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GALLERY VIEWSBY ANN ROSENBERGAn Amenity Bonus is a perk worth havingIn order to ensure that non-profit cultural societies can continue to be located in Vancouver’sexpensive downtown core, the City actively seeks to provide appropriate spaces through itsAmenity Bonusing program. In this program, which began in 1975, the City, in partnershipwith private developers, creates affordable cultural facilities and live-work studios at no costto taxpayers for approved associations that require them.On it’s part, the scheme often allows the developer to build additional storeys on a futureproject. The value of that ‘amendment’ is calculated by the City’s real estate department usinga “consistent pro forma analysis.” The developer must build a fully finished gallery or anothertype of specialized space equivalent in dollar terms to that amount and prepay twenty years ofthe space’s operating costs to the City.The City then secures the cultural amenity through a legal agreement which includes alease for the life of the building. A pre-determined non-profit society sublets the BonusedAmenity from the City for a nominal rent (typically utilities) with the condition that prior tosigning the sub-lease, the not-for-profit group has demonstrated an ability to raise funds. Iffeasible, before the deal is finalized, the cityencourages the association to start the endowmentfund that will be necessary to secure itsspace in future. Non-profit groups cannot takethe endowment fund with them if they decide tomove to a different space and no endowmentfund money will be theirs if the organizationceases to exist. Big bucks must be raised – atleast $400,000-600,000 – to grow the requiredtrust fund.The façade of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver– you can’t tell a bonused amenity when you see onePerhaps because some groups in the past wereunable to gather enough money for theirendowments, the City now articulates conditionsfor Bonusing with absolute clarity. It emphasizes the participating association’s necessityof initiating the establishment of an endowment fund before or at the time they first occupytheir purpose-built premise.These days, the Contemporary Art Gallery at 555 Nelson Street and ArtStarts in Schools at873 Beattie Street are managing well under the pressure generated by the need to gather money.CAG director Christina Ritchie said that long before the anticipated move to the new BonusedAmenity gallery in 2001, her predecessor Keith Wallace made enormous efforts to provide fundsfor the move and the start-up of the Endowment Fund. Financial support came from individualsand corporations who wished to ensure the continuity of the institution’s service to the art community.ArtStarts Director Wendy Newman, whose non-profit group has been ‘in the program’since 1996, is also not afraid of ‘THE BIG E’ because she knows she is running something thatbusinesses and people will want to support. At ArtStarts there are exhibitions of childrens’ art thatresult from artist-taught in-the-schools programs throughout British Columbia. ArtStarts’ expanding‘virtual’ program is catching fire and attracting sponsorships like moths to flame.Next issue, the history of the Bonused Amenity that until 2004 was the home of the CanadianCraft Museum will be briefly examined and so will the “New Tax Credit Program” that isgenerating millions of dollars towards the construction of Portland’s future Museum of ContemporaryCraft.Ann Rosenberg is a Vancouver-based freelance curator, critic and author.26 PREVIEW
the Inkameep Day School near Oliver,BC on the Nk’Mip Reserve between1932 and 1942 – with their teacher,Anthony Walsh they created drawings,paintings, stories and plays thathonoured traditional Okanagan languageand culture; Sep 21-Oct 28LOBBY GALLERY Sarah Lawless andKendrick Mauser, “Pots in Their NaturalHabitat”, photographic andceramic work; Thru Oct 7 MAINGALLERY Jane Merks and Peter Bartl(PB + J Press), “InVisual Words”,two-dimensional letterpress prints,sculptural book forms and collaborativeartist books explore a set ofwords that are layered, complex andcan be interpreted in many ways.; Oct12-Dec 16 MAIN GALLERY Murray Kimber,featuring a “sneak preview” ofillustrations for an upcoming