The opening reception for my show Here Today is tonight from 6:30 to 8:30. The exhibition runs from August 1st to the 30th. Here Today (2 person show) Britannia Art Gallery 1661 Napier Street (in the library) Vancouver I will be sharing the gallery with artist Deanna Fogstrom who will…
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Here Today is the title of my exhibition coming up in August. In this exhibit, I am reflecting on landmarks and establishments connected to the Italian community in the Commercial Drive area (my neighbourhood in Vancouver) and beyond. Commercial Drive used to be called Little Italy but this name does…
Getting back into art journaling–this is a section of today’s page. I might have spent half hour on it. I love that art journaling is a reflective process, nothing about finished results, product, etc. This creative process is calming, satisfying, and sometimes revealing. I’m still in exploration mode as far…
Britannia Art Gallery has just sent me my invite to my exhibition in August called Here Today. Getting a little more nervous as it gets closer. Still have quite a few works to complete, not to mention thinking about how to present the work. Seen on the invite is one…
Here Today is the title of my exhibition coming up in August. In this exhibit, I am reflecting on landmarks and establishments connected to the Italian community in the Commercial Drive area (my neighbourhood) and beyond. Commercial Drive used to be called Little Italy but this name does not apply…
When things get too busy…this blog gets no attention. I am overwhelmed and often tired these days! I’m taking my second online course through SFU on technical writing. At the end of May I’ll have to decide whether I want to commit to the Certificate program–it’s not an easy decision….
Last week I mailed off my first mail art piece which was for a mail art call to be exhibited in May at the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Vancouver Island (BC, Canada). Mail art is fairly new to me. I had been aware of it somewhat but never really explored…
Last year, in August, I submitted a proposal for an exhibition at my local art gallery/ library. At Britannia library, there is a small community art gallery. It’s a very small and unassuming gallery that gives emerging and established community artists the opportunity to show and share their work with…
Last Friday I went to see the Fred Herzog exhibition at Equinox Project Space. Fred Herzog captured Vancouver street scenes in colour photography starting from the 1950s and continued for about 50 years. The exhibition consists of a great number of his works and gives you a really good picture…
I started this art journal page today and I may work on it some more. I’ve been wanting to do more pieces with typewriters, so today I tried hand-drawing my Brother typewriter from a photograph. I’m pretty happy with the results as I consider myself more of a photo-based artist….