This year’s teaching exhibition is a celebration of the first people of our country. Memory • History • Story is an exploration of our indigenous artists, their perspectives and voices, through the lens of Indigenous principles of learning.

This exhibition brings together pieces from Aboriginal and Inuit artists from the AFK permanent collection, including George Littlechild, Jane Ash Poitras, Xwalacktun, Kenojuak Ashevak, Robert Davidson, Beau Dick and others. It also

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Fall 2017Newsletter

Teaching Exhibition Opens Friday, September 29

Master carver Darren Yelton

includes the on-site carving of a welcome pole by master carver K’na’kweltn~ Darren Yelton.

Works in the exhibition include sculpture, textile, cedar carvings and weavings, as well as two-dimensional works, for a collection that inspires learning in our young people and understanding in our visitors. The exhibition supports teachers in the indigenization of the curriculum as they explore the First People’s Principles of Learning, which reflect a respectful and holistic approach to teaching and learning.

“This is one of the most important teaching exhibitions in our history,” says Yolande Martinello, Director of Artists for Kids. “Seeing the work of our first people, and their perspective on their experience provides an essential aspect to understanding the true scale, scope and story of our country.”

Join us for the opening celebration of Memory • History • Story on Friday, September 29, 2017 from 4-6 p.m.

Silence in Schools: Exhibition

Culture Days Events

September 29 – October 1, 2017

For the third year, we’re delighted to be part of North Shore Culture Days. Visit our latest exhibition, Memory • History • Story. We’re also proud to present our Volunteers’ Exhibition in the Lobby throughout the weekend.

Friday, September 29 Noon – 4 p.m. Have a sneak peek of our newest exhibition:Memory • History • Story. Gallery tours will be available.

3 – 4 p.m. Meet the artist. See the creation of art in action and meet Darren Yelton, who goes by his Aboriginal name K’na’kweltn~ as he crafts a four-and-a-half-tonne, 350-year-old log into a kyactn, or welcome pole.

4 – 6 p.m. Join us for the opening celebration of Memory • History • Story.

Saturday, September 302 – 3 p.m. Hear the joyous music of the Laudate Singers in the Gallery. After a mini-performance, everyone is invited to learn a Canadian classic from their repertoire, and join the choir in song.

Sunday, October 1Noon – 2 p.m. Join the North Shore Chamber Orchestra and A Casual Arrangement for a Culture Days Orchestra Jam at the Gallery. Players of all ages are welcome to join in an informal sight-reading session of old and new music from Celtic, pop and classical traditions.

Noon – 2 p.m. Enjoy a last look at our Volunteers’ Exhibition in the lobby.

Xwalactun, Ambleside Park Swa’y’wi

Kenojuak Ashevak Print Release

AFK is pleased to release Thoughts of Sea and Sky, one of the last available editions from this beloved artist.

AFK Editions

We thank our Patron Artists

Our unique artist- and teacher-led training is possible, thanks to our generous patron artists. We thank them for their commitment to the next generation of Canadian artists. For a complete list of our limited-edition prints, please visit our website.

We are grateful for the support and assistance given by organizations and foundations who value a comprehensive education and the power of creative problem solving that is at the heart of a visual arts education.

The Edith Lando Charitable Foundation has generously supported our work to provide hands-on professional development training to our teachers. With the indigenization of our new curriculum, and the acknowledgement that we need to address the learning styles of all students, including visual learners, this vital support allows for a richer and more accessible classroom experience for the thousands of students our teachers educate each year.

