Lorna Brown - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

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In The Blink of an Eye
Public opening Jan. 25 at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. FREE!
The WAG has commissioned twelve artists from throughout Canada
to create experimental shorts which will be shown in the gallery, Janthrough
April, 2007, and projected in the Globe Cinema before feature
films. For five nights in January, these media works will also be
projected on the exterior of the art gallery building. Curated by Shawna
Dempsey and Lorri Millan, the program includes new work by Divya
Mehra, Erika MacPherson, Rebecca Belmore, Simon Hughes, Sandee
Moore, Daniel Barrow, Collin Zipp, Ken Gregory, Richard Fung, Dana
Claxton, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, and Mike Hoolboom.
Mary Krieger is one of more than twenty-four artists showcased "In
Plain View," a new studio tour in Winnipeg. Artists are opening their
studios to the public for the first weekend in both November (4th and
5th) and December (2nd and 3rd), from noon to 6 pm. A map will be
published to help people navigate from studio to studio. Mary will be
showing recent paintings and woodcuts at The Edge Artist Village and
Gallery, 611 Main St.
Divya Mehra, Pants, video still.
Group Search: Art in the Library
Group Search is an exciting new collaborative project of the
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, the City of Vancouver
Public Art Program, and Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association.
Six temporary projects by Marina Roy, Laiwan, Dan Starling & Jillian
Pritchard, Antonia Hirsch, Mark Soo, and Kathy Slade will be presented
between September 2006 and March 2008, in a program curated by
Lorna Brown. The projects include web-based art, installation,
bookworks, interventions and performances and will be located in
the varied spaces, stacks, and systems of the library. Whether
infiltrating the print, audio and special collections, linked to the
electronic catalogues, or placed in the reading and listening areas,
the artists address the contemplative and active spaces of the
library, the containment and exchange of information found there,
and to the activities of searching and locating, borrowing, reflecting
and returning, that library users undertake.
Video still by Sandee Moore
Call Numbers: Library Recordings by interdisciplinary artist Laiwan,
will launch in January 2007, allowing you to turn your catalogue
searches into musical compositions.
Dana Kletke, I’ll Wait for You, wool, cotton, stone, hair, 2006.
The project is funded by proceeds from the Library Square
Endowment Fund, with generous assistance provided by the
Canada Council for the Arts, Spirit of BC Arts Fund, and the BC Arts
Council.
For more info please contact curator Lorna Brown,
groupsearch@othersights.ca. For information on Laiwan's project,
email llchung@sfu.ca.
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Mireille Perron will be giving a presentation at the forthcoming University
Art Association of Canada Annual Congress. Her presentation is titled
"Point-of being" and is part of a session organized by Jennifer Fisher
and Monika Kin Gagnon. The session explores the senses in various
art contexts. This year UAAC Congress is hosted by the Nova Scotia
School of Art and Design, November 2 to 4, 2006.
Mireille Perron in her studio. Photo courtesy of the artist.