What's Your Message?

Pam Wilman and her students invite you to attend:

What's Your Message
Art Students from Ecole Sainte Marguerite d'Youville
February 24th - March 10th 2012
Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture Community Gallyer
10248 - 106 Street
Edmonton, AB

Opening Reception: Friday February 24th, 7-10pm

http://blog.latitude53.org
Tel: 780-423-5353

Contest for Young Canadian Artists

Contest for young Canadian artists

The National Gallery of Canada recently launched the second edition of So You Want To Be an Artist?  -- a nation-wide contest for young Canadian artists between the ages of 16 and 19.

Our goal is to engage with youth from every region of the country, get them to make art about an issue of importance to them, and to share their creativity. We are encouraging contestants to submit their original artwork to makeart.gallery.ca by March 18, 2012.

All accepted entries will be showcased online between March 26 and April 30 where the public can vote for their favourite artworks by using the Facebook “Like” button.

The 12 works with the most votes will be displayed at the National Gallery of Canada for a month where they will be judged by our jury of experts. The top three artists whose entries are selected will receive outstanding prizes, and the grand prize winner will enjoy a behind-the-scenes visit with NCG experts.

This year’s jury members are:

Sonny Assu, interdisciplinary artist from Vancouver and Montreal

Jonathan Cruz, illustrator and graphic designer from Iqaluit

Claude Deschênes, Radio-Canada arts reporter

Kim Morgan, artist and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) assistant professor

Peter Simpson, Ottawa Citizen's Arts-editor-at-large

In 2011, the first edition of the contest attracted over 120 participants, 20,000 votes and some 50,000 online visitors.

If you'd like more information about the contest please feel free to contact us at contest@gallery.ca. 

Stay up to date and join our community on Twitter and Facebook.

  

Thank you,

How Do the Arts Impact My Life - Reminder

Thank you to everyone who is participating in our provincial art exhibition. We estimate that over 50 artworks have been completed to date. We will have an accurate count by next weekend after narratives have been submitted.

Due on or before midnight Thursday February 9, 2012

Email to: tammywatt@shaw.ca

Narrative and Tag Information:

1.     Each submission must include a typed narrative in size 12, Times New Roman font.

2.     The narrative must be between 150-170 words.

a.     Use the title of your painting as a header, with your name on the second line.

b.     50 words introducing the artist [name, age/grade, where you live etc.].

c.     50 words describing how the Arts impact your life.

d.     50 words describing your artwork [symbolism within the piece, influences etc.].

3.     Please include your tag information as a separate document.

a.     Using 12 point Times New Roman font, center the following information, each on a separate line:

Title of Piece

First and last name

School Name and city

Materials used

THANK YOU!!

Art Donation Opportunity

How heartbreaking would it be to lose your entire art collection? As you know, over 700 households in Slave Lake were destroyed by fire this spring.  Most people left their homes at the last minute, saving nothing.  While most homeowners were covered by a degree of insurance, replacing the works of art they have collected over the years will be a challenge. Our Slave Lake committee, in collaboration with Sunshine Treeshade Humanitarian Organization, is working to provide the gift of original Alberta art to people who lost their homes in the May wildfires.  Ideally, we would like to present each household with a piece of original Alberta art when they move into their new homes.  We estimate that we will need about 400 works of art and we are investigating some strategies to help make this happen.  We have arranged transport and donation centres in several Alberta communities.

At this time we are looking for donations of visual art from Alberta artists as well as suggestions to assist us with this project.

http://www.waterforlifefestival.org/phoenix_rising_art_donations.html
or Facebook Event:Re-Art Slave Lake


Thank you!
For more information, contact Nicola Ramsey in Slave Lake at 780-849-3348 or by email at ramseynicola@gmail.com
Or email sunshinetreeshade@yahoo.ca

Advocacy Opportunity

How Do The Arts Impact My Life?

Join Alberta Art Teachers and their students in a unique art exhibition exploring how the arts impact their lives.

Each work submitted will explore the artists’ personal journey and reflect the importance of the arts in the development of self, culture and society.

Submission Requirements:

1.     Each participating school may submit up to five student works and must include a work created by the Art facilitator.

2.     The painting or mixed media piece must be completed on a 24”X24” gallery quality canvas.

3.     Each piece must visually represent their answer to the question “How do the Arts Impact My Life?”

4.     All works must arrive at West Island College by 3pm on Monday May 7^th, 2012. Please deliver works care of Kimberley Lewis to:

West Island College

7410 Blackfoot Trail S.E.

Calgary, Alberta

T2H 1M5

Optional: Please send a photo of the completed work or work in progress along with the narrative information. This photo will help the curatorial process.

Accompanying Narrative and Tag Information:

1.     Each submission must include a typed narrative in size 12, Times New Roman font.

2.     The narrative must be between 150-170 words.

a.     Use the title of your painting as a header, with your name on the second line.

b.     50 words introducing the artist [name, age/grade, where you live etc.].

c.     50 words describing how the Arts impact your life.

d.     50 words describing your artwork [symbolism within the piece, influences etc.].

3.     Please include your tag information as a separate document.

a.     Using 12 point Times New Roman font, center the following information, each on a separate line:

Title of Piece

First and last name

School Name and city

Materials used

Both the narrative and tag information must be emailed to Tammy Watt by midnight on

February 9, 2012.

This information will act as confirmation and your commitment to this exhibition.

*Please note that all shipping costs will be covered by the artist. All artwork will be available for sale at a fixed cost of $150.00. Should your work not be purchased it will be donated to your local school board.

By participating in this Art Exhibition you will encourage support for the Arts and elevate the importance of art education in the province of Alberta. The net proceeds of all sales will support a local children’s charity, Dreams Take Flight. For more information about this non-profit charity please visit www.dreamstakeflight.com and click on the Calgary chapter.

Electronic invitations for this Art Exhibition will be sent out two months prior to the event to all Alberta School Boards, participating schools and their artists. Teachers, for this reason please attach a contact list as a separate document which includes the email address and contact name for your board, principal and yourself. Due to FOIP, please pass the invitation on to the families of your young artists. Thank you for your assistance with this.

We look forward to seeing you at the opening reception to be held on May 24^th, 2012

If you have any questions please contact Kimberley Lewis or Tammy Watt.

Kimberley – kimberleylewis@westislandcollege.ab.ca or Tammy – tammywatt@shaw.ca

Thank you in advance for your interest, support and participation

in this historic Art Exhibition.

Online Student Art Gallery

Hello fellow Art Educators! A friend of mine discovered a great website called Artsonia. It's an online student art gallery and has won awards from the NAEA. Fundraising tthrough the sale of artworks printed on t-shirts/mugs/magnets will earn you 15% of sales to your art program. Here is the link if you are interested: http://www.artsonia.com/ Happy Art Teaching! Hope you are having a great start of year!

ATA - Fine Arts Conference

The Conference, "Designing Inspir[ed] Learning", takes place the evening of Thursday, October 27th through to Saturday October 29th, 2011 in Calgary. Two fantastic keynotes will be addressing how the arts develop a critical capacity to read the world. Both Friday and Saturday are filled with workshop sessions for Art, Drama, Music, Dance and Interdisciplinary.

Registration is online through the Calgary Regional Consortium. Please follow the link to register 

http://www.crcpd.ab.ca/index.php/site/conferences

You can apply for grants to attend the conference at the ATA site below. The grants can only be used to attend a specialist council conference.

http://www.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/Programs%20and%20Services/Grants%20Awards%20and%20Scholarships/Pages/The%20ATA%20Educational%20Trust.aspx