Sponsor Thank You

New Print Edition

George LittlechildPlains Cree Chiefs, 1996

73.5 x 57 cmEdition of 100

Jane Ash PoitrasBuffalo Rebirth, 1994

76 x 56 cmEdition of 99

Kenojuak AshevakLoons Feeding, 1994

57.5 x 76.5 cmEdition of 50

Robert DavidsonSea Anemone, 2015

51 x 38 cmEdition of 100

For the second year, the Friends of the Ferry Building Gallery is supporting our Mentoring Emerging Young Artists program. During several days, students who are nominated by their secondary school on the North Shore are taken out of the regular classroom stream and given the opportunity to work directly with a professional artist at the AFK Studios. Last year, students worked with such acclaimed artists as Brendan Tang for ceramics, Erin McSavaney for painting and Mike Wakefield for fine arts photography. This year, thanks to this generous support, we will be bringing together students in the senior grades with other professional artists for additional opportunities to enrich their skills and abilities.

Kenojuak AshevakThoughts of Sea and Sky, 1980

20 x 25.5 cmEdition of 25 Price: $600

This past summer, almost 100 young artists attended our Summer Visual Arts Camps. Students aged 8-12 worked with artist Aimée Henny Brown to explore collage, painting, drawing and printmaking. Those aged 13-18 worked with Andrea Taylor and over the week developed pieces for their portfolio. We thank them both for their committment to the next generation of artists.

In addition, we thank the Heller Memorial Fund, the Rotary Club of Lions Gate, the Christopher Foundation, the Beech Foundation, the Quan Family and CUPE #389 for their generous support of bursaries and scholarships, allowing dozens of students to receive the financial aid needed.

Newest Release www.afkeditions.com

Smith Foundation News

The Smith Foundation is proudly focused on projects that constitute our mission:

We fund the arts to ensure the continued success of Artist for Kids, the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, and our public programming.

We curate innovative and world-class exhibitions of contemporary Canadian art and co-manage the Artists for Kids Teaching Collection that exemplifies our diverse artistic and cultural heritage.

We engage our community through public programming that connects our audience with art beyond the exhibition, in a truly interdisciplinary experience.

The Smith Foundation would not be where it is today without the support of its donors and sponsors.

As the organization has grown so has its supporters. We are incredibly grateful to all who continue to help the organization inspire the next generation of Canadian artists. The generosity of our donors never ceases to amaze.

In the first half of 2017, we were the grateful recipients of:

Individual and family trust gifts totalling $43,000 from Syd & Joanne Belzberg, the Christopher Foundation, Charles & Julie Bentall Family Foundation, the Tuey Family Foundation.

Sponsorship/grant dollars totalling $53,000 toward our gallery and community programming from PARC Community Living, North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission, RBC Foundation, the London Drugs Foundation, the Hamber Foundation, HomeCare West and BlueShore Financial.

Our Fundraising

2nd Annual “1 off the Wall: A Unique Fundraiser”November 8, 2017“1 Off the Wall” is an exclusive by-invitation-only cocktail function and auction of original artworks that have been donated to the Smith Foundation by some of the city’s most noteable collectors! The evening is an opportunity to bid on works valued between $5,000 and $25,000 that are not available elsewhere on the market. A catalogue of available works will be published in late September.

15th Annual Spring Luncheon: June 3, 2018Informally dubbed “Gordon’s lunch”, this yearly celebration of art raises vital funds through live and silent auctions. A cherished event, it captures the spirit of Gordon Smith’s dedication to art education. We look forward to seeing you at the Capilano Golf and Country Club on the day!

Mark Your Calendars

The donation of the Steinway piano is in memory of my mother, Barbara Allison. She trained as an opera singer, but when she became a single parent, she went back to school to become a teacher. She met Gordon Smith when she took his Fine Arts Teaching Methods course at UBC. They became great pals and he encouraged her to nurture every child’s creativity, not just the prodigies. Gordon Smith inspired my mother’s teaching practice, and made it possible for me to paint murals all over my bedroom walls. She relented, only because he approved!

— Kathryn Allison

Our Mission

Gifts-in-kind (art, trips, gift cards, wines, etc.) totalling $112,000 in support of our luncheon auctions.

A Steinway baby grand piano, donated by Kathryn Allison in memory of her mother.

Fundraising proceeds totalling $153,000 from our most successful Spring luncheon ever!

