Printmaking Apprenticeship Training

Interested in learning more about the printmaking medium, and co-facilitating a series of community printmaking workshops this summer?

During this paid, 5-week opportunity, visual artist Khadijah Morely will provide hands on training on a variety of printmaking methods. Upon completion of the 5-week training period, the Apprentice will assume the role as Assistant Facilitator, to support the Khadijah in the facilitation of a series of community printmaking workshops taking place at Nia Centre during summer 2023.

What You’ll Receive

• The Apprentice will be paid $21/hr for training and workshop co-facilitation
• Hands on training in a variety of printmaking mediums
• Hands on workshop co-facilitation experience
• Photographic documentation of training and co-facilitation work

Applications Period:

April 24 – May 21, 2023

Interview Period

May 29 – 31, 2023 (held virtually via Zoom)

Training Period (applicants are expected to be available for all training dates)

• Thursday, June 15, 6 – 8pm
• Thursday, June 22, 6 – 8pm
• Thursday, June 29, 6 – 8pm
• Thursday, July 6, 6 – 8pm
• Thursday, July 13, 6 – 8pm

Workshop Co-Facilitation Period (specific dates TBC):

• July – September

Eligibility

• Black / Afro-Diasporic emerging artists aged 18 – 29 years old
• Black / Afro-Diasporic emerging artists with an ongoing visual arts practice
• Live in the Toronto area
• Be available to attend and participate in all training and workshop dates

Applicants will be required to respond to the Call for Applications, and share 2 – 3 examples of their artistic work. Priority will be given to applicants with an express interest in learning more about the printmaking medium, and developing a community arts practice through gaining experience in arts facilitation and arts education.

Questions? Email us at info@niacentre.org with the subject line: Printmaking Training Program.

About the Facilitator

Khadijah Morley (she/her) is a Toronto based artist and educator with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and minor in Printmaking from OCAD University.
Khadijah’s work is autobiographical, informed by her lived experience as a Black woman in Canada born of Jamaican immigrants. She creates work from a Black-feminist framework; prioritizing subjectivity as a counter-narrative. Through the process of etching and relief printing, she depicts Afro-surrealist themes where dreams, magic, and reality converge. Khadijah has been featured on CBC Arts, and has been a recipient of the Fellowship Program at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California. Website | Instagram

This program is a City of Toronto Cultural Hotspot Signature Project