LEARNING

July 16-19, 2010

In this workshop we will follow in the footsteps of master painters, such as John Singer Sargent, Carl Rungius, Edgar Payne and J.E.H. MacDonald, through their travels of the Canadian Rockies from Bow Lake to Lake OíHara.

We will be painting outdoors at Bow Lake and Lake O'Hara with stops at Moraine Lake and Lake Louise.

At Bow Lake we will paint in the same places as Carl Rungius did, to study what he saw and why it is important to study the masters to better understand our own work. At Lake OíHara we will stand at Sargent's Point and paint one of the most beautiful, and most painted, places on earth. Painters from around the world have come to paint and study these wonders of mother nature. We will study the works of some of these artists and then learn to create our own interpretation of these majestic places.

For more details visit http://www.jerrymarkham.com/workshops.html or call Leah at 250-558-0350.

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10 Mar 2010

Dates: Saturday, April 24 to Sunday, April 25 - 9 am to 4 pm

Location: Rotary Centre For The Arts, 421 Cawston Avenue, Kelowna, BC

Typically there are either painting workshops or workshops on how to promote your work, but not the combination. Jerry & Leah Markham offer a 2-day workshop that encompasses both. How it works is half of the group paints with Jerry the first day while the other half is with Leah learning the business of art, then the groups switch the following day. Here are more details:

A Day With Carlson ñ taught by Jerry Markham (http://www.jerrymarkham.com)
 
In this one day workshop we will be delving into ideas John F. Carlson lays out in his timeless book John Carlsonís Guide to Landscape Painting. Carlsonís ideas have been used for years by many painters and yet I hear often that his book is difficult to read, which it is.  So I have developed some exercises to help simplify some of the main points in his book.  We will begin with a painting demonstration to illustrate what we will be learning, followed by a few drawing exercises then a painting session of your own to further illustrate the concepts of Composition, Value, and the important difference between Atmospheric Perspective and Linear Perspective. 
 
This class is suitable for beginners to advanced painters in acrylic, watercolour and oil as it involves tools and information that will help make your landscape paintings more dynamic and authentic no matter which medium you use.   
 
 
Business Of Art ñ taught by Leah Markham (http://www.artmarketingbusiness.com)
 
This workshop encompasses an overview and introduction of a number of topics that contribute to the success of an artist. Topics covered will include:
 
- how to build an effective website and online marketing strategy
- marketing materials every artist needs and how to use them
- techniques to promote your work & places your work can be shown
- how to approach galleries
- what to expect from galleries and what they expect from you
- cultivating relationships with collectors
- the importance of keeping an inventory of your work
 
Cost: $125 / person + GST

Registration: For more information or to register visit http://www.artmarketingbusiness.com/workshops.html#3 or call Leah at 250-558-0358 or email info@artmarketingbusiness.com

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10 Mar 2010

Photo: Cottonwoods resident Mary holds a paper flower that  ArtzZone student volunteer Jade made for her. The flowers and drawings  that were created during the art sessions are displayed in residents rooms and often become conversation pieces for residents, visitors and staff.

Kelowna's ArtzZone Studio has launched a unique new program – Creative Kids At Cottonwoods - in which students aged 6-13 have an opportunity to volunteer at the extended care facility in Kelowna for one hour twice per month. Students work with the senior residents one-on-one creating art that is inspired by interacting and telling stories.

The program is the brainchild of Beverly Rein, the director of ArtzZone Studio and Kellie Schonfeld, a recreational therapist at Cottonwoods. Together, they plan and supervise the activities. The program is open to all students currently taking classes at ArtzZone studio.

The next creative sessions are scheduled to take place at Cottonwoods March 5, April 9 and 23, 2010. The art projects will include card-making using methods of drawing, collage and painting along with creating small sculptures with found objects.

The Creative Kids At Cottonwoods program is meant to encourage intergenerational communications and to contribute to the well-being of both the residents and volunteers. The children benefit from the interaction and exposure to seniors. They gain an awareness of where many seniors live, some of their disabilities and the daily life of elderly people in our community. They also have an opportunity to express themselves and develop self confidence. The senior residents benefit from the interaction and personal attention from the children. They are mentally stimulated by the conversation and the art making tasks. Everyone enjoys the creative process, exchange of life stories and laughter.

