Big Print steamrolls through Steveston, September 3 and 4
Artists from Dona Nabata to Atheana Picha have designed and cut works for the giant print process
Vancouver artist Richard Tetrault mans the steamroller.
Malaspina Printmakers presents Big Print at Steveston on September 3 and 4 from 10 am to 5 pm (at 100- 4300 Bayview Street, in the Imperial Parking Lot)
THE SUMMER TREAT is back: the chance to watch printmaking with a full-size steamroller.
In Malaspina Printmakers’ annual art event, happening this year in Steveston, a series of four-by-eight prints are pulled right off the pavement. The printing press? An industrial-size construction roller. Taking place in a parking lot on Imperial Landing, seven different prints—designed and cut by artists Mariko Ando, Dona Nabata, Atheana Picha, Kinichi Shigeno, Debra Sparrow, Cyler Sparrow-Point/Isaiah Sparrow, and Richard Tetrault/Gerald Pedros—are being inked and printed, three times each.
The team of professional and novice printmakers will make this both a learning process and an exciting collaborative experience.
Working primarily with a team of Japanese Canadian and Indigenous artists, this project will build on the past success of Big Print Chinatown 2016.
The resulting prints will be displayed at 100-4300 Bayview, along with a selection of prints pulled from previous steamroller projects.
A print by participating artist Dona Nabata, 2022
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