Maria has two more workshops coming up at Visual Voice Fine Art in Truro. Early registration is definitely recommended as the Monotype workshops have been very popular!

Are you always rushing to get all your holiday cards done on time for friends and family? We have the perfect solution for you! Join us for an early Holiday card workshop. We will be using Monotype printmaking methods to create one of a kind holiday cards that will astonish your friends and family. Best of all, you get to have a lot of fun experimenting with found materials, drawing into ink with Q-tips, brushes and rags, working with paper cut-outs and much more. You can come prepared with image ideas or spend the day experimenting spontaneously with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs, holiday imagery and decorations etc. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.

Nov 3 Thursday 10:00 – 3:30 pm only $75 +tax per person.
30 min lunch break – bring your own
Limited space, Pre-registration required 902-843-9464

The year in review.In this Reflections and Resolutions Monotype Workshop you will be developing imagery that symbolizes what mattered to you in 2016 and your hopes and dreams for 2017. While taking a break from Holiday parties and preparations for New Year’s Eve this workshop is a perfect one-day meditation allowing you to look inward and express your ideas through the painterly method of Monotype printmaking. You will not be creating an edition of multiples but instead remove ink from a plate with various rags, Q-tips, and brushes and found materials to create a single print. This time we will be using larger plates than in previous workshops. Participants can expect to create 2-5 different prints during this workshop. The workshop will begin with a few simple exercises to help you shed the holiday stress and focus on your reflections. You can come prepared with image ideas or spend the day experimenting spontaneously with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs, and anything that may inspire your reflections and resolutions. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.

Dec 29 Thursday 10:00 – 3:30 pm only $75 +tax per person.
30 min lunch break – bring your own
Limited space, Pre-registration required 902-843-9464

Maria is delighted to be part of Nocturne again this year through the Nova Scotia Printmakers and their Apply Pressure event. Maria will be one of many printmakers working and printing with the public at the Halifax Seaport (1099 Marginal Road) across the street from the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design. The event takes place on Saturday October 15th, 6pm – midnight and is open to the public.

Maria has two large scale prints in “BIG PRINTS!” at The Craig Gallery. A group exhibition organized by the NS Printmakers:

BIG PRINTS!

An ample, brimming, capacious, colossal, commodious, considerable, enormous, extensive, gigantic, huge, hulking, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, oversize, spacious, strapping, substantial, tremendous, vast … exhibition of prints.

Members of the NS Printmakers who are participating:

Bonnie Baker, Melissa Charbonneau, Maria Doering, Suzanne Gauthier, Hannah Genosko, Kate Georgallas, Carlos Gomez, Bob Hainstock, Dyan Hatanaka, Erin Hollingshead, Christine Koch, Jay Leblanc, Caroline Loose, Bronwyn Mundell, Tony Myers, Meggie Richards, Diane Rosati, Tamsin Sloots and more!

The exhibition runs from September 28th until October 9th, 2016. Please join us for the opening reception on Wednesday September 28th, 7-9PM at The Craig Gallery at Alderney Landing.

The Ottawa School of Art is holding an open house event on Saturday, September 10th. Maria will be printing in the OSA printshop from noon – 4 pm. If you would like to learn about her process, see her work or find out more about Printmaking you are welcome to stop by. The event is open to the public and free.

Ever wonder what goes on at the Ottawa School of Art?

Here is an opportunity to find out!

The Ottawa School of Art will be opening its doors to the public on September 10th from 12pm to 4pm for our annual open house!

Come join us for FREE!

There will be information, live demos and workshops in a variety of artistic fields, showcasing some of what you could expect from a class here at the OSA.

The event will include short demos/workshops:
Printmaking- with Guillermo Trejo
Ceramic- with Meagan Pethick
Children’s programing- with Gerard Belec
Sculpture- with Dawn Dale
Painting- with David Kearn
Drawing- with Maya Hum
Fine Arts Diploma – with Andrew Fay (Osa Diploma)
Artist in Residence – with Maria Doering (Printmaking)
Diploma student Drawing and painting workshop- with Yulia Lisitsyna

Come participate! Come check out our specialty studios, chat with Advisor Andrew Fay about our Fine Arts Diploma program, bring your kids, leave with a piece of art that you created!

It’s gonna be a funfilled day of “Teaching Art to Everyone!” something we try to do every day! Tell your friends! See you then!

