Freshly Pressed, an exhibit of prints by Elephant Grass Printmaker members runs Oct 14-Nov 18 at the Flora Hall Art Gallery, King’s Theatre, 209 St George Street, Annapolis.
Join us at the Opening Sunday Oct 19, 6-7pm for our RAFFLE DRAW where six prizes are to be won by lucky ticket holders!
FRESHLY PRESSED! illustrates a wide variety of creative printmaking techniques with linocut, litho, etching, chine-collé, monoprint, solarplate, cyanotype, letterpress, and more! Come see how EGPS members explore the fine art of printmaking, both traditional and contemporary.
Some of the EGPS members showing in this exhibition: Janel Warmington, Lorna Mulligan, Katie Prescott, Charlott Zimmermann, Bonnie Baker, Eva McCauley, Micheline Gushue, Basma Kavanagh, Sheri Hancock, Susan Tooke, Catherine Ewer and Julie Rosvall.
The gallery is open during its Box Office Hours: Tues-Fri 10am-3pm AND during live performances and film showings.
Our first workshop in the Living Histories & Storied Places project took place last weekend at a local cafe and community hotspot in the village of Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. It was a huge success with plenty of folks of all ages participating! Many created their own simple relief prints and then expressed themselves with personally chosen words in letterpress. As each visual story was revealed at the press, people, sometimes complete strangers, traded personal stories with one another in a relaxed, fun space. Lorna Mulligan and Katie Prescott, EGPS instructors, guided this casual workshop and had a blast helping everyone discover the joys of printmaking!
The full schedule of workshops is complete, with our next session on August 23, 2025. Free for all. No registration required. Just show up and tell your story.
August 23, 10am-1pm Rosa M. Harvey Middleton and Area Library 45 Gates Street, Middleton, Nova Scotia
September 27, 10am-1pm Bridgetown Area Library, 38 Queen Street, Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
October 25, 11am-2pm Annapolis Royal Library, 143 Ritchie Street, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
November 23, 2-5pm Oakdene Centre Bear River, 1913 Clementsvale Road, Bear River
Dec. 13, 1-4pm EGPS Studio, 240 St. George Street, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Try something new! Elephant Grass Printmakers’ Society (EGPS) is hitting the road! Bringing printmaking and its possibilities directly to neighbouring communities in Annapolis County with a project called Living Histories & Storied Places. Like many arts organizations, EGPS is re-imagining its role in the community beyond providing a space for artists to make their work. We want to find ways to bring members of diverse communities together, share our experiences, and shape these into art by offering free workshops and making new connections. Our first two gatherings are already on the calendar, and stay tuned for dates leading up to our December event at the Elephant Grass Printmakers space in Annapolis Royal.
Hands-On Printmaking Activities for Everyone
July 27th
Join Elephant Grass Printmakers for letterpress & simple printmaking at Bee’s Knees General Store and Bakery. Express yourself!
Time: 2-5 pm Location: Bee’s Knees General Store and Bakery, 498 Main Street., Lawrencetown, NS
Instructors: Katie Prescott and Lorna Mulligan
August 23rd
Letterpress & textile relief printmaking, create art at the Middleton and Area library. Try something new!
Time: 10am to 1pm Location: Middleton & Area Library, 45 Gates Avenue, Middleton, NS Instructors: Julie Rosvall and Katie Prescott
More dates and locations are being added soon, so keep checking back. Visit us @egpcprintmakers on Instagram or Elephant Grass Printmakers on Facebook.
This relationship-building project gives us the opportunity to transform individual artist connections with nearby communities into deeper connections with the larger EGPS group. We believe a free printmaking workshop (with snacks!) is the perfect way. Each gathering, EGPS will come together in a community space, provide tea and snacks, two hours of printmaking instruction and play, and an hour for chatting and brainstorming future projects and prospects with participants. A final session on letterpress printing will be held at the EGPS studio in Annapolis Royal for anyone who wishes to participate, using less portable equipment, like metal type, antique advertising, and other images, and the platen press used to print from these materials.
This project is supported by Arts Nova Scotia’s Artists in Communities program.
The 2025 Saturday Open House season has begun! Join your EGPS printmakers for a day of inky fun and hands on demos on Saturday May 17, 11am -2pm at our studio, 240 St. George Str., 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal.
Sheri Jean Hancock will be showing the magical effects of a rainbow roll on a relief print. Or print your own mini letterpress takeaway plus on one of our letterpresses.
Bonnie Baker of Bonnie Baker Studio will be demonstrating how to do polaroid lifts in her adjourning studio.
Are you thinking about a printmaking activity or a project in the works in your future? You are welcome to come by, check out the different ways you can print at the studio or be involved as a member or just hang out for the conversation. So why not drop in after your market shopping and play with us?
Boots on the GroundRainbow roll with multiple colours on the same roller.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some printmaking experience. In this four-week class participants will learn the basics—and move beyond them—as we explore the possibilities of linocut, a versatile and accessible relief printmaking medium. Learn how to carve expressively, work with a range of papers and inking techniques, and get comfortable with the etching press. The possibilities are endless!
