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finished student linocuts

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Here are a few of our student prints from our class at Meta Makers Cooperative. We had some challenges printing for the first time with minimal equipment in a new space, but the makerspace is coming along nicely and is already developing into a great, inspiring place to work and teach.

Our students played a bit with selective inking in multiple colours (skull circuit board print) and blending colour right on the block (after Mucha print).

sock knitting class

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Here are my sample socks at the end of our sock knitting class tonight, in which I showed our students how to finish off the toe of their socks with Kitchener stitch. If you want to learn how to make socks and missed out this time around, keep your eye on Fusion Fiber Arts (Facebook page link) for the next session!

All yarns in the pictured socks from The Green Button Jar (Etsy store link).

longstitch binding

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Here are the finished student books from our first bookbinding class at Arts Council Windsor & Region, longstitch binding with a wrapped leather cover. Thanks to everyone who came out and made a book with us!

Art in the Park Windsor!

We’re having a good start to our second day at Art in the Park at Windsor’s historic Willistead Manor! If you haven’t made it out to the show yet, you can still catch us here until 5pm. We’re in booth #345, on the Devonshire Road side of the park.

Here are a few photos of our booth setup:

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Up The Mesh Count exhibition

A team of Up The Mesh Count printers is in the studio today working on the posters for the upcoming exhibition, opening at Artspeak Gallery on October 24. Get details here: https://facebook.com/upthemeshcount

Art Walk weekend!

Our studio member Jenny is here with her amazing prints for sale! And inside the studio I’ll be doing letterpress demos all weekend. Drop by and say hello!

Open Streets Windsor 

Windsor’s first Open Streets event was wildly successful, and our street was packed with bicycles and pedestrians all morning long! Here are a few photos from the spray and stencil party we presented in partnership with the Arts Council Windsor Region.

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Art in the Park

This weekend we took part in Events in the Manor, a fun free exhibit of Art in the Park. Here’s our set-up in the dining room of historic Willistead Manor, ready to demonstrate bookbinding for the public:

It’s more fun doing a demo by teaching somebody, so local artist Julie Bell came by to help out and learned a Japanese stab binding:

Up the Mesh Count

We’re pleased to be working with Windsor based artist and art educator Michelle Soullière on her new project Up the Mesh Count: Screenprinting For D.I.Y. Musicians, funded by Ontario Arts Council and the City of Windsor Arts, Culture, & Heritage Fund. We will be teaching local musicians how to screen print their own promotional materials and how to build their own screenprinting equipment, and producing a how-to zine on screenprinting to be distributed locally. Windsor is about to experience a D.I.Y. screenprinting revolution!

More information will be made available shortly, including where you can sign up for the workshop sessions (taking place in April, June, and September of 2016).

The project is also hiring! We need a studio technician to work with us throughout the project, and an illustrator to help with the zine. You can check out the contract postings here: Up the Mesh Count Studio Technician and Illustrator Posting