PUBLIC PICNIC TABLE PRINTS
Picnic tables, plywood, ink, kozuke paper, 30” x 72” (woodblock and prints), 2018-2019

Public Picnic Table Prints is an collaborative, outdoor, printmaking project created by exploring places of exchange— uniting public spaces, picnic tables and the social discipline of printmaking. Over the course of 4 workshops, more than 60 newcomers worked together to create three large-scale woodcuts based upon their own unique experience with places and the site of the ISANS Community Garden— Glen Garden.

Lead by artist and educator, Charley Young, participants developed imagery and carved the woodblocks on site. Woodblocks were inked up and printed slowly by hand during Nocturne: Art at Night festival at the MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning. This work was presented at the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University and culminated with a multi-cultural thanksgiving picnic.

This project was a part of Welcome to this Place, a nation-wide arts initiative presented by Mabelle Arts in partnership with Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia.

This project involved many hands. Many thanks to:

  • All participants for their dedication and enthusiasm towards this project.

  • “Welcome to this Place” Project Coordinator, Eryn Foster

  • Melissa King, Heather Asbil and Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia

  • All of those and those who provided language interpretation.

  • Thanks to the helping hands of Luke Smith, Freyja Caskie, Isa Wright, Hannah Drake, Chris Parsons, Alicia Hunt, Jenny Shi, Ericka Walker, Emily Hathaway, Nat Dow, Andrew Thorne, Will Vandermeulen, Michael Fuller, Kenny Kam, Art Bikers, Wonder’neath Art Society and the MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning.

  • Exhibition and Picnic Documentation thanks to Katarina Marinic