John Knox Christian School at Silver Clips

Visual Arts Brampton will welcome John Knox Christian School to the new Silver Clips Artworks Gallery on Monday, when representatives from the school will arrive with student artwork, including pieces themed to Easter.

While most art at Silver Clips will be reproduced, the hanging system also allows for works on paper and light board to be hung, as is the case with this upcoming show.

John Knox is a multi-denominational Christian school founded in 1959, that offers junior kindergarden through grade 8. They exhibited at Silver Clips' predecessor, Fridge Front Gallery, in 2009, and twice in 2010.

The student section of Silver Clips is open to all local schools; the rest of the cases are open to all, of any age, from anywhere, see website for details on the process. The gallery space is located in the northwest corner of Shoppers World Brampton, in the entry corridor between Winners and Bluenotes.

Mail art call for "wagpost: Open Topic"

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Visual Arts Brampton is rebooting its mail art project, with Wagpost: Open Topic, a call for display at Fridge Front Gallery.

• All works/repros should be 4 x 6 inches (10 × 15 cm).
• Any subject, any medium, etc. No hatred, nudity or overly religious themes, as we're set up in a mall, but pretty much anything else is fair game.
• Works must be received by April 22, 2011. All others will be kept on file for future shows.

Send to:

wagpost c/o VAB
1 Bartley Bull Parkway, Suite 10
Brampton ON
L6W 3T7 Canada

Selected works will be shown on the Wagpost Facebook page, and through @wagpost on Twitter.

World Art Gallery, our dedicated mail art exhibit space, closed in 2010 to make way for Artway Invitational Gallery.

This weekend: Brampton's Best Undiscovered Comic Artist contest at Stadium Comics' Free Comic Book Day

Think you have what it takes to impress in the world of comic art? Submit a sample of your work to us on Free Comic Book Day. The submissions will go up on Stadium Comics' Facebook page, and the public will vote on which one is the best!

The winner gets a $25 Stadium Gift Certificate, and a two-week exhibit at Visual Arts Brampton's Fridge Front Gallery. The winner gets the "three door" case to themselves, and can display whatever comic art they'd like. The winner chooses the start date for this show, which can be anytime between June and August.

For Free Comic Books Day, Stadium Comics has invited a tons of guests, including Marcio Takara and Alex Milne. Both artists exhibited at Artway Gallery this January, in an exhibit presented by VAB and Stadium Comics. New this year is Ken Lashley, whose titles include Black Panther, X-Men, and The Flash. There's also a ton of stuff on sale in store, an exclusive t-shirt offer, costume creation company Heroes in Tights, raffles, contests, and giveaways.

The most notable giveaway is the reason for the international event, free copies of select comic books. This year's lineup includes titles based on Superman, Ironman, Thor, The Simpsons, Archie, Toy Story and more. But be warned, there's only a limited supply, and they go extremely quickly.

  

Here's two pictures from last year's event, that VAB posted to Twitter.

Makini in the Booster, Glenn Bernabe online

An article about VAB student Makini Calliste-Woolard has appeared in this week's Brampton Booster, the Thursday newspaper published by the Guardian. A longer version of the article appears online.

Our upcoming workshop, taught by Glenn Bernabe, appears online and will hopefully make the print edition. Over the last few months, The Guardian has begun to publish articles online immediately, before the print edition comes out.

Two high schools booked for Fridge Front Gallery

Recently, we've had Fridge Front bookings for:

• Mayfield Secondary School Regional Arts Program, dates to be decided.
• North Peel Secondary School, March 22 to April 9, 2010.

Video of John Knox shows

New video (in 1080p, no less) on YouTube of select art from the current and previous John Knox Christian School exhibitions.

John Knox returns with another show

John Knox Christian School's Christmas-themed exhibit has been so popular, we've invited them back for January. On Friday afternoon, staff from the school will be switching over from one set of art to another.

Fridge Front Gallery is open to any school in the GTA: any grade, public or private, can exhibit any art projects they choose, for a two-week period. Fridge Front also features artwork by Visual Arts Brampton's youth class students, with theming based on Artway Gallery's schedule of exhibitions.

