by last print sale
Capilano University’s Studio Art printmaking department is presenting The Last Ever Print Sale!
Monday, December 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm.
Studio Art Building, Room 104
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC
Why is it the ‘last ever’ sale? The Print Sale has been a longtime (25 years?) annual event which we are all very sad to see coming to an end. As some readers know, Capilano University has cut numerous programs including Studio Art and the Art Institute. The second-year Studio Art program is running just this school year to allow the current students to complete their diploma requirements.
So, it is wonderful that they are hosting this event and also including the Ceramics class this time (they used to have their own sale). The Art Institute Printmaking alumni, such as yours truly, have been invited to participate as part of that long tradition.
If you live in the Vancouver area, please come and support the students and get some original artworks for some lucky people on your gift list, including yourself. We hope to see many friends there that special day!
More background:
– About the Art Institute Printmaking program, written in 2004
– About the protest against the program cuts
Poster image: etching by Liam Johnstone
November 30, 2013 in Art Institute (Printmaking), Current Events, Printmaking by Marja-Leena
Marja-Leena,
very sad that there are cuts over there too. We’ve going to have cuts on cultural programs all over in this country, as the state has decided that the communities has to have cuts. That way the communities won’t need to have state money so much. Of course, ordinary people will be also meeting tax raise.
This is the time of the year when next year’s budgets are made. So it is probably over there. And of course: cuts are also made in art institutes, mostly higher level schools. That means that many artists will be loosing their teaching jobs.
But worst is that ordinary communal social- and healthcare systems will be meeting cuts, and also ordinary children’s schools. To have something nice like cultural life is these days too much asked for.
Sigh.
Ripsa, I’m so sorry to hear all this. I thought the Nordic countries were doing a better job than most other places – probably still are relatively speaking. We’ve been falling backwards at a fast rate since our current federal and provincial governments have been in power.
Marja-Leena, I hope that the sale goes well. It is so criminal that all these greedy people ignore the most vital ingredient for continued success: education. I fear for successive generations here too.
Olga, thanks, I hope so too though times are tough for artists as well as the education field. I too have those same fears.
I’m sure it will be a wonderful show even as it will also be sad. What’s so worrisome these days is that programs and institutions that have taken years to build and mature can be destroyed in a seeming instant.
Thanks Susan. My thoughts exactly, and all the valuable etching presses, the wide-format inkjet printer, specialized materials, the work space and so much more, and the fantastic instructors and technicians….sigh.
Well, I better go wrap up some prints for the sale…