Celebrations

When Ingrid and I returned to the flat after nerve wracking Viva Voces, our assistants produced champagne to toast our achievement.

Next day, during a group meeting, before the Private View, we toasted ourselves with champagne. What we had achieved was beginning to sink in.
The paper cups had to do because the caterers hadn't arrived with the glasses.

We went walk-about, visiting each installation while each artist talked about her work.
It was a moving and emotional time - a release.

Articulation Opens At the Whyte

This weekend the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta, opened a new series of exhibitions, including one by Articulation

6 Articulation members traveled to Banff for the opening

There is lots of signage outside the museum

Opening speeches by Michale Lange, museum director, Gloria Daly, Articulation rep, and curator Mary Beth Laviolette

and demos by Articulation members: Wendy Klotz, Donna Clement

Victoria College of Art + Articulation

I thought I would show you some 'before' shots of the spaces in the Victoria College of Art that will be transformed by a retropsective of Articulation's 1st 5 bodies of work.

Work has started to arrive in Victoria by mail. Wendy will be driving out to Victoria this week bringing work from the 3 Calgary members. Ingrid will be flying from Winnipeg bringing work with her.

Altogether there will be 60 works.

We begin hanging the work on Thursday. We will be working hard to settle each work in its place by the opening on Friday 27th at 6:30 pm.

Current Threads 2010 Opening

Just got back from the opening of Vancouver Island Surface Design Association, Current Threads 2010 exhibition opening in the Ladysmith Gallery. We had a great turn out (picture taken before the crowds arrived).

Artists, from left, Judy Seeley, Jessie Taylor Dodd, Gloria S. Daly

Paulette Cornish, Anna Marie Madsen, Gayle McIvor

The show is up until the end of August. The gallery is open everyday from 12 til 4, with one of the artists in attendance with a gallery volunteer.

'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

Urban Textures Opening

This is the 3rd work in Ingrid's 'Facade' series.


Ingrid's 'River City'

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The opening of Urban Textures

Ron drove up from Calgary for the opening & to pick up Katherine who had written her last exam that morning.

McMullen Gallery Artists' Reception

Donna and I had a slow trip through snow this morning when we travelled from Calgary to Edmonton for a couple of functions to do with Articulation's exhibition in the McMullen Gallery.

This is the view of the gallery space when you walk through the front door.

Vickie Newington's work on panels.

2 of my 'Nana's Garden' works. My little camera couldn't handle the lighting conditions so these are not good images of the works.

Graffiti and Art

While walking through a park I came across another example of graffiti being used to speak out. North of this park there was a gas station for many years. When it was torn down it was found the underground tanks of fuel had been leaking through the soil into the neighbouring residential area. A big clean up of the polluted soil is underway. The above image is of the temporary station set up to 'vacuum clean' the contaminated soil. The company put up white visual screens on the fence surrounding the 'blend-in green' buildings.
These white screens were obviously begging to be painted and sure enough it wasn't long before they were.
The graffiti artist cleverly chose to write one letter on each screen, a word with the same number of letters as screens: VOLTRON
I wonder what the artist's message is in this word?

And yesterday more art was put up for public viewing. In this case, not only in a socially acceptable place to have a voice but in a special place to speak as an artist, the McMullen Gallery in the University of Alberta Hospital. Here is Diana Young Kennedy, Gallery & Collection Administrator, hanging Articulation's latest body of work, Urban Textures.
Vickie Newington and I travelled up to Edmonton to hang the work. I didn't take photos of the exhibition because when we left at 5:00 to return to Calgary, the lights had not been adjusted and the labels still had to be put up. Next week when we go up for the opening and to run a workshop, I'll photograph it all.
On April 23rd there will be a workshop from 2 to 4 and the opening will be from 6 to 9 pm.

Happenings at Banff

The person next to ReBecca is Jorie Adams. She is a special person. While she was heading up the music & sound department at The Centre, she suggested Articulation apply for a residency & gave us all of the information & contacts required. So we owe her a great deal. She has since retired & is enjoying working a few days a week in a quilt store while she pursues her textile passion. We invited her to have lunch with us one day and showed her our studios & our work up in the Other Gallery. One of Articulation's strengths is the active support from people such as Jorie.


We all attended Flossie Peitsch's Staged Four where she had modified parts of her installation in the Other Gallery & her studio was open for viewing. Darren Miller had composed music from the sounds pieces in the installation made when struck. Chris Chafe played the celletto & this was added to the music that was played over speakers placed around the gallery. Flossie used a soft mallet to keep suspended fluorescent tubes & strips of plastic moving & so making moving reflections on to the wall. She called it All Things Temporary Time-Lapse Installation and Soundscape.

I enjoyed the informal, graffiti-like dialogue that went on on a flip chart kept outside a meeting room. This week's one was a battle between the different art disciplines.
This was typical of the stimulation found throughout The Banff Centre. There was so much to see, do & hear; so many people to talk to and learn from; so many services & support to enable the artist to work on her own thing -time management turned out to be a much bigger issue than I had planned on having to deal with for the month while in residence.

Banff Art Centre - March 28

Loose Threads: Works In ProgressSome of the work we did during our month-long stay in The Banff Centre, as self-directed, Leighton Colony artists-in-residence.
The Hanging -Ingrid, Donna


ReBecca

Linda MacKay, who arrived the day before.

ReBecca's wall -silk fabric & threads dyed using a variety of dyes & techniques. The grey & the draped pieces are hand stitched.

Banff March 25

I have put in a few more hours on Woman Mountain. The red triangles are feminine, the blue/green triangles are masculine.

We attended Sandra Hawkins' (aqua shirt) artist reception. She has been on a self-directed residency in Glyde Hall this month. She has been working with her journals & photographs from her time working in the Arctic.

We also attended Flossie's talk about her 'All Things Temporary' installation, a collection of materials she found on campus that people had thrown out. She arranged the items into a number of compositions in her studio. Today she added sound, which added another dimension to her work.

Banff March 23

This was the walk to the studio yesterday. There was not as much snow on the ground because the trees had caught so much of it. But when we walked back to the dinning room at lunch it was warmer so big blobs of snow fell on top of us & we were quite wet when we arrived.
The campus is a buzz this week. Many of the artists in residence are finishing at the end of the month. They are pulling all-nighters, planning their open houses/exhibitions/presentations, and getting their publicity out around the campus.

There is much excitement in the music & sound area of the campus. I have seen people looking at large sheets of music over breakfast, people carrying hard black cases running between buildings, a filming crew following people and now the music huts near us have little pink signs on them. On Thursday we will hear the results of all of this activity. It is eagerly anticipated event.