Piled Up is made by Jackie Partridge. I created this artwork during my Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
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Read MoreHandmade Paper Art
As a paper maker and fine artist that completed my Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University, studying paper making and making handmade paper art. I create paper art both as a home decor for people to purchase and hang in their homes, but also as handmade paper art that can be exhibited in galleries and exhibitions all around the world.
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Read MoreOutdoor Art Installation
From Sep 30, 2023 to Nov 15, 2023 I participated in the Terrain Biennale which is an outdoor art installation. I showed my piece “Trail” which is a 20 foot long arm-knitted lace installation that extended from my porch drooping onto the ground. To learn more about this outdoor art installation- keep reading!
Outdoor Art Installation
Here is the website to learn more about the Terrain Biennale: https://terrainexhibitions.org/
Here is what Terrain Biennale says about the exhibition/outdoor art installations: Terrain Biennial is a grassroots public art festival that brings artists and neighbors together to put public art on the front lawns (and porches, windows, and rooftops, too!) of neighborhoods across the world.
Artists and curators collaborated with hosts to produce public art installations (think sculptures, paintings, projections, flags, yarn art, you name it!) outside their homes (and other unexpected spots!).
You can check out my installation here: https://terrainexhibitions.org/tb23-huntsville-on
How to Participate in the Outdoor Art Installation of Terrain Biennale:
Make sure you apply. I suggest following them on Instagram to stay connected and know when you should apply. Then you need to find a host to agree to have your art installed. Then you install your art and take a photo of it so it can be added on the Terrain Biennale website. When choosing a piece to apply with you want to think about a piece that will be able to withstand weather conditions for a month and a half.
I chose to submit the piece “Trail” because I knew that it could withstand rain and even snow. Yes, sometimes it snows in Canada early! I also like the way that it drapes like a long lace curtain. I am thinking about making this piece longer. Should I? Let me know in the comments!
To read more about my piece “Trail” click here!
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Round Floral Stickers and Oval Stickers
See my round floral stickers and oval floral stickers here.
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Learn about Jackie Partridge’s small paper houses series.
Read More2022 Year in Review
2022 is coming to end and it is time to look back and reflect on the year. Here is my 2022 year in review for my art! A lot has happened this year and I want to share it with you. This is a great time for you to reflect on your favourite memories of 2022 too!
My Art Goals for 2022
Post consistently to social media (5x a week to instagram, 3-4x to facebook, every day to Pinterest, twice a month to my email list, blog post 3-4x a month, YouTube 2x a month), TikTok weekly
Social media takes time. I recently started a tiktok - Jackie Partridge Art. I would like to try paid ads this year.
I decided to switch to posting to YouTube once a month this year as it is a ton of work and I am working full time as a teacher. I am still starting with tiktok -you can find me on -Jackie Partridge Art. I would like to do more next year.
Update: I did pretty well with this. Lots of life changes prevented me from posting as consistent as I would have liked to.
Excited to announce we are expecting our first child in May 2023!
Apply to art calls twice a month - I want to have more exhibitions this year!
I have been getting more exhibitions and artist grants since I have been consistently applying to art application calls.
I did well at applying to exhibitions and art calls and usually applied to 4 or so per month. As a result I had a lot more exhibitions this year!
I had a few big exhibitions this year and a couple of grants from Pat the Dog Theatre Company and Ontario Arts Council.
Spend time in nature for inspiration- I find this really helps with my art practice.
Once a month Gordie and I made it a habit of hiking, campinging or walking outside. I’ve taken lots of photos that I have shared on Instagram
We didn’t go outside hiking or camping as much as I wanted to but when we did we had a lot of fun.
Make consistent art sales- I would love my art to be my main source of income. I would like to match my current teaching income before the end of 2022. These are my current streams of revenue:
Art grants/awards and artist fees
Art workshops and coaching
Selling art teaching resources on Teachers Pay Teachers
Selling my original art
I did a lot better at making consistent sales with my art. I still have a ways to go but I am getting there and enjoying the journey!
My sales on my Teachers Pay Teachers have really improved. I did two holiday art markets that were successful and sold more art online this year!
Set boundaries for teaching for more work life balance- no work on Friday nights and Saturdays, no emails past 5pm, no marking on the weekend. No working camps.
This past summer I worked the month of July at a day camp at my school. I was very intentional not to start working on school stuff until the end of August so that I could have a break from school. Make art during school breaks- I plan on not working at camps this year so that I have more time to focus on my art and business.
I did well not working at camps this year which gave me more time to work on my art and I’m so happy with the progress I have made! I also did well not working on school stuff outside of school hours.
Make art each month- I want to get back to making art each month. It is something that I put off like exercising. I want to be able to prioritize both. - I have done better at this!
2022 Goals
Exercise 2x a week - rough in the winter but got better in the spring and for the rest of the year
Match my teaching salary in my art income
Purchase a Home
✅Have 5 exhibitions or publications - Kitchener Public Library two person exhibition, Cambridge Art Gallery Show.21, Art Comp in London, ON, Forest Spaces- Contact Photo Festival in Toronto, Moving Forward, Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St. Jacob’s, ON, INPRINT Exhibition, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON.
