Sustain Portfolio Exchange
In 2015, United Nations member states adopted a plan of action that includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim to address global issues and work towards creating a better future for all.
Through this portfolio exchange, as part of the Mid American Print Council Conference, each artist is creating an inventive and nuanced print work that is inspired by one of the 17 SDGs. Artists are imagining what a future would look like if their goal is achieved. They are considering ways in which individuals can contribute to sustainable practices in meaningful ways. They are considering how gender, race, class, religion, ability, geographic location, and socioeconomic status affects how one experiences the challenges addressed through the SDGs in differing and complex ways. Artists are considering how the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will require both resistance and revolution. The prints and project will be complete during 2021 in advance of exhibition at the Mid America Print Conference in 2022. This project is curated by Heather Leier and includes with work of Laura Bigger, Mitch Califoux and Madison Dewar, Brett Colley, Christeen Francis, Jonathan S. Green, Susanna Harris, Emily Hayes, Jill Ho-You, Kim Huyhn, Maggie Oakes, Johnny Plastini, Hailey Quick, Nurgul Rodriguez, Tava Tedesco,Wei Wang, Michael Whitehead, and Yi Lu Xing.
In 2015, United Nations member states adopted a plan of action that includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim to address global issues and work towards creating a better future for all.
Through this portfolio exchange, as part of the Mid American Print Council Conference, each artist is creating an inventive and nuanced print work that is inspired by one of the 17 SDGs. Artists are imagining what a future would look like if their goal is achieved. They are considering ways in which individuals can contribute to sustainable practices in meaningful ways. They are considering how gender, race, class, religion, ability, geographic location, and socioeconomic status affects how one experiences the challenges addressed through the SDGs in differing and complex ways. Artists are considering how the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will require both resistance and revolution. The prints and project will be complete during 2021 in advance of exhibition at the Mid America Print Conference in 2022. This project is curated by Heather Leier and includes with work of Laura Bigger, Mitch Califoux and Madison Dewar, Brett Colley, Christeen Francis, Jonathan S. Green, Susanna Harris, Emily Hayes, Jill Ho-You, Kim Huyhn, Maggie Oakes, Johnny Plastini, Hailey Quick, Nurgul Rodriguez, Tava Tedesco,Wei Wang, Michael Whitehead, and Yi Lu Xing.
Collaboration with Meg Pohlod
Through this collaborative print practice Meg Pohlod and Heather Leier exchange work with one another over international borders. Pohlod is based in Oakland, California, USA, while Leier lives in Calgary, Alberta Canada. In each of their individual art practices, Leier and Pohlod seek to understand their individual embodied trauma. Through this collaboration, they are speculating that their individual narratives will have more strength if told in concert and that the work may be easier to engage with emotionally when the labour of creative production is shared. They believe that their experiences, goals, and visions for futures are too complex to be streamlined into single minded expressions, and in so seek so develop more complex visual languages together that would not be possible without one another.
Through this collaborative print practice Meg Pohlod and Heather Leier exchange work with one another over international borders. Pohlod is based in Oakland, California, USA, while Leier lives in Calgary, Alberta Canada. In each of their individual art practices, Leier and Pohlod seek to understand their individual embodied trauma. Through this collaboration, they are speculating that their individual narratives will have more strength if told in concert and that the work may be easier to engage with emotionally when the labour of creative production is shared. They believe that their experiences, goals, and visions for futures are too complex to be streamlined into single minded expressions, and in so seek so develop more complex visual languages together that would not be possible without one another.
Women Memory and Psychological Scapes
Women, Memory and Psychological Scapes was a portfolio project curated by Meg Pohlod and myself in conjunction with the 2018 Altered Landscapes conference hosted by Southern Graphics Council International. Through the organization and dissemination of this project, we aimed to support the work of women artists and underrepresented concepts within the discipline of printmaking. Centred on the production of print works that respond to notions of trauma and its impact on the psyche, artists exchanged works that embodied their personal narratives of resilience. This project was supported by research funding from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and the University of Calgary's Centre for Research in the Fine Arts.
Artists Included: Heather Leier, Meghan Pohlod, Grace Sippy, Marilene Oliver, Angela Snieder, Tracy Templeton, Jacqueline Barrett, Carrie Lingscheit, Winnie Daulbaugh, Allison Rosh, Heather Lee Birdsong, Raeleen Keo, Darian Goldin Stahl, Danielle Burns, and Myken Mcdowell.
Women, Memory and Psychological Scapes was a portfolio project curated by Meg Pohlod and myself in conjunction with the 2018 Altered Landscapes conference hosted by Southern Graphics Council International. Through the organization and dissemination of this project, we aimed to support the work of women artists and underrepresented concepts within the discipline of printmaking. Centred on the production of print works that respond to notions of trauma and its impact on the psyche, artists exchanged works that embodied their personal narratives of resilience. This project was supported by research funding from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and the University of Calgary's Centre for Research in the Fine Arts.
Artists Included: Heather Leier, Meghan Pohlod, Grace Sippy, Marilene Oliver, Angela Snieder, Tracy Templeton, Jacqueline Barrett, Carrie Lingscheit, Winnie Daulbaugh, Allison Rosh, Heather Lee Birdsong, Raeleen Keo, Darian Goldin Stahl, Danielle Burns, and Myken Mcdowell.
*Portfolio exchanges are foundationally about the exchange and dissemination of cultural material between producers, and often operate as knowledge mobilization practices outside of the traditional exhibition site. Typically, portfolio exchanges are thematic and involve a specific number of artists who are peer reviewed (juried or curated) for participation. Each artist produces a print and editions (or impressions) of that print to the number of people involved in the exchange. The organizer then collates the prints and distributes them to the artists, so that each artist retains a print from each participant.