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Bringing her interpretation of Tangka artwork to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery

Tamara Dawn has been travelling to India for the past 15 years. On August second she brings her personal interpretation of Tibetan Thangka art to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery in a watercolour collection called ‘Buddha as a Principle.’ 

“I was 18 when I took my first trip to the east, I went to Nepal. I went to India when I was maybe 20.  I’ve been  back and forth several times, going to India and Nepal, and then coming back to Canada and integrating what I learned,” she began.  

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Elevenses: A Creative Writing Workshop At the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery

Elevenses will be coming to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery.

“A lot of people are like, ‘Elevenses? What is Elevenses?’ Well, Elevenses is the time of day.  I believe it’s a Harry Potter thing, but it’s not really why I like it. I like it because it’s a great name for the time of day. We’re going to meet at 11 and really the whole intent of doing this is to spark imagination. It really is not so much about creative writing and preparing something that’s going to come to completion. It’s about a process. So we’re going to enter this evocative  experiential  installation space at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery at 11 o’clock Wednesday, July 24th as a group,” explained Jane Newman, who will lead this creative writing workshop. 

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Adrift Above The Arctic Circle: Love Of Place

The current exhibition at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery, by Iris Steigemann, is an expression of Topophilia: the affective bond between a person and a place. The art works of Adrift above the Arctic Circle are symbols that have the power to suggest the whole. The whole of a place–with no editing, shaping, distorting through politics, commercial interests or customs. In our daily lives, primary experience is often screened by multiple layers of distortion, yet art can clear this fog. Here are some ways in which I think Iris has met this critical challenge of clear seeing.

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Painting with Eyes Closed at the Art Gallery: Passing the test

Tests in art school are rarely what we imagine.  In Painting with Eyes Closed, the current exhibition at the Old Schoolhouse art gallery, Filipe Figueria has taken up the challenge of this test: a painting should be satisfying at a distance of both 12 inches and 12 feet.  So, what does it mean to be “satisfying?”

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Coming July 5: Iris Steigemann, Adrift Above The Arctic Circle

Iris Steigemann was an artist before she came to Cortes island in 1980, but for the last five or six years her work has taken on a new focus. 

“I’ve been painting icebergs. What fascinates me is the underneath of the iceberg. You usually see  a quarter to a third of an iceberg above the water.  Under the water, it’s kind of a dream landscape.  I  like to play around with that,” she explained.

“There is also the environmental aspect of it. The ice cap there is  melting way faster than  what was expected.  The thickest part of the ice cap in Greenland is about three kilometers deep. They’re doing ice cores of this and they can actually see what kind of weather there was, what was happening on earth at those times. Now  this is all melting.  They break off and a lot of them from Ilulissat Icefjord actually float around to the Canadian side.  They drift down the east coast and then they melt.” 

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