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Persephone Beer Farm: Fibre Farm Launch!

Please join the Sunshine Coast Arts Council to celebrate the launch of the Sunshine Coast’s newest fibre arts and culture hub: Fibre Farm an Indigenous-led, disability justice centered, growing and gathering space! Art and fibre demos, storytelling, music, and a chance to participate in invasive species removal as you check-out the new accessible pathways, garden bed, fire pit, art studio, and deck.

It has taken a village to get this project off the ground, with funding from the Island Coastal Economic Trust, the BC Arts Council, alongside work from the incredible team at the SCAC and Persephone, and the generosity of local businesses like Salish Soils and Gibsons Building Supply, and the supportive community buzzing around this project- we couldn’t have done it without you! Please come out and celebrate the work that has been done, and the work that has just begun!

GPAG: MAUREEN SUGRUE | Pathways

Maureen Sugrue’s exhibition in the Eve Smart Gallery Pathways represents ideas that came from conversations about aging, paths taken or not taken, and the journey to “now” in our lives. These conversations led to seeing or imagining paths; not necessarily literal versions, but instead interpretative impressions of the mental pathways that intertwine throughout our lives. Each work begins with white cloth developed in stages through dyeing, stitching, painting, and printmaking techniques, with constant experimentation during the process; resulting in vibrant cloth banners that represent a diverse array of mediums and techniques. Sugrue’s creative process involves the full development of an idea to a resolution, a deeply satisfying process that is also inspired by both the nature and culture surrounding her.

Join us at the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

GPAG: Opening Reception | Carlyn Yandle, Marianne Hansen, Holly Lowe

Join us for the Opening Reception of exhibitions by Carlyn Yandle, Marianne Hansen, and Holly Lowe on Saturday, April 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

In the Main Gallery, Carlyn Yandle’s Joyful Making in Perilous Times features large scale fibre art pieces that connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement. Grappling with critical environmental, political, and social issues, and offering possibilities for different futures, Yandle creates her pieces over the course of months or years with materials that are thrown away but never gone.

Dedicated to the birds of prey on the Sunshine Coast, Marianne Hansen’s Birds of Prey in the Eve Smart Gallery features fibre sculpted birds alongside their prey in natural settings. Highlighting their delicate forms and powerful presences, Marianne Hansen’s fibre sculptures reflect these animal’s grace, power, and perception; and encourage the viewer to reflect on the raptors of the Sunshine Coast, our coexistence with them, and the impact that we have on their environments.

In Joe’s Lounge, Holly Lowe’s Inkscapes explores the fluidity and flow of colour and texture using alcohol ink. Colour itself serves as the primary inspiration; the way that hues blend, contrast, and transform drives each composition. The medium of alcohol ink on synthetic paper enhances the vividness and transparency of the colours, contributing to the flowing aesthetic of the works and demonstrating a spectrum of expression, from recognizable landscapes interpreted through an abstract lens to completely non-representational forms.

Art Exhibition: GPAG: MARIANNE HANSEN | Birds of Prey

Dedicated to the birds of prey on the Sunshine Coast, this exhibition in the Eve Smart Gallery features fibre sculpted birds alongside their prey in natural settings. Highlighting their delicate forms and powerful presences, Marianne Hansen’s fibre sculptures reflect these animal’s grace, power, and perception; and encourage the viewer to reflect on the raptors of the Sunshine Coast, our coexistence with them, and the impact that we have on their environments. The intention is to raise the level of awareness about how many different raptors live on our beautiful coast, what habitats they choose to live in, and what types of prey they seek out. Many of these birds have adapted to living within the human habitat. How do we consciously ensure the continuation of these natural wonders?

Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday April. 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

Art Exhibition: GPAG – CARLYN YANDLE | Joyful Making in Perilous Times

In this exhibition in the Main Gallery, large scale fibre art pieces connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement. Grappling with critical environmental, political, and social issues, and offering possibilities for different futures, Yandle creates her pieces over the course of months or years, beginning as an impulse to engage the hands instead of wringing them and to gather up the lost and unwanted to achieve a new whole. Each project entangles traditional fibre art methods with stuff that is thrown away but is never gone. As each concept grows, connections are forged with others in the gathering of materials and often in the hand-making, making community engagement an essential part of Yandle’s art practice. It is there in the macramé tapestry composed of construction-site debris; in the sprawling, undulating field of braided throwaway jeans; in bound sculptures of plastic fragments plucked from foreshores and landfills; and in a crocheted mass of disintegrated tarp yarded out from a forest.

Join us for the Opening Reception on Sat. April 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Free Community Stitch Session with Carlyn Yandle

Join exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle for a free Community Stitch Session. Drawing on the scrap-quilt tradition of making something out of nothing, each participant is invited to hand stitch an improvisational 12 in. quilt block; a literal building block that can then be used as a personal artwork, use/gift object, or as a contribution to the ongoing ‘Hearth’ social engagement art project. All materials required are supplied, although participants are welcome to bring their own old clothes or fabrics to incorporate into their block if they wish. Learn a new life skill, create with other makers in our community, learn more from Carlyn Yandle about her artwork and her creative process, and find new ways to recycle old clothing and fabrics.

This event is free to attend and registration is not required. Find more information about Carlyn Yandle, her exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, and her ongoing social-engagement art project ‘Hearth” online at www.gpag.ca.

Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Artist Talk with Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Stephen Quinn

Join us for a free Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Early Edition host Stephen Quinn. Yandle and Quinn will be discussing a variety of topics relating to Yandle’s exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, including how making is connecting — a form of resistance to forces of individualism.

Carlyn Yandle is a Vancouver-based artist whose art practice interweaves a childhood steeped in West Coast counter-culture, a range of skills in traditional craft methods, and her previous profession as a city newspaper journalist. Her exhibition in the Main Gallery Joyful Making in Perilous Times features large scale fibre art pieces that connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement.

Stephen Quinn is the host of CBC Radio One’s popular morning show The Early Edition. Previously, he was the long-time host of afternoon radio show On The Coast, he spent eight-years as CBC’s civic affairs reporter, he guest-hosted several CBC shows, news specials and a series on the media for network radio, and he is also the creator and host of the very popular Quinn’s Quiz on CBC Radio One. A multiple RTNDA (The Radio Television Digital News Association) award winner, Quinn has covered a multitude of stories that affects British Columbians, in addition to interviewing prolific individuals.

Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Spring Hare Felting Workshop with Marianne Hansen

Join Marianne Hansen on Wed. April 8th, 1pm – 3pm, to learn needle felting and fibre sculpting techniques and to make a spring hare. Tickets are $65, with a 10% discount for GPAG members, and include a kit of the supplies needed to make one hare. There is a max of 15 participants, so register soon! Find more information and register online via EventBrite.

Art Exhibition: SC Arts Centre: Friends of the Gallery

The Friends of the Gallery (FOG) is our annual celebration of the creativity of our membership. This wonderful exhibition launches our new year, and features the work of members of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.

The exhibition is a long-standing community event that has spanned more than 30 years. Its’ aim is to involve the broadest range of local artists, to acknowledge the role of the arts in our community, and to celebrate the extraordinary diversity in materials, forms and approach. Artists are invited to submit one piece of art they have completed in the previous year to be shown in this group exhibition. Last year we had 111 artists, making it the largest FOG exhibition yet!

Fibre Farm: Ground Breaking Ceremony

Ground Breaking Ceremony led by Cease Wyss will honour the beginning of the Fibre Farm project.The Fibre Farm is an indigenous led and disability justice centered project located on Squamish territory. This project is motivated by closer relationship to the land. Building an accessible gathering space for community to participate in remediating a wetland ecosystem, dynamic workshops and teachings, processing natural plant material, the Fibre Farm will be a space to create community around culture and fibre artistry. You are invited to witness and participate in this ceremony which will involve inoculating the wetland and pond with native rhysomes and seeds.

