Articulation Demos & Tours

After a successful opening night, Articulation members conducted tours . . . here's Wendy leading a tour . . .

. . . demonstrations . . . Ingrid demonstrated collage techniques while Wendy and I hand stitched on her creations. Audience members sometimes took over the stitching and were delighted when they were given a sample.

Donna and I did the tours and demos the 2nd weekend and gave tours to a number of different groups the following week.

People watching the demos practiced making backgrounds on burlap.

Victoria College of Art Exhibition

The post office delivered more art work yesterday. This morning I have been gathering up all of the things we will need to hang the show.
Wendy and Derek will be in the middle of the Rockies at the moment as they drive over to the island today.
I am about to go out to the airport to pick up Ingrid and Bob who are flying to the island.

I have also spent the morning planning the exhibition layout.
This is the Drawing Room at the college where I plan to hang Articulation's most recent body of work, Rainforest. This probably where the Opening Reception/Open House will be held and the location of all the demos and workshop help over the 2 weekends the exhibition is up.
During the Open House on Friday evening, 6:30 p.m. to whenever, most of the faculty will be present also so people interested in taking a course at the college can meet up with the instructors. Of course there will be nibbles and drinks too so it should be a great evening.

This is the Photography/Print Room (de-blacked out) where I plan to install the Winnipeg body of work. It is down stairs in the lower level.

This is the Art History/Art Therapy Room where the Links body of work will go.
That's the plan anyway. It is always good to go into a project with a plan and then keep flexible. Ultimately we will put the work where it looks its best. And it will all look so good in this lovely 100 year old building that was built as a place of learning.

'Narrative Textiles' by Articulation at Victoria College of Art

The Victoria College Of Art exhibition by Articulation

 NARRATIVE ARTICULATIONS is a cross-Canada show by nine Canadian contemporary textile artists, all City and Guilds of London Institute trained. Each year members of Articulation go to a special place in Canada to do a study together, then they return to their respective studios across Canada to produce a body of work based on the study. The next year they exhibit the work. The group has had two residencies at the Banff Center, Banff, Alberta. They are currently working on a body of work to be exhibited in the Whyte Museum, Banff in September 2011.

Curated by Lesley Turner, Victoria College of Art - Fine Art Textiles instructor, the free exhibition will fill the walls at the college with over 50 works. The artists will be in attendance and there will be free demonstrations, workshops and artist-led tours throughout the course of the show, which will run from August 27th to September 10th. Opening reception will be held Friday, Aug 27th at 6:30 p.m. at the Victoria College of Art, at 1625 Bank Street. For more information, email info@vca.ca or call us at 250-598-5422.

NARRATIVE ARTICULATIONS

Friday, August 27, 2010 at 6:30pm

1625 Bank Street, Victoria BC

Victoria Symphony Splash

Each year the Victoria Symphony sets its self up on a barge out in the inner harbour and plays music until late in the night.

Thousands claim a spot on the lawn in front of parliament buildings...

...along the inner harbour board walk....

...and from front row seats in their canoes, kayaks, row boats and small motor boats - to listen to spectacular music blast across the water for hours. The grand final is accompanied by fireworks.
It is just another great summer event happening in Victoria, on Vancouver Island.

I'm back - sharing a knitting video

I'm back.

I've been so busy with life i haven't had time to do my usual stuff, including posting on my blog.

I'm in 'catch-up' mode for the next couple of days, then I'll get to telling you what i have been up to.

In the meantime, i found this wonderful video for you, on Knotty by Nature's blog - they are one of the best local fiber stores we have access to here in Victoria.

jeffmilner.com � Lysanne Latulippe

Art Deco In Victoria BC Canada

One of the unique aspects of the Art Deco Movement is it 'moved' all around the world. Here in Victoria, where I live, I found some fine examples of well preserved Art Deco architecture.
In 1931 Imperial Oil built a 3 tiered garage on the waterfront inner harbour area of the city and topped it with a tower just like the one that had been built on the Palmolive Building in Chicago in 1929. Both towers had state-of-the-art navigational beacons put on top.

Today, Victoria's tower tops the Visitor Centre, a restaurant and tourist activity offices for harbour tours and whale watching.

The elegant Art Deco elements are still clearly visible.

For the final assignment for the JC School of Textile Art module I have just finished, I wrote an essay about how the step design element was used throughout the Art Deco Movement. I looked at the way these 'modern' skyscraper buildings were inspired by the stepped buildings in Mayan/Aztec and Egyptian civilisations. I found some very interesting links.