The Cotton Factory

PERFORMANCE ARTIST - DANCE JULIA GARLISI Performing between 7 and 9 pm. Julia Garlisi has been performing with Dancetheatre David Earle since 2003. She is a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre Professional Training Program. Along with being a Senoir Dance Artist of Dancetheatre David Earle (DtDE) she has the pleasure of working with numerous Canadian companies, choreographers, film directors, and music producers. Independently, Julia has been fortunate to work with Denise Duric, Janet Johnson, Newton Moraes, Suzette Sherman, Lacey Smith, Toronto Heritage Dance, and The Niagara Dance Company. Choreographically, her work has been commissioned for Guelph Dance Festival, Stratford Spring Works Indie Theatre & Art Festival, DtDE, The Suzuki String School, Dusk Dances Hamilton, and Internationally (Austria, Germany, Italy) for the SIBA Ballet Workshop Gala Performance Tour.

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PARTICIPATING GALLERY:

Casino Artspace is a Hamilton based community of makers and artists founded in January 2015. Our collaborative community began with 10 members and features 16 members currently. Casino is a 5000 square foot warehouse that is host to shared manufacturing facilities, individual studio space, a professional meeting area, project spaces, photo documentation space, and a curated gallery. Casino members maintain individual practices while working on collaborative projects and events.

Since our inception we have been an active part of the Hamilton community participating in events at Supercrawl, The Cotton Factory, Music festivals and local venues and galleries. We have also been invited to participate in events beyond the city at such locations as the Toronto waterfront, and the AGO. In addition, Casino presents in house gallery shows on a generally monthly basis. Our programming has also included workshops, video shoots, art talks, screenings, live music, and other experimental events.

Our mandate is to cultivate an exciting, supportive community of artists, engaging with our community and helping to further one another’s independent practices within a multifaceted, opportunity rich space.

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Come and do some printing with Smokestack & All Sorts Press at Factory Frost!

All Sorts Press is owned and operated by Sara Froese in Hamilton, Ontario and specializes in producing handcrafted high-quality printed matter using a human-powered Chandler & Price platen printing press from 1910. Combining the quality and beauty of antique equipment and traditional printing with current design and technology, letterpress creates a uniquely tactile product different from any other type of printing. Each sheet is fed by hand, each rotation of the press propelled by foot.

Smokestack is an art-focused production studio located at The Cotton Factory in Hamilton, ON. Owned and operated by brothers Laine & Jonathan Groeneweg, the studio rooted in both traditional and contemporary print practices. Smokestack specializes in printing artist editions and fine-art digital printing one artist at a time.

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PARTICIPATING ARTIST PROFILE #13

Laine Groeneweg is Hamilton based printmaker. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in a number of private and public collections. He is constantly drawing from a number of influences, but narrative is certainly a common thread that runs through all of Laine’s work. Technique and technical approach also plays an important factor in the kinds of image that he creates. Using a particular method of printmaking has opened up new and exciting possibilities for different kinds of image making. In his most recent work, Laine has been playing with form and space to create simple representations & narratives.

Laine received his BFA from York University in 2004 and subsequently trained at Fondazione Il Bisonte Per Lo Studio Dell’Arte Grafica in Florence, Italy for printmaking specialization. He is the founder of Smokestack Studio and is the studio technician at Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts.

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