(updated May 16th, 2012)
UPCOMING:A Kitchen-Sink Approach to Photographing Your Artwork Instructor: Kevin Law Saturday, June 16 from 1:00-4:00 pm Harcourt House Annex/Drawing Room
Kevin Law will instruct and demonstrate how to take clear, professional quality photographs of 2D and 3D artwork. Natural and artificial lighting, glass or plexiglass, in a gallery, studio or outdoors – all will be addressed at this workshop. A few spots still available!! Email us or telephone 780.421.1731 to reserve your spot. Free to members of Visual Arts Alberta, CARFAC, Harcourt House, $10.00 to everyone else.
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Members Miniatures
Think Small! Visual Arts Alberta members are invited to become miniaturists!
All Visual Arts Alberta members are invited to participate in this exhibition and sale! Eligible artists can submit up to three miniatures from which at least one work will be selected for this exhibition and sale featured from October 18th to November 24th, 2012 in the Visual Arts Alberta gallery. Member artists can submit framed artwork that is ready to hang or be displayed and that is 12 x 12 x 12″ or smaller. Artists set the retail price and if the artwork sells, the proceeds will be equally divided between the artist and Visual Arts Alberta. Up to three works to be delivered to Visual Arts Alberta Gallery by 4pm October 5th, 2012 along with your contact information (name, address, email address, phone number), the names and selling price of all works, your cv, resume or biography and an artist statement.
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Save the Date: National Conference for Visual Artists
Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa June 9th & 10th, 2012
Join artists from across Canada who will be meeting in Ottawa to talk about issues that are important to them. This year’s conference will include discussions about copyright, the relationships between artists and galleries, the campaign for the Artist’s Resale Right, and the presentation of the Visual Arts Advocacy Award. Participants will also get a chance to rub shoulders with art lawyers who will be in town for their own conference – the first of its kind in Canada. For more information or to pre-register, email communications@carfac.ca.
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Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?Make plain your devotion to Visual Arts Alberta! Drop by during office hours and pick up one of our limited edition buttons for your coat or bag, featuring our new logo. Find us at 10215 112 Street NW on the third floor in Edmonton, Wed-Fri from 10-4 pm and Sat from 12-4 pm.
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At Visual Arts Alberta Gallery… There is no remedy against the truth of language, new work by William G. Prettie: Gallery A: In many ways we create and maintain the world we live in through the language we speak, the text and the colloquialisms we use, and the explications that are part of our being through repetitive usage. Prettie’s work investigates text as image, and image as metaphor, to refashion the way that one looks at familiar things and to allow the mind to explore the new and multi-layered understandings that may result.
Human Voices, photographs by Gerry Yaum: Gallery B “I feel that photography can be a powerful voice for change; it can help the forgotten people in our society….My hope in creating these photo graphs was to document the people I met as well as to raise awareness amongst people in the West. I wanted to personalize the nameless workers everyone hears about but does not know. I wanted to have them heard, to give voices to the statistics.” until 26 May, 2012, (closed on saturday May 19th, 2012)
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