Thanks to the South Asian Voice

tA quick thanks to the South Asian Voice, a Metroland newspaper distributed with the Guardian to some areas of the town. They mentioned our Fridge Front Gallery in the latest "In Brief" section, looking for exhibitors.

DeSerres 10% discount confirmed

Visual Arts Brampton President Keith Moreau was just talking with the manager of the Vaughan Mills DeSerres. Indeed, the store offers Visual Arts Brampton members as 10% discount off regularly priced items.

This is the same discount rate that Curry's offers, and like Curry's, the reduction does not apply to sales items.

For reference sake (and this is all according to Google Maps) from the studio to each art store, these are the distances:

• 17.2 km to Curry's Mississauga (755 Queensway East)
  
• 25.5 km to DeSerres Oakville (2501 Hyde Park Gate)
  
• 27.6 km to DeSerres Vaughan Mills (1 Bass Pro Mills Drive, Concord)
• 31.4 km to Curry's Oakville (353 Iroquois Shore Road)

Additionally, there is a Michael's 0.4 km away, and another 11.5 km away, but their prices are generally higher than at Curry's or DeSerres.

Note, this post was edited on 1:18 pm at January 6, 2008, to rid the distances of highways. It turns out the distances were longer with highways.

Guardian: "Designer featured at Artway"

Back on the 19th, Devere Wint was mentioned in The Brampton Guardian. On page 10 of the paper, it talks about Devere being the featured artist in 'Tis the Season.

Strangely, the article doesn't appear on the website. We're investigating.

Roberta Bondar Public School's art now on display

Keith Moreau just helped local artist/teacher Shabana Bhutta install an exhibit of works by Roberta Bondar Public School. The exhibit will be at Fridge Front Gallery from today until mid-January 2009.

Most of the works on display are by students in grade 5 or 7.

This is the school's third exhibit at Fridge Front. Their previous exhibits were from 15 October to 29 November 2005 and 6 to 19 April 2008.

Kahani art contest for kids

For any kids or parents reading the VAB blog, literary magazine Kahani has an illustration contest available. If you illustrate the first or second winning short story, you have the chance to be published in their spring 2009 issue, and you receive $50. Pakistani-American artist Ambereen Butt is the judge.

To enter, read the stories, create an illustration, and send it in with this form.

2009 youth classes

Spots are filling up for 2009 youth classes.

If you wish to renew for 2009, or sign up new, you might consider coming before December 20, when the award ceremonies happen, as after then may be too late.

6-8 year olds
9:30 to 11:00 am: 8 students signed up for 2009
11:30 am to 1:00 pm: 6 students signed up for 2009

9-12 year olds
One 11-year-old student has paid, but is yet to decide on a class time.
9:30 to 11:30 am: 12 students signed up for 2009
3:15 to 5:15 pm: 11 students signed up for 2009

13-18 year olds
1:00 to 3:00 pm: 17 students signed up for 2009

First posted on 18/11/08 at 9:53 AM, altered multiple times since.

Youth Achievement Award winners

Gold
Nicole D’Souza
Harveen Dulai
Navjit Dulai
Kavya Kaluarachchi
Priya Mistry
Ethan Peluso
Vick Pokhan
Mary Jane Seo
Makini Calliste-Woollard

Silver
Vishruti Dalal
Gurleen Dulai
Ranmeet Dulai
Courtney Davis
Rushi Gandhi
Sidra Kahloan
Milena Kulchenko
Anisha Mistry
Sophini Raveenthiran
Keshav Ramola
Jaskirat Sahi
Arooj Shahid
Tyler Singh
Natalie Stembo
Camilia Sukul
Debi Talukdar

Bronze
Gavan Braich

Life drawing to return January 13

Tuesday evening life drawing sessions will restart in the new year, on January 13.

Drawing and Watercolour with William Band

Drawing and Watercolour with William Band
Thursdays, February 12 to March 19, 2009
10 am to 2 pm
$60 for members, $75 for non-members

Join William Band early next year, and learn drawing and watercolour techniques. Learn how to read photos, and start with rough sketches to create a finished work.

Band has studied with respected Canadian artists including Alan Collier, Bill Stidworthy, and Franklin Arbuckle. After a successful career in commercial art, he returned to his first love, painting. William's art is based on his travels, from canoeing through northern Ontario lakes, to painting in Scotland.

Besides Visual Arts Brampton, William's workshop schedule includes stops across Ontario, as well as multiple times in Plain Field, Illinois.

Contact us to sign up for William's Drawing and Watercolour workshop.

Craigslist

Conrad now on our Zazzle store

The newest artist on Visual Arts Brampton's quickly growing Zazzle store is Conrad Mieschke. Check out his artwork on various products, ranging from shirts and hats, to mugs and greeting cards, even US stamps.

Zazzle is a print-on-demand store, and they ship the products within 24 hours of you ordering them. Visual Arts Brampton's store on Zazzle was created in late 2007, but only now be kicked into high-gear, thanks to modifications from the site which make it easier to upload works for sale.

Bridget Doughty's works now online

Works by the late-Bridget Doughty are now being put online, in a project by Big Folio Gallery. Works are sorted by subject matter.

The site will initially only feature currently unsold works, available for purchase at the gallery, but will eventually expand to previous works and her eight paintings in the collection of the Art Gallery of Peel.

Visit the quickly growing site, to explore her artwork.

2008 Youth Achievement Awards

The 2008 Youth Achievement Awards will be held Saturday, December 20, 2008 from 11 am until 1 pm, with the ceremony lasting roughly 11:20 am to noon. It will be held in the Visual Arts Brampton Creative Studios, as it was previous years.

There were 26 entrants this year.

This event is open only to those who entered into the competition, their relatives, and our selected volunteers. If you did not enter into the contest, please do not come to the studio this weekend.

Youth classes resume Saturday January 10, 2009.

Fridge Front: Sunny View to return

Sunny View Middle School will return to Fridge Front Gallery, from May 15-29, 2009. They previously display at the exhibit space in April 2007, showing their works relating to Value and One Point Perspective.

The schedule for Fridge Front now is:

• December 27, 2008-January 2, 2009: Roberta Bondar Public School
• March 9-20, 2009: Roberta Bondar Public School
• May15-29, 2009: Sunny View Middle School
  

WANT TO EXHIBIT?
If you'd like to have an exhibit of works at Fridge Front, just call us at 905-453-9142, or email us at visualartsbrampton@gmail.com, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Have a rough date range in mind, of when you'd likely be able to have a class/school/club exhibit.