Artwork Created on Global TV Displayed
A piece of collaborative artwork done on live television during the March 3, 2006, CanWest Global show This Morning Live, has been placed on display until March 24 in the main atrium at Concordia University's new Engineering and Visual Arts Building, at 1515 Ste. Catherine St. W. The piece, which focuses on television and media, was done at the Global studio during the show to help mark the start of the 2006 Art Matters festival, Canada's largest student-run arts festival. To read a story in Concordia's The Journal about the Art Matters festival, please click here:
Story about Art Matters
The artwork was the first placed on this wall since the building opened in August 2005. To view a photo of the artwork and the atrium where it is hanging, please visit the Photos section of our website. The artwork was attached with hooks behind the metal panels on the wall by collective member Robert Winters with the assistance of Leigh Ann Pawliuk, a final-year Studio Arts student.
The piece was done by Art Matters co-producers Corina Kennedy and Emily Shanahan, Rebecca St. John, special events co-ordinator for the festival and Shawn Kuruneru, a collective member whose drawings are on all the Art Matters promotional material. Also working on the piece for The Art Collective were Monica Eckert and Stephanie Reynolds, who both have played co-ordination roles in large-scale drawing and painting interactive projects, and Robert Winters, co-ordinator of the collective. Emily and Corina were each interviewed during the show by host Tracey McKee, a Concordia graduate, who also spoke with Stephanie about the collective and the festival.
The Art Collective wishes to take this opportunity to offer its congratulations to Art Matters, Corina, Emily, Rebecca, Sean and all the other hard-working artists who raised the standard of excellence for this major event so high. These included painters Trevor Kiernander and Susan Westbrook, co-producers of the 2005 Art Matters festival, who returned to play key roles in this year's festival, Trevor with design and Susan with finance.
The collective also thanks Art Matters for helping make possible the interactive art making events the group co-ordinated during the festival.
Robert Winters
co-ordinator of The Art Collective
robertwinters@videotron.ca