2013 home assignments

Choose 12 from the following list:

1. Appliances
2. Beauty products
3. Clothes on hangers
4. Clothing: Accessories
5. Clothing: Footwear
6. Clothing: Hat being worn
7. Clothing: Rain gear
8. Collectables
9. Container(s) holding balls, marbles, other spheres
10. Container(s) holding food
11. Electronic devices
12. Exercise equipment
13. Exterior of a house
14. Fasteners
15. Figurine, statue, action figure
16. Flat items in perspective: Books
17. Flat items in perspective: DVD covers
18. Flat items in perspective: Scattered photos
19. Furniture
20. Interior of a room
21. Interior of a vehicle (car interior, bus interior, cruise ship interior, plane interior)
22. Items to celebrate with
23. Items, crumpled or broken
24. Lamp, flashlight, or candle
25. Open door
26. Pet in a container (fish in a fishbowl, cat in a carrier...)
27. Playthings
28. Scale models
29. Something you carry things with
30. Something you drink from
31. Souvenirs
32. Stuffed toys
33. Table setting (place setting)
34. Tools
35. View from a window
36. Wallet with money
37. Writing/drawing tools

War graphic novel, aviation art at Four Corners

Canada at War: Creating a WWII Graphic Novel Online
November 11, 2012
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Brampton Library, Four Corners branch
65 Queen Street East
Auditorium
FREE, all ages

Join local author Paul Keery and illustrator Michael Wyatt in conversation about their graphic novel of World War Two and the story of its creative development through using online resources. PAMA will present scans of war-related documents from its archives, artifacts on loan from the Lorne Scots Museum, and artworks by Chris Seaman.

After the event is over, Visual Arts Brampton will be presenting Seaman's artwork for the month of November on the second level of Four Corners, in our display cases. His new works are a coloured pencil with watercolour added.

Chris was a member of Visual Arts Brampton for many years, when he lived in Brampton. Christopher exhibited at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa in the 1990s. In 2010, illustrations from his novel, Sargasso, were on display at Artway Gallery.  

Tad Majewski at Artway Gallery

We installed a twenty-year retrospective of work by Tad Majewski, featuring his fine art, illustration, and digital works.

Majewski is an illustrator based in Caledon, born and educated in Poland. His clients include advertising, design, editorial, corporate and book publishing markets in North America and around the world.

Artway Gallery is located in Shoppers World Brampton (Hurontario and Steeles), between Winners and Bluenotes.

We've just posted photos of select works on exhibit.

Floral show on display, artists working at event

The Visual Arts Brampton touring Floral Art Show 2012 is now on display at Brampton City Hall, as part of their Art in the Atrium program. Just the first stop of the summer, works will travel to Carabram's Canada pavilion, Artway Invitational Gallery, the Canadian National Exhibition, and Four Corners branch of the Brampton Library.

A complete set of thumbnails of this art will be posted on the VAB website in the coming days.

We've just confirmed that VAB will be returning to the porch of City Hall, before the Flower City Parade. Ryan C. Thompson, Jacqueline Veltri, and Debra Ali painting flowers en plein air June 16, the same day as the Brampton Farmer's Market, Brampton Horticultural Society flower show, Yogapalooza, and the Flower City Parade.

In March, VAB had a general member's show at the Atrium. In July, we'll be installing an exhibit of portraits by the Wednesday bunch.

2012 VAB board of directors announced

At this year's annual general meeting, we said a fond fairwell to longtime treasurer Pat Wepf, who's retiring from the position after more than a decade. Luis Barrios, elected to the board last month, is now treasurer with training from Pat. Ryan C. Thompson is newly elected to the board.

Keith Moreau, president, Jacqueline Veltri, vice president, and Bill Riopka, secretary. Stephanie Czolij, Paul Draper, Marian Simpson all return as members at large.

Alecia Charney did not stand for re-election.

Ryan and Keith set to judge Dufferin-Peel Catholic board show

Keith Moreau and Ryan C. Thompson are both set to judge the Images 2012: Dufferin Peel's Boardwide Student Art Exhibition at Mississauga City Hall. The show will run from Friday, May 18th at 5pm to Thursday, May 24th at 5pm in Mississauga Civic Center's Great Hall.

Thompson will judge the Junior Painting Award for his first time, and Moreau will return for the Printmaking Award, which he first chose for in 2008.

Marnie Richards from the Brampton Arts Council judges an award from their organization, and Hazel McCallion traditionally judges a category on behalf of her office.

2012 Annual General Meeting: April 23

The Visual Arts Brampton's annual general meeting will be held at the studio Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7 pm.

Current members who cannot attend may vote by proxy, available at the studio.

Note that Pat Wepf will be stepping down as treasurer at the meeting, after more than a decade in the position. Board member Luis Barrios will be standing for election, for the treasurer position.

Home assignments, 2012

• Pet in a container
• Shoes hanging on a doorknob
• Plant in a container
• View of yard
• Table and chairs
• Liquid in a container
• Winter gear
• Tools
• Electronic device(s)
• Food
• Accessories
• Open drawer containing stuff
• Interior of vehicle
• Shelf of things
• Board game(s)
• Scattered family Photos
• Heirloom(s)
• Currency
• Back view of a person's head
• Crumpled or broken container
• Footwear
• Mirror image
• Collection
• Musical instrument
• Sport items
• Eyewear
• Home
• Corner of room
• Antiques
• Kitchen utensils
• Warped face
• Clothes hanging on a chair
• 2 or more creatures combined as one
• Stiarcase
• Playground
• Toys
• Something with wheels
• Branch of a tree

Brampton-only newsfeed on Facebook launched

Want to know the latest news from across Brampton, through Facebook, but don't want to "Like" all the different pages?

Facebook has just launched an Interests feature, allowing people to create curated lists. Nick Moreau has created "Brampton", which aggregates pages on organizations like VAB, the Brampton Excelsiors, and the Brampton Board of Trade, businesses like Shoppers World Brampton, Brampton Battalion, and Chapters Brampton, and Brampton celebs like Tyler Seguin and Russell Peters. Also included are news outlets The Brampton Guardian, SNAP Brampton, and FlowerCityMoms.

Not only are all the updates gathered together in one place, you can Like, Comment, or Share directly from the list.

For one click access to what's happening in town, subscribe to the Brampton list on Facebook.

Yulia launches a website

Visual Arts Brampton member Yulia Duchenko has launched a website, yuliasfineart.com.

Yulia joined VAB in September 2010, and is now a full-time visual artist. Click through the sidebar to see new artworks as they're posted.