Artist in Residence

The Chapel Gallery is undertaking a new and unique approach to the creation of an artist in residence program; this residency will be a first of its kind in Saskatchewan. The resident artist will be employed to work with up to eight regional artists in a mentorship capacity, with the intent that the artists will work together on individual career development and community development initiatives.
The first year of what we hope will be a two year project will lay the foundation for the second year as well as an active vibrant and thriving arts community for years to come

August News

Artists in the mentorship program are Holly Hildebrand, Chris Hodge, Oriol Dancer, Joel Carignan, Dana Standinghorn, Audrey Fineday, Karen Kowalski and Karlie King.

October News

The artist in residence, Terry Billings and five artists in the mentorship program visited Oriol Dancer’s labyrinth located between Glaslyn and Meadow Lake.  Labyrinths have existed as symbols in virtually every period of history and in most cultural communities.  Their loops within quadrants represent the seasons and the geometry corresponds with lunar and solar cycles.  Unlike a maze, a labyrinth path takes you to the centre and back with no dead ends and its purpose is to relax and invigorate your mind and body form the inside out as well as from the outside in.  Some say walking a labyrinth becomes a metaphor for their lives – those who rush to the centre and back out may realize they tend to rush through life where others find themselves focusing on or solving a problem.  No matter what the purpose each individual may have, the labyrinths are beautiful earth sculptures that are as pleasing to the eye as they may be to the soul.

October 18^th the group attended a workshop in Saskatoon, details as follows:

Working with Publishers and Designers 

Duncan Campbell, Art Coordinator of Canadian Plains Research Centre and freelance book designer will instruct artists on what to expect in the world of commercial publishing and discuss how to navigate through the murky waters of the commercial use of your artwork in magazines, book covers, marketing and other printed materials.  The workshop will discuss ways of promoting your work to publishers and ways of preparing and presenting your work for various types of publications.

Instructor: Duncan Campbell

October 23 and 24 News              Blink

Terry Billings presents Blink at the Artist In Residence Mentorship Program Studio located on the second floor of the Parks and Recreation Building by City Hall.  This three part video projection shows the eyes of the artists working in the mentorship program looking down on 101 street from the windows of the second floor.  This video presentation was best viewed from across the street of the City Centre Mall on 101 Street, North Battleford.

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February

Please Click on this link to have a look at the animation created during the Terry Billings animation workshop

March

The March 15th Open House was a great success, pictures to follow.

We greatly appreciate the support of the community in all our endeavours.

AIR Terry Billings conducted painting and drawing workshops at Chapel Gallery during the month, assisted by member Chris Hodge

Holly Hildebrand continued her term as artist-in-residence for the school board in Cutknife.

April

The group welcomes new member Karen Kowalski, who is working out of the studio at City Hall.

AIR Terry Billings will be conducting more workshops in painting and drawing this month at the Chapel Gallery.

Group member Chris Hodge will be part of a two-person show at the SCYAP gallery in Saskatoon, a group show at Willow Tree Gallery, also in Saskatoon, and

contributing sculpture to the annual Prairie Sculptor Show at Innovation Place in the University of Saskatchewan.

May

The group wishes to thank Paul Constable, Saskatoon artist, for allowing us to tour his new studio. Paul made an excellent presentation of his facilities as well as discussing the pieces for his upcoming show at Rouge Gallery and provided a great lunch for the artists. We are also grateful to the George Street group for allowing us to tour their facilities and have a look at some wonderful examples of Saskatoon art.

While in Saskatoon we made a tour of the university art galleries with our creative partner Terry Billings and had a look at the Mendel shows.

We are going to continue our model sessions every two weeks and are planning to conduct a workshop on translucent painting for gallery members in preparation for a member show in the Chapel Window Gallery next year. Later this month we will be attending a local CARFAC workshop on contracts for artists.

Friday the 21st of this month we will be participating in a PoWow in North Battleford, displaying our work and presenting our Art Bus, courtesy of Karlie King. July of this year we will be taking the bus to Oriol Dancer's studio as part of the annual studio tour and to the St. Walburg Blueberry Festival. St. Walburg has also kindly consented to let us use their tourist building for a show of our work during the festival.

Our third Open House will be conducted monday, June 14th and we hope it will be as successful as our previous efforts due to the excellent support from our local art lovers.

An art bus video from the powow is posted on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKCOfsHzvpE

June

Welcome to our Third Open House at City Hall

Monday, June 14th.

A successful open house was held again on Monday June 14 from noon to 7 p.m. The group then had a meeting with the new Director of Galleries, Marcus Miller, Dean Bauche, the galleries advisory committee, and Peter Sametz. Associate Executive Director from the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Application for program funding has been submitted for year two.