MARTHA STREET
Martha Street Studio
11 MARTHA ST
(also known as) Manitoba Printmakers Association Inc.
10 – 5 Tuesday to Friday
Noon – 5 Saturdays
*closed Saturdays of long weekends
Unparalleled, accessible facilities and education in the print arts.NClosed Saturdays of long weekends
Webstore
askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca
204-779-6253.
Webstore
askmartha@printmakers.mb.ca
204-779-6253.
ACCESSIBILITY
Martha Street Studio is fully wheelchair accessible with automatic doors and a lift. 2 accessible gender-neutral washrooms are on the upper floor.
To April 7.
WOW MOM,
a duo show by Marlene Yuen (BC) and Vanessa Hall-Patch (BC).
Masks are required inside the building.
Snacks and refreshments will be available.
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Creating a new body of prints can feel very much like parenting: rewarding, messy, energizing, frustrating, colourful and repetitive. While working in a letterpress studio in the spring of 2020, Marlene Yuen discovered a student’s typographical letterpress proof that read WOW. When it was turned upside down, it read MOM. For Yuen and fellow artist and colleague, Vanessa Hall-Patch, the singular word contained a double meaning: WOW MOM.
Using a high volume of repeated prints, WOW MOM is a two-person exhibition by Marlene Yuen and Vanessa Hall-Patch, which investigates the repetitive labour taken on by parents, namely mothers. Mothering is one of the most essential labours that one can provide in society, yet it is an invisible form of work that is rarely given its due as skilled, multi-dimensional work. In creating a new series of prints specifically for Martha Street Studio, Yuen and Hall-Patch consider the parallels of parenting and printmaking.
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