Basma is a Lebanese-Canadian artist whose multidisciplinary practice includes writing, drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, textiles, performance and land-based explorations. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, in the Sipekne’katik region of Mi’kma’ki.
$140 (members) $165 (non-members) Suitable for 18yrs. and up.
Register by contacting elephantgrassprint@gmail.com Payment via e-transfer, cash, or cheque. *Become an Associate Member ($50), get the workshop discount and future studio time for $20/day.
240 St. George Street, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal
Follow us @egpcprintmakers or on Elephant Grass Printmakers Society FB page
ALL INKED UP! We are delighted to present our exhibit of finely crafted prints from Elephant Grass Printmakers Society illustrating the art of creative printmaking. With linocut, woodcut, etching, papercutting, collage, paper folding, monoprinting, tetrapak, cyanotype and letterpress processes, EGPS members explore the tradition of making artworks on paper and cloth the slow way, by hand, sweat and imagination.
The exhibit runs Sept 1- Oct 15 at Sissiboo Cafe and Gallery in Bear River, NS, until it moves to theSissiboo Cafe in Annapolis Royal, Oct. 16- Nov 30.
A few sneak peeks of the diversity of print techniques employed by our members. The images are only a small selection of what is in the show and really doesn’t do justice to seeing the prints in person. If you can visit, it is so much more satisfying.
Members showing in ALL INKED UP! are Janel, Warmington, Shela Breau, Lorna Mulligan, Katie Prescott, Charlott Zimmermann, Constance Whittaker, Bonnie Baker, Eva MacCauley, Micheline Gushue and Julie Rosvall.
Print a seasonal gift tag on a vintage letterpress or a card with linocut with our members. Check out printing a copperplate etching on our printing press. Our members have a diverse set of printmaking chops we love to show off.
Find out if printmaking is a skill you are interested in developing in 2023. Or just come by to say hi. Sunday, November 6, 1-4pm, 240 St. George Street, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal.
Who doesn’t like getting art in the mail. We do so! Instead of our annual exhibit and sale we are having an online sale of original small prints, cards and artworks from $15 to $60 that we will ship anywhere in Canada for an additional flat fee of $5. (We’ll mail to outside of Canada at the going rate. Just ask.)
The sale runs from Oct. 26 until Nov. 16. Click on images for info and prices, send us a message to purchase or for inquiries. Works are being snapped up quickly.
Cash, cheques, e-transfers or Paypal accepted.
Also Check our facebook or instagram page, Elephant Grass Printmakers Society to see new works being added or to DM us. Click on images for price and info.
Reduction Lino Block Workshop with Laura MacDonald of Deep Hollow Print
April 7 Saturday to April 8 Sunday 10am to 4pm
$150 EGPC members, $160 non-members
Materials fee: $10 (includes lino block, inks, paper) payable to Laura
Reduction method is a printmaking technique when a multicolored print is made with the use of a single block, cutting away more and more of the image in between the printing of each colour/layer. Each layer necessarily fits inside the layer before it. The block is destroyed in the process and a true reprint can never be done.
In this 2-day workshop, you will learn the process of conceiving and executing a reduction print, and make your own on a tabletop Nolan proof press. Using mounted lino blocks, you will carve a two-layer reduction image. We will print them on scored cardstock so that you will have a 5×7 greeting card at the end.
Each workshop participant should bring their own lino-carving tool. 4×6″ type high linoblock and paper will be provided for $10 payable to the instructor. Type high lino blocks may also be printed by hand, on an etching press or on letterpress.
About Laura
Laura MacDonald is the owner/operator of Deep Hollow Print, an award-winning letterpress print shop in Kentville, NS. Laura learned the art of letterpress printing during her time at Gaspereau Press in Kentville, Nova Scotia and Hatch Show Print in Nashville, Tennessee. She prints on a 1930s-era Vandercook No. 3 cylinder press using antique wood type and original carved linoblocks. Deep Hollow Print specializes in gig posters, but is able to take on a range of custom letterpress orders, as well as digital graphic design work. See more of Laura’s work at www.deephollowprint.com
Advance Registration required as space is limited.
How to Register:use the contact form below
Fees payable at time of registration by etransfer or cheque payable to Elephant Grass print Collective
Once again Elephant Grass Printmakers presents a brand new portfolio of 8 hand pulled prints for sale. Keeping with our theme of the four Elements, Air took prominence for 2017’s. Seven Members along with Bob Hainstock, a long standing NS printmaker and painter and our guest artist, used a broad selection of printmaking techniques to create this delightful visual interpretation.
The sets sell for $125 for all 8 prints and will be for sale on our table at Annapolis Royal Farmers Christmas Market, Sat. Dec. 2, or purchase your set directly on our website. Christmas Special, buy both the Air and Water box set for $225 and double the joy. As long as supplies last! To take advantage of the Christmas Special, contact us by email so we can provide you with the discount.
Reduction Lino Block Workshop with Laura MacDonald of Deep Hollow Print
Elephant Grass Printmakers Society 