tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30173987175253339812024-02-21T01:46:44.245-08:00bestb4collectiveBestB4 Collective is a Vancouver-based collaborative artist group. The focus of their collaboration is an ongoing inquiry into themes of the natural and built environments, the use of public space by the private individual, contemporary dance as an art form and as public performance. Artists exhibiting in the forthcoming exhibition include Jim Friesen, Daphne Harwood, Alison Keenan, Sophi Liang, Colette Lisoway, Edward Peck, Phyllis Schwartz, Debra Sloan, and June YunAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973064385505117150noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-18995578346541227502016-03-08T00:29:00.000-08:002016-03-08T00:41:39.217-08:00Still Telling Stories<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z-Q8ltssrlTJhkRFyoFEafqQ43-9zVTardn8clO7rAiCXUJ_q_axACC1qMqsnzqklT_uqAHNk69XFaGPID-A7W0Qua-V3voxog-WzMO2qaTmS7sMezNz2OnLoixajmlWjYoGj3g1SPk/s1600/IMG_8821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z-Q8ltssrlTJhkRFyoFEafqQ43-9zVTardn8clO7rAiCXUJ_q_axACC1qMqsnzqklT_uqAHNk69XFaGPID-A7W0Qua-V3voxog-WzMO2qaTmS7sMezNz2OnLoixajmlWjYoGj3g1SPk/s640/IMG_8821.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Students from Strathcona Elementary School and Britannia Secondary School visited <i>Telling Stories: a visual art exhibition </i>for a gallery tour led by<b> Best B4 Collective</b> Artists. After their visit to the On-Tak Cheung Gallery in the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, artists visited classrooms to work with students and teachers to extend storytelling into writing, photography and ceramics projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Students in Annie Simard's Grade 4/5 Class at Strathcona Elementary School returned to the gallery to <a href="http://bestb4collective.blogspot.ca/2015/11/strathcona-elders-telling-stories.html">interview Strathcona Elders</a><a href="http://bestb4collective.blogspot.ca/2015/11/strathcona-elders-telling-stories.html"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQ2_MSs3Kp28DybUBp-f9nDyZRLW-BybQvMwAzdgd8Bia4ETI8-L8hNk8zz6Wa0s4N4eEXOx2wOsVT23XfOMEHdveWNvX3rbsOgVpNLtfZIieG3HCXlViMdpSCckDSG0R-BQ26o5fzDA/s1600/IMG_8818.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQ2_MSs3Kp28DybUBp-f9nDyZRLW-BybQvMwAzdgd8Bia4ETI8-L8hNk8zz6Wa0s4N4eEXOx2wOsVT23XfOMEHdveWNvX3rbsOgVpNLtfZIieG3HCXlViMdpSCckDSG0R-BQ26o5fzDA/s200/IMG_8818.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />who in turn told them stories during group interviews. In their classroom, they worked with Alison Keenan and Phyllis Schwartz to write about elders and their observations about changes in Strathcona over the years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Student work is currently on display in the foyer at the Vancouver Schoolboard (1580 West Broadway) until the end of March. These projects were partially funded by the City of Vancouver, the <b>Best B4 Collective</b>, the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and Vancouver School Board District Fine Arts. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-84811647501390671282016-01-24T21:00:00.001-08:002016-01-24T21:15:42.066-08:00Telling Stories: revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thank you to all who visited <i>Telling Stories: a visual exhibition</i>, attended the opening reception, the artist talks, community events and workshops. We enjoyed many fine conversations and appreciate the comments left in our guestbook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Education projects at Strathcona Elementary School and Britannia Secondary School continue through January, and student work inspired by the exhibitionwill be on display at the Vancouver School Board (1580 West Broadway) during February. Further details to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>Telling Stories: a visual exhibition</i> can be revisted in videos made by Jian Ping Su (Shaw TV) and Andrew Davies (sixdegreeslive. </span><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/J1iXyIiTHjs"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Shaw Multicultural Features Telling Stories: a visual art exhibition</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://youtu.be/OZ6hmLq-kOI">Telling Stories: Opening Reception</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://youtu.be/jbHa3YLgGa4">On the Go! Visual Artist Phyllis Schwartz</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-52438198854537060062015-12-18T00:26:00.000-08:002015-12-18T00:30:55.887-08:00Looking Back at BestB4 Collective Community Events — artist salon with Daphne Harwood and Debra Sloan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Daphne Harwood was one of the originators of the Imagination Market, a non-profit organization that promoted the reuse and repurposing of usable industrial discards. Now the building site where the Imagination Market was has been transformed by Vancouver City Council's approval of a 52-storey tower. Harwood spoke about how she has been documenting this transition in photography, journaling, quilt-making and assemblage.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78tQqdalqGbt_j-_DWtyROxmZsvFHmW9jeubbYXkjjmbtRQZuRDJjTIpr_xWW8FoeCByCSfRxTU73BGldSjPgpuih7peZHK2LwYmiSRZaMfo7hu5cBn48FguauGmLF_socl2CLpvwLJU/s1600/IMG_8189.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78tQqdalqGbt_j-_DWtyROxmZsvFHmW9jeubbYXkjjmbtRQZuRDJjTIpr_xWW8FoeCByCSfRxTU73BGldSjPgpuih7peZHK2LwYmiSRZaMfo7hu5cBn48FguauGmLF_socl2CLpvwLJU/s400/IMG_8189.