Maria will be giving an artist lecture about her work, her process  and the project that she printed during her residency at the Ottawa School of Art, on Thursday September 8th, 2016 at noon in the library room at the school. OSA is located at 35 George St, Ottawa, ON K1N 1K2. The event is free and open to the public, and will take approximately one hour.

Maria has a workshop scheduled at Visual Voice Fine Art in Truro, every month until the end of the year. For information on the workshops on November 3rd and December 29th please contact Visual Voice directly.

This workshop will explore the possibilities of the human figure through the experimental printmaking method of Monotype. You will be creating one of a kind figurative imagery with this unique process and the aid of fingerprints, cutouts, drawing, found materials and much more. This time we will be using larger plates than in previous workshops.
You can come prepared with a few figurative image ideas or spend the day experimenting spontaneously with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking or drawing the figure to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.

Sep 27 Tuesday 10:00 – 3:30 pm only $75 +tax per person.
30 min lunch break – bring your own.
Limited space, Pre-registration required 902-843-9464

Inspired by the colours of this beautiful season come join us for a fun day of Monotype printmaking exploring all things Autumn. In this 5 hour workshop with Maria Doering, you will be creating one of a kind pieces using autumn colours, foliage and much more, we will explore image making possibilities by inking up leaves directly, drawing on an inked plate, experimenting with yarn, thread and paper cut outs.
You can come prepared with image ideas or spend the day experimenting spontaneously with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs, and anything that says Autumn to you. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.

Oct 13 Thursday 10:00 – 3:30 pm only $75 +tax per person.
30 minute lunch break – bring your own.
Limited space, Pre-registration required 902-843-9464

Maria is thrilled to have been invited to spend three weeks at the Ottawa School of Art in downtown Ottawa, between August 23rd and September 10th. She will be teaching one day workshops at OSA in Relief printing and Monotype, to register for these workshops please visit the OSA website.  Maria is also going to give an Artist talk on September 8th and finish her adventure at OSA with a demo-day during OSA’s Open House on September 10th.

To follow her project at OSA please visit her blog.

More detailed information is going to be posted shortly.

Maria is going to be teaching an Introduction to Relief Printing and a Monotype class at the NSCAD School of Extended Studies. Registration for these classes opens August 23rd.

Info about the classes:
Monotype
Monotype is a fun and very experimental printmaking technique where instead of printing editions you only create one-of-a-kind pieces. Each week you will learn different approaches ranging from Black & White to multi-coloured and multi layered Monotype prints with the use of various inks, dry media and found objects on paper. No previous experience required. Please bring sketchbook or note pad, pencil, fine point Sharpie marker and an apron or old t-shirt to the first class. Class Limit is 10.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: Sept 26, 2016

Course Code:
ESPR-0124 [Register Online]
Instructor:
Maria Doering
Site:
H320, 5163 Duke Street
Date / Time:
Mon, Oct 3-Nov 28, 6:30–9:30pm (7 sessions, no class Oct 10 and Oct 24)

Tuition: $275.00 + HST

Introduction to Relief Printing
Relief printing, you may know it as Linocut or Woodcut is one of the most accessible and affordable forms of printmaking. Techniques learned in this course can easily be applied and used at home and with various materials. Students will be guided through the process of image development, image transfer to various carving matrices, carving, inking and hand printing. Once comfortable with hand printing, the instructor will introduce the class to printing with a relief printing press. Relief printing can be used for creating anything from
greeting cards to fine art prints. Class Limit is 10.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: Sept 26, 2016

Course Code:
ESPR-0124 [Register Online]
Instructor:
Maria Doering
Site:
H320, 5163 Duke Street
Date / Time:
Tues, Oct 4-Nov 22, 6:30–9:30pm (7 sessions, no class Oct 25)

Tuition: $275.00 + HST

No previous experience needed, the classes are exciting and fun for anyone!

Visual Voice Fine Art presents its annual Summer group art show, a celebration of the best of the season.

The show features Nova Scotian artists: Diana Baldwin, Judy Arsenault, Carol Morrison, Twila Robar-DeCoste, Maria Doering, Kath Rutherford, Nora Gross, Barbara McLean, Carol Smeraldo, Joanne Solway, Ellen Moershel, Kristiina Lehtonen, Judith Leidl and Rosa Carr. On display are landscapes, animals, abstract, flowers, and more. The media and techniques are just as varied: sculpture, watercolour, printmaking, collage, oil, acrylic, and more.
A great show with something for everyone to love.

