Gallery Newsletter                                                       March 2010

 

 

Now showing at the Chapel

 

February 23 – March 12

Bonaventure Lions Art

 

Auction and Dinner   Friday, March 12

 

 

 

 Millicent Bardwell                 Jake Miller                             Olga Maybuck   

 

Photographs of the art on display have been posted on the gallery website - www.chapelgallery.ca

 

Art Auction and Dinner tickets are $25/person and available at 445-1056, 445-1966, 445-3026 and 445-9063

Viewing at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, auction at 7:30

 

Proceeds will go towards a scholarship fund to be called the Hazel Asmussen Endowment Fund to assist visual artists, administered by the Battlefords and District Community Foundation.

 

 

 

 

March 13 – 28 

Art off the Gallery Wall

The gallery is hosting the Art off the Wall exhibition featuring the works of local artists whose work is for sale and can be purchased and taken off the wall of the gallery.  This two week event is a must to see.  Each artist will have three current works on display.  Own an original piece of art today and support your art community.

 

 

April 1 – May 16                                                                  

Sculptured Landscape by Ken Dalgarno

His exhibit Sculpted Landscapes focuses on and chronicles the now decaying and vanishing farm buildings and grain elevators that once dotted the flat Saskatchewan prairies. These monuments stand - barely- not only as a fading symbol of the toil and bond pioneers once had with the land but also as a strong symbol of our own fleeting and fragile place in the world. Like the rugged land and swirling skies these canvases are painted with an ultra thick paint application, creating a seductive tactile texture of swirling furrows and ridges - in essence a landscape within a landscape.  This exhibition is being toured by the Organization of Saskatchewan Allied Arts Councils and sponsored by the Battlefords Allied Arts Council.

 

 

 

Showing in the Window Gallery

 

March 3 – 28

In the Gap                

Kelly Taylor of Cut Knife, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design, brings to the gallery a collection of her current works on the exhibition theme “in the gap”.

Gallery Reception:  Saturday, March 13, 2 – 4 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Educational and Professional Activities - all workshops are at the Chapel Gallery unless otherwise noted

 

 

Assessing the Website Needs of an Artist (CARFAC workshop)
     Saturday March 27      1:00 to 3:00 pm

After this workshop you will be able to better determine the kind of website that will suit you and your artwork. Free websites, inexpensive and expensive sites will be discussed with examples, as well as how to use your site and how it fits in and works with the Internet. The do's and don'ts, costs and more will be covered. Time will be left for questions and discussion. INSTRUCTOR: Paul Constable, Graduate of ACAD, 1976, Calgary, Director of Artists in Canada.com.  As a Graphic Designer for 33 years and a Senior Art Director for an Ad Agency in Saskatoon for 23 years, websites have been an essential communication device for many of his clients. In 2000 he formed Artists in Canada, a free for use website directory, to better connect Visual Artists to each other and their potential markets.  As of 2010, he is now the full time Director of Artists in Canada.com, as well as a Painter and Printmaker.

 

 

 

 

Women’s Creativity Day at the Chapel Gallery

Saturday March 20th                  

1 – 8 p.m.

 

The Evolving Self: Personal Journeys

1 – 2               Understanding  Myself through Movement with Ashley Johnson

2 – 3               Navigation (Performance by Michele Sereda)

3:15 – 5:30    Workshop Selections

a.                  A personal Journey through Writing – Kelly Jo Burke

b.                  A personal Journey through Drama  - Michele Sereda

c.                  A personal Journey through Art – Linda Mushka

5:30 – 6:30    Supper from PortaBellas

6:30 – 7:30    “Special” the story of a mother coming to terms with her “special” child.  A one person performance by Kelly Jo Burke.

 

Fee: $ 45.00 (supper included)       

                                        

To register call Catholic Family Services at 445-6960          Minimum number of participants required– please register by March 5th

 

 

Saskatchewan Society for Education Through Art is offering a workshop and retreat for art educators and artists in Moose Jaw April 15-17 Check out details at www.saskedthroughart.ca

 

 

 

Family Open Studio with Gerri Riehl - Sundays  2 – 4  p.m.                                     March 21 April 4, May 23

 

These open studio sessions allow everyone to come and use gallery supplies to paint, draw, collage, or whatever your creative side dreams up.  Individuals will be inspired by art materials, people in the class, and the art in the gallery.  This is a great time for families to enjoy and create art together.  Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.   

 

 Registration fee:   $5/family$2/individual

 

 

 

Fun with Drawing                                                                                          Mondays April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 31   

                                      

Join Terry Billings, artist in residence, in 6 evening sessions of fun drawing activities that help you see the world differently with animation, narrative, and play with paper.                                                                                 Registration fee: $50.00    

                                                                                                                                             

Fun with Painting                                                                                           Tuesdays April 20, 27, May 4, 11

 

Join Terry Billings, artist in residence, in 4 evening sessions learning to play with your painting in new ways by working with imagination, serendipity, and maybe a bit of pattern too.  You may also learn new skills.                       Registration fee:        $60.00

 

William Kendridges; Animations with Terry Billings                          Saturday March 13

 

Make your drawings come alive through animation using digital cameras.    This workshop runs from 1 – 4 p.m.  Check out our web site and view the creations from our first workshop.

 

 

Coming Soon:  Working with Impasto Acrylic and Pastel Paste with Ken Dalgarno to accompany the Sculptured Landscape exhibition.

 

 

 

Call for Artists

 

 

Flick Fest 9                                         May 13                            at the North Battleford Public Library

We are looking for original VHS/DVD videos of a maximum length of 15 minutes. All individuals residing in the Lakeland Library Region are eligible to enter in four categories; drama, documentary, animation, or experimental.  Deadline for submissions is April 22.  For further information contact Linda Peterson, Children's Librarian at ref.desk@lakeland.lib.sk.ca  

 

 

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Artists are welcome to submit three works of art

that are for sale during our two week ‘Art off the Gallery Wall” gallery event.

 All works must be for sale and the gallery will be collecting a commission of 10% from all sales.

Submission forms can be found on the gallery web site after March 1.

Works must be properly framed, ready for hanging, and delivered to the gallery by Thursday March 11

Have your work in the main gallery with the best view in town.

 

Click here for submissions form for show

 

 

Artist In Residence Mentorship Program

March 15                Open House              1 – 7 p.m.

City Hall Artists’ Studio 13 Avenue and 101 Street

 

 

Quick Notes                                                                                                  

 

 

Just For You

 

Thank you to the following exhibitors

Helen Menssa, Ivy Moore, Karen Kowalski, Rita Young, Helen Cole, Evelyn Campbell, Doreen Jeffrey, Chris Hodge, Kathy Johnson, and Bertha E. Klassen.

Our first annual “Just for You” Valentine’s Day sale of cards and gifts went well.  The majority of artists made a sale.  The workshop registration for our annual winter artist retreat is great and I will have some pictures of the event in our next newsletter or view all images on our web site.  We welcome Kathy McNinch to our work force.  Kathy will be working on three areas of galleries operations: a review of our marketing strategy and implementing some new ventures in marketing, overlooking our current grants and seeking new funding for exhibitions and special projects, and working with some exhibitions and programs to support exhibitions. (“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original” Sir Ken Robinson) a thought I read awhile back.   We now have a 24 hour, three camera, video security surveillance system at the gallery. 

 

 

 

 

Michael Brokop Curator

 

The gallery acknowledges the generosity of our members and the following sponsors