Guardian: "Former resident featured in art exhibit"

Artway guest exhibitor John Bindon was interviewed by The Brampton Guardian recently, and the article is now available on the Guardian website as "Former resident featured in art exhibit".

VAB acknowledged by Battalion/CN Community Ticket Program

The Brampton Battalion are going to face off against the Kingston Frontenacs this Thursday, February 5, at 7 pm.

Why are we mentioning this? They play games all the time, what make this one special?

VAB has been recognised through the CN Community Ticket Program.

In the words of one of the sport club's interns, "This program provides 20 tickets to every Battalion home game to a not-for-profit organization that has an impact on the community of Brampton and surrounding areas."

We've distributed the tickets to board members, volunteers, and other members that have made a difference in VAB's operations as a community group. We thank CN and the Battalion for this recognition.

Art Gallery of Peel Juried Show form available

The form for the 36th Annual Art Gallery of Peel Juried Art Show is now online.

Entry fee is $12 for members of the Peel Heritage Complex, $15 for non-members; you can submit from March 23 to 29, 2009. Artists can submit one work, to make sure jurors are not overwhelmed. Artist Lyn Carter and Burlington Arts Centre's Director of Programs George Wale are adjudicating the show.

Interestingly, our group's president, Keith Moreau, is pictured on the back of the pamphlet. He's at the opening with his wife, who's turned the other way.


About the show
Form

One of the 6-to-8-year-old classes full

The 9:30 to 11:00 am class for 6-to-8-year-olds, taught by Emily Kowalik and Paulina Su, is full for 2009. Unless someone is to move part way through the year, or stop attending for another reason, no new students will be admitted.

The 11:30 am to 1:00 pm time does have a few spots available, however. If you'd like to sign up, contact the studio, ASAP.

Nov. 2010 invitational show announced: Brampton Quilters' Guild

From 30 October to 26 November 2010, Artway Gallery in Shoppers World Brampton will feature Invitational Show: Brampton Quilters' Guild. The exhibit will feature original quilts by some of their members.

Founded by a group of night school students and their teacher, back in 1987, the guild's member varies between 120 and 160. They meet from September to June each year, and have various quilt related programs.

We look forward to their display!

Brampton Quilters' Guild
Brampton Quilters' Guild blog (new posts from their blog now appear on our blog's sidebar, see below)

Youth award winner photos

Many thanks to Nicholas, Makini's father, for these photos of the youth awards ceremony. Click to enlarge.

Around the Web: January 2009

A few quick links to interesting sites around the web:

• Vancouver Animation is a new site, described by its publishers as an "Online Gazette", with weekly interviews, features, a directory, and forums.
• We presume most people have heard of it by now, but we've been subscribing to Canadian Brushstroke Magazine for over a year now; with a free online subscription, you get a link to a PDF magazine every two months.
• If you're looking for reference photos that you can legally work from for your art, try Flickr's Creative Commons search. Just type in your search term, then check off all three boxes in the Creative Commons section. This will narrow the search results to only the pictures that professional and hobbyist photographers have released as "CC-BY". You do have to give credit to the photographer, as the creator of the original work, but otherwise you're good to go.
  

Sir Winston Churchill at Fridge Front

Starting Saturday, January 10, come see art by students at Sir Winston Churchill Public School. Their grade 5 class has created 21 works on the theme "What type of learner am I?".

Their creations will be displayed on the three fridge door section, while the exhibit by Roberta Bondar Public School continues on the six fridge door section.

We're always looking for more schools to participate; visit our page about "Fridge Front Gallery" to learn more, or contact us directly.

Drawing in Colour and Black and White workshop starts February

Drawing in Colour and Black and White
with Keith Moreau
Wednesdays, February 11 to April 1, 2009
7-9 pm

This 8-week workshop covers an overview of perspective, still life drawing, portraits, two weeks of the whiteline drawing medium of scratchboard, and two weeks with the art of coloured pencil.

Keith Moreau is a Brampton artist-illustrator, and has taught for this workshop for many years, at various locations around the GTA. His Patriotic Pickup coloured pencil piece was shown in the nationally-entered and nationally-touring Art of the Automobile exhibit, which included a stop in Toronto at the Canadian International Autoshow. He was the 1992 City of Brampton Arts Person of the Year.

Keith's artwork, along with that of William Band, Emily Kowalik, and Paulina Su, will be featured in Artway Gallery at Shoppers World, this January.

Floral Images of Flower City scheduled

We've just confirmed that "Floral Images of Flower City", our annual show at Brampton City Hall's Art in the Atrium gallery space, is back on for 2009.

The show will run Tuesday, June 3 until Monday, June 30, during regular city business hours. (Set up for the show will be at 4:30 pm June 2.)

The show, which has gone under a few different titles, was first launched in the spring of 2002. Ever since Brampton's Sesquicentennial anniversary (150 years), we've had the exhibit in June, simultaneous to the Brampton Horticultural Society's flower show, the Flower City Parade, and until it ceased operation, the Brampton Folk Festival.

Out and About: Etobicoke Civic Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga

Saturday, we visited two area galleries. First off was the Willowdale Group of Artists' Juried Exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre Gallery. Over 70 pieces were on display, with an interesting cross-section.

The next exhibit looks intriguing as well, an exhibit of batiks by youth from the Jamestown and Jane and Finch neighbourhoods.

(The listing of shows on the gallery's site ended in June last year. For more information on the gallery, apparently the phone number is 416-394-8390.)

Next up was the Art Gallery of Mississauga's Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Art Show. We were delighted to discover Visual Arts Brampton member and Don Mills resident Mary Chorniuk was accepted in the show. Her oil landscape "Carmino de Santiago, Galicia, Spain" is at the entrance to the largest room of the gallery. Wendy Vervoovt, Cathy Griggs, and Steve Volpe took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively in the show. Honourable mentions go to Margaret Squire, Susan Dawn, and Z. Q. Lon.

An extra treat at the Mississauga City Hall was an exhibit of Japanese dolls, presented by The Japan Foundation. Their quite well-designed, and apparently the Bradley Museum and Mississauga Library Central Branch have other artifacts on display.

wag:reboot

The World Art Gallery (WAG), Visual Arts Brampton's international postcard-art exhibit space at Shoppers World Brampton, has been refreshed with many new artworks, and a new hanging system.