Please NOTE there is NO opening reception for this show.
Don’t forget to come in an see the show, it runs from Monday, Aug 8 to Saturday, September 10. The gallery’s regular hours are: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 12:30 to 5:00 pm. Any other time by appointment 902-VIEWING (843-9464).

Join us for another fun day of printmaking at Visual Voice.

Monotype is a very experimental and direct process of image creation through the use of printmaking equipment. You will not be creating an edition of multiples but instead remove ink from a plate with various rags, Q-tips, and brushes and found materials to create a single print. You may create up to 10 different images during this workshop using multiple colours as well as multiple layers.
You can come prepared with an image idea or spend the day experimenting with found materials with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.
If the weather is forecast to be beautiful we are planning on setting up the workshop outside next to the gallery, in case of rain it will be inside the gallery space.

The instructor is artist and printmaker Maria Doering, who teaches at NSCAD and has taught 3 other workshops at Visual Voice. *Includes the use of a press!

Thurs, Aug 18 from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm for $75+tax per person
ALL materials included.
Lunch $8+tax extra (soup & half sandwich), or bring your own.
PreRegistration Required call 902-843-9464

The second workshop of three in this series is being held at Shipston Design Studios on August 13th. There are still seats left for both workshops. It’s not to late to register!

Reductive Relief Printing
Saturday August 13^th   9:30 am – 12pm & 1 – 5pm (bring your own lunch)
After a brief overview the participants will be guided through the process of reductive relief printing. This means the printing of multiple colour layers by carving the image from a single block. Maria Doering will cover several different methods of registration, printing by hand as well as through the use of a printing press. By the end of the workshop, the participant will have created a two colour print.

$75+HST all materials included

Multi-Block Relief Printing 
Saturday September 17^th   9:30 am – 12pm & 1 – 5pm (bring your own lunch)
Multi-block printing is another multi-color and multi-layer relief printing method. Participants will learn how to transfer their image to multiple blocks in order to carve separate colours from each block. By the end of the day you will have created a 2 colour relief print with the multi-block method.

$75+HST all materials included

Please bring good cheer, an image idea, a notebook or sketchbook, an apron or old t-shirt and any wood carving tools you may already have.

To register, please contact Maria Doering at 902-719-5007 or send an email to [email protected]

Maria Doering – Fine Art & Print presents:
Open Art Studio Event and Sale 

Artist and Printmaker Maria Doering is going to open her studio doors to the public on July 9th, 2016, during her Open Studio Event & Sale.

Come visit a local, professional artist’s studio.
Lots of artwork to view and purchase!
See how a printing press works!
Light refreshments available!
Great for all ages!

The event will be going on from noon until 4 pm in her studio at 98 Victoria Road in Dartmouth, NS.

Colour Monotype Workshop

Sat, Jul 16 from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm for $75+tax per person
ALL materials included.
Lunch $8+tax extra (soup & half sandwich), or bring your own.
PreRegistration Required call 902-843-9464

Join us for another fun day of printmaking at Visual Voice. Colour Monotype is a very experimental and direct process of image creation through the use of printmaking equipment. You will not be creating an edition of multiples but instead remove ink from a plate with various rags, Q-tips, and brushes and found materials to create a single print. You may create up to 10 different images during this workshop using multiple colours as well as multiple layers.
You can come prepared with an image idea or spend the day experimenting with found materials with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.

If the weather is forecast to be beautiful we are planning on setting up the workshop outside next to the gallery, in case of rain it will be inside the gallery space.

The instructor is artist and printmaker Maria Doering, who teaches at NSCAD and has taught 2 other workshops at Visual Voice. *Includes the use of a press!

Shipston Designs Studio presents:

A Gaspereau Valley Printmaking Workshop Series – Part I

taught by Maria Doering

Introductory Relief Printing
Wednesday July 13^th   9:30 am – 12pm & 1 – 5pm (bring your own lunch)

In this one day workshop, Maria Doering will cover various mark making approaches in relief printing. The participant will learn how to transfer an image, carve a block using various tools and ink and print their image by hand as well as by printing press. At the end of the day each participant will leave with a finished black and white block print.

