Technology once used to produce commercial art can gracefully retire to make an impression as higher art.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Scott McAllister, an artist exploring the use of a heavy-metal letterpress device to make art that is explicitly reproduceable and shareable. Scott muses about what attracted him to this physical medium, and how he wants to use the idea of currency to explore the current topic of the summer challenge: the river.
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A project developed by a group of four St. Thomas University Social Work students (including Natalia Martinez, Emma Kilpatrick, Andrew Daniels and Taylor Newman) was called Hidden Faces of Poverty: Stories Untold. The primary focus of the project was the Household Income Policy. However, at the public event they hosted it was suggested by attendees that the current system should eventually be replaced by a more equitable manner of assisting people.
Art should be a lifelong pursuit for most people — even if it isn’t likely to become a livelihood. 
Sometimes it’s a matter of changing the scale to really see something for the art it is.