2025 Artist in Residence
June 28 - July 23
Inbal Newman is an artist working in printmaking and textiles on the themes of seafaring and craft through a feminist lens. She has been the recipient of grants from the Lunenburg Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as the President’s Medal in graduate studies from the Ontario College of Art Design, where she completed an MDes in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design graduate program. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City, after which she spent years at the South Street Seaport Museum as a traditional letterpress printer and tall ships deckhand. Inbal currently lives in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) where she still sails any chance she gets.
With professional backgrounds in printmaking and tall ship sailing, Inbal considers traditional skills essential to her practice, and creates by hand as much as possible. She incorporates both repetitive handcrafting techniques (printmaking, cyanotype, crochet) and repurposed materials (cassette tapes, tablecloth, fishing rope) to mimic the appearance of rediscovered artifacts. Her intention is for an audience to question if a piece is current or historical, fact or fiction, and therefore confront preconceived notions of history.