VAB youth classes announce 2011 home assignment lists

Click here for the 2011 home assignment list, for all youth classes.

These categories are for ease of use only, you can pick and choose 12 favourites from these 32, regardless of what category they’re in.

Around the kitchen

1. Crumpled drink container
2. Kitchen appliance
3. Kitchen tools
4. Place setting
5. Sink, tap, dishes

Wear it

1. Beauty products
2. Hat with glass, sunglasses
3. Shoes hanging on a door knob
4. Backpack on staircase

Things In Things

1. Items in recycling box
2. Pet in a container
3. Three different sizes of jars, with items in them
4. Dresser or cabinet, door open, items in it
5. Footwear in pile
6. Plant in container

Open-ended

1. Rhyming objects
2. Same object, twice, the second time changed in some way
3. My favourite treat(s)

Etc.

1. Electronic device
2. Video device (video recording or projection)
3. Board game pieces
4. Cleaning products (floor, laundry, mouth)
5. Crumpled money
6. Fasteners
7. Household room interior
8. Items showing wheels
9. Lamp with a book and a glass
10. Mode of travel (multi-person)
11. Reflection of yourself on an item
12. Set of keys on a lock (keyring or keychain)
13. Sports or recreation equipment
14. View from a window

Patricia Storms part of Laughlines 2011 at Artway

As part of our 13th annual Laughlines exhibit, we're very proud to announce that 13 Ghosts of Halloween illustrator Patricia Storms is our newest exhibitor in this year's show.

Based out of Toronto, she's an illustrator and cartoonist whose work is featured by publishers including Scholastic Canada, Kids Can Press, Owlkids Books, Bloomsbury US, American Greetings, and The National Post.

Having illustrated many picture books, she both wrote and illustrated a recent title — The Pirate and the Penguin. It and the French 13 Ghosts of Halloween have been named to "Great Books" lists by the Canadian Toy Testing Council.

Her editorial cartoons have won the Cartoon of the Year (over 10,000 circulation) from the Ontario Community Newspapers Association 2008 Better Newspaper Awards.

For more information on Patricia, and to explore her works, visit her blog BookLust, her portfolio website, or fan her on Facebook.

This year's Laughlines will be at both Artway Gallery in April, and Artway Invitational Gallery in mid-April to mid-May; Patricia will be part of the Artway Gallery show in the northwest corner of Shoppers World Brampton mall.

VAB floral art show back at Carabram's Canada Pavilion

See what was scheduled last year
at Carabram's Canada pavilion.

We've just confirmed with one of the two organizers of Carabram's Canada pavilion that we're scheduled to return this summer, with our touring floral art show. The event happens the evening of July 8, all day July 9, and the morning/afternoon of July 10, 2011.

As always, many thanks to The Canadian Autoworkers Union, Local 1285 for hosting the annual event. Without their leadership a few years back, and continued support to this event, the Canada pavilion would surely still be a "wish it was still around".

View the 2009 Carabram event online.

The floral art show will also visit City Hall Brampton in June, Artway Invitational Gallery in mid-July to mid-August, and the Four Corners branch of the Brampton Library in September. More locations to be announced.

Watercolours with William Band returns March 15

William Band is teaching another round of workshops at Visual Arts Brampton, from March 15 to April 5, 2011. The 4-week-long course costs $100, running Tuesdays from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

To register, contact visualartsbrampton@gmail.com or 905-453-9142.

VAB's 25th continues at Rose Theatre, March to June

Currently on display at the Art Gallery at the Rose Theatre are Visual Arts Brampton artists Debra Ali, William Band, Keith Moreau, Ryan Christopher Thompson, and Jacqueline Veltri. The show features five works of each of the five artists, in celebration of the group's 25th anniversary. The show wraps March 3.

Visual Arts Brampton has been invited back for a continuation. Along with works by the five artists listed above, various other members are participating in this second showing. They are Cindy Langdon, Luis Barrios, Paul Highgate, Peter Emslie, Merlene Boyce, Yulia Duchenko, Betty Jean Evans, and Stephanie Czolij.

This second show will premiere to visitors that night, viewing shows Aion Clarke and Kellylee Evans, and  ALTdot Comedy Lounge on Location, and continue on until early June 2011.

Jim Caswell previewing MonsterMashupTv at Laughlines 2011

Our first announcement of special guest exhibitors, for this year's Laughlines exhibit at Artway Gallery? Jim Caswell.

Jim Caswell, a long resident of Brampton, has worked in the animation industry for over 25 years.  He is currently developing animated projects. The show will preview samples of his current creator owned project: MonsterMashupTv.

Jacqueline Veltri in Colored Pencil Society of America online show

Congratulations to Visual Arts Brampton member Jacqueline Veltri, who was accepted into the Colored Pencil Society of America's Explore This! 7 2011. Her accepted artwork is Ergy at Play, of course, in coloured pencil (plus watercolour).

According to their website: "The Colored Pencil Society of America is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 exclusively dedicated to artists working with colored pencil. Representing several countries around the world and with almost 2000 members, CPSA provides two annual exhibitions (one online and the other in conjunction with the annual convention), product research information, workshops & seminars, a newsletter, a networking directory, and district chapters across the United States."