Join professional artist Emily Beaudoin for “Mural Painting 101” at @livingroomstudio.ca in Gibsons, BC on Wednesday, April 30th!
We will be talking about everything you need to know to get into the amazing world of mural painting! We’ll cover:
Breaking into the mural market
Client Communication
Pricing
Pre-Painting Prep
Paint
Supplies
What to Wear
Wall Access
Painting!
Self-Care
Emily will be including her current pricing guide, a PDF of resources, workshops and classes she recommends, and a spreadsheet of over 40 mural fests to apply to with their info and deadlines.
You can register using the link below. This will be held at the Living Room Studio, 1006 Venture Way Unit 111 in Gibsons.
Join us for the Opening Receptions of two separate exhibitions by Marney-Rose Edge and Marie Price on May 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. Both artists will also be presenting an Artist Talk. All are welcome!
Marney-Rose Edge, exhibiting The Quiet of the Nest is Where Dreams Come True in the Main Gallery, uses the nest as both a motif and a metaphor representing a protected space where dreams in their earliest and most fragile forms are given room to grow. Marie Price, exhibiting On the Face of It in the Eve Smart Gallery, is inspired by mythology, philosophy, courageous artists and small children, with an interest in politics and social consciousness.
Join us for an Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Dorothy Doherty on Sunday, April 27th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Straddling the line between realism and abstraction, Dorothy Doherty’s work examines a number of issues, particularly relating to urban decay, the beauty of the world around us, the rapid extinction of life forms on this planet, and the effect that humans have on the environment around us. Doherty is a mixed media Vancouver based artist who specializes in working with clay and paint.
Join us with Carolina Franzen, exhibiting artist behind Man Made Cloud, for an Artist Talk on Sat. April 12th 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Man Made Cloud features fine, detailed, colourful line work sensually evolving into expansive landscapes which subtly engage with the beholder and their preconceptions. Pulp products are reversed into tree, sky, and seascapes. Using colourful pencil and felt pen on found and canvassed industrial packaging paper, Man Made Cloud is an ongoing series first begun in 2021. The negative spaces of brown carton papers are elevated to show growth as dense and vivid as the trees which make up the paper may have once been.
Join artists Teresa Selbee-Baker, Kara Brauen, Amanda MacLeod, Ember Muninn of the CONNECT Collective in celebrating their exhibition.
The CONNECT Collective comes together as a group of female and other underrepresented gendered artists providing members an opportunity to put into practice our values of community over division and cooperation over competition.
They state: “We share and nurture our unique skills and strengths with each other in order to transform into something greater than we could alone. We are rediscovering community in the modern age and celebrating what it means to be creative in partnership.”
Join artist Carol Schlosar in celebrating her exhibition: Pages from the Book of Women.
“The CIA should hire as spies only women over fifty because we are truly invisible” (Marge Piercy).
How did the natural process of a woman aging, a testament to her strength, become one of society’s greatest stigmas? Pages from the Book of Women explores these subversive attitudes and how contemporary older women have generated new definitions of social identity. Invisible… laughable! Juxtaposing traditional and contemporary elements, this exhibition invites viewers to examine their personal narrative of aging and visibility, and celebrate older women.
The legal principle of ‘public interest’ is best understood by the idea that if you stopped ten people on the street: would the issue matter to them. Would they care? In British Columbia a legal ruling from an investigative documentary on Indigenous deaths in custody established that there is no public interest to be found.
In response, people from around the world have created original art to tell stories of injustice and demonstrate that Indigenous lives matter. That people do care.
Join us for the Opening Receptions of three exhibitions on Saturday, February 15th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
This Opening Reception is for three different exhibitions; Parallels by Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker in the Main Gallery; Stories That Still Need to Be Told, an exhibition honouring Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery by T. Owens Union; and In the Thick of It by special invitation to Joe’s Lounge by Tzaddi Gordon. Learn more about these three exhibitions online at www.gpag.ca; and check out upcoming Artist Talks & Workshops by these artists throughout February!
Join us on Saturday, February 22nd, 2pm – 3pm for an Artist Talk with Claudia Sageele Cuesta and Bill Baker. This event is free to attend and all are welcome to join us!
Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – March 9th. Learn more about this exhibition online at www.gpag.ca
An exhibition honouring Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery, describing aspects of African American culture and history. The lack of a fully realized historical portrait of this community in American society has regularly resulted in invisibility and suppression. T. Owens Union uses the past to inform a present voice for ancestors who too often were silenced.
T. Owens Union is a career scientist who also holds a degree in Fashion Marketing from Parsons School of Design based in rural south-central Pennsylvania. To learn more about the artist and her exhibition, join us for an Artist Talk on Friday, Feb 14th, 2pm – 3pm; and for the Opening Reception of her exhibition on Saturday, Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm. These events are free to attend and all are welcome!
Join us on Saturday, February 22nd, 2pm – 3pm for an Artist Talk with Claudia Sageele Cuesta and Bill Baker. This event is free to attend and all are welcome to join us!
Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – March 9th. Learn more about this exhibition online at www.gpag.ca
to Mar 9th. A selection of artwork from the past 10 years that represents the artists’ journeys. Although different in materiality, Cuesta and Baker share in their art practice a passion for that which cannot be seen. Bill Baker looks at architectural structures and forms, creating works on paper with charcoals and oil pastels. Claudia Sageele Cuesta’s work is fluid and contemplative, based in three dimensional installation and performance art. Cuesta & Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – Mar 9th.
Join us on Sat. Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm, for the Opening Reception of this exhibition; and for an Artist Talk on Saturday Feb 22nd, 2pm – 3pm. Both events are free to attend and all are welcome!
We hope you will join us for a presentation by Indigenous design consultant Cory Douglas to learn more about the original art and architecture of the Sunshine Coast. This presentation is free and all are welcome to attend. Please RSVP online.
Join us for an artist talk with T. Owens Union, the artist behind Stories that Still Need to Be Told; an exhibition in honour of Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery.
Stories That Still Need to Be Told, by T. Owens Union in the Eve Smart Gallery, describes aspects of African American culture and history. The lack of a fully realized historical portrait of this community in American society has regularly resulted in invisibility and suppression, and in this exhibition the artist uses the past to inform a present voice for ancestors who too often were silenced. T. Owens Union is a career scientist who also achieved an AAS degree in Fashion Marketing from Parsons School of Design (The New School), from rural south central Pennsylvania.
to Dec 22. Rivers of Connection/Pools of Separation explores the state of the human spirit on earth, entwined in community, yet searching for singularity. The shifting perspectives invite curiosity about when community connection might be essential and when self is most essential. Through complex, kinetic narratives, Jensen evokes a landscape of energy flowing in layers, transforming the unseen into vibrant visual metaphors. In both painting and sculpture her work reflects a sphere where forms are continuously reconfigured, inviting engagement with the world and self in a tactile, ever-changing landscape.
Join us for the Opening Reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Nov 30th, 2pm – 4pm; and for an Artist Talk with Jan Jensen on Saturday, Dec. 7th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
