For the last 2 weeks of class, the lovely Gyu has returned, this time to teach us the art of Printmaking. We have been working on linocut, woodcut and etching, making limited edition prints. Printmaking has been a popluar method of art making in the Inuit culture since the 1950's. In many printshops throughout Nunavut, the work is divided between: the Artists, who draw the original image; the Carvers, who carve the image into stone or lino; and the Printers, who ink the plates and make the final prints. In our case, we have doing all three steps in the process and have gotten some great results. A few of the prints will be entered in the BMO 1st Art competition, which is an annual nation wide-art competetion for post-secondary students in every privince and territory.
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