This August, visitors to Creston have a chance to see some of the city’s art work at a temporary arts market, reports Lorne Eckersley for the Creston Valley Advance. The idea for the market came in January, says Lori Wikdahl. “We wanted to create a market, not a gallery — we want a customer friendly [...]
It’s a unusual treat to see the work of an indigenous B.C. painter in a West Kootenay gallery. Angela Sterritt is a Gitxsan artist and journalist. The Gitxsan people live at the confluence of the Bulkley and Skeena Rivers at Hazelton in Northwestern BC, but Angela grew up in Campbell River and how lives in [...]
Recently I wrote an article about Thomas Loh for ARTiculate magazine. I tried, in one short article, to at least hint at the breadth of the extraordinary things this architect, dancer, choreographer, visual artist and innovator does. From the article: Some of his creations are big and relatively permanent (buildings), while others are fragile and [...]
When I attended Nakusp metalworker Kate Tupper’s Full Metal Basket at Oxygen Art Centre I realized I didn’t need to write anything or interview her because she had already said so much in her extraordinary Artist Statement posted in the entryway. So here it is, with some photos by Jenna Low…. Full Metal Basket: Steel sculpture [...]
Here’s a note the OXYGEN ART CENTRE sent us this week: Oxygen Art Market Friday, May 27, 7-10 pm Saturday, May 28, 10-6 Sunday, May 29, 10-5 320 Vernon, alley entrance Join the excitement at the first annual Oxygen Art Market – a studio sale of original work. As a fundraiser for Oxygen Art Centre, over 30 [...]
The year-end show by the students in the Fine Woodworking Program at Selkirk College is, for many people, one of the important artistic events of the year in the West Kootenay. I am always amazed at the quality of the work produced by students who may have never done any woodworking before entering the course. [...]
Local potter and recent KSA graduate Shannon Merritt recently had a feature exhibit of her work at the Gallery of B.C. Ceramics in Vancouver. Here’s her guest blog on what that experience was like. I felt like a regular city slicker packing up my pots for a show in Vancouver’s Granville Island Gallery of BC [...]
I attended the year-end show and sale by first-year students at the Kootenay School of the Arts earlier this month. I first three students I met all had something on common: surprise and pride at what they had accomplished. Julia Cedar (Clay) Julia, how do you feel looking at your pieces in this exhibit now? [...]
“It’s going to attack all of your senses. We are going to have arts and food vendors and music. We are encouraging the arts vendors to be interactive, so it is not just people standing showing people the product, it is showing them how they make the product, getting interactive—there will be lots of energy [...]
News release from the Kootenay School of the Arts The next exhibition opening at the Kootenay Gallery of Art is one that celebrates contemporary craft and art created by 26 artists who teach and work at the Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College in Nelson. The curriculum at the Kootenay School of the [...]