2025 edition
We are thrilled to announce the return of the Montreal Printed Arts Festival (FAIMTL) in spring 2025!
After a three-year hiatus, our team is preparing a new edition of this unique event dedicated to printed arts in Quebec. From May 1 to 11, FAIMTL will feature a series of launches, workshops, and artist talks, culminating on Saturday, May 10, with the Grande Printed Art Fair.
All festival events are free and open to everyone!
Full program coming soon…
We look forward to seeing you!
2022 edition
The Montreal Printed Arts Festival showcases the impressive vitality of the printed arts milieu in Quebec. This third edition is a rare opportunity to take stock of the growth of this artistic practice via a programme of exhibits, artist presentations, demonstrations, workshops, conferences and the Grande Printed Art Fair. These free activities show the evolution of current practices in printed arts as well as hybrid and multidisciplinary practices.
Not to be missed!
2022 programme
May 20 15:30 - 17h
À L'Affiche
À l’affiche Arprim UQAM
The production team of the works invite you to a presentation retracing the experience of the 2021 edition of À l'Affiche, a contemporary art publishing initiative jointly developed by Arprim and the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQAM.
Online + May 19 - 26
Print Media Undergraduate Pop-Up Exhibit
Check out the works in this pop-up exhibit featuring undergraduate students of the Print Media department at Concordia University.
May 21
Ex Libris members exhibit
Ex-Libris Atelier Circulaire members exhibit
Ex-Libris is a Latin word referring to the owner's imprint pasted on the inside cover of a book. In Europe, Ex-Libris imprints became very popular in the early days of printing. The Ex-Libris often took the form of a stamp that includes the owner's name.
May 20 - 26
Roots and Wings Anna Jane McIntyre
Roots & Wings is a special project by Montreal artist Anna Jane McIntyre, featuring a flock of relief-printed birds that fly across the window of the FAIMTL / Grande venue ...
May 21
Special Project Rotten Candy
Rotten Candy is a DIY transmission broadcasting the shifting state of underground scenes due to lack of space and gentrification. It’s bittersweet; sending out the alarm for resurgence while artists continue to make it happen and have fun under pressured circumstances.
May 3 - 29
Ephemeral group exhibit
Tête-à-Tête Exhibit
An ephemeral group exhibit that brings together four duos of artists in four public spaces in Longueuil.
May 22
Silkscreen printing demonstration and workshop at Le Temple
Le Temple, an artists' studio primarily dedicated to silkscreen printmaking, is holding an open-door printmaking demonstration and workshop.
May 14 - June 18
Atelier A. Piroir
Normand Biron A. Piroir
Launch of Normand Biron's book and an exhibit developed from works he has chosen from the collection of the studio, including the artists Bonnie Baxter, Louis-Pierre Bougie, Paul Cloutier, Albert Dumouchel, Marc Garneau, Betty Goodwin, John Heward...
May 17 - 29
Henriette Valium exhibit guided tour
Guided tour of Henriette Valium's exhibition in the presence of two long-time collaborators of the artist, Marc Tessier and Louis Rastelli.
May 28 - June 18
ARPRIM
Première impression ARPRIM First Impressions
First impressions, exhibit of finalists for the Prix Albert-Dumouchel for young artists.
May 20
Labour of Love
Labour of Love
Roundtable discussion about labor and capitalism in print art.
May 17
Collage Collaboration and Risograph at CEP
In this workshop led by CEP Risograph Coordinator Jessica Bebenek, we will create collaged posters to print palimpsesticly on the risograph. Bebenek will give a short history of risograph printing traditions and demonstrate the fundamentals of the printing process...
May 20
Cut paper stencil printing workshop Anna Jane McIntyre
Join artist Anna Jane McIntyre for an active demo of cut-paper stencil printing.
May 20
Stencil screenprint workshop with Jacinthe Loranger
Come and learn the basics of transferring images onto fabric or paper with a contemporary artist specializing in printmaking. You will make your own stencils and monotypes in addition to learning how to make your own screenprinting silk.
May 19
Printmaking workshop and demonstrations La Bourgeoise Sérigraphe
Come visit our professional printmaking studio to discover the techniques of screen-printing, relief and intaglio. You will be able to ask us everything...
May 19 14h
Herbarium Quebecensium BAnQ
Picking, pressing, drying, gluing: come and explore artistic practices in printed arts similar to the making of a herbarium, as well as heritage documents on the subject of botany.
May 18
Concordia Queer Print Club Zine workshop
Discover and explore collaborative zine-making with the Queer Print Club (QPC). Demos given on how to create and play with various different types of zines and will cover choosing paper, formatting, creating, editioning, and experimenting within the framework of zines.
May 18
Nous nous emmêlerons L’Imprimerie Launch
L’imprimerie is pleased to invite you to the launch of the publication nous nous emmêlerons on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at a festive happy hour! This work is the result of the first Chantier, a research project on the printed and photographic image...
May 13 mai 17h-19h
Workshop
Participatory workshop for intaglio and lithography
Atelier Circulaire will open its doors to the general public for a 5 à 7 devoted to the discovery of two little-known printing techniques: intaglio and lithography. In the magnificent space of the Atelier, equipped with unique equipment of exceptional quality, visitors will be able to ...
May 14
Artexte Guided Visit
Artexte Collections Guided Visit
Discover the Artexte collection with Jessica Hébert [Librarian] and Jonathan Lachance [Documentation Technician], and the many forms of printed art that can be found in its stacks. Artists’ books of all kinds, fanzines, posters and more to be displayed.
May 21 2022
Grande Fair
GRANDE Print art fair 2022
The GRANDE Printed Art Fair brings together more than 50 artists and organizations who present their works directly to the public.
