Participants will work together to create a series of artwork and writing that will be turned into prints, to be exhibited and distributed at the Exposure: Queer Arts & Culture Festival closing party. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with others in the Edmonton ar…ts community and circulate your work to a diverse audience. The Papirmasse-a-thon will be hosted by visiting artist Kirsten McCrea, a Montreal-based painter who is also the Director of Papirmasse.

About Papirmasse • www.papirmasse.com

Papirmasse is an affordable art subscription that delivers a monthly print with art on the front and writing on the back for the incredible price of $5 a month! Our goal is to make art abundant and accessible. Founded in Edmonton in 2008, the project is currently run out of Montreal in collaboration between Kirsten McCrea and Maison Kasini. With subscribers in over 15 countries, we are waging a war against blank walls.

About Kirsten McCrea • www.hellokirsten.com

Kirsten McCrea is an Edmonton-born, Montreal-based artist whose work explores issues of cultural memory, looking at pop vs. underground culture, the media, and popular mythologies. An internationally exhibited painter, in recent years Kirsten has become very involved in collaborative art-making: she is a core member of the celebrated collaborative painting crew En Masse (www.enmasse.info), makes live collage murals with Cease (www.cease.it) and directs Papirmasse, which features the work of a new artist and writer every month.