Taken together these monies allowed us to present a cheque to Artist for Kids for $60,000 on June 4, 2017, and will, by year end, ensure the direction of new funds to the Gordon & Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists Fund, https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/smithfoundation.

The Gordon Smith Gallery

Volunteer opportunitiesIf you are interested in the arts and have a little bit of time (or a lot) to give, we’d love to hear from you.

To volunteer for the Smith Foundation and the Smith Gallery, contact 604.998.8562.

To become a volunteer for AFK, contact 604.903.3798.

Docent-led toursWe offer free, docent-led tours by request. Reserve your tour by calling 604.998.8563 or by sending an e-mail to admin@smithfoundation.ca.

Gallery hoursThe Smith Gallery is open on Wednesdays through Saturdays, from noon – 5 p.m. It is closed on statutory holidays and the weekends on which they fall.

Adult admission is by donation. Admission for children and youth is always free.

Classics @ The Smith presented by HomeCare WestTickets available at the door: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors. Doors at 6:30 p.m., performance at 7:30 p.m.

October 10 Music for clarinet, cello and piano by Mozart, Schreiner, and Beethoven featuring Chrisopher Lee, clarinet, Lixia Li, piano, Lee Duckles, cello.

November 7 Vancouver Cello Quartet: A potpourri of musical selections ranging from the baroque to tangos, Mozart to Piazzolla. Featured artists performing original works and arrangements for cellos are Luke Kim, Cristian Markos, Kevin Park and Lee Duckles.

January 16 TBD

A three-evening cycle of master works of the classical repertoire for violin, viola, and cello, performed by Jennie Press, violin; Emilie Grimes, viola; Lee Duckles, cello.

February 6 Mozart, Dochnanyi and Beethoven

March 6 Haydn, Schubert and Enescu

April 3 Schubert, Beethoven and Kodaly

Jazz @ The Smith presented by BlueShore FinancialTickets available at the door: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors. Doors at 7:00 p.m., Jazz at 8:00 p.m.

October 24 Bill Coon TrioNovember 21 Minemoto, Coon & DanderferJanuary 23 Jillian LeBeck TrioFebruary 20 Jennifer Scott QuartetMarch 13 David Blake TrioApril 24 Van Django

Saturday Kids Art Workshops — Explore & Create presented by the London Drugs FoundationOctober 14 to December 9, 2017From sculpture to collage, our gallery team will help the children use a variety of materials to create art inspired by works in the exhibition. Children are encouraged to explore, experiment and take artistic risks. Open to children aged 5 to 13, the workshops require active parent involvement. Workshop dates and registration details are available by emailing gallery@smithfoundation.ca or by going to Public Programs on our website.

Visitations (Or 13 Ways to Live with Ghosts)presented by PARC Retirement LivingMay 7 – August 20, 2018This exhibition, curated by Dr. Kimberly Phillips, considers the work of 13 Canadian artists of diverse origins and experience, for whom haunting, it might be argued, is an artistic strategy. Through works of sound, sculpture, installation, painting, garments, print and video, these artists alter our experience of being in time; they challenge the ways we separate past, present and future. The work of each artist is remarkable because like haunting, it produces “something to be done.” It demands our rapt attention, begs a reconsideration of presumed positions, calls up histories with which we are complicit and makes matter of that which is otherwise invisible.

Events in the Gallery

Gallery shopOur shop, open during Gallery hours, has a range of distinctive and artful items and gifts for purchase.

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In their own words“I liked the art in the gallery, it was awesome! I learned a lot. It was so fun.” — Dan, aged 10

“I really really liked all the art here and I learned how to make more art! Thanks.“ — Bradon, aged 10

“Art is my favourite thing to do. So when I come to Artists for Kids, I feel like I’m at home. Thank you.”— Gemma, aged 9

“I think it’s really cool how you can make your own art.” — Sean, aged 9

“Less talking. More art.” —Unsigned