The exhibition is UP! “Medical Mythos” features my latest body of work on display at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. Techniques include mokulito, otherwise known as wood lithography, ink transfer, pochoir, and stencil. The opening event is Sept 15, 2022 from 5-8 pm, and runs until Oct 9. Stop by if you are in the region for a stellar line up of exhibitng artists this month!
INNOVATIONS 2022
I am pleased so share that one of my prints, “Spectre,” has been chosen for exhibition at INNOVATIONS 2022, 31st Annual International Open Juried Exhibition of ISEA at the Art Gallery of St. Albert, AB. This incredible exhibition features artworks that are considered particularly experimental. The exhibition runs from Aug 9- Nov 5, 2022. Here are some more details of my featured work:
The motivation for this print was to capture my biomedical images as an ethereal self-portrait. This print contains six distinct printmaking processes: rolling my face through powered charcoal, laser etched-wood, wood lithography (mokulito), silkscreen, mono print, and chine colle.
"Inspiring Women Among Us" Presentation
I will be presenting the first edition of artists’ books created by the participants of my Embodied Books workshops at the Prince George Public Library on November 22, 5:00- 6:00 pm. These hand-crafted books explore the participants’ personal experiences related to topics of health and illness.
This presentation is part of Inspiring Women Among Us 2021: Critique, Renewal, and Celebration: Feminism, The Arts, and More Inclusive Post Covid-19 Futures series of events from November 17th- 24th.
"Medicine & the Art of Ethics" Colloquium Presentation
My sister, Dr. Devan Stahl, and I will be presenting on our decade-long collaboration between printmaking, patient experiences, and medical ethics on October 28th. This paper, “Reckoning with the Ill Pregnant Body: A Bioethicist and Printmaker Collaboration,” will be presented during the Medicine & the Art of Ethics Colloquium held at Columbia University. Although this was going to be an in-person event, it had to shift to an online format due to persistent Covid-19 precautions. I am looking forward to future iterations of this ongoing colloquium series where we can all gather safely.
Embodied Books Commencement
My Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship commences its first series of workshops, Embodied Books, on Wednesday evenings, 6-9 pm, from November 8th to December 10th at the Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George.
I will be equipping participants with the materials and know-how to create handmade books that explore and communicate topics of illness, disability, caretaking, or any other topic related to health. Check out the “Workshops” page to learn more about this project.
Artwork Acquisition
I am so pleased to announce that my print installation, Field Notes: How to Be With, has been acquired by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) to be hung in the brand new BARLO Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre in Toronto. This work merges the material aesthetics of the laboratory with the biomedical scans in order to link medical research with the end users of care. Field Notes will now have daily interactions with the medical researchers at the BARLO Centre. I could not think of a better setting for this piece!
Presentation: Creating Space 2021
I will be presenting the outcomes from my PhD dissertation, “Book as Body: The Meaning Making of Artists’ Books in the Health Humanities” at this year’s Creating Space Health Humanities Conference. The conference is the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Health Humanities, and takes place from April 15-16. More information can be found here: https://www.cahh.ca/
PhD in Humanities
On March 24th, 2021, I successfully defended my dissertation, with distinction no less! I am grateful to all of my committee members who gave their time, critiques, and thoughtful reflections to my dissertation: Book as Body: The Meaning-Making of Artists’ Books in the Health Humanities.
The research-creation component of this dissertation, Field Notes: How to Be With, can be found in the navigation column on this website.
Exhibition: Art- Action- Attitude/ Body
Images of my work are included in this year’s graphic medicine exhibition, Art- Action- Attitude/ Body at the Medical University of Vienna (Medizinische Universität Wien). Our work hangs in the walls of the hospital as a space for respite and reflection. There are also writing activities present for those who wish to try out some graphic medicine for themselves! A video about the exhibition can be found here: https://m3erepo.meduniwien.ac.at/v/3831/show/?a&t&hf
Exhibition: Engaging Creativities: Art in the Pandemic
The Royal Society of Canada Covid-19 Task Force has curated an online exhibition of artists who are grappling with the fallout of Covid-19 in their works. One of my digital works, “Tactile Transmission,” is on view now:
https://www.covidcreative.ca/en/contributors/darian-goldin-stahl
Instructor: OCAD Printmaking
I have recently been hired as a new sessional printmaking instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. I will be teaching PRNT 3003—“Word and Image,” for the Winter semester of 2021. I am incredibly excited for the opportunity to develop and conduct this course, and up for the challenge of remote teaching.