Children benefit from engaging in the creative process of making art whether it be through drawing, painting, sculpting, printing or any other art or craft form. They learn technical skills that build visual-spacial abilities and develop an array of mental habits not emphasized elsewhere in the school curriculum. The capacity to be reflective, the willingness to experiment and learn from mistakes, the ability to work on projects for a sustained period of time and to persevere through frustration are all important life lessons. Through art making a child finds her or his own personal voice and learns to express ideas and emotions in healthy ways. Self confidence and a sense of accomplishment are positive outcomes of participating in visual arts programs.

ArtzZone offers both a unique facility and a series of arts instructional programs - tailored to the needs of adults and children - that contribute to the cultural life of Kelowna and the Okanagan.

The ArtzZone Studio exists to provide high quality visual arts instruction to people of all ages in a comfortable environment that encourages creative exploration and personal expression. The studio is a spacious, stimulating, creative space where experimentation is encouraged.

The ArtzZone Programs for both children and adults offer students a solid base in traditional art-making practices, all the while encouraging them to think creatively and to be experimental with art materials and ideas. ArtzZone provides a variety of art workshops and classes for beginners as well as those with years of art making experience. There is a dynamic exchange between participants and instructors in an environment of encouragement and exploration. There is no more dynamic way for children of all ages, and adults, to discover their creative selves.

Beverly Rein, Director of ArtzZone, is an enthusiastic art teacher who loves to share her knowledge and skills with students of all ages. She studied drawing and printmaking at the University of Lethbridge, Art Foundations and 3D studies at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Art Education at UBC, Painting at the University of California, Hayward, Sumi-e painting in Chiba, Japan and Pastel Drawing at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds a Bachelor of General Studies from SFU and a BC Professional Teaching Certificate. She has many years experience leading art classes with children. She has led many workshops for seniors and has taught classes in Acrylic, Encaustic, Sumi-e and Mixed Media painting at her Studio, at the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Vernon Community Arts Centre. She is on the board of the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan and is a member of the Okanagan Institute's ArtsCare program.

Upcoming ArtzZone Programs:
1. Children: Afterschool art classes, School break art camps, and classes for home schoolers.
2. Teens: Drawing and painting, Anime and Manga, and Portfolio classes and workshops.
3. Adults: Encaustic, Mixed media painting, Watercolour, Sumie Painting classes and workshops.

More information about the Creative Kids at Cottonwoods program is available at the ArtzZone website: www.artzzone.ca

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04 Mar 2010

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Icons and Idioms

SNOWSELL ON APPLES
» Thursday 18 February 2010 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as professor and writer Colin Snowsell explores the nature of political and social power in the Okanagan through the story of his family, and launches his chapbook On Apples.

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» $2 at the door. Refreshments are available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE

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Writer Follows in Family Tradition of Outspoken Commentary

Who remembers that Kelowna's mayor from 1930 to 1939 was a furniture dealer named O.L. Jones? And that Kelowna voters sent Jones to Ottawa three times - in 1948, 1949 and 1953 - as the CCF candidate for the riding of Yale? Who remembers that his campaign manager was named Snowsell? The Snowsells once owned and operated over 100 acres of orchard land in the Glenmore Valley. This is not, except in the distance cast by history and forgetfulness, their most significant contribution. The Snowsells' greater influence on the Okanagan was in their socialism, in their activism, and in their support of the CCF and the NDP. If they pioneered anything, it was BC socialism.

The Snowsells would be horrified to know history had remembered them as landowners. Their life was spent in struggle against the propertied classes, and from the 1930s to the 1960s they were known for the courage and pigheaded tenacity with which they fought to keep the valley, the province, and the country out of the clutches of conservatives. It just so happened that their struggle was against the two most powerful politicians the province has known.

On Thursday, February 18th at 5 pm the ongoing weekly Okanagan Institute Express series at the Bohemian Café presents Icons and Idioms: Snowsell On Apples. Join us as professor and writer Colin Snowsell explores the nature of political and social power in the Okanagan through the story of his family, and launches his chapbook On Apples.

