Catching up on incomplete works & remembering Morocco. Canadian printmaker and founder of Zocalo art center, Claire Lemay speaks of focusing on completing past works and using different processes to produce new ones until she can get back to the engraving studio. This post is part of a series of interviews with former Artists in …
Time has slowed down and that’s great for me! Quebec printmaker and teacher Céline Goudreau talks in this interview, about how confinement has opened opportunity for new pathways into her printmaking. Celine spent time at Green Olive Arts in Fall 2019 for a group residency with three other printmaker friends whom she has known for …
Holding a schedule, remembering Tetouan & enjoying the garden! In this interview with printmaker and painter Cathy Weiss you’ll hear how her time in Tetouan, Morocco has continued to influence her art and how she has maintained creative community. This post is part of a series of interviews with former Artists in Residence at Green …
A scientist faces the reality of a virus with art. Enjoy this interview with Moroccan artist Inaam Obtel for her perspective on making art at home during confinement where she is in France. Inaam draws much of her inspiration and soul from her studies in science and work as a nurse before she began to pursue …
These 6 artists – Niccy Pallant, Rabia Farooqui, Marthe Vary, Mark Lesser, Hafdis Helgadottir, and Tamadher Al Fahal – gathered in Tetouan from 6 different countries for 1 month to explore the traditional craftsmanship of Morocco and to create new work in response to all they experienced and learned. The Open Studios Night on April …
One of the benefits of coming to work in the studios of Green Olive Arts is that you don’t have to bring your whole studio and all your supplies and tools with you when you travel! We’ve got you covered! Our studio is fully equipped with many resources, available free of charge to our artists in residence. …
Check out the latest studio improvements at GOA With the successful conclusion of our first crowd funding campaign in the Spring, we were able to make some big studio improvements this Summer in how we serve artists in our Tetouan studios. We’re eager to share these studio improvements with YOU … and the rest of the …
Here’s a little peek into the first steps in making our new Green Olive Arts embossed leather bookmarks, which we are designing and then having local Moroccan artisans create for us. Be sure to check back in for future posts about the rest of the process. And if you would like one of these custom bookmarks …
The Green Olive Arts team is super excited to announce our first crowd funding campaign with indigogo.com … it’s a community thing, come on in and join the excitement! We are going to add a printmaking press and related equipment to the studios so that printmakers and other artists in residence can experiment and explore beyond …