1969

New at Fridge Front Gallery is 1969, an exhibit of youth art, all relating to the year Shoppers World opened.

• Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady, of The Brady Bunch, which premiered in 1969.
• Don Messick, voice actor who provided the voice of the lead in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and its spin-offs, which debut in 1969.
• Jimi Hendrix, who performed at the Woodstock Festival.
  
• the AMC Rambler, made in Brampton, ceasing production that year.
• "The Eagle", the Apollo 11 lunar lander.
• A penguin, to represent the species negatively affected by DDT, an issue that continued to build in 1969.
  
• Three people born that year: Jack Black, Jennifer Aniston, and Emmitt Smith.

Also on display are many other works by the students, plus a few remaining works by the students from Roberta Bondar Public School. The exhibit of Sir Winston Churchill students has been taken down, and will be returned to their students in a few days.

Portrait exhibit "Making Faces" now on display

Last night, the annual portrait exhibit Making Faces went on display. On display this month are Mary Chorniuk, Marguerite Finlayson, Craig Fleming, Tony Jenkins, Mary Noble, Elizabeth Patrick, Marian Simpson, and Devere Wint.

Ashley Goodfellow posed for a portrait

Also on display is a section of portraits of Ashley Goodfellow, the arts reporter for The Brampton Guardian. She actually posed for the portrait bunch last Wednesday, from 10 am to 2 pm. While you always get a fantastic variety of styles and mediums when you visit Artway, this is especially interesting, to see six different takes on the same face.

Her posing for the portrait bunch was embedded journalism, if you will, as Ashley was doing research for a story on the portrait exhibit and on our weekly portrait session.

The Globe's Tony Jenkins on display
Later this afternoon, we'll be displaying Tony Jenkins' portraiture. Tony is best known as the editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail, for which he also does various illustrations. He was a finalist for the National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning, an award administered
by the Canadian Newspaper Association.

From Toronto, Tony’s black and white cartooning has influenced his painting, in his search for line and structure. His travels through the Third World have engendered his love of dramatic colour and heightened his fascination with the human face. Some of his roadside sketches appeared in early editions of the Lonely Planet travel guide series.

Jenkins has previously exhibited at various galleries and restaurants, including Toronto music pantheon Hugh's Room, where he showed his folk, blue, and soul musician caricatures. His caricatures will be part of next month's Laughlines exhibit.

Tony's site: jenkins draws

A few links about Tony's cartoons:
Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists: "Anthony Jenkins: An interview with resident Globe & Mail illustrator"
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: "Slightly Wryer in Canada"
Drawn.ca

National Youth Week 2009 Art Showcase

As seen on The Brampton Guardian and Orangeville Banner websites this past Thursday, and presumably in the paper editions very soon, Visual Arts Brampton is hosting the National Youth Week 2009 Art Showcase.

The City of Brampton and Visual Arts Brampton are calling young artists, asking them to show off their work as part of National Youth Week in Brampton.

The National Youth Week 2009 Art Showcase is open to local youth between the ages of 10 and 19. For the first three weeks of May, Fridge Front Gallery will feature the works, in this Canada-wide celebration of youth.

Guidelines:

- art work needs to featured on a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper (do not bend or fold the sheet)
- no art will be returned, so photocopies are suggested
- youth must be between the ages of 10-19
- multiple pieces may be entered by one artists; there is no guarantee that all the pieces will be featured as space is limited
- there is no theme to the showcase, although the National Youth Week Committee has the right to withhold art from being shown

Artwork may be submitted by mail to:

Konrad Skorupa
1 Theatre Lane
Brampton, Ontario
L6V 0A3

Or it can be dropped off in person at the Rose Theatre Box Office or Lester B. Pearson Theatre Box Office.

Rose Theatre Box Office
Monday – Saturday 10:00AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday: Closed if no event

Lester B. Pearson Theatre Box Office
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM, 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Wednesday: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday: Closed if no event

A few notes on Zazzle...

• Check out some of the new art products we've added to Zazzle, as we're gradually starting to grow the selection even more.
  

• Artist will now get the entire 10% royalty for their works sold. Zazzle pays us 10% of the purchase price of any item. Originally, we were going to keep 3% as a fee for putting your work online. We've now decided that all of the royalty will go to the artist, to keep thing nice and simple, and a touch more lucrative from your perspective, as the artist.
  

• We received our first cheque with royalties from Zazzle: it actually had a Zazzle-produced American stamp on it. The quality of the stamp was actually much better than I expected, a good printing quality and paper, very reassuring.