Founded in 2021 by Claire Lamarre-Niemi, Bootlegger Magazine was created to provide a space for emerging artists in Montreal to showcase their work without restrictions. Bootlegger Magazine is an effort to value creative youth beyond the confines of traditional art institutions. Guided by a playful, eclectic and contemporary vision, the magazine works to present a dynamic body of work. Bootlegger encompasses a variety of styles and mediums, focusing on those

Frantz Voltaire is currently president of the International Centre for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information (“Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne” (CIDIHCA)), which he founded in 1983. Throughout his career, he has made documentaries and published books and articles on Haitian and Afro-Canadian history. He is currently director of the Revue académique d’histoire haïtienne. The following is an edited transcript (translated from the original

  Filling Gaps is a speculative typeface that consists of reimagined Chinese ideograms which all have diverse visual forms, unique sounds, and tell a story of their creation. As a trans Teochew artist / activist / designer, Le Lin explores different ways in which typography can illustrate certain aspects of our lives, either through unlearning or relearning it. What are the origin stories of the words we use daily? How

ANNOUNCING the Montreal Printed Arts Festival – Festival des Arts Imprimés du Québec GRANDE Printed Art Fair Saturday May 21, free, noon – 7 pm WIP, 3487 Saint-Laurent – over 30 artists selling their prints directly to the public (See Facebook event here) – workshops and activiites for children, youth and the not-so-young interested in trying out artisanal printing – exhibits of amazing art prints running through to the end

Introduction Augmented reality is the effect of superimposing content over reality by viewing it through a mobile device, or special glasses or other screen. The effect only works if the viewing device knows how to identify a “target” and has an app installed which can then generate the related augmented reality content. Creating an augmented reality artwork is as simple as downloading an app that can relate an image of

The Montreal Printed Arts Festival Presents: Print Augmented, a Distroboto project Friday 12th, 2:00 – 3:30pm WIP (Work in Progress) – 3487 Saint-Laurent, 1st floor, free admission Facebook event After months of research and workshops exploring the potential for integrating augmented reality with printed art, we’re very excited to share the results with you during the Montreal Printed Arts Festival at the WIP! Montreal’s internationally reknowned expert in the field,

GRANDE Print Art Fair Montreal Printed Arts Festival April 13 – 14, 12h – 18h WIP (Work In Progress), 3487 St-Laurent (accessible), free admission Facebook Event The GRANDE Print Art Fair brings together more than 50 artists and organizations selling posters and printed art in the context of the Montreal Printed Arts Festival. Silkscreen prints, posters, letterpress, engravings, every form and every new trend in printed art will be on

Volume 1 MTL Art and the Book ARCMTL is proud to unveil the programme for its newest project, Volume 1 MTL : an Art Book Fair prefaced with a week full of presentations, workshops and discussions about artists’ books and books on art. This programme invites the curious to discover places and people that are at the core of artists’ book production in Montreal, and take in presentations of recent

Expo 67 : Avant Garde! at theCinémathèque québécoise, 335 de Maisonneuve E. (corner St-Denis), Montreal Vernissage and projections, May 19, 17h – 22h. Free ! Exhibit : May 19 – 31. Click here to see the Facebook Event. 50 years ago this month, Montreal hosted the largest gathering of avant-garde art and design ever seen! Expo 67 was the 20th century’s most successful World’s Fair, taking place during a time

Expo 67: Avant Garde! Vernissage, June 1, 17h – 21h; exhibit runs June 1 – 30 2017, Free admission. Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent. The event is part of the Suoni per il Popolo festival. Join the Facebook event! 50 years ago this month, Montreal hosted the largest gathering of avant-garde art and design ever seen! Expo 67 was the 20th century’s most successful World’s Fair, taking place during a

POSSIBLES merges art and civic engagement in the perspective of sustainable community development. Once a month throughout the year 2017, POSSIBLES will present the works of 12 artists from various art disciplines in collaboration with 12 creative partnerships in 12 unusual Montreal venues. Possibles 04 will present a new work by Shawn Cotton and Maude Nepveu-Villeneuve, printed by Les Créations de L’Abricot. Featuring readings and live printing! Free ! Thursday

ARCMTL is proud to be a part of the Contre-Culture : existenences et persistances conference.   Montreal’s davinci magazine, Counter-Culture and the Visual Arts 1975 / 2015 Saturday, October 17 at Artexte ( 2 Sainte-Catherine E., suite 301 ) From 15h à 16h: One Hour, One Book: davinci magazine (Montréal 1973-75) by Louis Rastelli, Director, Archive Montréal. From 16h – 17h: Round table: Counter-Culture and the Visual Arts, from 1975