Deadline Fast Approaching
We are now counting down the days to the Community Roots: Inspirations from the Potato House Project submission Deadline. All submission forms must be received by May 31st at 5pm at Dandelion Living located at 271 Oliver Street. All inquiries email Leah Selk at leahtard@hotmail.com
Submission Forms can be downloaded here.
Don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of this amazing event. All media, including performance, welome.
Painting the Cariboo
by Diana Vestergaard
From cowboys to moose, Barkerville to Lac La Hache and winter to summer, Diana Vestergaard has the Cariboo covered in her May Exhibition at the Station House Gallery. The show, entitled Landscape Painting in the Cariboo, feels like a Sunday drive on a dirt road through every season the Cariboo has to offer. Vestergaard’s paintings, done in a Classical Realist style reflect influences including Emily Carr, the Impressionists and the Group of Seven but with as incredibly romantic and wistful twist. Her philosophy, “To Be is Nature – to sense it – one becomes impregnated with its magnificence,” is clearly communicated through this body of work.
A Forest Falls
by Aki Yamamoto
In the upstairs gallery local artist, Aki Yamamoto will exhibit her exquisite woodblocks, monoprints, watercolours and relief carving. This similarly themed show A Forest Falls, could not be more different in execution. Aki’s focus is on a more serious side of the forest. Landscape Painting in the Cariboo will be exhibiting in the Main Gallery at the Station House in Williams Lake from May 4th to June 2nd, 2012.
Salmon Nation: Out of the Blue
Celia Brauer
Maureen LeBourdais
Louise Towell
After this show you will never look at salmon the same way again. Three artists, living in British Columbia communities, met through a watershed group. All passionate about salmon protection, clean water and healthy communities, these women created Salmon Nation: Out of the Blue to draw attention to issues and to inspire communities to honour water and the role is plays in all life.
Maureen LeBourdais, from the village of Horsefly, watches the same water flow down the Horsefly River and into the Fraser which Louise Towell can see from her Burnaby Home. It then flows to the False Creek inlet in Vancouver where Celia Brauer, the third contributor to this exhibition resides. Separated by land but connected by water these three artist have created a multi media exhibition that is sure to get viewers thinking and sure to change the way they view salmon.
The Station House Gallery is Open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Admission is by donation.
Open Call for Submissions
Community Roots: Inspirations from the Potato House Project
This is an open call for submissions for artworks inspired by 49 Borland Street and the past, present, and future of the Potato House Project to be exhibited at the Station House Gallery. Exhibition dates: July 6 – September 1, 2012. Opening Reception: Thursday, July 5, 2012.
The Potato House (49 Borland St) was once owned by local gardeners and avid potato farmers Alcina and Manuel Quintells. Through their inspiring past, the Potato House Sustainable Community Society (aka Potato House Project) formed in late 2009 in an effort to promote and carry out programs that inspire personal and community self-sufficiency through a high profile drop-in centre and garden space for the educational benefit of citizens. See www.potatohouseproject.com for more info.
Click HERE for more information and an application form.
Any inquiries, please email leahtard@hotmail.com. Entry forms are to be submitted to Dandelion Living (271 Oliver Street) by May 31st 2012 at 5pm.
Rape Prostitution & Hunger, by Ann Nicholson 2010
March 2nd – 31st
Opening Reception: March 1st, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Main Gallery
Ann Nicholson – The Chilcotin War: A colonial Legacy
With bold primary colours, strong highlights and deep blacks Nicholson tells the story of the Chilcotin War. Repeated patterns and symbols coupled with sharp lines portray an emotional history. Although bold and sharp, beauty is easily found in this body of work.
Upper Gallery
Casey Bennett – Industrial Town
With portraits of industry workers, photographer Casey Bennett has created a series titled Industry Town. This series, housed in the Upper Gallery at the Station House during the month of March, conjures up nostalgia for those, like Bennett, who have lived in small town Canada with an industry based economy. As a resident of Williams Lake, the artist has used local characters as inspiration for this show.
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