The Art Collective

1) a large scale painting and drawing piece being done
2) a large scale collage and mixed media piece
3) collaborative drawing and painting on 9 X 12 inch watercolour paper
4) colouring of special drawings by high-profile Montreal artist François Morelli that will be made into a video for our website (combined with the coloured drawings from a Musée de Québec event that François did.

Bring along any collage images you like, we’ll have movie posters and some magazines. We’ll have materials but any you can bring your own to use if you like.

The VAV gallery is also helping the collective through beer sales in the evening, so we will need some help during the evening selling beer. And bring something for the snack table if you can.

We might also have a short performance piece taking place during the evening (and if anyone is interested in doing a performance piece of their own, please let me know).

Wednesday March 8, 1 to 4 p.m., Interactive Drawing session at the reading room on 2nd floor of new EV building: interactive drawing at an Art Matters Special Event we are helping co-ordinate. Rebecca St. John, Special Events co-ordinator for Art Matters, will be at both events.
Our regular session will be Friday March 10, 10 to 130, in room VA 315. Last week’s session was excellent, with interesting conversation as we made some interesting work.
Global TV event: Our Global TV event with Art Matters went really well on Friday, the piece we did looked very good. Art Matters co-producers Corina Kennedy and Emily Shanahan were there and were interviewed by This Morning Live co-host Tracey McKee. Special Events co-ordinator Rebecca St. John also was there along with collective member Shawn Kuruneru, whose amazing drawings can be seen everywhere these days, on the Art Matters program, publicity materials and the great festival shirts that are becoming a collector’s item. Collective members Monica Eckert, Stephanie Reynolds and myself also were there and worked on the piece; Stephanie was interviewed about collaborative art making and the festival as well. The piece will go up in the atrium of the new EV building during the festival. Take a look at photos from this event on our website at:

http://gallery.theartcollective.net

Our show proposal for CEDx Gallery at UQAM was accepted for May 2 to 9. This is the graduate students’ gallery at UQAM and is a beautiful space at street level at the corner of St. Denis and Ste. Catherine Sts. We will have one or more major interactive events with UQAM and Concordia students as well as a show of work from our interactive events and our collaborative art making sessions.
New member Angeliki Gketsou showed us some of her work and drew and painted with us. Angeliki graduated from Concordia University in 2004 with a major in Design Art. She came to Montreal in 2000 from Greece where she studied visual arts, painting, sculpture, drawing and graphic arts between 1992 and 1999, including at the Vacalo School of Fine Arts in Athens. She obtained a higher diploma of education from Middlesex University in Britain, studied at the AKTO School of Applied Arts and the Campus School of Arts and Sciences.
Tuesday March 14, noon to 5 p.m., on ground floor of new EV building. This is an Art Matters Special Event we’re co-ordinating. This is a very high-profile interactive art making project plus a show of work curated by Montreal artist Holly King at a special curating session on Feb. 10 that will be shown at the CEDx Gallery. Holly, who has helped the collective with key advice, has work in several museum collections and was one of the first performance artists in Quebec.
Thursday March 16, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., come and draw with UQAM students at Café des arts at UQAM.
Friday March 17, 1 to 4 p.m. The collective will help with a special Art Matters/Fine Arts Alumni Association careers panel and portfolio feedback session. Panelists include Nicolas Baier, photographer who did the leaf images on the new EV building (Nicolas, who is represented by Galérie René Blouin, has a show coming at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in April; Michèle Thériault, director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery; collective member Jarmila Kavena, who had a show in Chicago last summer; Anne Bertrand of SKOL; and Maria Torres, who teaches an art as a business course. Painter Tom Hopkins will be moderator.

Robert Winters, co-ordinator of The Art Collective
robertwinters@videotron.ca