Grow my mailing list by 500 people
Grow my YouTube to 500 subscribers
Have 200 products in my TPT store - this was a hard goal - I later changed it to 100 because that was more realistic - haha ✅
2022 Year in Review
Overall, 2022 was a great year. I worked as a teacher teaching my grade 5s who I had in Grade 4 and then I had some of them in my grade 4,5,6 class. I learned a lot about Montessori education from work. I took business courses and read a lot of business books.
Thank you so much for following on this journey. I appreciate you being here and supporting me along the way.
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Read MoreHoliday 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.
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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!
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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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Read MorePatched 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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Show.21
Learn about the exhibition show.21 in Cambridge Art Galleries.
Read MoreExhibition at Show.21
From November 22 until February 27, 2022 I will have my work Precariously Perched on display at Cambridge Art Galleries- at Queen's Square Gallery as part of their group juried exhibition for emerging artists.
This was the first paid CARFAC fee exhibition I took part in and I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to exhibit my artwork and to be paid for it. Paid exhibitions help allow artists to be valued for their work of making the work, delivering and installing the work, picking up the work and advertising the work like the video I created below.
You can check out their link to see more information
I will be showing art with: Olivia Brouwer, Lupita Guerrero, Anahí González, Anne Hamilton, Brubey Hu, Abby Nowakowski, Lauren Prousky, Brenda Mabel Reid, Racquel Rowe, and Ahmri Vandeborne.
See a video about the installation below:
About Show.21 in Cambridge
Established in 2005, Cambridge Art Galleries’ biannual exhibition SHOW presents the work of emerging artists based in Ontario. Selected from an open call of submissions, SHOW.21 presents the work of eleven artists with connections to Waterloo Region and surrounding areas.
Here is the digital exhibition brochure
About Precariously Perched by Jackie Partridge
Precariously Perched is a site-specific installation that uses tiny pins and balances twisted strands of maps on the pins. You can see and read more about the project here!
Precariously Perched resembles a walk or a horizon line. Some twisted strands of maps rest on pins while others fall to the floor signaling a passage of time. In this exhibition, I have twisted strands of maps and pins wrapping around a column by the window and then they start at the wall near the top and decline down like a mountain towards the bottom of the wall.
Precariously Perched by Jackie Partridge - installation in Montreal - see the exhibition in Cambridge by visiting Cambridge Art Galleries.
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Read MoreWhat is Support in Art?
What is support in art? And how can you find a good support system? Why do you need a support system as an artist? I will let you know in this blog - don’t you worry! Learn from artist Jackie Partridge what is support in art is.
A strong support system can be one person or more than one. They are someone you trust and they radiate positivity. You can trust this person with your dreams and know that they will be supportive, a good listener, offer great advice, be encouraging and believe in you (often more than you believe in yourself).
As an artist it’s important to have support because making art can be draining. At times, you will feel like your art is not good enough, like everything has been done before and that you won’t make money off your art.
Your support system can help you to stay focused on your goals and reassure you that your on the right path and that you shouldn’t give up!
What is Support in Art and Why Does it Matter?
Having someone who always believes in you can help you to feel confident and successful
Having a support person can be someone you trust and can talk to on a tough day
That support person can push you to be your best and reassure you when you doubt yourself
A great support system encourages you and pushes you to keep going even when you feel like giving up
My Support in Art
“Make more art!” isn’t as simple as it sounds. Making art can be challenging to find the time to do it. For a couple of years since graduating my MFA, I struggled with finding time to make more art and often put off making art all together. I was “too busy” paying off my student loans, working multiple jobs and really didn’t have the time. I started feeling unhappy and my husband really noticed.
He encouraged me to start my YouTube channel. Which scared me. I was worried if people would comment nasty things. That no one would watch the videos, that no one would subscribe and that I would embarrass myself. I was worried what people would think and that they would make fun of me.
Most of all I worried that it would be a complete waste of time.
But he encouraged me to do it.
He often believes in me more than I believe in myself.
And then when I wanted to start my Teachers Pay Teachers store I was scared too. I was worried I wouldn’t make any sales and that I would spend all this time doing it and it would be a waste. He believed in me and encouraged me to keep going.
Not only does he encourage me to do things and to get my art seen but he helps me. He attends exhibition openings, helps me install and de-install my art, takes photos of my art, edits my photos, edits my videos, edits my writing… the list goes on and on.
He is 100% on board with any new and random idea I have. He is there encouraging me, giving me praise and assisting me in my goals.
He will help out around the house or make dinner to give me extra time to work on my art. He knows that it’s important and that I will appreciate it.
It really helps having a support system like that in your life.
So, How Can You Support an Artist?
like, comment, save and share their work on social media
follow them on social media - invite your friends and family to do the same
join their mailing list/read their emails
refer to your artist friends when someone is looking for art
shop local and from small businesses like artists whenever possible
compliment an artist - let them know you love their work! Bonus points if you tell them why (this can help them develop new work)
Send them inspiration, art exhibition calls or other art opportunities
Listen without judgment
Even doing a FREE action like commenting on their post can help an artist - because it allows the artist to reach more people!
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