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Jill Glatt
@magpieprintshop.bsky.social
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printmaker, illustrator, natural dyer based in Ontario, Canada
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Working on a wittle mini quilt to be stretched on a frame. Going to print a lino design onto the largest green block (I think).

Fabric is dyed* with buckthorn berries, indigo, and marigold :-) *grey fabric not dyed by me

#naturaldye #naturaldyeing #quilting #quilters #fibreart
Work table as seen from above, with a yellow, blue, and green quilt square beside various sewing materials scattered around (and a cup of coffee).
February 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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on a related note, I love my day job! I get to tell people my silly ideas, and then they take those ideas and make them into silly + beautiful things 🪩🪜🌻🚿

(lino designs by @magpieprintshop.bsky.social + @wedderspoon.bsky.social for @uniongallery.bsky.social's fundraiser this weekend)
Two freshly-printed greeting cards sit on Union Gallery's Wandering Art Station next to two tubs of pink and green ink. The card on the left features a green print of a stair ladder with googly eyes and bushy eyebrows wearing a party hat next to a disco ball (his name is Eugene, after UG, and we love him). The card on the right features a pink print of a happy flower being watered by watering can, with the text "THANK YOU" written below.
February 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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This is my semi-regular reminder that if we live in Canada, we should be paying rent to the indigenous peoples who the land actually belongs to. I do this, and you can too, very easily:
payyourrent.ca
🇨🇦
Niikinaaganaa Foundation
Collecting funds from people living on stolen land and disbursing them to Indigenous people
payyourrent.ca
February 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We must give people dreams instead of just resistance. Resistance is a survival state. Dreams are aspirational and that motivation drives revolution; they are the fuel for the amazing potential we all have to build a world that doesn't require you to survive, but rather to thrive!
February 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Read our statement about our peaceful demonstration at the Mayor's Arts Awards @cityofkingston.bsky.social January 27th, 2025

🍉PART 2🍉
Slide 5: Liberation for All pinnie safety pinned to a member of the Artists for Liberation. They are wearing a puffy black winter jacket and hold up a peace sign with their hand. Slide 6: We are disappointed in Bryan Paterson for exiting the building, knowing we were going to ask for him to take accountability for his inaction. We are disappointed in the City for inviting the Police to a peaceful demonstration they knew every detail about. This gross overreaction proves that art that aligns with the personal comfort of City Stakeholders is priority. We affirm that art is a powerful vehicle for social justice, both on a local and global level. We dream of an arts community that is centred around decolonial, queer, anti-racist, and liberatory art-making practices. No one is free while others are oppressed. Slide 7: Call for Action: Join us in addressing Mayor Bryan Paterson and demanding that he call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Mayor of Kingston - Bryan Paterson, Email: mayor@cityofkingston.ca, Phone: 613-546-4291 ext. 1400, Social media: @mayorpaterson
January 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Read our statement about our peaceful demonstration at the Mayor's Arts Awards @cityofkingston.bsky.social January 27th, 2025

🍉PART 1 🍉
Slide 1: Red screenprinted banner that reads Liberation for All, with an olive branch within a Palestine sunbird. At the bottom on a olive green band in white text it reads Artists for Liberation, recap of January 27 demonstration Slide 2: LAST NIGHT - JANUARY 27, 2025. The City of Kingston knew that a small group of local artists were planning a peaceful demonstration at the Mayor's Arts Awards at City Hall. The City knew some of these artists very well, in fact, and had worked with them in the past. Their response? Increased security, 2 police vans, and an RCMP vehicle at an event attended by members of multiple marginalized communities. Slide 3: Artists for Liberation is a group of local artists and community members who gathered together with a collective ambition to address the ongoing genocide taking place in Palestine. Because Mayor Bryan Paterson and City stakeholders would be present at this year's Mayor's Arts Awards, we knew this would be an impactful platform to share our direct message. It was our intention to both celebrate the achievements of the artists receiving the awards as well as demand that Paterson make actionable steps to call for a permanent ceasefire. Celebrating the local arts community and fighting for rights of others are not mutually exclusive to one another. Slide 4: On Sunday January 26, we were informed that our demonstration plans had been compromised: that the Mayor's Arts Awards team and City staff had seen our plans and knew exactly what we intended to do for our peaceful demonstration; we would rise from the crowd, stand along the walls of the room, and recite a speech. In a phone call with an Artists for Liberation member, an MAA organizer claimed, after speaking to the MAA Recipients about our plans, that our demonstration would make the marginalized MAA Recipients and attendees feel targeted, and that MAA recipients already felt "uncomfortable" and "wary of attending". Through our own connections, we know that this was not true, as the Recipients either did not know about our demonstration at all, or were already in support of our demonstration plan. The MAA team member advised us they would internally assess the risk to Recipients, which ultimately resulted in more security and police presence at the event. We now ask: how does bringing the police - an institution that historically and continuously harms marginalized communities - make the MAA Recipients and attendees feel more safe?
January 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Psssst this piece is available at @uniongallery.bsky.social art lottery event 'Side by Side' !! Coming up on February 8th 🐞

Transverse Lady Beetle | reclaimed linen painted and dyed with #cochineal and #madder

#naturaldye #naturaldyeing #fibreart #nativeplants
Fabric wall hanging painted with a stylized spray of wild strawberries, and featuring a small lady beetle on a leaf in the bottom corner. The background is light pink and the painted design is dark pink.
January 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Just received some photos of my recent piece, 'Seed' which has been hand-dyed with marigolds grown from my garden this summer 🌱
'Seed' is currently a part of the exhibition 'Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys', curated by Qanita Lilla and on display at Museum London this winter and spring.
#naturaldye
January 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I've been experimenting a lot in recent months with printing using natural dyes! This was a silkscreened mordant design dyed with marigold 🌻

#printmaking #screenprint #naturaldye
January 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Hey folks! I'm posting my #artvsartist2024 (and also the previous 3 years) to give a bit of an idea of the kind of art-making I do.

#ygkarts #ygkartist #kingstonontario #ygk #naturaldye #naturaldyeing #naturaldyers #printmaking #linocut #linocutprint
January 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM