art of the Peace | Issue #19

AGGP GRAND OPENING ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS3 STAINED GLASS ARTISTS

George &Marjorie

HennA COUPLE OF ARTISTS

FALL 2012 ISSUE 19 A PUBLICATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTIST

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At the CentreClasses for all ages and levels: -Children’s Classes -Crafts -Drawing -Glass -Fibre -Painting -Photography -Pottery -Workshops

Monthly Gallery ExhibitionsGift Shop featuring local artistsBirthday PartiesSchool and Group bookingsDrop In Studio Use

The Wall Gallery has several openings dur-ing 2013. If you are a Peace Country artist and wish to have an exhibition of your work, please contact the Centre.

We are looking for high quality art and craft items created by Peace Area artists for our gift shop.

Exhibition Opportunities

Gift Shop

9904-101 Avenue, Grande Prairie 780-814-6080 [email protected]

Like The Centre for Creative Arts on FacebookFollow #CreativeArtsGP on Twitter

November 30 - December 21 Reception: 7pm on November 30CFCA Christmas Show and Sale

January 4 - 25Reception: 7pm on January 4Grande Prairie CFCA Student Show

February 1 - 22Reception: 7pm on February 1Candace Popik and Lukaz HerbaThe Wall Gallery Corinne Cowan

March 1 - 29Reception: 7pm on March 1Tammy BadukThe Wall Gallery Gene Schultz

April 5 - 26Reception: 7pm on April 5Marcy HorswellThe Wall Gallery Megan Rycroft

May 3 - 31Reception: 7pm on May 3

June 7 - 28Reception: 7pm on June 7CFCA Invitational Exhibition

Upcoming Exhibitions


in this issue:

EDITOR:Eileen Coristine

DESIGN & ADVERTISING:imageDESIGN10017 100 AvenueGrande Prairie, AB T8V 0V2Phone: 780-532-6353Email: [email protected]

PUBLISHER:Art of the Peace Visual Arts Association, Box 25227, Wapiti Road P.O. Grande Prairie, AB T8W 0G2Phone: 780-532-2573 (Jim Stokes)Email: [email protected]

PRINTING:McCallum Printing Group

COVER:George & Marjorie Henn.Photo by Candice Popik, Popik Photography

©All rights reserved Art of the Peace 2012

Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited.

Art of the Peace makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information it publishes, but cannot be held responsible for any consequences arising from errors or omissions.

4. ARTIST’S STATEMENT

4. CONTRIBUTORS

5. ART OUT THERE

8. ART GALLERY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE GRAND OPENING A SEQUENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCES

10. THREE STAINED GLASS ARTISTS CREATING ART WITH LIGHT

14. GEORGE & MARJORIE HENN A COUPLE OF ARTISTS

20. CINDY VINCENT CAPTURING LIGHT

22. BRIAN JUNGEN THE APOCOLYPSE

23. ASSEMBLAGE

24. ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS FIVE YEARS OLD AND GROWING UP

28. EXHIBITIONS & OPPORTUNITIES

30. TONI SCHULER

Art of the Peace Visual Arts Association acknowledges the financial assistance of:

At the CentreClasses for all ages and levels: -Children’s Classes -Crafts -Drawing -Glass -Fibre -Painting -Photography -Pottery -Workshops

Monthly Gallery ExhibitionsGift Shop featuring local artistsBirthday PartiesSchool and Group bookingsDrop In Studio Use

The Wall Gallery has several openings dur-ing 2013. If you are a Peace Country artist and wish to have an exhibition of your work, please contact the Centre.

We are looking for high quality art and craft items created by Peace Area artists for our gift shop.

Exhibition Opportunities

Gift Shop

9904-101 Avenue, Grande Prairie 780-814-6080 [email protected]

Like The Centre for Creative Arts on FacebookFollow #CreativeArtsGP on Twitter

November 30 - December 21 Reception: 7pm on November 30CFCA Christmas Show and Sale

January 4 - 25Reception: 7pm on January 4Grande Prairie CFCA Student Show

February 1 - 22Reception: 7pm on February 1Candace Popik and Lukaz HerbaThe Wall Gallery Corinne Cowan

March 1 - 29Reception: 7pm on March 1Tammy BadukThe Wall Gallery Gene Schultz

April 5 - 26Reception: 7pm on April 5Marcy HorswellThe Wall Gallery Megan Rycroft

May 3 - 31Reception: 7pm on May 3

June 7 - 28Reception: 7pm on June 7CFCA Invitational Exhibition

Upcoming Exhibitions


EILEEN CORISTINE lives north of Fair-view on Rabbit Hill. East, west or south, the Peace River is less than an hour away. Rabbit Hill affords wonderful views of the distant hills across the Peace and Clear Hills. Surrounded by all this beauty, she is inspired to write, paint and mess about with found materials.

DEB GUERETTE has 25 years experi-ence as a news reporter, independent pub-lisher and communications specialist. Story-telling has been the most enjoyable element of all that work.

CANDICE POPIK is an Albertan Photog-rapher with over 10 years experience, combin-ing commercial and artistic photography to create memorable images. Born in Edmonton, and raised across Canada her view of the world around her is unique and ever changing. She loves animals, people and a good red wine.

MARGARET PRICE wrote her first book at the age of five. While certainly not destined for Pulitzer status, Margaret’s Book of Butter-flies laid the groundwork for a career in journal-ism. With degrees in Anthropology and Art His-tory from Vanderbilt University, she has been published in several American and Canadian publications.

WENDY STEFANSSON has earned degrees in English Lit and Education, as well as a diploma in Visual Arts. She is by turns (or all at the same time) an artist, a writer, a teacher and a mom. She was editor of Art of the Peace magazine from ‘06 to ‘08.

SUSAN THOMPSON has worked as a freelance journalist since 2001 and has writ-ten for numerous newspapers and magazines in Canada. When not writing articles, she de-votes her time to working on a fantasy novel titled “The Back Door to Hell.” Susan lives south of Peace River with her artist-blacksmith husband and two children.

Contributors

Providing that it has never happened to you before, you could be the cover artist on the 10th Anniversary Issue of Art of the Peace magazine next spring.

Imagine the thrill: Seeing your face and work on the cover of the magazine that showcases the best art in the Peace Region. Art of the Peace has a circulation of 1500 readers and is distributed throughout the Peace area and to galleries province wide.

There are many worthy and deserving artists in our region. Twice a year the Art of the Peace editorial committee meets to choose the artist for the cover of the next magazine. For our celebratory 10th Anniversary issue we’ve decided to leave that choice to a panel of experts. Three former cover artists will jury the Spring 2013 cover artist. The winning artist will be announced at the 10th Anniversary exhibition on April 11, 2013 at the Kin Gallery in Centre 2000, Grande Prairie. The magazine will feature a four-page article dedicated to the chosen artist’s life and art - it could be yours!

Submissions are due by January 31, 2013, and the details for entering are on our website at artofthepeace.ca. There will be a selection of the winning artists work plus all submissions will be considered for exhibition in the Art of the Peace 10th Anniversary Exhibition.

Becoming a member of Art of the Peace is easy and includes many benefits. To find out more go to artofthepeace.ca or call Art of the Peace president Jim Stokes at 780 532 2573.

If you are an art lover please tell your friends about this opportunity to grace the cover of our next magazine. If you are an artist, we hope you’ll join us in our quest to bring the best Peace Region art to our readers.

Artist’sStatementIT COULD BE YOU!

BY EILEEN CORISTINE

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FAST FORWARDSeptember 17 marked Kit Fast’s first day in charge of the Dawson Creek Art Gallery as Curator and Head of Public Relations.

“Since returning to my hometown of Dawson Creek I have worked as a commercial photographer, graphic designer and writer at Peace Photo-Graphics in Dawson Creek,” says Kit. “During that time I attended North-ern Lights College studying drawing, painting and sculpture.”

“The Dawson Creek Art Gallery will be working to strengthen our ties to the School District and (Northern Lights) College art programs and increase community involvement as we pre-pare for the 2013 celebration of the 30th anniversary of our current home in the last elevator standing,” Kit ex-plains. “As Dawson Creek expands, we will capture the excitement found in our growing, dynamic community.”

Kit describes his current artwork as “based on sewn canvas photographs combined with sculptural elements.”

FOSTERING CREATIVITYThis August, Lynn Dallaire took over the position of Program Director at the Beaverlodge and Area Cultural Centre. Lynn will be planning, pro-moting and booking art instructors for the centre, as well as seeking new opportunities to bring the public into the centre.

“I look forward to expanding school programs to the centre, and offering new programs for children,” she says “Children are our future patrons of the arts; lets get them excited about art when they are young so they can continue to foster their creativity into adulthood.”

Lynn studied in fine arts at University of Alberta with a degree in Art Edu-cation, and formerly received a di-ploma in Visual Communications at Grant MacEwan College. “Drawing and painting are my main passions, but I love to explore mixed media,” she explains. “Nature is my muse and painting the landscape ‘en plein aire’ has been a consistent pursuit for the last 10 years. Currently, I have been working on stitched drawings as I ex-plore the possibilities of mixing textile art with drawing. “

GREAT SHOWS AND EXCITING COURSESShari Robinson officially became manager at Fairview Fine Arts Centre on May 1.

“I am most excited by all the wonder-ful art, the talent, and a different per-spective of the world that each artist gives us a glimpse of,” says Robinson. “And I get to see it on a daily basis.”

“I haven’t been schooled in art but have had a love for it since elementary school,” she explains. “I used to sew, crochet, and do beadwork but have been too busy for that for a couple of years. Working here is so inspiring that I want to make more time for it again, and to learn more things.”

When asked for her vision for the Fair-view Fine Arts Centre, Shari replied, “My plan for the centre is to book great shows and have exciting cours-es that get filled up.”

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FRIENDS OF FRIENDSEight friends filled the walls of the Fairview Fine Arts Centre in August with their show Connie Larsback and Friends.

The impressive paintings were all the recent works of Larsback, Jessie Wolski, Malvina James, Del Schis-chikowsky, Peter Frixel, Barry Warne, Bernie Hoover and Kasie Campbell. The artists ranged from the well-re-spected Hines Creek painter Jessie Wolski to the relatively new artist on the scene, recent GPRC grad Kasie Campbell.

FFAC manager Shari Robinson de-scribes the show, “The Connie Lars-back and Friends Show was impres-sively fantastic! Connie’s abstracts were fabulous. Jessie has a great eye and who knew a rooster could have such attitude. Malvina’s still-lifes are so real: the detail that she sees and shares! My favorite Peter Frixel was Where’s Bob? The water was so black and translucent at the same time. Barry Warne gets a lot of detail into landscapes that are so rich. Bernie’s photos were wonderful; right place, right time and the talent to compose the picture. Del Schischikowsky’s work was also fabulous. All in all a wonderful combination of styles that compliment-ed each other.”

The artists met through the Northern Lights Artist Association. Their next ex-hibition will be a one-day show at the Hines Creek Seniors Drop In Centre on November 17th.

EXHIBITION RENEWS INTEREST IN RURAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY In a move to encourage interest in a small rural school and library located southwest of Beaverlodge, Alberta, Elmworth Community Library mem-bers hosted an art show last spring, featuring the works of Czech artist Josef Lang.

About 60 visitors of all ages attended the May 12 exhibition which showed 50 of Lang’s mainly watercolour land-scapes and pastoral scenes which are owned by several local collectors. It also included a display on Czecho-slovakia and its culture, as well as music by violinist Elizabeth Barta. Astride Wenigerova-Noga (pictured) gave a history of Lang, who is in his 90s and still resides in his homeland. She spoke of the spiritual element of the artist’s images and called him ‘The master of peace-saturated silence.’

“The school and library sits truly in the middle of nowhere, and people had to make an effort to come,” says We-nigerova-Noga, who lives in the area and is also an artist.

“We hope that, encouraged by this success, local artists might get inter-ested in presenting their works in the Elmworth Library in the future,” she adds.

HILL FESTEvery fall, Mitch and Christina Cedar welcome music and art lovers to their farmyard on the banks of the Spirit River. Hill Fest, a one-day party cel-ebrating the arts includes a stage for music and performance, the Art Walk and a potluck meal.

This year, held on September 8th, Hill Fest provided perfect weather, funky music, original art and a chance for those present to enjoy it all in good company.

“Christina and I were very satisfied with the whole event and thought it was the best yet. But they are all so unique and this apparently was the fifth one,” says Mitch. “To me events like this, in addition to having fun with family and friends, are about bridging connections with like-minded folks in this part of the region.” Adding, “I re-ally want to expand the Art Walk.”

Christina and Mitch are also the orga-nizers of Matta Fest, an annual early spring event occurring at Historic Dunvegan on the first Sunday of May.

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DELICATE DESTINIESOver the summer two trees on the grounds of the Centre for Creative Arts in Grande Prairie were treated to a colourful layer of repurposed doi-lies. The first, was created by Lesley Duggan, pictured below. A second, was covered with hand-dyed doilies by Kiren Niki Sangra, both employ-ees at the centre.

Although a new genre to this area, Wikipedia defines “yarn bombing” as a type of graffiti or street art that has been documented since 2002.

Centre director Candace Hook ex-plains, “It truly has become a world-wide movement with installations pop-ping up in communities everywhere. The Centre for Creative Arts has been involved with community beautification projects in the past and this seemed like a project that was particularly re-flective of our organization.”

“Almost every day I witness a pass-erby going out of their way to take a closer look or a photo of one of the trees. It always brings a smile to their face. Doilies are such nostalgic ob-jects, I think for almost everyone they conjure memories of family and times past,” says Hook.

SHOOT FOR REELComplete with helicopters, a burning bus and a deadly biological outbreak, a quiet country road became a bus-tling film set this summer. “We had a 5-ton truck full of gear and a fantastic script,” says the film’s producer Terry Scerbak.

The project, called Shoot for Real, is a collaborative effort involving the Reel Shorts Film Festival (under the Grande Prairie Live Theatre), Grande Prairie Regional College, and Rice-brain Media, the production company formed by former Grande Prairie film-maker Scott Belyea and his partner Dave Rice.

“Shoot for Reel is the next step to-wards creating a filmmaking commu-nity in the Peace Region. Step One was creating Reel Shorts Film Fes-tival... Step Two was developing the Youth Filmmaking Challenge work-shops. And now we’ve taken Step Three,” says Scerbak.

Shoot for Reel was a two week un-paid internship for eleven interns, seven of whom are under 22 years of age. One of those interns, Chillton Al-stad is heading up the Grande Prairie Youth Film Club starting this fall. The club is open to anyone under age 25 and can be accessed on Facebook or by calling 780-897-7178.

HISTORIC CRAFT AT DUNVEGANMembers of the Peace Country Spin-ners and Weavers demonstrated their art to attendees at the Historic Dunvegan Fresh Air Market on Heri-tage Day Weekend.

“The Fresh Air Market has been run-ning for almost two decades at His-toric Dunvegan Provincial Park. The Dunvegan area has been a place of gathering and trade for well over two hundred years and the Fresh Air Market continues these traditional practices,” says Stephanie McLach-lan, Program Coordinator at Historic Dunvegan Provincial Park.

“People are invited to come together on the Sunday of every August long weekend to support local artisans who handcraft their unique trea-sures,” explains McLachlan. “This year’s Fresh Air Market was a great success with an excellent turnout of vendors selling a wide variety of products such as watercolour art, alpaca wool products, restored an-tique clocks, honey products, and jewellery. Approximately three hun-dred people visited the site to shop at the market and enjoy Historic Dun-vegan’s rich history.”

For anyone interested in vending next year, contact the Historic Dunvegan staff at 780-835-7150 or [email protected] after May 15th, 2013.

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Art Gallery of Grande Prairie Grand OpeningA SEQUENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCES

BY EILEEN CORISTINE

LEFTArt Gallery of Grande Prairie Photo by Teeple Architects Inc.

RIGHTGallery Two Photo by Prairie Ranger Photography

FAR RIGHTRise Again: The Restoration of the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie with artist Kim Scott

In the dying light of a stunning autumn evening, the Art Gal-lery of Grande Prairie was officially opened on September 28, 2012. That evening the community was welcomed to a Block Party and a chance to see the additional galleries created through the restoration of the historic 1929 Grande Prairie High School.

Originally called the Prairie Gallery, the old school opened as an art venue in 1975. Then in 1993, the name was changed to Prairie Art Gallery. Earlier this year the facility was renamed Art Gallery of Grande Prairie and a new logo was unveiled.

“This Block Party is meant to celebrate all of the major changes that have been made and to mark the significance of the expanded gallery,” says Executive Director/Curator Robert Steven. “This is not revolution but evolution. It’s not just about the last five years but everything that’s happened

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in the last 37 years, and everyone who has been involved, even just to visit the gallery, should take pride.”

At 20,200 square feet, the seven-gallery space is now double in size. Construction included many challenges, par-ticularly since there was a desire to include the aged and damaged school in the project. The resulting combination of galleries ranging from small and intimate to large and ex-pansive, with a glass bridge that connects the school to the Montrose Cultural Centre, is itself a work of art.

“What we have created is sculptural within, “says Steven Teeple of Teeple Architects Inc. “Architecture begins with what needs to be done. We invented spaces to fit the pur-pose, but they had to be expressive and had to be experi-ential.”

Pam French has been president of the board of the AGGP since July 1, 2012 “I have been involved with the gallery for nine years and have always had a passion for its mission. We are a public art gallery and our mission is to share the art experience with the whole community,” she says.

“The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie is the second largest pub-lic art gallery in Alberta and for a city our size across Cana-da, we will be in the top five,” explains past president, Grant Berg. “But more important than size, the seven new gallery spaces will allow us to show a wide variety of exhibitions. Being designated a category “A” gallery, we are equipped to show virtually any art exhibition in Canada.”

“For me personally, five and a half years after the collapse of the roof of the school building, I simply look forward to regu-lar art exhibitions again. I am also happy for Robert Steven and his staff that they finally can transition into the jobs they were originally hired to do, running and programming an art gallery.”

Guests at the Block Party included many regional artists as well as representatives of all levels of government, includ-ing the Honourable Donald Ethell, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta who performed the ribbon cutting.

“The past and the future of our region come together at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie,” said Grande Prairie Mayor Bill Given. “Retaining the historic character of the original facade demonstrates our community’s commitment to remember-ing those who came before us and the cutting-edge interior provides an unrivalled space that will inspire generations of Peace Country residents.”

Celebrations continued the following day with a Family Festival. Exhibits on view over the weekend celebration in-cluded Narrative Quest, Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions, Cath-erine Hamel: 6 points of resilience, Robert Guest: Winter on the Wapiti, an installation called Rock Paper River by Faye Heavyshield and a series of photographs of the reconstruc-tions of the gallery by Kim Scott.

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LEFTRose GalaxyElaine Zachkowsky

CENTREElevatorDiana Lowther

RIGHTGazing BallHeather McNairPhoto by Kit Fast.

Three StainedGlassArtistsCREATING ART WITH LIGHT

BY SUSAN THOMPSON

ELAINE ZACHKOWSKYElaine Zaichowsky is a glass artist who also runs an interior design business out of Sexsmith called MadeOver Spaces. Rather than exhibiting her work in galleries, she works with her interior design clients to create custom pieces of glass art for their homes.

“This is my form of art. I’d done watercolour, oils, acrylics, and this was like, I found my sweet spot,” Zaichkowsky said. “You know how a painter will often use a photo for a reference and do their impression? I was able to do that with stained glass.”

Zaichowsky also combines mosaic and stained glass into wall art, or sometimes in 3D such as a fountain. However, she added, “It’s not always the physical place. With the gal-axies I’ve made, that was just a whole born inspiration. The fracture of light on the glass and using iridized glass, the tes-serae (a technical term for an individual tile or piece in mosa-ic), even glass beads and stuff that have refractive qualities so it refracts light as well as colour, it brings a dimensional aspect to it. The glass beads in the rose galaxy piece give it a sparkle like stars.”

Zaichkowsky would like to do it as a whole gallery show featuring an array of her glass mosaic galaxies.

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DIANA LOWTHERDiana Lowther used to be a quilter. She still makes beauti-ful new objects from scraps, but now she pieces together glass and broken ceramics to create heirlooms.

“I started my career in stained glass making three-dimen-sional angels from stained glass and lead, then having them electroplated in either nickel or gold,” the self-taught art-ist explained. “From there I moved on to doing the Tiffany method of stained glass which involves using copper foil and solder.”

She also became known for her popular series of pieces depicting the iconic forms of prairie grain elevators. The series began with a grain elevator panel commissioned by the Dawson Creek Art Gallery and continued from there. Lowther has gone on to try different methods of working with glass, such as fused glass pieces made from recycled materials.

“I have always enjoyed working with my hands and espe-cially enjoy making something unique and beautiful from small pieces of glass, whether I solder them together or fuse them together. I enjoy the surprise at the end of the process when the piece is cleaned and I can see the final product. No matter how many different pieces I make I can never really envision what the final product will look like until it hangs in the window. Glass has a way of surprising you, depending on what colour, texture or shape is used as well as in what type of lighting it is hung.”

These days, Lowther often uses the same techniques she originally applied to stained glass to create unique angels from broken heirloom china, such as a pair of delicate ear-rings made from shards of a violet pattern. “People bring me their mother’s or grandmother’s broken china, and you hear the stories behind the china.” Lowther’s pieces can be found at the North Peace Gallery in Fort St. John and the Dawson Creek Art Gallery.

HEATHER MCNAIRHeather McNair is a self-taught glass artist who has been working with the medium for over 28 years, and although her work still appears in galleries, she now mainly teaches in Fairview and Fort St. John.

“I think stained glass was the first thing that was really the jump to art from craft. Unless you’re making your own pat-terns, stained glass is just like following a knitting pattern - you cut the piece and match it to the pattern. I prefer the more artistic end. I’ve always tried to stay away from the picture things, because I don’t want to follow a pattern. I find it boring.”

In her work, McNair also actually prefers less colour. “I like the texture more and the pale tones, like the old antique stuff, the panels with geometric patterns but in different tex-tures of glass.”

Her drive to create original art has led her to use stained glass techniques to create mosaics such as garden globes, and she has more recently shifted her focus to pottery. “But you’ve got to pull the glass in there somewhere, and glass does really cool things because it shrinks at a different rate than clay when it’s cooling. The glass shrinks quicker and tighter but it’s still attached to the clay so it’ll crackle right on top.”

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Original Works by Local Artists

Lynn Lecorre

Lower Level, QEII Hospital, Grande PrairieFor exhibition oppourtunities call: 780-830-4855

Located in the Montrose Cultural Centre

9839 103 Avenue, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 6M7P: 780-532-8111 | F: 780-539-9522 | E: [email protected]

For a complete list of exhibitions visit aggp.ca

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) has supported a provincial travelling exhibition program since 1981. The mandate of the AFA Travelling Exhibition Program is to provide every Albertan with the opportunity to enjoy visual art exhibitions in their community.

Three regional galleries and one arts organization coordinate the program for the AFA:Northwest Alberta: Art Gallery of Grande PrairieNortheast and North Central Alberta: Art Gallery of AlbertaSouthwest Alberta: The Alberta Society of ArtistsSoutheast Alberta: Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramTREX For the 2012/2013 Travelling Season

the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie Presents Three New Exhibitions:

30 Miles Before BreakfastElizabeth VerhagenView From Athabasca Hotel in Jasper

6 Points of ResilienceCatherine HamelRe-stitching the Red Cocoon

Ether and ProcessionPeter von TiesenhausenIcarus IV from the Ether Series

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George & Marjorie


WRITTEN BY DEB GUERETTEPHOTOGRAPHY BY CANDICE POPIK


George Henn has never promoted himself as an artist, despite having created many fine tapestries proving that he is one.

Weaving has been a major creative outlet for him for some thirty years, and many of George’s tap-estries hang in the home he shares with wife Mar-jorie just outside Beaverlodge. While weaving al-ways demands concise process, when designing a tapestry he enjoys applying a natural, simplistic Grandma Moses style, George says.

George’s earliest exposure to weaving was in the American southwest where he saw Navajo peo-ple weaving. After a course he took in 1979 in Beaverlodge, he knew weaving was his line, and his interest in learning and mastering varied tech-niques in what he calls a demanding discipline only grew.

While his studio work space was under construc-tion for most of 2011 with a move to a new house, the last thing George has been working on is a life motif, broken into scenes of seven to 10 year periods in his life.

Early on, most of his weaving was flat weaving, creating patterned tableware, towels, runners, and blankets. While weaving always demands concise process, designing a tapestry is where he enjoys applying a natural, simplistic Grandma Moses style, George said.

One of few tapestries he ever entered in a juried show, a transparency he created after taking a workshop on the technique, is a work he likes for the subtle interaction within it.

The tapestry, called A Prairie Moment, is an im-pression of a buffalo and coyote on a prairie plain.

“They were looking at each other with dubious in-tent. That is just the way it is on the prairies; that quite often, all you have is some rather not very defined statements,” said George.

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LEFT George & Marjorie Henn at home.

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A tapestry George titled Where Hope Meets Help was a ma-jor piece, taking some 200 hours to complete, and the only work he has done for commission.

Done for the County of Grande Prairie, Family and Com-munity Support Services (FCSS) centennial, it incorporates scenes of family and community life, woven through a Peace Country landscape.

“The emphasis I was putting on was the strong ties and sup-port, in the early days between neighbours, friends, and fami-lies,” said George.

A strong connection to Alberta’s landscape has been the fo-cus of most of his creative work, and a major influence in his art education was Euphemia McNaught.

“I might have been her blackish sheep, because I never did anything (with drawing),” says George. “But, she taught you how to see. One of her most significant contributions to my education was to learn how to look at things and see.” The fine perception he developed is well applied in a work called Rock Lake completed around 2003 using various tech-niques of shading to recreate the light as the sun goes down.

The piece hangs in their home, but has been on display and garnered some recognition at an exhibit at the Beaverlodge Cultural Centre.

“They said someone stopped dead and said ‘who did that,’” George said. “That’s when you know you have something.” George’s reluctance to promote his work hasn’t stopped him from needing and enjoying the creative outlet it has pro-vided for him over the years.

“When I am weaving, and get totally immersed in what I am doing; and you lose yourself in technique and the job at hand; that is criteria you apply more to artistry,” said George. Marjorie, who has drawn since childhood, knows exactly what George means.

From joyful summers at her family’s Halcourt area farm do-ing pen and ink, through a successful career as a commer-cial and fine artist, and later a teacher, Marjorie’s need to do art has always been there.

“Art to me, if everything else fell away in my life, as long as I had a table to work on and something to draw with, I could survive. That’s kind of the bottom line,” Marjorie said.

Early drawings earned top awards in County Fair contests, and Marjorie knew in her teen years she wanted to make a living doing art. After high school she attended the Alberta School of Art in Calgary, completing a General Art Diploma in 1962 and a Commercial Art Major in 1963.

Staying at the top of her class for three years to maintain a scholarship, Marjorie became involved in the student union as social committee chair, and started down another path that has both diverted and supported her career since.

Her contribution as the social committee chair won her an award in her last year of college, and early in her marriage, while raising a child and freelance illustrating in Parksville, B.C., she spearheaded a wildly successful series of Theatre by the Sea performances that kept her very busy.

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“I do see a common thread when I look back in life,” Mar-jorie admits.

“I remember one girl friend in Vancouver saying to me ‘every time you really get going in your artwork, you get involved in something you have to organize and then you lose time away from your art,’ and that is absolutely true.”

The business and organizational skills she developed, along with her tenacity to initiate and guide a project to success did help her make a living with her art though. When given advice to just ‘go knock on doors until someone gives you a chance,’ that’s exactly what she did. From the first 30 calls she made, she got 17 jobs.

The work through those years gave her a strong back-ground in perspective drawing and draftsmanship.

“There wasn’t a thing that I didn’t figure out how to illustrate in just pen and ink,” Marjorie said.

It was also during those years that pushed by a friend, she entered her first juried show, the 1982 Juried Regional Show, in Port Alberni. B.C.. Marjorie wasn’t expecting much, and hadn’t even gone to the opening, but got an excited call from her friend when her entry, a brown ink drawing of a house she shared with roommates in Vancouver, was se-lected as a Most Popular Work.

TOP LEFT Where Hope Meets Help

TOP MIDDLE Rock Lake

TOP RIGHT George Henn at his loom

A commissioned piece, a pen and ink drawing of a histori-cal marine building in Vancouver, was an opportunity that helped her branch further into fine art. The piece was pub-lished on the cover of Heritage West Magazine, in Victoria, B.C., and has been recognized in juried shows, exhibited and sold in limited edition prints.

“It was a real branch out. I could put my own stamp on it. I did it as I see it. It was one of the first non-commercial pieces that wasn’t a design and it lead to more work in that area.”

“It is probably one of the best pieces I did in pen and ink. That was 1983 – 30 years ago, and I haven’t tackled as major a piece as that one since.”

Returning to Beaverlodge in 1993, Marjorie turned a resi-dence into a studio/gallery, delved heavily into watercolour work, and began teaching at the Centre for Creative Arts and Grande Prairie Regional College.

Teaching was new, but she quickly discovered she loved it, and like her other passions, immersed herself in study and practice to offer the best courses she could.

“It just enlarged my scope,” said Marjorie who taught all lev-els of drawing and watercolour from 1994 to 2005.

Her return to the Peace Country also drew her back to land-scapes and horizons that hold a special power for her.

BOTTOM LEFT Saskatoon Mountain

BOTTOM RIGHT Marjorie Henn at work


LEFT Finding Serenity RIGHT Saskatoon Berries

“Landscape is the thing that draws me the most. We’d be out on a camping trip and I’d say – oh George you have to stop here. I would see something and it would just light a fire and I would have to stop and sketch it,” Marjorie said.

While she never painted a tree, bay or island while living on the coast, driving through the mountains in Alberta before she moved back, she couldn’t wait to paint that landscape. “Who could ignore the blues; who could ignore the shifts of pink,” Marjorie said.

Applying coloured pencil lines and glazing in her watercolour work are techniques Marjorie has explored in many works. The line work is a technique she developed while teaching. “I learned to paint almost dry, and I do it over top of paint. It is different if you do it first.”

“It has a wonderful effect, a daintiness, a fineness,” Marjorie said.

Glazing took a long time to master, Marjorie said, but she has enjoyed the results.

“I do washes and washes, it builds up in layers. I think I per-fected it here,” Marjorie says, showing a piece called Sas-katoon Mountain, a watercolour she did in 2003, and one of three signatures piece she submitted to become a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

Pressed for something unique to offer for a cultural centre fundraiser, a sudden idea to draw saskatoons took her wa-tercolour work to a new level too.

“It was a piece that broke from my expected level of wa-tercolour then. There has to be a highlight on every berry, a round reflective light – it makes them come alive,” she said.“I did them in all kinds of sizes and formats and sold every saskatoon I ever did.” Encouraged by George, she expand-ed further into a set of cards of Saskatoon’s, crab apples, crocuses and blue bells, and still sees more to explore.

“I did realistic drawings with the berries, but I saw them as an abstract design too. I nearly started off on that path…,

but I didn’t have time to do the experiment,” Marjorie said. People have often encouraged her to hold more art shows, Marjorie says, but as always, finding the time to complete a body of work for a solo show has been daunting.The first time she held a show at Picture Perfect in Grande Prairie, she finished a painting for it just hours before the show opened.

After taking a sabbatical from teaching in 2005, art was to be her primary focus again, but community ties pulled her into a busy role establishing a historic society to restore the McNaught Homestead.

Marjorie has turned those responsibilities over to new volun-teers, and with a new house she and George started build-ing in 2010 finished, she is looking forward to more focus on her painting again, hopefully without any deadlines for a year or two.

“My dream is still to get in that studio, lose myself for hours on end and spend more time painting what I have been curi-ous about but haven’t taken time to go into more detail: to take one subject or composition and just explore it further,” Marjorie said.


What brings people together is different for every couple, and for George and Marjorie Henn, what it is to want and need to do art is the tie that binds.

George first noticed Marjorie after he settled in the Beaver-lodge area in the late 1950’s, but Marjorie was still in high school and too young to date.

When they encountered each other again in the mid-90s, af-ter both had married, raised children and divorced, it was art that drew them together. Appreciating and caring for each other’s passion for it has seen them grow ever closer since. “Art was an outlet for George too… and the meaning of it in our lives was probably the reason I even took the time to see him,” said Marjorie, who was busy teaching, painting and caring for elderly parents at the time.

The only thing they talked about the first time they visited was her passion for painting, Marjorie said, and his support for her work was already evident. “He said, don’t come up until you are ready to take a break, I don’t want to interfere with your painting.”

“That was in contrast to my previous marriage, which was, ‘why are you doing it?’”

“There was no particular support for what we did, or that side of our passion or life force that made us tick,” Marjo-rie says. “Deep down what we really are, my (first) spouse didn’t understand that.”

A second marriage is a chance to make sure you get the important things right, George says.

“Who cares what time dinner is; are we starving? The com-

mon denominator, the thing that convinced us it might be possible to consider a serious relationship, is that we came to the conclusion art comes first,” he said.

Allowing each other solitude to be with their work is an im-portant support they have always provided each other.

“When Marjorie goes in and paints, and is totally immersed and not interested in anything else, I do what I can to take away distractions,” George said.

And when she was working frantically to some deadline, Marjorie recalls, “he would basically feed me and shove me back in there.”

While Marjorie does the same for George when he is im-mersed in weaving, she also pushes a little for his work to be recognized.

“I said many times he should have a show all his own, and I still think he should,” she said.

Favourite works they have both completed are hung throughout the home they finished building in 2011 on the outskirts of Beaverlodge.

A new home is an ambitious endeavour at their age, George admits, but the daylight and open countryside view they now enjoy pouring in through almost panoramic windows, has made it worthwhile.

“It is something we both appreciate,” George said. “That is part of what this place is all about, just appreciation and awareness of art and what is around us.”

Lost, Found & Bound in ArtBY DEB GUERRETTE

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Whether she’s capturing the light-drenched local landscape on canvas through her signature, color-focused style, illus-trating the splendor of the changing seasons in the Peace River country or running a custom framing business out of her home, Cindy Vincent juggles her numerous roles with confidence and aplomb.

A true self-taught artist, Vincent’s love of drawing and paint-ing manifested itself at an early age. “I don’t have a formal art education, but when I was younger I knew that’s what I wanted to do,” she says. “When you find yourself doing something all the time and you want to keep doing it, you know instinctively that that’s where you’re heading.” Work-ing primarily in oil, drawn to its richness and vibrancy, it’s only been within the last six or seven years that she’s begun to hone her craft, enrolling in independent studies at North-ern Lights College in Dawson Creek, focusing on printmak-ing, glazing and oil, as well as completing several area work-shops, including a recent three-day seminar instructed by Suzanne Northcott.

Like most Peace River artists, Vincent derives inspiration from nature itself, and the local landscape is a subject she finds herself returning to in her paintings. Take, for instance, her work Aspens, an austere depiction of trees in the fall. “I’ve always liked walking through the forest in the fall, hear-ing the crunch of the leaves and smelling the smells,” she

says. “Those trees are so stark.” Channeling aspects of Jackson Pollock, the spindly, wiry branches of the aspen trees look almost splashed upon the canvas, as if Vincent took a paintbrush dipped in black paint and flung it at the canvas with brute force, then constructed the rest of the painting from there. In a powerful play of dynamics, Aspens looks structured and very haphazard at the same time, a testament to Vincent’s skills as an artist.

A quick study of Vincent’s body of work reveals that light is one of the most important elements in her pieces. “You can take a picture or look at something and it looks drab and dreary, but when the sun hits it, it turns into something beautiful,” she says. “It’s the way nature changes all the time, it’s never the same. You can look at nature 100 times and every time you look you see something new, it’s fasci-nating.”

And when nature changes, she’s always there, waiting to record the process with paint and paper. After an invigorat-ing hike streamside at the Beatton River, she unexpectedly found inspiration. “It’s very muddy and kind of drab, but when the light came over the hill, it just lit those rocks up,” she says. “The difference the light made was incredible.” Appropriately titled Phos, which is Greek for “to shine,” the light and warmth of this painting is palpable, the canvas dis-playing a luster that is often hard to come by in two dimen-

Cindy VincentCAPTURING THE LIGHT

BY MARGARET PRICE

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sional works. The thick, impasto painting technique on the rocks accentuates the light that bounces off their smooth, flat surfaces.

Another piece inspired by nature is Winter Jewels, a painting so dynamic and striking in its contrasting colors and tex-tures that it practically emanates both cold and warmth from the canvas. During a particularly cold yet sunny winter day, Vincent snapped a few photographs of her front yard, in-spired by the duality of red and blue, cold and warm. “It was a very cold day and the warmth of the sun streaming over the yard contrasted the cold, blue day,” she says. As it’s splashed over nearly three-fourths of the canvas, the dark, bluish hues of the snow seems to be the main focus, but the sunlight filtering through the trees and streaming over the snow appears fire-like and incandescent, causing the snow and twigs to glisten and gleam like rare gems.

What’s even more impressive, however, is when asked how she captures the light, Vincent has a hard time articulating just how it appears in her work. “I don’t know if I can explain that,” she says. “I see it, it inspires me and somehow it just ends up being there. I guess it’s something inside me that comes out on the board.” But don’t mistake her reticence for ignorance. Admittedly not a fan of interviews, Vincent comes off as a humble, quiet type who truly enjoys what she does and has a genuine, natural talent for it. And un-

CENTREWinter Jewels

RIGHTPhos

LEFTAspens

like many modern artists who explain away non substantive work with rhetoric and lofty art history terms, Vincent dis-plays a sincerity and earnestness in her work and physical presence.

Things don’t seem to be slowing down one bit for Vincent, who’s got several projects in the works, including a few commissioned pieces. She’s also working on illustrating another book by close friend, author and wildlife biologist Diane Culling, entitled Winter Birds, a follow up to the stun-ning Autumn Bear, which the pair hopes to have finished and ready for publication in a year and a half or so.

Ending our conversation, Vincent muses about her life and career thus far, humbly noting that certain events have brought to light the fact that she truly is accomplishing her goals. “I think sometimes we’re given talents and we’re sup-posed to use them, and if we’re not we never feel settled or things aren’t in sync,” she says. “I’d encourage people to pursue finding what they’re supposed to do and doing it. It’s always nice to think that I don’t have too many regrets, just pursue the things you were meant to do.” And through her painting, she’s doing just that.

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Brian Jungen

THE APOCALYPSE

BY WENDY STEFANSSON

Sometimes you have to go a long way to see what’s been happening close to home.

Such has been the case, for me, with the art of Fort St. John artist, Brian Jungen. In 2011, I stumbled upon his show at the Art Gallery of Ontario quite by chance. Amidst the gallery’s extensive collection of Henry Moore’s mas-sive marbles, Jungen showed sculptures made from deer and moose hides stretched over car fenders like skin over bones, all elbows and knees. Mounted atop pristine white freezer chests as on pedestals, Jungen’s works spoke of bodies and of surfaces, in contrast to Moore’s geologies. Of the post-apocalyptic, in contrast to the timeless.

Then this July, I found myself within a few hundred kilome-tres of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany and decided to brave the crowds. Held only once every five years, dOC-UMENTA is widely regarded as the world’s most important international contemporary art event. Presenting the work of hundreds of artists in 32 venues over a period of 100 days, the sheer scale of the event is staggering. And at the farthest corner of the farthest venue, the vast Karlsaue Park, was a work by Brian Jungen.

Touted as “a sculpture park for dogs” by dOCUMENTA (13) curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Jungen’s outdoor installation was simply called Dog Run. Quietly waiting for canines with human companions, it was an obstacle course composed of what appeared to be deconstructed Barce-lona Chairs (of Mies van der Rohe fame). Elegant, curving

steel legs, stripped of their expensive leather cushions, in-stead supported thick wooden slabs. Configured in a num-ber of ways, these chairs formed jumps and hurdles. In ad-dition, there were ramps and platforms supported by metal letters spelling indecipherable words; and a feature where dogs jumped over a “leash” strung between a steel cut-out of a human leg, and another one of a dog’s hind section.

Jungen has long made an art practice of disassembling and recombining pieces of mass-marketed consumer goods. In Dog Run, he uses this approach to subvert our expecta-tions of an art exhibit, taking apart art to make something functional. He also turns on its head our anthropocentric world view. He imagines and creates a world in which the four-footed ones are central, and humans are marginal. He goes so far as to restrict access to the work solely to people accompanied by dogs.

Dog Run begs the question: what would the world look like if we humans no longer regarded ourselves as the centre of the universe? What if we valued living beings as much as we value our commodities? Our art? Would that shift in thinking alter the world as we know it beyond recognition? Would it, essentially, be apocalyptic?

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Our stereotypical cultural idea of the isolated, tormented “Artiste” often overlooks one of the best sources of inspira-tion for an artist – other artists. Yes, it is necessary to be able to work alone, but what stokes the fires of the drive we all need to keep pushing ourselves to learn new skills, to improve, to try new techniques, or just to create some-thing new? In many cases it’s contact with peers, artists who share the same passions

It is a shared love of all things made of fibre, for example, that brings together the Peace Country Spinners and Weav-ers, a group with several member clubs across the Peace. President Marion Walker joined the Lake Saskatoon club of the Peace Country Spinners and Weavers back around 2000 simply to find something to do with all of the wool she was spinning from her alpacas. Now she is almost finished a six year program to become a Master Spinner. At least three other members of Spinners and Weavers are working on earning the Master Spinner designation as well. Education has always been a major part of the Spinners and Weavers, and workshops are hosted twice a year in different commu-nities in order for members to learn new skills.

“Sometimes we’ll do something pertaining to spinning, sometimes dying. It’s whatever the membership wants to

learn next,” Walker explained. “Our groups all take turns hosting it and getting the workshop together.”

“I think people need to see how it’s done right from the basics. Sure they have clothes, but they don’t even realize how their clothes are made. Most of us walking around are wearing woven clothing but don’t know it,” Walker said.

It is this appeal of creating something new from start to fin-ish, completely by hand, that keeps Walker spinning and weaving.

“It’s very satisfying. I can take a raw fleece, be it wool or whatever - I can take it off the animal, I can go through all the steps of washing the wool, carding the wool, spinning, and I can knit a garment or crochet.”

As for what keeps bringing members together twice a year, Walker highlighted the way a group can help increase an individual artist’s drive. “It’s the comaraderie between the ladies and the love of the craft. I think you just learn more when you get together with someone.”

“I think when you meet with people and see what they’re doing, it inspires you to do more. It’s just something about getting together and seeing what they’re doing that drives you to keep going.”

Or, as Treasurer Loretta Skaley put it, “It’s just exciting when other people get as excited about fondling fuzzy fibres as you do!”

For more information or to join the Peace Country Spin-ners and Weavers, contact Treasurer Loretta Skaley at 780-765-2175 or President Marion Walker at 780-833-7177, or read the Peace Country Spinners and Weavers’ newsletter, Threads Along the Peace, online.

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The Huntress, Rebecca Pratt of Eccentric Embellishments, 1st Place Winner at the Wear-able Arts Show at the Centre for Creative Arts, Grande Prairie. Models: Heather Boos and

Candice McMillan. Photo by Prairie Ranger Photography.

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During the last weekend of September Peace Country resi-dents had more opportunities than ever to explore and ex-pand regional art.

From the much-anticipated opening of the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie to the streets of Alberta’s Cultureville (also know as Peace River) regional artists and performers pre-sented a dazzling array of painting, dancing and partying.

Town of Peace River residents won the honour of being des-ignated as the cultural capital of the province in the fall of 2011. They chose to use Culture Days to celebrate their achievement by holding dance lessons on Main Street, an exhibition at the library and a concert in the evening. Their neighbor to the north, Manning, held a Night of the Arts to showcase regional artists and musicians.

Just down the highway at Fairview, the Fairview Fine Arts Centre was the host of free art lessons and demonstrations of quilting, weaving and tai chi. As in most communities, the Alberta Culture Days events were free of charge and family oriented.

A small but dedicated group of Sexsmith and area artists held an art and craft market at the Sexsmith Community Centre on Saturday, September 29. Their plan is to grow their group and hold monthly markets at Sexsmith through-out the winter. An Evening with the Artist is a special one-on-one experience that the group is planning to offer soon.

Art of the Peace kicked off the Grande Prairie celebrations with a coffee party at the Montrose Cultural Centre and the launch of the Art of the Peace Cover Artist Competition. Spring 2013 will mark the tenth anniversary of Art of the Peace Magazine and to celebrate regional artists are asked to submit applications to be the featured artist of this land-mark issue.

The Centre for Creative Arts in Grande Prairie offered a whole slate of visual art events over the Culture Days weekend. The Third Annual Wearable Art Show once again dazzled with two shows. Five Alarm Photography Competition and Exhibition, described as a friendly competition between five Grande Prairie photographers included shots by Al Gervais, Chris Beauchamp, Chris Fox, Doreen Altman and Nicky He-minson.

At the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta Culture Days provided a perfect opportunity to invite visitors to get to know the newly restored, seven-gallery facility. The festivi-ties began with a ribbon cutting ceremony and Block Party on September 29 and continued the next day with a Family Festival including guided tours of the galleries, four new ex-hibits and family activities for all ages.

Alberta Culture Days is an annual province-wide celebration and is part of national Culture Days, a pan-Canadian move-ment to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities.

THIS PAGE LEFT Graffiti art created by Scott Kyca in Peace River. RIGHT Cole Pardy at Fairview Fine Arts Centre. Photo by Chris Eakin for Fairview Post.

OPPOSITE PAGE LEFT Suzanne Quinn, Cammi Snyder and Lise Picard, Sexsmith RIGHT Family Art Festival at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie.

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Art of the Peace

EXHIBITS & EVENTSArt of the Peace Travelling Show:Grande Prairie Public LibraryShowing until November 26th

Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer, January 7th – February 9thOpening reception February 1st

10th Anniversary Exhibition Kin Gallery, Centre 2000, Grande PrairieOpening Reception and an-nouncement of Cover Competi-tion winner: April 11th, 7pmExhibition showing until May 31st

OPPORTUNITIES Cover CompetitionYour opportunity to be on the cover of the Spring 2013 issue of Art of the Peace Magazine, a four page editorial, and a feature display in the Art of the Peace 10th Anniversary Exhibition!Online submissions and informa-tion at www.artofthepeace.caDeadline for submissions: January 31st, 2013

Coming in 2014Juried exhibition at The Art Gal-lery of Grande Prairie in spring 2014 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the city of Grande Prairie. Watch for details at www.artofthepeace.ca

Beaverlodge, AB

BEAVERLODGECULTURAL CENTREEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Beaverlodge Craft Club Annual Art and Craft SaleOctober 19th – 20th

Eileen Coristine & Melanie HellumNovember 25th – December 20th

Grande Prairie Regional Col-lege Art Students ShowFebruary 3rd – 28th

Koreen Deheus & Chris Deheus Show & SaleMarch 3rd – 28th

20th Annual Quilt ShowMarch 31st – April 25th

Canadian Federation of Artists – Peace Area Show & SaleApril 28th – May 23rd

Beaverlodge Art Society Minia-ture Show & SaleOctober 27th – November 21st

Gord Mackey Show & SaleNovember 24th – December 19th

PROGRAMSExploring Mixed MediaBeginner Level with Marian Jacoba ShilkaOctober 20th, 10am – 5pm Cost: $75

Paverpol SculpturesInstructor: Janet EnfieldOctober 27th, 10am – 5pm Cost: $100 (supplies included)

Fused Glass - Pendants and NonsenseInstructor: Wendy Olson-LepchukNovember 1st, 7 – 9pmCost: $30 (supplies included)

Felted Hand BagsInstructor: Carrie KlukasNovember 3rd, 10am – 5pm Cost: $95 (supplies included)

Gelatin Monotype PrintmakingInstructor: Vivian FarnsworthNovember 17th, 10am – 4pm Cost: $75 (supplies included)

Getting Plastered is so much Fun!Instructor: Patricia PetersNovember 24th, 10am – 4pm Cost: $75 (some supplies included)

Introduction to HennaInstructor: Michelle ForresterNovember 29th, 7 – 10pmCost: $40 (supplies included)12 years of age and up

Fused Glass Christmas Tree OrnamentsInstructor: Wendy Olson-LepchukDecember 1st, 1 – 3pmCost: $35 (supplies included)

Call 780-354-3600 for more info or visit BeaverlodgeGallery.com.

OPPORTUNITIESGallery exhibition and gift shop sales opportunities are available. Call 780-354-3600 for info.

MCNAUGHT HOMESTEADEXHIBITS & EVENTS

2nd Annual Ghost WalkOctober 27th

OPPORTUNITIESThe Schoolhouse Studio is available for retreats, classroom, gallery or meetings. For info call 780-512-6316 or visit McNaught-Homestead-Heritage.com

Dawson Creek, BC

DAWSON CREEK ART GALLERYEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Peace Watercolour Society Fall ShowOctober 15 - November 10

Members Christmas ExhbitNovember 13th – January

OPPORTUNITIES Opportunities for exhibition. More info at DCArtGallery.ca

Fairview, AB

FAIRVIEW FINE ARTS CENTREEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Red, White and DarkCJ LyonsOctober

Double TakeHeather McNair & Carolyn Adams November

Members’ Annual Christmas Show and SaleDecember

S & J Hudson Show & SaleJanuary

Bag Ladies Show & SaleFebruary

Janet Enfield Show & SaleMarch

PROGRAMSWeaversMondays, 1pm

PaintersWednesdays, 7pm

QuiltersThursdays, 7pm

PottersThursdays, 7pm

MusiciansTuesdays, Wednesdays & Sundays

Sit ‘n StitchTuesdays, 1pm & 7pm

Phone the Centre at 780-835-2697, email [email protected] or visit FairviewFinearts.com

Fort St. John, BC

NORTH PEACE CULTURAL CENTREEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Power of the LandGarry OkerOctober 12th – November 9th

Magical Christmas MarketNovember 18th – December 22nd

Chocolate FestivalFebruary 10th

30th Annual Art AuctionApril 28th

Grande Cache, AB

GRANDE CACHE TOURISM & INTERPRETIVE CENTREEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Exhibiting the Palette Pals Art Club and local art year round. Check out GrandeCache.ca for more info.

