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Interview: Hayley Monroe (FAA AIR): printmaker: “Creation Through Destruction”

Artists often have to develop their mental eyes to transform their vision into process; sometimes, it also means thinking backwards, and in reverse. My guest is Hayle Monroe, a printmaker and painter who was engaged in a new process (for her) of “reductive linocut printmaking”, where as each layer of the print is created, it

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Interview: Andrew Robinson (FAA AIR): Linocut of Sharks Having Lunch

Art is often the task of removing everything that isn’t supposed to be there, and then reveling in the rest. My guest is Andrew Robinson, who joined me on a windy day to talk about his process of moving from digital to analog when creating his images — in this case, a project focusing on

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Interview: Ralph Simpson/Liz Demerson (FAA AIR): Mixing Media

Artists seem to love challenging themselves to doing something different — even stepping inside someone else’s shoes. My guests are Ralph Simpson (master basket-maker) and Liz Demerson (ceramicist), two of the artists in residence for this summer’s Fredericton Arts Alliance program. I met them at the Barracks, where they were busy working on new things

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Interview: Lori Quick (Remembering Biff Mitchell)

When a person is lost, their impact can be celebrated in the art — and memories — they left behind. My guest today is Lori Quick, the Exhibitions & Communications Coordinator at the UNB Centre for Learning Futures and the UNB Art Centre. She has spearheaded an exhibition of the works of beloved Fredericton artist

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The Lunchbox Interview: Remembering Biff Mitchell

The arts community lost a legendary figure in the past few years in Biff Mitchell, a photographer, writer and multidisciplinary artist — as well as a champion of the arts and the artists who make them. My guest today is Deanna Musgrave, one of Biff’s friends and a painter who’s portrait of Biff will be

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The Lunchbox Interview: Terry Graff (Avian Cyborgs)

My guest today is Terry Graff, a mixed-media artist who combines whatever he can get a hold of into complex, multi-layered, challenging artwork. He joins me to talk about an exhibition of his work, filling one gallery with works from his Avian Cyborgs series and the other gallery with a combination of different series, including his Covid Terror Series. Terry joins me to talk about his long history of art-making from combining found objects and found ideas, and his constant inspiration.

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