When you're driving down Snowsell Street - as the old portion of Glenmore Road will be named, as soon as the Glenmore Bypass is operational - you'll be driving down a street named after the one local family that came within a hair of upsetting the conservatives' rise to power. That's the message of On Apples, a chapbook by Colin Snowsell, a writer and professor of Communications at Okanagan College and the great grandson of Edwin and Felicia Snowsell, the pioneer Glenmore orchardists who arrived in the Okanagan in 1925.

"When the city announced it was renaming Glenmore Road, my students started asking me if I was one of THOSE Snowsells," said Snowsell. "What bothered me wasn't that they didn't know who the Snowsells were anymore - Kelowna's a pretty big city now and the name's not that common - but that the city didn't seem to know who the Snowsells were either. Did they own orchards? Yes. But so what? It's what the family did in the community, not so much what they owned, that should be remembered."

Both Felicia Snowsell and her son Frank, former head of the provincial NDP/CCF and one-time MLA for the now-defunct provincial riding of Saanich, opposed W.A.C. Bennett on the ballot in tightly contested races. In the essay - part lament, part revisionist history - Snowsell speculates how Kelowna, and the province, might have looked, had the contests gone a different way.

The novelist Caterina Edwards describes Snowsell, who is also a fiction writer whose novella, entitled The Frollett Homestead, is scheduled for release in March, as "more than a promising writer: he is a full-blown talent."

Colin Snowsell holds a MA in Communications Studies from the University of Calgary. He is finishing a PhD through the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.

Snowsell's essays have been published in This Magazine, Maisonneuve and PopMatters. Earlier versions of Snowsell have appeared on MuchMusic (in the role of Calgary alt-indie impresario), obtained a journalism diploma from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and worked in corporate communications at Greyhound Canada's head office in Calgary.

Prior to joining the Communications faculty at Okanagan College, Snowsell taught professional communication at the University of Saskatchewan.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE

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Icons and Idioms: Snowsell On Apples takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 126th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007.
Express has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet laureate and professor John Lent, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and many others from a wide range of creative fields.

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The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that has gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.

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12 Feb 2010

Ken Smedley & The George Ryga Centre are proud to present legendary Acoustic Delta Blues Guitarist KEN HAMM "In Concert"  on his 10th Annual tour throughout theOkanagan Valley!



KEN HAMM will perform at Gallery Vertigo
Wednesday, February 17th @ 8pm
 
Tickets are available at the Book Nook in Vernon
Phone: 250-558-0668
 
KEN HAMM is also conducting his 10th Annual Guitar Workshop, Feb. 20 & 21 at The George Ryga Centre, Summerland.  This workshop is open to guitar players at all levels and is a rare opportunity to work with a master of the Delta Blues style.
 
There are still some openings in this prestigious workshop.  Interested registrants should register by contacting Ken Smedley(Ph. 250-546-9886).  Cost of the Full Weekend Workshop is $200.
Produced by Ken Smedley

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30 Jan 2010

Acrylic & Watercolour Painting Workshops*

Introduction to Acrylics #1
Saturday, February 6, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm

Introduction to Acrylics #2
Saturday, February 20, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm

Introduction to Watercolour
Saturday, March 6, 2010
10 am ñ 4 pm

Fun and informative workshops designed to introduce you to the skills and techniques used in painting with these exciting mediums. Instruction includes colour theory, composition and demonstrations of the special qualities unique to these mediums which the students will then apply to their own paintings. Students will complete paintings during each workshop. Beginners Welcome.

Workshop Fee: $75.00 each. Art Supplies extra.
Supply List available at Opus Store or check online at the Opus website.
*All Workshops subject to enrolment.