$75+HST all materials included

Reductive Relief Printing
Saturday August 13^th   9:30 am – 12pm & 1 – 5pm (bring your own lunch)
After a brief overview the participants will be guided through the process of reductive relief printing. This means the printing of multiple colour layers by carving the image from a single block. Maria Doering will cover several different methods of registration, printing by hand as well as through the use of a printing press. By the end of the workshop, the participant will have created a two colour print.

$75+HST all materials included

Multi-Block Relief Printing 
Saturday September 17^th   9:30 am – 12pm & 1 – 5pm (bring your own lunch)
Multi-block printing is another multi-color and multi-layer relief printing method. Participants will learn how to transfer their image to multiple blocks in order to carve separate colours from each block. By the end of the day you will have created a 2 colour relief print with the multi-block method.

$75+HST all materials included

Package deal for all three workshops $200 +HST all materials included.

Please bring good cheer, an image idea, a notebook or sketchbook, an apron or old t-shirt and any wood carving tools you may already have.

To register, please contact Maria Doering at 902-719-5007 or send an email to [email protected]

The Maritime Centre for Contemporary Print (MCCP) is going to be a professional quality fine art printmaking studio and cultural hub to be located in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is going to focus on the production and dissemination of contemporary fine art printmaking, with a vision of being an international centre for print excellence in Eastern Canada.

The MCCP studio will be open to the public through a membership program and will be equipped with professional quality equipment for the various printmaking techniques, including lithography, relief printing, intaglio, serigraphy (fine art silkscreen), letterpress, and monotype. Members will have access to the studio equipment, and regular courses will provide instruction on the various types of printmaking.

The MCCP will host residencies of international artists, with the objective of both providing top quality studio space to the artist while also bringing top quality international artists to Dartmouth, the HRM, and Nova Scotia to both work and share their expertise with the community.

Finally, the MCCP gallery will be the only gallery space in the Maritimes dedicated entirely to printmaking, and will be a key component of the Centre’s mandate to engage with the wider community.

Maria is the President, Executive Director, and co-founder, with her husband, of the Maritime Centre for Contemporary Print. The centre is currently in the start-up phase and is expected to be open in the next year or so. For now, you can assist by completing a short market analysis survey for the centre, available here. The survey will also allow you to submit your email to be added to our mailing list, to be kept up-to-date as we proceed towards opening this hub for printmaking excellence on the beautiful eastern coast of Canada.

As part of their collaborative residency at the I.C.C.A. Fiona Chinkan and Maria Doering are offering two workshops all about Artistic Collaborations!

RESIDENCY EVENT SCHEDULE:

Tuesday, May 31st – Artistic Collaborations 101
(Min. 5 participants – Max 20 participants,  6-9 pm)
In this workshop, we will introduce participants to the idea of artistic collaboration, why it is valuable and the different approaches artists can take when working together. We will share our own methods, as well as other ways we have seen artist teams collaborate. During the workshop participants will be paired up and challenged to work on a project together in one of the many approaches. This will be a fun event that anyone can take part in with or without experience. All you need to bring is your favourite “making” materials (pencils, watercolors, yarn, etc…) and an open mind. It is a fun way to connect with other artists or take an interesting workshop with your favourite art buddy!
Wednesday, June 1st – Sketchbook Collaborations
(Min. 5 participants – Max 20 participants, 2 – 5 pm)
One wonderful artistic collaboration method that we will discuss in our first workshop is sketchbook sharing with another artist. In this workshop, we will dive deeper into this approach and you will be introduced to different methods of sketchbook collaboration and explore how this method works when artist teams live close together versus apart long distance. Participants will be paired up to start working together in small folio sketchbooks while expressing their own ideas and reacting to each other’s styles. This workshop works well on your own or to sign up with your art buddy.
To reserve your spot for one or both workshops please contact the I.C.C.A. at [email protected] and by phone at 902.258.2533
Friday June 3rd 6-8 pm – Open Studio Event
Open to the public!
During this small informal reception, we would like to ask the public to come and visit us in the studio to see the results of our week long collaboration project in residence. We will briefly talk about the origins of our work and what it is like to live in separate countries while still making art together.

