Emma Bound
Exhibition Dates: July 15 – August 20, 2016
Reception: Tuesday, July 26, 7 – 9 pm
Location: Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery, 813 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon, SK
This exhibition showcases the eclectic, imaginative and energetic work of the 2016 EMMA International Collaboration participants and invited guest artists. Featuring work in many media, including wood, fibre, ceramics, mixed media and visual art, it is a vibrant show that the whole family can enjoy.
EMMA Auctions
Ness Creek
Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Hours: 4 – 6 pm
Location: Ness Creek Festival Site, Big River, SK • Directions
Saskatoon
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016
Hours:
• Doors open at 5 pm
• Silent auction from 5 – 7 pm
• Live auction begins at 7 pm
Location: Holy Family Cathedral, 123 Nelson Road, Saskatoon, SK
These art auctions are free and open to the public. See what artistic magic occurred at the weeklong 2016 EMMA International Collaboration. This could be the beginning of your art collection! Collaborative artwork created by international, national and local artists. Proceeds help fund future EMMA Collaborations.
Linda Duvall
www.emmacollaboration.com/artists/linda-duvall
In one sentence describe the piece you are submitting to Emma Bound.
The photograph On the Road to Emma documents part of a series that grieves for various deceased animals found along Saskatchewan roads.
Tell us about your creative process – in general and/or specifically for your Emma Bound piece.
My work exists at the intersection of collaboration, intimate performances and research. My hybrid practice addresses recurring themes of connection to place, grief and loss, and the many meanings of exclusion and absence.
What currently inspires you and which other artists do you admire and why?
I am inspired by works that engage multiple communities, or that exist outside of a white cube. I enjoy the work of Diane Borsato, Suzanne Lacy, and Theaster Gates, mainly because of their broad and curious approaches to their lives generally.
Where are you from and what do you love and/or hate about that place?
I live in Saskatoon. My favourite things about Saskatoon are that you can get anywhere in a few minutes, that there are lots of good coffee shops, and that I have a sense that I know most of the community, which I really don’t.
Tell us if this is your first time or 10th time attending Emma International Collaboration. What are you looking forward to?
This is my first time at Emma International Collaboration. I’m looking forward to working with people who actually make objects.
What does “making collaborative art work” mean to you? Is it a struggle to “let go” at times?
I often work with other people, but rarely physically on the same object. I’m not sure how I will react to that.
BONUS – Give us a quote or sentiment to live by
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
Mary Romanuck
www.emmacollaboration.com/artists/mary-romanuck
In one sentence describe the
piece you are submitting to Emma Bound
It is a birdhouse.
Tell us about your creative process – in general and/or specifically for your Emma Bound piece.
I discovered the log when cutting firewood and saved it for several years. When I was given the antler tips I thought of that log.
Where are you from?
I was raised in the southern prairies and left the treeless for the treed.
Which other artists do you admire?
Two Canadian artists I admire are David Milne and Anita Rocamora.
Rachel Bliss
www.emmacollaboration.com/artists/rachel-bliss
In one sentence, describe Emma.
Violently intense Canadian collaboration.
Tell us about your creative process – in general and/or specifically for yourEmma Bound piece.
My painting process involves a lot of adding and subtracting in multiple layers of oil, acrylic, and graphite, with polyurethane between layers to retain transparency.
What currently inspires you and which other artists do you admire and why?
I paint what is around me and inside me.
Dead: Kathe Kollwitz, Horace Pippin, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, Marino Marini, Francis Bacon, Rogier van der Weyden, Wharton Esherick, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Blue Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Marvin Gaye, Edith Piaf, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando, Fred Rodgers, Muhammad Ali, and Tina Modotti.
Living: Sue Coe, Judith Schecter, Tony Fitzpatrick, Charlie Bliss, Arthur Ganson, Satoshi Fujinuma, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Ida Maria, and Yolanda Wisher.
Where are you from and what do you love and/or hate about that place?
Working as an artist and single parent raising three children in the middle of a North Philadelphia “Federal-Empowerment Zone” has influenced, inspired, and instructed my work over the last 30 years. Central to my work is the desire to communicate the richness and complexity of life in my neighborhood. Creating a record of the characters, objects, and activities which animate the poor and often neglected Kensington. In an attempt to observe, reflect, and respond to life’s trials and tribulations, I confront head-on the love and violence, the joyfulness and sorrow, that infuse my Kensington community and make up our varied experiences.
Tell us if this is your first time or 10th time attending Emma International Collaboration. What are you looking forward to?
I think this is my fourth time. I’m looking forward to making really cool stuff, (mostly containers and toys or other things people can touch, hold, wear, or move), with many different mint artists.
What does “making collaborative art work” mean to you? Is it a struggle to “let go” at times?
Collaborative to me is a call and response. Working with intention, but not attachment about the outcome with a partner or a team of people who see things completely different from myself so I can learn a new way of seeing. It can be a struggle for me to let go at times of my part in any particular piece, mostly because I always want to make it better than what I feel my skill set is.
BONUS – Give us a quote or sentiment to live by.
Being mean isn’t nice… in fact, it’s mean.