering, repressed trauma– quite the reverse! At every turn the artist emancipates her subjects, and it is the out-bounding character of what cannot be taken for granted that lends her work a monstrous, uncanny presence. Chabot has alluded to this method of producing a surplus of language, stating in an interview, “I like to think my work contains secrets I haven’t discovered yet.”

Stéphanie Chabot is a multi-disciplinary artist that works primarily in painting, sculpture and installation. She received her Masters Degree from York University in 2008. Chabot’s work has been shown in many Canadian artist-run centers including La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse, Clark Gallery (both in Montréal) and YYZ in Toronto. Her work has also been presented in the United States, Spain (Sala Riekalde, Bilbao), England (Sassoon Gallery, London) and in Australia (H-Block Gallery, Brisbane). She is a member of the curatorial collective L’Araignée, and has been involved at La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse as both a member of the selection committee (2008- 2011), and the interim artistic coordinator (2010). Chabot currently lives and works in Montréal.

For more information please contact: David LaRiviere, Artistic Director tel. (306) 652-5502 ext.1 artistic@pavedarts.ca

PAVED Arts: 424 20^th Street West Saskatoon SK. S7M 0X4 www.pavedarts.ca

Free admission to the public with barrier-free accessibility.