Carolyn & Richard Renaud Scholarship Winner
I am humbled to receive the Carolyn & Richard Renaud Scholarship for the pursuit of developing research-creation scholarship. This foundation and others like it prove there is space within academia for wonderfully weird artistic practices like communicating your symptoms through the medium of artists’ books.
Award: Harmony Magazine Cover
The University of Arizona College of Medicine’s publication, Harmony Magazine, has chosen my artwork to grace the cover of this year’s issue. I am grateful for the chance to disseminate health humanities research-creation work like this!
Award: CISSC Year in Review Cover Image
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) has chosen my artwork as the cover for the 2019-2020 Year in Review publication. This is the Centre that houses my PhD Humanities program, and I am overjoyed to represent this year’s work!
Rose and Leon Zitner Award Winner
It is with great pride to announce that my qualitative research into the potential for artists’ books to promote well-being has been awarded the Rose and Leon Zitner Award for Citizen Participation in Healthcare and Well-Being, valued at $2,500. The essay submitted for this award was formed from my fieldwork, where I formed and conducted artist’s book workshops with mixed groups of healthcare workers, health humanities students, and community members. This work will be featured in my forthcoming dissertation. I am always enheartened to see the promotion of arts-based methodologies in health research!
2020 College Art Association Conference
I will be presenting my research on the potential of artists’ books to form intercorporeal and sensory relations between their makers and readers at this year’s CAA Conference in Chicago. Please stop by the poster sessions in 12:00 - 1:30 on Thursday, Feb 13th, or Friday Feb 14th.
I look forward to speaking with the large amounts of arts scholars attending this conference!
Come Up To My Room Arts Festival
My latest body of work, Binary ReVisions, will be exhibited at the 2020 Come Up To My Room Arts Festival from Jan 16-19, at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. I will be in attendance the entirety of the exhibition, so stop by if you are in the area to chat with me and view the line up of stellar artists!
More information and tickets can be found here: https://www.gladstonehotel.com/cutmr-2020/
2020 Black Box Neuroscience and Arts Talk
From the successful outcomes my Artist in Residence position at the McGill University Fertility Research Laboratory, I have been selected to give the 2020 Black Box Neuroscience and Arts Talk. This lecture will cover the beginnings of my ArtSci practice with my sister, Dr. Devan Stahl, who is a Clinical Ethicist at Baylor University. It will then report on the research-creation outcomes of my current project, Binary ReVisions, which was a collaborative effort with my fertility research scientist collaborators. Come by the Montreal General Hospital to engage in this interdisciplinary project!
Date: Friday, January 10th, 5:00 PM
Place: Montreal General Hospital. 1650 Cedar Avenue, Rm L7-140
Montréal, QC, H3G 1A4
Tél: 514-934-1934, ext. 45102/42361
BAUHAUS Festival Artist's Book Workshop
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Bauhaus Movement, Concordia University’s Milieux Institute is holding a two-week long festival to showcase innovative design, research-creation, and arts technologies. This past Wednesday November 9th 2019, I had the pleasure of conducting my “Book as Body” workshop for those festival goers. It was a morning of bodily consideration and translation into the medium of the artist’s book. The powerful books the attendees made speak volumes about the lived body.
Workshop Participant’s Book, “Shingle Tingle,” 2019.
Artist in Residence: McGill Fertility Lab
I am happy to announce that I am the first Artist in Residence at the McGill University Fertility Research Lab in Montreal. In this position, I will spend at least three days a week working with three incredibly talented and dedicated scientists as they conduct experiments to better understand the mechanisms, genetics, and chemicals influencing ova production. In the end of my time here, I will be making artwork with my scientist-collaborators on the production of knowledge across art and science. Stay tuned for this upcoming work!