FIONA CHINKAN & MARIA DOERING
Studio Residency from May 28th – June 4th, 2016
At The Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The Inverness County Centre for the Arts is pleased to present: Shared Energies: Cells, Stars and the Fluidity Between, a collaborative residency project between New York City based artist Fiona Chinkan and Dartmouth, NS based artist Maria Doering. Having known each other for over 12 years, Fiona and Maria are reunited in the studio for the first time since 2007 to work on a large format collaborative drawing project in the spacious studio space at the I.C.C.A. between May 28th and June 4th, 2016.

The two women have collaborated through different approaches over the years, and have exhibited work together in New Jersey and Connecticut under the show title Retrospective on Intimacy. During their stay at the I.C.C.A., they will be continuing a drawing collaboration that began two years ago and has continued through mailing their drawings back and forth between New York City and Dartmouth. Maria and Fiona will be elaborating on an artistic conversation, merging and reacting to both of their notions of space. Fiona interprets imagery of outer space while Maria explores the inner space of the human body. Their work juxtaposes the formation of star systems with human cellular structures while laying in emotional complexities. Their unique styles intertwine and merge in an unexpected explosion of energy through pen and ink on paper. The artist duo will take this energy and push their explorations to larger scale during their residency stay in Inverness.

During their stay they will be offering a series of workshops at the I.C.C.A. around the idea of artist collaborations and are excited to share their experience and energy with anyone interested. Please find details below.

Everyone is welcome to stop by the studio and say hello. The best time to see much of the weeks progress will be during their open studio event on Friday, June 3rd, from 6-8pm.

Maria is pleased to be part of this group show “HOME”, one of her newest pieces “Nurturing” is on display during this exhibition at Visual Voice. Maria’s interpretation of “Home” revolves around a person’s body. Thinking of our own bodies as a nurturing place is a healthy positive view. What if this sense of nurture could be viewed under a microscope in a single cell. If you are in the Truro area please stop into Visual Voice Gallery and see Maria’s piece as well as work by the following artists:

“Visual Voice Fine Art gallery presents “HOME” a group art show around the theme of belonging and place. Artists Twila Robar-DeCoste, Louise Baker, Lynn Johnson, Diana Baldwin, Maria Doering, Carol Morrison, Betty-Anne Gaetz, Ed Porter, Carol Smeraldo, Judy Arsenault, Kath Rutherford, Nora Gross, and introducing Joanne Solway, interpret the theme in their own way with some surprising results.
Featuring paintings, prints, watercolours and sculptures, touching on the theme of home literally and figuratively.
Come to the gallery to meet and toast the artists on May 14th at the free opening reception from 7-9 pm. Visit Visual Voice Fine Art at regular hours from May 16th to June 18th to view this great collection of artwork.

Read the artists bios here. ”

– Via Visual Voice Gallery

Sun, May 22nd from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm for $75+tax per person
ALL materials included.
Lunch $8+tax extra (soup & half sandwich), or bring your own.
PreRegistration Required call 902-843-9464

Join us for another fun day of printmaking at Visual Voice. Monotype is a very experimental and direct process of image creation through the use of printmaking equipment. You will not be creating an edition of multiples but instead remove ink from a plate with various rags, Q-tips, and brushes and found materials to create a single print. You may create up to 5 different images during this workshop.
You can come prepared with an image idea or spend the day experimenting with found materials with this much more direct and painterly printmaking technique. You do not need previous knowledge of printmaking to participate in this workshop. Please bring an apron or old t-shirt and any thin/flat found materials like dried leaves, thread, paper cut outs. If you can’t think of anything, not to worry, there will be materials supplied as well.
The instructor is artist and printmaker Maria Doering, who teaches at NSCAD and has taught 2 other workshops at Visual Voice. *Includes the use of a press!

Maria has been elected the incoming president of the Nova Scotia Printmakers, an informal body of professional printmakers based in Nova Scotia. Maria has been involved with the NS Printmakers since relocating to Nova Scotia in 2012, and spearheaded the 2015 members exchange and travelling exhibition, “A Sense of Belonging.” She takes over from outgoing president Bonnie Baker, who has led the association for four years and will remain on as treasurer.

Maria’s print “The Old Soul” was selected for exhibition at the International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2016 ROC at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.  Maria is one of two German artists represented at this juried exhibition.  Her print was one of 205 works selected from a pool of 1,240 submissions. The exhibition will open June until August 2016.

Results of final judging were announced in May and Maria finished 87th out of 1,240 entrants.

Maria’s print is now a part of the museum’s permanent print collection.

