The next Conversation Cafe asks ‘what does quality and accessible education look like and how do we support it? Colin Funk, President of the Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA), will be the facilitator of this public meeting in the Pioneer Room of Mansons Hall from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Thursday, November 16.
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“I think that artists have a finger on the pulse of what’s going on. We need a place to show work, and we need to gather and see what’s going on.” – Janet Turpin.
“For me personally, it gives me a sense of connection to the deeper understanding of what’s behind art and it’s a mirror of what’s going on in the community. It’s a mirror of what’s going on in the world. That’s what I think artists tap into.” – Lynne Barker
“Art reflects life and then life reflects art again. Personally, it helped me grow as an artist. If I look back in 1997 and I look back now, I grew in this gallery. As artists, we come together. We talk about the shows. We talk about art, I have learned so much.” – Meinsje Vlaming.
They were responding to the question, ‘why is the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery important?’
The Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery just celebrated its 26th anniversary. Some of its early posters and reproductions of artwork were put up on the walls for the society’s recent AGM. During conversation with some of the earlier members, Cortes Currents learned the gallery was in operation prior to the beginning of written records in 1997.
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It is usual to look at one artist’s work hanging in a gallery. It may be more complicated to look at 20 artists displaying more than 30 pieces on the walls in almost every media used to create art.
Here are some ways I enjoy looking at art in a group show.
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Christann Kennedy’s exhibition, continuing at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery, demonstrates that good art never stops revealing itself. Christann states that she thinks “about the interactions that occur along the borderlines between colours…when colours appear to activate and enliven each other, push each other forward or back, conflict with each other, or blend and harmonize like the notes of a musical cord.” Here are some ways to travel in these colour borderlands.
Continue reading Art review for Chroma, A journey into colourFour ways to read three chapters
Vijen Vijendren’s exhibition: My Life in Three Chapters, now showing at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery, is as richly varied as the story of his travels. But how to look at art pieces that are so dramatically different in size, in materials used, and in ways of applying those materials?
Vijen’s work creates a whole from craft, technology, philosophy and imagination. These four aspects come together to make something wonderful, and are ways to see his body of work.
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