children’sbook.KELOWNAAlternator Gallery forContemporary ArtRotary Centre for the Arts, #103-421Cawston Ave ✆(250)868-2298www.alternatorgallery.comtues-sat 12-5pm opens Aug 31 MAINAND PROJECT GALLERIES LaurentGagnon, Stephanie Pelletier, MathieuValade, Yannick Pouliot, “In-Division:Kelowna-Quebec Exchange”, anexhibition between the AlternatorGallery of Contemporary Art and L’Oeilde Poisson, an artist-run centre inQuebec City; Jul 6-Aug 18 MAINGALLERY David Diviney, “Blinds, Hidesand Other Points of View”; ProjectGallery Randy Grskovic, “Urban Cowboys”.Chris CharleboisSeptember 19 - October 3, <strong>2007</strong>“Wind through the Brush”, oil on canvas, 52” x 44”, <strong>2007</strong>2427 Granville St. Vancouver BC604-736-5444Exhibitions on-line:www.kurbatoffgallery.com★ Art Ark Gallery1295 Cannery Lane ✆(250)862-5080www.lookatart.common-sat 10am-5pm Sep 1-13 GroupExhibition; Sep 15-27 Brent Bukowskiand Gary Nylander; Sep 29-Oct 13Johann James Feught; Oct 15-29Mary Smith McCulloch; Since 1999,the gallery has showcased originalcontemporary paintings and sculpturesby established and emergingCanadian artists. Exhibition seasonsare Apr to Jun and Aug to Nov. Thegallery adjoins a fine crafts gift shopoffering clay, glass, woodwork andjewellery from B.C. artisans.www.preview-art.comGeert Maas SculptureGardens and Gallery250 Reynolds Rd ✆(250)860-7012www.geertmaas.orgopen all year – irregular hours Internationallyacclaimed artist Geert Maasinvites the public to visit his exceptionalsculpture gardens and indoor gallerywith one of the largest collections ofbronze sculpture in Canada and changingexhibitions. Maas creates distinctive,rounded, semi-abstract figures,architectural structures as well asinstallations in a wide variety of materialsincluding bronze, stainless steel,aluminum, wood, stoneware and multimedia.The great diversity of outdoorart is complemented in the gallery byan overwhelming number of paintings,serigraphs, medals, reliefs and sculpturein various media.★ Kelowna Art Gallery1315 Water St ✆(250)762-2226www.kelownaartgallery.comdaily 10am-5pm Thru Sep 9 TREADGOLD-BULLOCK GALLERY B.C. Binning,“West Coast Modernist”, more than 50retrospective works provide a comprehensivelook at the artist’s prolificcareer and illuminate his transformativeideas that revolutionized the BritishPREVIEW 27
Page 1 and 2: GALLERY INDEX - PG 82CALENDAR OF OP
Page 4 and 5: WIM BLOMPAINTINGS2004 - 2007AUGUST
Page 6 and 7: BRITISHCOLUMBIAFORT ST. JOHNALBERTA
Page 8: ALBERTABANFFSummit Gallery of Fine
Page 12: LESLEY FINLAYSONUdell Contemporary7
Page 16 and 17: previewwww.bellevuearts.orgA Tapest
Page 18: ELLIOTT LOUIS GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC
Page 21 and 22: “At the Cove, Hornby Island, BC
Page 24 and 25: Shannon Belkin: Second NatureSeptem
Page 28 and 29: Peter AspellGALLERY JONES, VANCOUVE
Page 30 and 31: previewwww.portlandart.orgAili Schm
Page 32 and 33: Paw Prints Studio & Gallery148 Carr
Page 34 and 35: CoalHarbourWESTINBAYSHOREDenman StB
Page 36 and 37: Blazing Bush, oil on canvas, 30 ×
Page 38 and 39: september 29 to october 20opening s
Page 40 and 41: La Belle EpoqueVANCOUVER MUSEUM, VA
Page 42 and 43: Rick Rivet: Paintings 2000-2005KELO
Page 44 and 45: Lisa Klapstock, Picture 2 - Toronto
Page 47 and 48: VICTORIA GALLERIESGEORGE LITTLECHIL
Page 49 and 50: Gray's Dock, photogravure etching,
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Page 63 and 64: and work from the past several year
Page 65 and 66: Dales Gallery537 Fisgard St ✆(250
Page 67 and 68: FIRST ANNUAL FINE ART SALEPresented
Page 69 and 70: White Rock Gallery1247 Johnston Rd
Page 71 and 72: nature; Eric Rue, Back Room show;Oc
Page 73 and 74: pattern in post-WWII art; To Nov 4
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★ Frye Art Museum704 Terry Ave✆
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THOMASWOODVeneziaSept. 6 - 29, 2007
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Exhibition Catalogues of InterestRE
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Barbara Boldt Original Art Studio 2
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ART SERVICES & MATERIALSBasic Inqui
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GALLERY OPENINGS + EVENTSSeptember
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