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!
to Mar 9 – Joe’s Lounge. After spending many years constrained by the demands of caregiving for her husband with early-onset dementia, Tzaddi Gordon sought ways to make art in the cracks; to wedge a few moments of creativity into days that felt less and less like her own. One of these ways is working in the genre of found poetry. Using vintage books as her source Gordon creates new meaning from outmoded or dogmatic text and imagery through a process of redacting, cutting, or rearranging text, the act of removing and rewriting pages echoing the memory changes she has witnessed in her husband. An exhibition in Joe’s Lounge running Feb 13th – Mar 9th.
Join us for the Opening Reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm; and for a FREE Intro to Blackout Poetry Workshop on Tues. Feb 18th, 2pm – 4pm.
Join us for a free workshop on Feb. 18th with In the Thick of It artist Tzaddi Gordon. In this workshop we’ll transform book pages into unique blackout poetry compositions. You’ll learn how to use book pages as your poetic muse, and explore a variety of mixed media techniques.
Free; gallery donations of $5-$20 suggested. All are welcome!
Join us for the launch of “Taste of a Raindrop and other Haikus of the West Coast” by Sheila Weaver and “Secrets of the Italian Villa” by MJ Milne. Mocktails will be served at the networking break.
