Magdalena Abakanowicz, ‘4 Seated Figures,’ 2002. Burlap, resin and iron rods. ‘No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection’ (here for the online exhibition.) was recently shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. ‘4 Seated Figures’ may have been inspired by Magdalena’s memory of witnessing her mother being shot […]
Read More...After attending the Textile Society of America Symposium in Savannah Ingrid and I flew up to Washington DC with the intention of checking out the newly relocated Textile Museum now on the George Washington University campus. Unfortunately, our timing was not great. We could only enjoy the shop because the gallery was closed while a new exhibition […]
Read More...Dale MacEwan email – dalemac@telus.net Each year, around June, a group of 5 local artists install an exhibition in the Community Art Council of the Saanich Peninsula (CACSP) gallery in Tulista Park, Sidney. Dale makes pieced and quilted compositions reflecting micro views of the landscape she lives in. She often incorporates her photographs printed on cloth and […]
Read More...‘Edge of the Forest’ exhibition and ‘Gathering at the Edge’ event committee. L to R- Gina Dingwell, Barbara McCaffrey, Lesley Turner, Laura Feeleus After touring across Canada the ‘Edge of the Forest’ juried textile exhibition arrives on Vancouver Island to be hosted by the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association. Here it is loaded up and […]
Read More...The Mark Makers are exhibiting again! Here is a peek at what they have produced over the past couple of years. This is the view as one walks into the gallery – wearable art and 2D and 3D wet felt. To the right are the results of a challenge to produce interpretations of the Melford […]
Read More...The Community Arts Council of Saanich Peninsula is hosting its annual ‘Small Expressions’ exhibition in the Community Arts Centre at Tulista Park, Sidney BC, March 4 – 30, Tuesdays to Sundays, 10:00 to 4:00 pm. A team of us spent 9 hours the first-day accepting work and hanging the show. One of the challenges with hanging […]
Read More...Current Threads 2015: Garden Tapestry has been installed at South Shore Gallery, Sooke. Here is the view as you walk into the Back Gallery. The back wall The lights haven’t been adjusted yet but it was time to leave after spending all day installing the work. The artists worked with the size restriction of 12″ […]
Read More...The annual Vancouver Island Surface Design Association exhibition Current Threads 2015 is travelling after its showing in Duncan last year. Jessie Taylor-Dodds’ gallery South Shore Gallery, in Sooke, is hosting the exhibition. This is a great chance to view this juried collection of recent work by VISDA members. Many of the artists will be at the Opening […]
Read More...Articulation members at work; Lesley Turner, Donna Clement, Ingrid Lincoln, Leann Clifford, in the inner harbour. The Empress Hotel is in the background. First appointment was a morning visit to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria http://aggv.ca/ to see ‘Kimono: Japanese Culture in its Art Form’ with many magnificent kimonos revealing the complex codes and etiquette […]
Read More...The 4th showing of Articulation and Material Girls’ response to the Bay of Fundy and the River Thames, respectively, will be shown in its 7th exhibition – 3 in the UK & 4 in Canada. This time it is in The Gallery on 3rd, Watrous, Saskatchewan. It is the last time before the individual works […]
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