About
FAIMTL 2025
The Montreal Printed Arts Festival (FAIMTL) is back in 2025 with a whole new edition of this unique festival dedicated to the printed arts in Québec.
From April 29 to May 10, FAIMTL will present a range of exhibits, workshops, and artist talks before culminating at the Grande Print Art Fair, taking place on May 10 from 11 am – 6 pm, at the Afromusée.
Since its inception in 2015, FAIMTL has drawn its strength from the involvement of key players in Montreal and Quebec’s printed arts community.
The 2025 edition is the result of a collaboration between artist-run centers Arprim, Zocalo, Daphne, l’Imprimerie, Atelier Circulaire, Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir, and the Afromusée.
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FAIMTL
The Montreal Printed Arts Festival (FAIMTL) showcases the vitality of the printed arts community in Quebec.
“Free programming to discover the printed arts milieu…”
The only event of its kind in the province, it brings together artists, studios and artist-run centers to encourage discover and energize contemporary printmaking practices, which are currently experiencing a boom.
Held in the spring, the festival offers a free program open to all: workshops, exhibitions and public presentations follow one another over ten days in various venues around the city. In particular, it hosts the Grande Printed Art Fair, a not-to-be-missed event in the festivities, offering more than fifty artists the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in a single venue. It’s also an opportunity for networking, discovery and knowledge-sharing between artists.
Since its creation in 2016, FAIMTL strives, with each edition, to promote the circulation of printed artworks, in all their colors and multiple forms.
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History
The Montreal Printed Arts Festival began in 2015 by organizations and groups who felt the need to improve the public’s awarness of this thriving artistic practice in Quebec.
It was in autumn 2015 that the Festival des Arts Imprimés was born, during a series of meetings between seven organizations linked to the practice of printed art -the artist-run centers Zocalo, Arprim, Atelier Circulaire and l’Imprimerie, the BAnQ, ARCMTL (Expozine) and the Maison de la Culture de la Petite-Patrie.
The basic idea was simple-group together spring programming activities by numerous artist-run centers, galleries and workshops; organize a few separate discussions and roundtables, as well as a Grande Foire d’art imprimé, and voilà! The first edition was held from April 28 to May 7, 2016.
In 2017, the Grande Printed Art Fair returned in May as part of the Chromatic Festival, where some fifty artists were able to meet the general public, promote the printed arts within the pluridisciplinary Chromatic festival and also hosted printing workshops for the wider public and for children.
The Printed Arts Festival was back in force in 2019, held from April 4 to 14. The theme of the festival aimed to explore “other” spaces occupied by the printed arts, namely public spaces and virtual spaces.
The headquarters occupied the premises of the WIP (Work In Progress), 3487 Saint-Laurent where several events took place: exhibition of Marilou André and Galerie galerie, a conference on augmented reality and printed art, the Grande printed art fair, an evening of Pecha Kucha presentations, and numerous collective print workshops for the public and for children.
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The 2025 Montreal Printed Arts Festival is made possible in part thanks the support of Quebec-ELAN’s Trellis micro-grant project, funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Official Languages Support Programs, which seeks to highlight English-language arts and artists to make them visible to a broader community, and to build bridges between Québec’s English-speaking minority and Francophone majority.
