Visual Arts Newsletter

We are asking all art lovers to help join with the arts community in protest of the funding cuts to the arts in British Columbia. This is your chance to make your voices heard.

How can you help?

Cardmaking: Printmaking & Collage with the Burnaby Art Gallery (Burnaby)
Birding with Digital Camera with Mark Habdas (Vancouver)...Read more

This is amazing, chemists at Oregon State University made a NEW blue pigment by mistake. Click here to read the full article.

As I was sitting in the laundromat a few weeks ago and biding my time until the dryer was finished, I picked up a pretty recent copy of a fashion magazine that was just laying about for people to read. I was sitting outside since it was still sunny and warm at this point and a small little blurb in the magazine caught my eye....Read more

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom with Bruce Kemp at Opus Kelowna (Kelowna)
Maximize Your Mediums with Lauren B Wilson (Kelowna)...Read more

I was having coffee with a friend of mine the other day, and as I was sipping my foam from my Americano Misto, he blurted out, so who would you consider to be your favourite artist?

I responded “of all time or within the last few years?”

He said again “who wold you consider to be your favourite artist?”...Read more

As I was checking email this morning, I came across a link for an article with the headline — Robert Frank's Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later. The headline alone made me want to click as I love Robert Frank's black and white images from his photographic series The Americans. ...Read more

Photographers beware!...Read more

The BC Government is planning to cut 80% of its funding for the Arts!

The Alliance for Arts and Culture is calling on people to join a rally at noon today, Wednesday, September 9th at the Vancouver Art Gallery to bring attention to these cuts.

Their symbol is a grey and empty rectangle, a metaphor for a world without art and culture....Read more