Grande Prairie, AB

CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTSEXHIBITS & EVENTS

CENTRE GALLERY Peace River Chapter of the Federation of Canadian ArtistsNovember CFCA Christmas Show & SaleNovember 30th – December 21st

Candice Popik & Lukaz HerbaFebruary 1st – 22nd

Tammy BadukMarch 1st – 29th

Marcy HorswellApril 5th – 26th

WALL GALLERY Christy TeasdaleNovember

Corinne CowanFebruary 1st – 22nd

Gene SchultzMarch 1st – 29th

Megan RycroftApril 5th – 26th

PROGRAMS The Centre has classes for everyone: Beginner Stained Glass, Homeschool Clay, Beginner, Inter-mediate or Advanced Oil Painting, Chip Wood Carving, Embroidery Basics, and Clay Workshops. Check out our website, Creative-Centre.ca or call 780-814-6080.

OPPORTUNITIES We are currently looking for instructors to teach a variety of classes.

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GRANDE PRAIRIE MUSEUM EXHIBITS & EVENTS

100th Anniversary of the Al-berta Federation of LabourRodacker/Campbell Gallery

PROGRAMSTours and school programming available phone 780-532-5482.

GRANDE PRAIRIE REGIONAL COLLEGEEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Exhibits throughout the year in the Glass Gallery.

PROGRAMSThe Fine Arts Department at GPRC offers courses in Music, Art and Drama with a focus on student learning and success. We offer a range of programs in both traditional and new medias. Call Joanne at 780-539-2443 for more information about any of our programs.

ART GALLERY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE(formerly The Prairie Art Gallery)

EXHIBITS & EVENTSArt Insight ToursFree one hour tour of a behind-the-scenes look into the gallery’s mission to preserve, inspire and explore. To book a tour time call 780-357-7486.

Narrative Quest September 24th – December 7 Winter on the WapitiRobert GuestSeptember 28th – March 31st

Good IntentionsJon Sasaki September 28th – January 5th

6 points of resilienceCatherine Hamel September 28th – October 25th

QEII HOSPITAL,THE COURTYARD GALLERYEXHIBITS & EVENTS

GALLERYLynn LeCorreNovember/ December

Larena ShakotkoJanuary/February

Melanie JennerMarch/April

OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTSFestival of Trees Art Market is looking for any artists or artisans that wish to take part in this years festival running from November 14th through 18th. Please call Carrie Klukas at 780-830-4855.

UNIQUE GALLERYOPPORTUNITIES

Opportunities for exhibitions. Call Dan at 780-538-2790.

High Prairie, AB

HIGH PRAIRIE & DISTRICT MUSEUMOPPORTUNITIES

If you are interested in showing your work at the High Prairie & District Museum please call 780-523-2601.

Peace River, AB

PEACE RIVER MUNICIPAL LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTREEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Visions & StoriesTravelling ExhibitOctober

Peace of ArtShow & SaleNovember – December

Trex 25January

Peace of ArtShow & SaleFebruary

6 Points of ResilienceCatherine HamelMarch

Building StoriesTravelling ExhibitApril

Mark Ladd & Trudy PlaizierMay

OPPORTUNITIESCALL FOR SUBMISSIONSThe River July 2013

If you are interested in showing your work at the Peace River Mu-nicipal Library and Cultural Centre please call 780-624-4076.

For exhibition opportunities email [email protected]

PEACE RIVER MUSEUMEXHIBITS & EVENTS

Artists of the PeaceArt wall rotates on a monthly basis.

From Peace River to ParisFashionable Furs of our Century October 19th – March 31st

Peace Region Art SuppliesShop our online store @

www.artforhappiness.com

Studio Easels on Sale!

Art Classesfor groups and individuals, at

your location or in Tumbler Ridgewww.Mila-Ca.com

Mila Lansdowne

Creative Retreats 2013with Mila Lansdowne

in Tumbler Ridgewww.Artful-Retreat.com

Now Open!

10304B - 10th Street, Dawson Creek Ph: 250-782-8185 • www.oldecreekstore.com

Home Decor • Antiques • Collectibles • Jewellery

WESTSIDE #101, 10635 Westside Drive

IVY LAKE #701, 10003 - 92 Street

MONTROSE Montrose Cultural Centre

Come see our exciting renovations at the Westside store!

3 convenient locations in Grande Prairie

Local Art on Display at Westside and Ivy Lake!

> Gicelee quality prints on Canvas, Fine Art Watercolour

& Photo Paper from $7/sq.ft. (scanning & colour correction extra)

Fine Art Reproductions & Art Cards

ImageDesignPros.com780.532.6353

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A PUBLICATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTIST

Your opportunity to be on the cover of the Spring 2013 issue of

Art of the Peace Magazine, a four page editorial, and a feature

display in the Art of the Peace 10th Anniversary Exhibition!

Online submissions and information at www.artofthepeace.caDeadline for submissions: January 31st, 2013

10th Anniversary ExhibitionKin Gallery, Centre 2000, Grande Prairie

Featuring past cover artists and the Spring 2013 cover artist, plus a

sample of artwork submitted in the Juried Cover Competition.

Opening Reception and announcement of winner: April 11th, 2013 at 7 pmExhibition showing until June 27th, 2013

Juried Cover Competition

art peaceofthe

A PLUBLICATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTIST

SPRING 2013 ISSUE 20

YOU COULD

BE HERE

Toni Schuler

No matter what medium I use my subjects are always very simple. I don’t intend to send a particular message along with my paintings, there is nothing mysterious about it, no hidden philosophy in them. All I do is show off all the beautiful things I encounter in my everyday life.

As an organic cattle farmer and avid hiker, there is not a single day that I don’t stop and look, feel, listen and taste the unique places and beautiful things in an otherwise crazy world. These moments are a very important part of my life. I have a personal and intimate connection to all of my artwork.

Kamisak Sun brings all those feelings back to life; the warmth of the long summer evening, the sweet smell of the reeds, the sensation of the light breeze, the sound of the loon in the distance.

Through my paintings I share my life with people.

Kamisak Sun, Pastel, 11 x 17 inches

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A PUBLICATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTIST

Your opportunity to be on the cover of the Spring 2013 issue of

Art of the Peace Magazine, a four page editorial, and a feature

display in the Art of the Peace 10th Anniversary Exhibition!

Online submissions and information at www.artofthepeace.caDeadline for submissions: January 31st, 2013

10th Anniversary ExhibitionKin Gallery, Centre 2000, Grande Prairie

Featuring past cover artists and the Spring 2013 cover artist, plus a

sample of artwork submitted in the Juried Cover Competition.

Opening Reception and announcement of winner: April 11th, 2013 at 7 pmExhibition showing until June 27th, 2013

Juried Cover Competition

art peaceofthe

A PLUBLICATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTIST

SPRING 2013 ISSUE 20

YOU COULD

BE HERE


THE ART GALLERY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE IS NOW OPEN!

#103, 9839 – 103 Avenue, Grande Prairie, Alberta T8V 6M7 | PHONE: 780-532-8111 | EMAIL: [email protected] | FREE ADMISSION

GALLERY HOURS: Monday – Thursday: 10 am – 9 pm | Friday: 10 am – 6 pm | Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm | Sunday: 1 pm – 5 pm

We hope you will be inspired to visit our newly restored building and continue our journey of exploration, inspiration,

and preservation of the human spirit through art. Since 1975, the community has created an engine for creativity, one

that will never cease to expose the minds of this community to the newest, the most innovative, and the most beautiful

creations of our society and it is our honour to continue protecting, nurturing, and enhancing that legacy. The future of

the Art Gallery is just as surprising, enlightening, rewarding, exciting, and mysterious as is the experience of art itself.

Photos by: Teeple Architects

WWW.AGGP.CA


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art of the Peace | Issue #19