Following the John Knox exhibit are shows by Mayfield's Regional Arts Program and of Canada's Paralympic athletes.

Podi Paralympic to be at Battalion game, for VAB

Podi, the mascot of the Petro-Canada Paralympic Schools Program, is visiting Brampton this week, courtesy of Visual Arts Brampton. Why VAB? We'll discuss that later.

Podi is the spokescat of a program around since 2003, aiming to raise awareness of Paralympic sport and athletes with a physical disability. Podi was launched in 2007 by the Canadian Paralympic Committee, in the leadup to the Beijing Paralympics, making appearances around the country.

Podi will be appearing:

• Thursday, December 3: Brampton Battalion takes on the Oshawa Generals at the Powerade Centre, from 7 to 10 pm. During the intermission, there's a demonstration of sledge hockey by some local teams; sledge hockey is a Winter Paralympic sport.
• More dates may be announced.
  

In the new year, VAB's students will be creating artwork featuring Canadian Paralympians, for display at Fridge Front Gallery. Many thanks to the Canadian Paralympic Committee for providing the reference photos they will be working from, and letting Podi visit Brampton.

'Tis the Season, John Knox on exhibit at SWB

In today's issue of The Brampton Guardian (the Weekend edition), check out the article on John Knox Christian School's exhibit of Christmas art, "Fridge Front gallery gets festive".

Both the John Knox show and 'Tis the Season, our adult exhibit, went in today. On display are Stan Adams, William Band, Stephanie Czolij, Marguerite Finlayson, Conrad Mieschke, Dolores Miron, Marian Simpson, Warren Simpson, and Jacqueline Veltri.

Both exhibits run until January 4, 2010.

Dog art on display at Fridge Front

Newly on display at Fridge Front Gallery is a selection of dog drawings created by Visual Arts Brampton's Thursday evening open studio participants, members of its three older youth classes, and Artway exhibitor Devere Wint.

Students created the works over three weeks, and the creations cover the 6 main fridge doors at Fridge Front.

The exhibit will move to Happy Dogs Canine Centre in the coming weeks; Happy Dogs is a new business at 2578 Bovaird Dr W, en route to Norval.

W.G. Davis art class on display at Fridge Front

Artwork by Grace Bailey's Visual Arts class is on display now, at Fridge Front Gallery. Ms. Bailey teaches at William Grenville Davis Senior Public School, just up the road from the VAB studios. Her classes have exhibited in 2006 and 2007, and we're glad to welcome her back to Fridge Front again.

View a panoramic shot of this exhibit on Twitpic.

Landscapes, National Youth Week installed last night

Last night, the Landscapes exhibit was installed at Artway. Featured in the exhibit is long-time Visual Arts Brampton member Conrad Mieschke. Also on display are Luis Barrios, Marguerite Finlayson, Dolores Miron, William H. Simmons (pictured, hanging one of his works).

Also installed last night was the National Youth Week exhibit, presented in partnership with the City of Brampton Arts, Culture & Theatre department. Original and reproduced artwork was submitted to the Rose Theatre and Pearson Theatre by the public, and to the studio by our youth students. The result is a great, diversely-themed show in our Fridge Front Gallery space.

1969 at Fridge Front

For quite a few weeks now, Fridge Front Gallery has featured portraits, animal art, and still lifes by Visual Arts Brampton youth students to the theme of 1969. Why was the year 1969 chosen? It's actually Shoppers World Brampton's 40th anniversary this year. (Their branding has had a fresh, yet retro makeover.)

Also on display right now are cartoons by the Visual Arts Brampton youth art students.

Finally, there's a selection of art between the fridge doors, created by young mall visitors on Saturday, April 4 during our Laughlines exhibit celebration event.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fridge Front Gallery bookings

So far, Fridge Front Gallery at Shoppers World is booked twice this year. During unbooked times, the space shows Visual Arts Brampton youth student work.

• December 27, 2008-January 2, 2009: Roberta Bondar Public School
• March 9-20, 2009: Roberta Bondar Public School

Roberta Bondar is a returning exhibitor, having exhibited in October/November 2005 and April 2008. We welcome them back.

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.