SUBMIT + ARTISTS + PRESS + LINKS + SUPPORT + CONTACT
PROJECTS BY LOOKING FOR LOVE POSTER ARTISTS + FRIENDS
http://www.darylvocat.com/index.htm and http://www.darylvocat.com/propaganda.htm
Daryl Vocat's websites, with loads of information about his projects, writing, how-to's and his infestant propaganda site.
http://www.populust.ca/ladylady/ and http://www.populust.ca/cinde/index.htm
Megan Morman and Cindy Baker often collaborate on projects in crafts and performance. Both are visiting Calgary this Fall to launch new projects of interest to performance/intervention art fans everywhere!
http://www.considerationliberationarmy.ca/ and http://fingerinthedyke.ca/
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's latest project, The Consideration Liberation Army, and Finger in the Dyke, the go-to source for information about the work of these two beloved Canadian performance artists.
http://www.performingcraft.com/
A great project by artist-researchers and curators by Shannon Stratton and Judy Leemann. Working across the realms of writing, exhibition, and public dialogue, Gestures of Resistance is all about self-conscious crafting, contextual mischief-making, and cultural re-scripting!
http://heart-beats.ca/
A photoblog by artist and designer Karen Campos.
http://www.shotgun-review.ca/
Shotgun-Review.ca is an online journal with reviews and pictures of events, projects and exhibitions in Alberta, Canada edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch
http://www.internationalsnackconsortium.org/
International Snack Consortium is a site of snack writing by Anthea Black and Jonathan Middleton with contributions from international snack correspondents.
http://www.postqueerproject.com
The PostQueerProject is a postcard-based queer art experiment, always seeking written or pictorial accounts of queer identity, experience, troubles, stories, vices, epiphanies, frustrations, and beliefs.
http://www.fyrefly.ualberta.ca/
Camp fYrefly is Canada's largest leadership retreat for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified, two-spirited, queer, and allied (LGBTTQ&A) youth; a utopic summer weekend in Edmonton Alberta.
PROJECT SUPPORT
Support independent queer arts! Each of the silkscreened public posters is also available as a limited edition (1/10 or 1/20) hand silkscreened poster on BFK Rives, and we raise money for artist fees through the sales of these editions. For more info please contact us at: hello@lookingforloveinallthewrongplaces.ca
www.albertaprintmakers.ca
Alberta Printmakers Society and Artist Proof Gallery is an open studio printmaking facility and gallery in Calgary.
Alberta Printmakers Society and Artist Proof Gallery
P.O. Box 6821 Station D
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 2E7
403 287 1056
alberta.printmakers@yahoo.ca
www.snapartists.com
SNAP Gallery is a registered, not-for-profit, organization devoted to the art of printmaking. Located beside the historic Red Strap Building, SNAP is a multi-use facility that serves as an exhibition space, education centre, and a printshop facility, open to all members of the public.
Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP)
10309-97 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T5M 0M1
780 423 1492
snap@snapartists.com
http://www.banffcentre.ca/va/facilities/print.asp
Creative residencies in the Visual Arts department of The Banff Centre provide the luxury of time and space for the artist to create new works, research innovative ideas and experiment with different techniques and modes of production. Banff Centre's excellent printmaking studio is headed up by Wendy Tokaryk, Print & Paper Facilitator.
http://www.exposurefestival.ca/
Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival is an initiative of five-term City of Edmonton Councillor Michael Phair. The Festival runs from November 14 - 22, 2008 and includes exhibtitions, lectures, performances and parties. By creating environments where artists can explore queer culture and take risks, the festival cultivates creative synergies, thought-provoking displays, social commentary, and new possibilities for inhabiting sexuality and gender.
program@exposurefestival.ca
http://www.rubyarts.org/index2.html
Ruby(Arts) is a non-profit artist-run internet project. Ruby's primary purpose is to support and foster innovative and critical uses of the internet as a medium for contemporary art. To this end, Ruby accepts and solicits works from artists, writers, curators and students, which operate within the specific context of the internet and generally advance the dialogue of contemporary art.
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ww.affta.ab.ca
Alberta Foundation for the Arts provides grants to contemporary artists and arts organizations in Alberta. Funding for the first season of looking for love in all the wrong places (2007) was generously provided by the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
INFO FOR ARTISTS ON SILKSCREENING
For more silkscreening know-how, check out Shannon Gerard's tutorial for No Media Kings at: http://nomediakings.org/doityourself/howto_silkscreen_posters_and_shirts.html
For a wheatpaste recipe:
http://www.solarcooking.org/wheatpaste.htm
image credit: 24 Hour Anti-Racist Zone photographed in Kensington, June 2007; QUEER REVOLT and french postcard ladies by Erin Legare and Anthea Black; postered image of Fraternity: Diaspora, NYC; Tisha B'av by Tobaron Waxman from LTTR Number 4 Do You Wish To Direct Me?
