The Art Collective

We welcomed a new artist member last week, Joanna Nawracaj, a studio arts student who decided to join after looking at work on our website and finding the images were surprisingly coherent for collaborative work.

Our session included work on the topic of “shocking” among other themes. This theme included a piece begun by Kyla Chevrier, a second year studio arts student who dropped by to work on an unusual piece that was also worked on by collective veteran David King and new member Shawn Kuruneru, a 3rd year studio arts student with a flair for drawing in a unique style.
Shawn has a website you can visit to see his work:
shawnkuruneru.tripod.com

Another collective veteran from last year, Bea Parsons, added her strong touch to some work and told us about her experiences teaching students, which is part of her art education program.

Our gallery of art work and photos is back up, thanks to hard work of our webmaster, Robert Turenne, and Robert Winters will be doing an update of content in next couple of days with new work and fresh photos from this year’s sessions:
http://gallery.theartcollective.net

We're meeting each Friday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in room 315 of the Visual Arts Building, at the corner of Crescent and Rene-Levesque in downtown Montreal. Drop by for coffee, a fresh bagel or juice, and some collaborative drawing.

I submitted our request for $500 in funding from the Fine Arts Student Alliance by the deadline on Thursday. We received $500 last year from FASA, which helped us with materials. VAV proposal to be submitted by Monday, including images. The painting and drawing association has agreed to co-sponsor our collaborative art making proposal for the VAV show which starts week of Nov. 6, opening is evening of Nov. 8. They will contribute some money for materials for the event, and also will encourage members to join in.

Painting and drawing association has show opening Friday Oct. 21, 6 p.m., Espace 306 in Belgo building.

Artist François Morelli, who helps advise the collective, has a show opening at esthesio gallery in Quebec City on Saturday Oct. 21, if you feel like an outing on the weekend.
http://www.esthesio.com/index.htm

With the Van Gogh drawing show opening Oct. 18 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, you can listen to an audio file from the Met in which actor Kevin Bacon reads excerpts from Van Gogh’s letters; 600 of them survive, as well as the 1,100 drawings he did in the only 10 years that he lived after he took up drawing.

http://www.metmuseum.org/vvg/

The Met Van Gogh website section also has a rather unusually easy to use page where you can draw yourself using a variety of pen sizes.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/van_gogh/menu.html

It’s part of the surprisingly well done Van Gogh for kids section:
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/van_gogh/intro.html

That’s all for now

Robert Winters