Location: Opus Art Supply Store - Classroom, Kelowna, B.C.
Instructor: Marlene G. McPherson
Phone 250-766-3934
www.MyArtClub.Com/Marlene.McPherson

M.G.M. Fine Art Studios
Teaching Creativity in the Okanagan since 1993

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26 Jan 2010

Thursday, January 28th at 6pm in room Art 103 at UBC Okanagan



Daniel Jolliffe is a media and visual artist whose work integrates a wide range of artistic practices with electronic systems to examine the effect of technology on human communication and experience. His interactive works and technology-based art projects have been shown across Canada, the United States and internationally, most recently during the Biennale de Montreal 2009. Daniel's work has also received international media attention. His research interests include anonymous speech, open source approaches to creating artworks and cultural objects, and interventionist and kinaesthetic art, amoung others. In 2009 he co-organized the GOSH! summit on open-source hardware and cultural practice at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is currently an assistant professor at Concordia University and the University of British Columbia. he holds a BA in Philosophy (Victoria) and an MFA in Art and Technology (Ohio State). 

Admission to all FCCS Visiting Artist Speaker Series talks are free and open to the public. The FCCS Visiting Artist Speaker Series is sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. 

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22 Jan 2010

A Reputation for Tolerance: examining contested geographies of belonging in Kelowna, BC

DATE: Thursday, January 28th at 2:15pm in the UBC Okanagan Library room 306

Cindy Holmes is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies and holds a SSHRC doctoral fellowship at UBC Okanagan. Her dissertation research draws on critical race, queer feminist and spatial theories to examine how interlocking forms of violence, safety and belonging are imagined and produced in different contexts and scales. Alongside her academic work, she has worked with community groups for over 20 years in the areas of violence against women, violence in the lives of LGBTQ people, health promotion and anti-oppression education. Cindyís forthcoming and most recent publications are: (Forthcoming January 2010). Troubling normalcy: Examining ëhealthy relationshipsí discourses in lesbian domestic violence prevention  in J. Ristock (Ed.) Intimate partner violence in LGBTQ Lives. New York: Routledge; and (2009) Destabilizing homonormativity and the private/ public dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence discourses in Gender, Place and Culture 16(1), 77-95
This event is free and open to the public.

CONTACT: David.jefferess@ubc.ca or Lindsay.balfour@ubc.ca

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22 Jan 2010

The Kelowna Art Gallery is offering an exciting line-up of winter art classes designed to bring out oneís creative side.

Whether you've never picked up a paint brush before or you wield a drawing pencil like a pro, there are classes that start with the basics for beginners or provide inspiration for the more advanced.

The gallery offers day and evening courses in watercolour, pastel painting, oil painting, printmaking, drawing and mixed media, as well as weekend workshops in acrylic painting and stained glass.

The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to have the following artists teach the winter classes; Dawn Emerson, Jim Kalnin, Robin Lowe, Jacquie Meyers, Kathryn Newell,  Crystal Pryzbille, Beverly Rein, Tina Siddidui, and Rena Warren.



For a full description of classes visit www.kelownaartgallery.com
To register, call the Gallery at 250- 762-2226.

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19 Jan 2010

You are invited to attend our last ìHere and Nowî talk of term one!  Bring your lunch and enjoy the event.

HERE AND NOW: RESEARCH IN CREATIVE STUDIES

December 1st ,  1 - 2 PM  
Fipke 124

"A Look into Three of Twelve"
by  Peter Morin

MFA Graduate student Peter Morin will present 3 of the 12 Making Objects interventions recently completed for Open Space gallery in Victoria, BC.  These interventions were created with the intention of creating pathways of transformation of the grief and spiritual trauma within aboriginal communities as a result of the Residential School system.  As an inter-generational survivor, Morin created twelve interventionist performances in which the audience, along with the performer, could acknowledge the effect of this grief and co-author ways of creating change.

In one of the performances, Peter worked with High school students to created thirteen Button Blankets. These blankets were combined to create a giant button blanket for the Earth.   
 
In the second performance intervention, Peter demonstrates how to read aboriginal written language. His visual work concerns itself with the authentic relationship building between objects of meaning within Tahltan cultural practice.
 
In the third intervention, Peter worked with Martial Artist David Kong to clear the gallery of negative energy so that the work of healing and transformation could be accomplished.  

Peter Morin is an MFA student working in the department of Creative Studies and is a member of the Crow Clan of the Tahltan Nation.

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27 Nov 2009