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a
multidisciplinary
print
workshop
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Situated in the center of Quebec,
the Presse Papier artist's center was founded in 1979 to meet the creative
needs of a group of young artists, and now the studio has developed into a
multidisciplinary print workshop. The setting up of a collective self-run
and fully-equipped studio offers our members, as well as visiting artists,
production support the possibility of experimentation in different
techniques, the stimulation of research and the encouragement created by
healthy confrontation. This initiative to create a center for artists, the
first of its kind: in our region, was paralleled, at the end of the
1970's, by many similar initiatives by our contemporaries throughout
Quebec. Since then, this has lead to numerous beneficial effects on its
members as well as on the community at large.
Our center has preserved its initial collective identity, the
self-determined vision of its future and the programming of its day to day
organization. Since 1983 Presse Papier is owner of the building complex
which houses the workshop and it has astutely managed and diversified its
resources. This has guaranteed their continuing development which in its
turn ensures access to its equipment for present and future artists.
Presse Papier has grown from being a workshop numbering eleven artist
printmakers, to a present membership of about twenty multidisciplinary
artists and printmakers. The membership increase is partly due to the
accessibility of our equipment and also, in large part, due to shared
projects with universities. Special attention is paid to the up-and-coming
generation and an annual collective project has bean created for them, as
well as bursaries for working in the studio and prizes which are an aid to
the diffusion of their first creative project. |
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Equipment
The different printmaking techniques that we offer
at
Presse Papier are:
lithography, intaglio (metal plate engraving and etching), relief
printing, silkscreen,
photography, computer graphics
and papier matière.
Artist's equipment
Regular members :
Access to the printmaking studio
40$ CND per month, 1 year and more.
Occasional members :
Access to the printmaking studios
65$ CND month / 40$ CND week
Artists interested in working at the Presse Papier workshop must send us a
dossier including, a curriculum vitae, some original prints as well as a
brief outline of your intended work. |
The Presse Papier center of
diffusion
Date limit: 15th March of each year
For all artists interested in exhibiting.
Please send us a dossier, including a curriculum vitae, 10 slides of your
work ,
an artist's statement and a brief description of your exhibition project.
Artist's accommodation
Accommodation-studio (for all disciplines):
250$ per month / 75$ per week
Economy price
Accommodation and printmaking workshop
300$ CND per month / 100$ CND per week
The appartment is situated in the town center of Trois-Rivières, facing
the St-Laurent river.
It is situated just above the studios of the Presse Papier workshop.
As only one studio is available please reserve as early as possible !
Artists interested by the conomy price for the accommodation and workshop
must send us a dossier including, a curriculum vitae, original prints
as well as a brief description of the proposed project. |
