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 …
Slowing it down has allowed bigger ideas to simmer. Join us for an interview with Hudson Valley author and artist Larry Ruhl. At the heart, Larry is a storyteller with a gift for describing the brokenness of his own story in such a way that deeply resonates with people even across cultures. His writing consists …
“Grace your creative space with care and attention”. In this interview with Pakistani miniature painter Alina Akbar Malik you can hear her wisdom on caring for her soul and studio at home during confinement. Alina’s work pulls together meaning and symbol in finely brushed drawings and paintings. She was an artist in residence (AiR) during our …
Around the world, artists have had to make changes to their art practice and studio use, due to the global pandemic of Covid19. For many, this season has meant NOT being able to go to studios outside the home to make work. In Tetouan, Morocco, art residency directors and artists Jeff McRobbie and Rachel Pearsey …
Maintaining an art practice in these times means ‘pivoting’ Around the world, artists have had to make changes to their art practice and studio use, due to the global pandemic of Covid19. For many, this season has meant NOT being able to go to studios outside the home to make work. In Tetouan, Morocco, art …
Celebrating Five Years of Partnership with Tetouan In 2018, Green Olive Arts celebrated five years as an art residency in Tetouan, Morocco. We are amazed as we look back and see how this story has unfolded … and we want to share it with you! When Rachel Pearsey and I (Jeff McRobbie) began to brainstorm …
May 2017 artist in residence, Peter Mallen, shares some thoughts with Green Olive Arts about the artworks he has been making this month. To see the whole series and hear from Peter Mallen himself, you are invited to his exhibition reception this Friday night June 2, from 10pm to midnight. He will also be present for gallery …
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 …
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 …