Registration for the Extended Studies Spring courses opens April 12th. Maria is offering a unique opportunity to approach screen printing in an intensive two week course. All 7 session will happen between June 6th and June 15th. So if you always wanted to take the class but never had enough time to commit to a 7 week course, try this boot camp approach to screen printing. It will be intense and a lot of fun. If you have taken the class before but want more practice, improve your technique and learn a few new things, again this is a great opportunity to do so.

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Did you always want to learn a fun artmaking technique but couldn’t commit to a 7 week course? Join us for this two week Screen Printing intensive!
Screen printing, also known as Silkscreen or Serigraphy, is a fun printing technique that does not take too much set up to use at home. In this course, you will learn how to screen print on paper through the use of hand-cut stencils as well as photo emulsion. The class will include exposure to different ways of stencil creation, mixing inks, registering colour layers and printing. Using NSCAD’s state of the art screen printing facility you will be completing two projects in this class.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: May 30, 2016

Course Code:
ESPR-0124 [Register Online]
Instructor:
Maria Doering
Site:
H360, 5163 Duke Street
Date / Time:
June 6-9 (Mon-Thurs) & June 13-15 (Mon-Wed) 6:30–9:30pm (7 sessions)

Tuition: $275.00 + HST

Maria will be back at Visual Voice Gallery in Truro to chase away the last remnants of winter!

Tues, Apr 19th from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm for $75+tax per person
ALL materials included.
Lunch $8+tax extra (soup & half sandwich), or bring your own.
PreRegistration Required call 902-843-9464

Carve and print your own colorful mini print with artist and printmaker Maria Doering.
You can come with your own spring inspired ideas for a 4×4 inch – 2 color print or find inspiration
during the workshop from many provided images.
What does spring mean to you? Tulips and Daffodils? Birds or the young leaves on trees?
Let’s push the last remnants of winter out of our lives with a fun workshop day at Visual Voice.
Whether you have experience in printmaking or not, there is always much to learn!

Maria’s exhibition Internal Dialogues is on the road. The exhibition is going to be up at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, Galleria exhibition space in Kelowna, British Columbia for the month of May. The exhibition contains 30 mixed media painting/printmaking combinations at sizes ranging from 48 x 36 inches all the way to 4×4 inches. Maria will be attending the opening reception on May 5th from 5-7 pm. If you are in the area please stop by.

Maria is giving an artist talk about past and present projects at St. Francis Xavier University April 2 at 6 pm. She will be showing digital images as well as bring actual print work to view. The talk is open to the public and everyone is welcome!

St. Francis Xavier University’s art department and the Society of Antigonish Printmakers have invited Maria to teach an all day relief printmaking workshop on April 2nd. Layers, Color & Relief will be exploring reductive and multi-block relief printing using Marmoleum and Komatex.

Maria is proud and excited to launch her new, customised online shop, accessible here. Maria had been using Etsy for her online store for several years, but with their evolution away from handmade and fine art goods her work has not fit into their direction for quite a while. After looking at a few options, the decision was made to build something from the ground up, and today it is ready to share with the world. Please check it out!

Maria will be teaching a relief print workshop at Visual Voice Fine Art in Truro, NS, on 9 February 2016, allowing anyone interested to print their own Valentine’s Day card. All materials are included for just $75 + tax.

The workshop runs 10am – 3:30pm at Visual Voice Fine Art, 128 King St., Truro, NS. Pre-registration is required by calling 902-843-9464.

On 24 November 2015, Maria will be giving an Artist Talk at her alma mater, Hartford Art School. Special thanks to assistant professor Jenni Friedman for setting up the visit, which will be Maria’s first trip back to HAS since graduating in 2007.

On 18 November 2015, Maria completed an artist presentation at UMass Amherst to a number of current printmaking students in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. Special thanks to lecturer and shop tech Mikael Petraccia for setting up the visit.

Early this year, Maria was invited to Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, Massachusetts, to complete a 2 week residency and to print editions of a number of large linocuts which she has been working on for the past couple of years. The residency is nearing completion and she has an entirely new body of work which will hopefully be shown over the next several years.

Zea Mays was established in 2000 and is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research center dedicated to the safest and most sustainable printmaking practices available. Maria specifically sought out Zea Mays for this residency as it is quite similar to the vision for the Maritime Centre for Contemporary Print, which she will be opening in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in the near future.