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.