Printed in PEI 

This exhibition features 40 prints selected from the print archive of the Printmakers Council of Prince Edward Island. This archive of nearly 300 prints on paper represents the diversity of work deposited by the artists who explored printmaking through the studio facilities and programs of the Printmakers Council between 1991 and 2006.

In 1990, largely through the initiative of Erica Rutherford, a group of artists interested in printmaking came together to discuss the possibilities of organizing printmaking workshops on PEI. Rutherford, who had been making prints at the Open Studio printshop in Toronto throughout the 1980s, had just renovated a former horse barn at her home in Pinette, PEI, to accommodate her own press and printmaking studio.  Erica and partner Ambika Gail Rutherford offered to host the workshops, and between 1991 and 1993 the Printmakers Council offered a series of week-long workshops by six highly regarded Canadian printmakers—many of whom Erica had met while working at Open Studio. By all accounts the workshops conducted by Jan Winton, Otis Tamasauskas, Anne Meredith Barry, Libby Hague, Harold Klunder and Lotti Thomas were a remarkable success and a welcome opportunity for Island artists to get together to discuss artistic practices, experiment with new printmaking techniques and make prints.

Artists

Anne Meredith Barry, Eveline Boulva, Lesley Dubey, Libby Hague, Elaine Harrison, Debra James Percival, Harold Klunder, Manuel Lau, Ann D. Lee, Karl MacKeeman, Patti Nicholson & Matt Pollard, Cecilia Oberholzer, Libby Oughton, Nigel G. Roe, Ambika Gail Rutherford, Erica Rutherford, Madeleine Samson, Terry Dunton Stevenson, Otis Tamasauskas, Christine Trainor, Richard Vickerson, and Hilda Woolnough.