Great session last week/new photos, images
We submitted our proposal for the VAV Gallery show we are applying for, with our interactive event co-sponsored by the Painting and Drawing Association. If we are accepted, show is week of Nov. 6, with opening evening of Nov. 8. We also made the deadline for our funding request for the Fine Arts Student Alliance; we are asking for $500 for materials for our sessions and for interactive sessions.
Amelie Labreche's excellent short film about our McGill event is posted on our website now, in a low resolution version. It is, of course, even better in its original high-res version, which we will present at our next show. Congratulations, Amelie!
Our session last week was very productive and several excellent pieces were done. Bea Parsons, who is in her second year as a member of The Art Collective, brought in a painting she is working on and Khadija C. Baker, a new member, showed us a painting she recently completed. David King started a fascinating drawing called Twins, which you can see in the Our Work section of our site, that was also worked on by new member Joanna Nawracaj and Cassandra Witteman, who was attending her first session.
Collective member Jarmila Kavena suggests we encourage people to submit work for the art loan program, through which work can be shown at Concordia University in offices and public spaces. Jarmila says much of the work shown in this way is eventually bought by people who become attached to the works of art.
More information is at this web page:
http://alumni.concordia.ca/cuaa/chapters/fine_arts/submissions2005.shtml
Our photo and image gallery is back up and linked to our main web home page. The site’s improving new look and speed are a credit to the skills of our webmaster, Robert Turenne, who won a Russell Mills purchase prize for a piece that combines digital images and painting. Several new photos and images have been posted in the Photos and Our Work sections of the gallery.
Our galleries:
http://gallery.theartcollective.net
home page:
www.theartcollective.net
Hot bagels, coffee and juice etc. kept the session going until 230, as the pieces kept evolving and the discussion of various topics and the work we were doing kept our energy levels high. Watch the website for several more new pieces to be posted in the days to come.
Robert Winters