Holiday Gift Guide 2022

Here is your Holiday Gift Guide 2022 to help you do your shopping for loved ones this holiday season. Scroll down to find ideas for the person you are shopping for. These are all items I sell. Some of the links are affiliate links meaning I get a small percentage of the sale but the price is the same regardless of whether or not you use my link. 

Holiday Gift Guide 2022

Holiday Gift Guide 2022 - for Mom

• An art commission - you can read more about commissions here -please email me if you are interested in getting a commission done. My deadline for Christmas is November 5th 2022 for local people in the Waterloo Region. 

• Daisy wooden wall art 

• Original cyanotype artwork

Holiday Gift Guide - for Dad

• Cedar card

Holiday Gift Ideas - for Grandma 

• Daisy cyanotype set of cards 

Holiday Shopping Ideas - for Your Best Friend

• Original cyanotype artwork - mini size 

Holiday Gift Guide  - for a Friend 

• Daisy print sticker 

Holiday Gift Ideas - for Your Sister 

• Original cyanotype artwork - mini size 

• Original handmade paper artwork  

Peach Daisies

CA$90.00

Holiday Gift Ideas - for Your Co-worker or Boss 

• Cedar card

• Daisy cyanotype card 

Holiday Gift Guide  - for a Teacher or Daycare Provider 

• Daisy cyanotype card 

• Daisy print sticker 

When in doubt you can buy a gift card! :) Click the button if you would like a gift card for my original artwork

Here are some ideas in my Holiday Gift Guide for 2022! Please note the last day for shipping guaranteed by December 25th 2022 is December 14th. 

Giving art is a great gift idea to show you care and help to bring some joy and personalization this holiday season! 

Learn about new art collections here!

Please check out the links in the section below about framing and art hanging resources. 

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OAC Grants

Early this year, I was given one of the OAC grants for emerging artists. This OAC grant is a $2000 grant that gives funding to purchase art supplies and to participate in educational skill development. 

I started applying for OAC grants this past fall and I was excited to have received one. OAC stands for Ontario Arts Council. The OAC grants are a lengthy process to set up an account and submit your application online but they are worth it. 

By receiving OAC grants or other grants, artists can receive funding to make projects possible. $2000 is a lot of money and I am grateful to have received this grant as this project would not be financially possible without it. 

There are many different OAC grants available. You can learn more by clicking here!

It’s important to note that OAC grants are only for residents in Ontario. However, depending on where you live, the province or state, try Googling grants with your location to find other grants to apply to. 

OAC Grants- the OAC Grant Proposal

I will be using the money from the OAC grant to purchase paper making supplies including different types of pulp, mould and deckles and other paper making supplies. I will also be registering for some paper making and letterpress classes to be able to enhance my skills as a paper maker. Lastly, I will use some of the money to rent out a paper making studio place near where I live. I have until 2023 to complete this project. I started purchasing supplies and signing up for workshops this summer of 2022. 

I plan on making sheets of map paper using recycled maps and using the letter press to write some of my poems on the paper. I also want to make more large sheets of the map paper to be able to do large installations of my work Patched. You can read more about the Patched project here! 

Jackie Partridge, Patched Project

If you are interested in applying to OAC grants you can click here to check their deadlines. 

I appreciate the financial support of OAC grants for funding my art practice! 

To find out more about the project check out my instagram @jackiepartridge_    and search the #patchedproject

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Microgrant

I was awarded a microgrant of $1000 from Pat the Dog Theatre Company in January 2022. The microgrant was awarded to 35 emerging artists in Waterloo Region. For the grant I proposed to make a series of cyanotype prints of different wildflowers in Waterloo Region. I also proposed completing cyanotypes on different surfaces like canvas, fabric and wood. 

Information about the Microgrant from Pat the Dog Theatre Company:

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation is delighted to announce the 2022 program of Micro-grants for Waterloo Region artists: 35 micro-grants of $1,000 each ($35,000 total) with each micro-grant representing the equivalent of 1-week paid work. This program is a continuation of the 2021 pilot for Waterloo Region and is made possible through the support of the City of Waterloo and the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation.

The micro-grant will instigate and spark the first idea of a new artwork. This ‘kick-start’ is essential more than ever during the pause this pandemic has created for our local artists who depend on live gatherings to exhibit and perform their work.  These grants will aide professional artists in investigation of their practice, with a focus on process, iterative learning, collaboration, and deep thinking. This program is a response to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity for artists to continue to delve into and develop their practice in imaginative and innovative ways.

To see all the artists who were awarded the grant - . https://patthedog.org/microgrants-waterloo-region-2022-results/ 

Here are the names of the jury members that decided who would receive the grants: 

Tara Butler, Artistic Director, Dust and Soul Dance

Denis Longchamps, Executive Director, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

Shirley Madill, Executive Director, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Lisa O’Connell, Artistic Director, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation

Vanessa Spence, Artistic Director, Virtu Arts

I started the microgrant project by ordering some books on wildflowers in South-Western Ontario so that I could identify the wildflowers that grow in the Waterloo Region. 

In June, I began harvesting the various wildflowers and making the cyanotypes of the wildflower designs. 

In July, I experimented with the cyanotype process by printing on different surfaces. I completed the wildflower series. 

In August, I will photograph the cyanotypes and adding the collection to website where they can be sold. 

You can now see the cyanotypes made with wildflowers from this project. Click the button below!

Be sure to join my mailing list to stay connected on new projects I am working on and to see when new collections of art are released. 

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Patched Exhibition

For the month of March and April 2022 I will be displaying my work Patched at the Kitchener Public Library in their gallery on the lower floor. This will be a two-person exhibition along with another artist on the opposing wall. 

I will be displaying 20 framed Patched installations and some of my nature inspired poems. 

Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places I have been to) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.

Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?

featuring two separate exploratory photography exhibits with accompanying poetry by artists Annette Dekker & Jackie Partridge

In celebration of Poetry Month: https://poets.ca/npm/  April 2022 

Hello Shadow 

Artist: Annette Dekker 

Enraged by Shadow’s relentless stalking 

The woman behind the camera 

turns 

shoots 

captures the prowler – live, 

smirking at her    strutting 

on a seabed of bleached eelgrass . . . 

Annette Dekker is currently in private practice as a psychotherapist. She is fascinated by the capacity of people to heal and to explore their inner worlds.  Annette finds joy in photography and writing and sometimes uses these mediums to better understand herself.  She surprised herself when the outcome of such exploration became an exhibition. She shares this work in the hope that it inspires others to become acquainted with their own Shadows.    

Patched 

Artist: Jackie Partridge 

I feel for places.  

We walk all over them.  

We stomp on them. 

We forget about them.  

Rarely do we visit. 

And when we do – 

We drop by unannounced.  

Coming from a small town and family heritage of farming, Jackie Partridge has visually seen the land developing over time. She has seen and felt both the impacts of climate change and urbanization within her community.  

As a mixed media artist, she is interested in expressing the rural landscape in an abstract and poetic way through drawings and installations. 

Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places she has been) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending. 

She asks, ‘Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?’ 

http://www.jackiepartridge.com/work#/patched/ 

The Kitchener Public Library is located 85 Queen Street North

Kitchener ON N2H 2H1

Phone: 519-743-0271

The Patched exhibition is on til the end of April, 2022. If you have a chance to see it please share photos on social media by tagging me @jackiepartridge_ or use the #patchedproject. 

Purchase my book Patched here -that contains poetry and photographs.

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