Weave a Sunset: Into to Tapestry

Learn the art of weaving pictures using handcrafted Everlea looms and a gorgeous array of naturally dyed Everlea yarns. Join artist, weaver and proprietor of Everlea Looms, Janna Maria Vallee, in a small group setting at a private home in Roberts Creek.

Introduction to Tapestry Weaving is a chock-full workshop which introduces new weavers to the fundamentals of tapestry weaving: the art of weaving pictures. You will leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to weave shapes, outline shapes, multiple methods for blending colours and finishing techniques, all while weaving your one-of-a-kind sunset!

PR – eunoia fibre studio & gallery 4th Anniversary Celebration

Dec 9, 11am-7pm; Dec 10, 11am-5pm. Come meet Noella! Shop our unique, creative designs and fashions from earth-conscious designers, while enjoying a warm cider, festive music and treats. Just our way of saying thank you… and giving back to our greater community.

Mending Matters Drop-in Workshop with Catherine Nicholls

September 18; October 16; November 27

Sundays, 1-4pm, in the gallery

FREE

Join us for this monthly drop-in session, exploring visible mending techniques with instructor Catherine Nicholls.

Mending can be so much more than just patching a hole! Mending Matters will introduce participants to the simple, practical skills required to repair textiles and how to turn those simple stitches into an art form that is both decorative and functional. Participants are encouraged to bring along a favourite clean piece of clothing or household textile they would like to mend.

Mending Matters Drop-in Workshop with Catherine Nicholls

September 18; October 16; November 27

Sundays, 1-4pm, in the gallery

FREE

Join us for this monthly drop-in session, exploring visible mending techniques with instructor Catherine Nicholls.

Mending can be so much more than just patching a hole! Mending Matters will introduce participants to the simple, practical skills required to repair textiles and how to turn those simple stitches into an art form that is both decorative and functional. Participants are encouraged to bring along a favourite clean piece of clothing or household textile they would like to mend.

Hackett Park Artisan Fair

The Hackett Park Artisan Fair is an annual gathering of local and regional vendors. The Fair has been an annual tradition on the Coast for 34 years, and attracts close to 5000 visitors seeking to discover the creations of artisans who are jury selected based on talent, originality, and the unique items they have to offer for sale. In keeping with our ongoing tradition, the fair will coincide with the popular Festival of the Written Arts (August 11th-14th, 2022, celebrating 40 years!)
This year’s Fair will take place in the lower field of Hackett Park and at the Arts Centre.
We will have live musicians in Hackett Park’s new amphitheatre and fun activities at the Arts Centre. There will be a large variety of artisans, artists, entertainers, and food vendors!
Entrance by donation!

Kids Camps: Exploring Textiles

July 18– 20, 2022 | Monday – Wednesday; 10 – 3pm

Ages: 8-13, Max 12 participants

Instructor: Natalie Grambow

Cost: $140/$180 (Member/Non-Member)

This year we are delighted to offer 3 kid’s summer workshops, each combining art making with outdoor exploration.  In the morning participants learn to weave, collage or paint led by a senior artist/teacher. In the afternoon, walks and discussions take over as we explore natural spaces near the Art Centre. Workshops run 10:00 – 3:00 each day, with a break provided for lunch. Participants must bring their own lunch, a water bottle and a mask if needed for any indoor activities.

Kids Camps: Exploring Textiles

July 18– 20, 2022 | Monday – Wednesday; 10 – 3pm

Ages: 8-13, Max 12 participants

Instructor: Natalie Grambow

Cost: $140/$180 (Member/Non-Member)

This year we are delighted to offer 3 kid’s summer workshops, each combining art making with outdoor exploration.  In the morning participants learn to weave, collage or paint led by a senior artist/teacher. In the afternoon, walks and discussions take over as we explore natural spaces near the Art Centre. Workshops run 10:00 – 3:00 each day, with a break provided for lunch. Participants must bring their own lunch, a water bottle and a mask if needed for any indoor activities.

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