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Debra Sloan is a Vancouver-based ceramic sculptor and the 2015 recipient of the Mayor's Design and Craft Award. Her slip cast dogs, horses and baby figures challenge and surprise viewer assumptions and attitudes. Sloan's work has been exhibited locally, across Canada and internationally, and most recently awarded the Vancouver Mayor's Art Award and biannual Hilde Gerson Award by the Craft Council of BC. She spoke about her recent ceramic residency at C.R.E.T.A. in Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Both artists discussed the influence that the environment had on their artist practice and bodies of work. Debra Sloan works in ceramic residencies that offer the opportunity to research both techniques and ceramics history. Daphne Harwood works from a documentary perspective, using journaling and photography as a starting point; her current work continues as Vancouver house progresses from the demolition of the original Imagination Market site to construction and eventually occupancy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>BestB4 Collective</b> artists Jim Friesen, Daphne Harwood, Alison Keenan, Sophi Liang, Colette Lisoway, Edward Peck, Phyllis Schwartz, Debra Sloan and June Yun guided visitors through a tour of <i>Telling Stories: A Visual Art Exhibition</i> at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum on Sunday 29 November. Artists told stories that enlivened their photography, painting, ceramics, fibre and installations and engaged viewers in dialogue about contemporary issues that weave together their collective exhibition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sophi Liang, visual artist exhibiting in<i><b> Telling Stories</b></i>, organized an afternoon Tea and Story Party for the <b>BestB4 Collective</b> at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum on Saturday, 21 November. The first of three community events included presentations by Ben Fong, tea specialist and Jim Wong-Chu, historian and poet.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben Fong explains the purpose of two types of tea bowls</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Fong demonstrated and narrated tea preparation techniques. This included several styles of tea brewing accompanied by a samples. A generous assortment of tea cakes and treats were shared along with stories about the history of tea and tea culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wong-Chu read poems about Chinatown from <i>Chinatown Ghosts</i>, published by Pulp Arsenal Press. These poems prompted stories about Chinatown history and culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well attended and well documented, Liang's Tea and Story Party lingered until late in the afternoon. <i>Telling Story/a visual art exhibition</i> continues in the On-Tak Exhibition Hall at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum of Greater Vancouver (555 Columbia at Keefer) until Saturday, 19 December. The gallery is open Tuesday- Sunday (11 - 5 pm).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colette Lisoway: Printmaking Demonstration at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum</td></tr>
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<i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Telling Stories/a visual arts exhibition</b> </i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">invited community to extend the exhibition through participating in workshops offered by </span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">BestB4 Collective</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> artists Colette Lisoway (printmaking) and June Yun (Calligraphy). Both workshops drew sizeable crowds for afternoons of skill building and story sharing. </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Colette Lisoway</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> explained the different techniques of transferring an image through a screen onto fabric or paper and also a discussion on colour. Very quickly the students loaded paint onto their screens and then the magic began. Everyone eagerly participated and at the end of the session each had an art work to take home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Britannia Secondary School students in Ariel Boulet's Ceramics and Photography classes visited Telling Stories/a visual art exhibition on Friday, 04 December. They were greeted by Alison Keenan and Phyllis Schwartz, curators of the exhibition, who introduced to the idea of conflict as a central storytelling element in the exhibition. Edward Peck, Jim Friesen and Debra Sloan spoke to the specifics of their work on show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Edward Peck explained the process of discovering layers of storytelling on the graffitied walls in Berlin. He quoted Dorthea Langer: "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera," and illustrated the application of this quote in his work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The development of his series was the focus of Jim Friesen's artist talk. He explained how he used both sequence and title to develop the concept of a mystery unfolding in his landscape photography. In his talk about <i>The Swimmer</i>, he spoke about both poetic and narrative elements in his imagery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Debra Sloan spoke about the sources of the stories found in her ceramic sculpture. She focussed on character and conflict. She further explained that the sculptural surface offered the opportunity to add narrative landscape elements. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Join the BestB4 Collective Salon for a conversation with <a href="http://sewdaphne.blogspot.ca/">Daphne Harwood</a> and <a href="http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/craft-and-design.aspx">Debra Sloan</a> this Sunday, December 6 (2 - 4 pm) at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street at Keefer). <br /><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Debra Sloan is a Vancouver-based ceramic sculptor and 2015 recipient of Mayor’s Design and Craft Award. Her slip cast dogs, horses and baby figures challenge and surprise the viewers’ assumptions and attitudes. Her work has been exhibited locally, across Canada and internationally and most recently awarded the Vancouver Mayor’s Art Award and biannual Hilde Gerson Award by the Craft Council of B.C. Debra Sloan has recently returned from a six-week residency at C.R.E.T.A. in Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over time, says Debra Sloan,my figures have become what I call proto-human, neither male nor female, adult or baby. Landscapes and architectural references are about my environs and provide opportunity to add contextual layers. Placing my figures and images within metaphorical constructs, and outside of how we normally encounter them, is how I comment on our interaction with environments and society.</span><div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-49759581064791823742015-12-03T00:35:00.000-08:002015-12-03T00:35:18.689-08:00Sunday's Salon — two artists telling stories about their stories (Part 1)
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Join the <b>BestB4 Collective</b> Salon for a conversation with <a href="http://sewdaphne.blogspot.ca/">Daphne Harwood</a> and <a href="http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/craft-and-design.aspx">Debra Sloan</a> this Sunday, December 6 (2 - 4 pm) at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street at Keefer). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: center;">Daphne Harwood was one of the originators of the Imagination Market, a non-profit organization that promoted the reuse and repurposing of usable industrial discards. Now the building site where the Imagination Market was has been transformed by Vancouver City Council’s approval of a 52-storey tower. Harwood has been documenting this transition in photography, journaling, quilt-making and assemblage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="s1">Harwood's work for <i>Telling Stories</i> is about two projects in her neighborhood. </span>One project was The Imagination Market that was housed in 1435 Granville Street between 1986-89. The other project is happening right now: the building of a 52 story condo called Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels. The installation pieces by Harwood look at the land and the transformations that have taken place on this land from 1850 until the present. It maps the transition from virgin forrest near a tidal inlet, to a large land-clearing lumber operation, to a zone for light industry that gave way to homeless people, then to a complete razing in preparation for erecting a dramatic building and a new neighborhood complex.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>I look at these neighborhood projects through several lenses:<b> Impermanence</b>—of buildings & land allocation & communities. <b>Re-use</b>—of materials that are generated by humans. This was a key feature of what Imagination Market did by collecting scraps from industries & business that could be reused for art, craft & play. And re-use is vividly shown in the demolition, excavation, & construction in the block where Vancouver House will go. The Non/Traditional Quilt in the show is made from scrap material. <b>Mapping</b>—my memories are often held in maps that I make of where I went, what I did. Finally, people often say of quilts, “If the patches could talk what tales they would tell.” I wondered about all the occupants of 1435 Granville Street which was built in 1942. The building is now deceased and its body dispersed, but I did want to think about the “life" of this building. This is the lens of <b>Honoring</b>. The workers, engineers, architects, occupants, tools, sewer line diggers, & new technologies and old.</i></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-53812913808006085382015-11-30T00:26:00.000-08:002015-11-30T00:26:50.302-08:00The Salton Sea Eco-Disaster - I cannot look away<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Schwartz's images are simple yet draw in the viewer; they are micro-compositions of areas no larger than a dessert plate. Abstract in presentation and mostly black and white with hints of colour, one can not help but think of Edward Weston’s work and the intimacy he expressed with the objects he photographed. Yet the images are not as subtitle, and unlike Weston, the images are much less rooted in the post modern culture that favours irony while making allusions to knowledge. It also seems to lash out at the pseudo-modern world of around us where iPhones and social media often gives the impression that one is immersed when often one is overtaken or swallowed up.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>BestB4 Collective</b> launches their exhibition catalogue for<i> Telling Stories — a visual arts exhibition </i>this Saturday. <a href="http://sassamatt.com/">Sassamatt Images </a>has produced this catalogue with contributions from all exhibiting artists. The bi-lingual exhibition catalogue, translated by Toni Zhang McAfee and Sophi Liang (courtesy of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver), includes a curatorial essay by Alison Keenan and Phyllis Schwartz, exhibition images and artist biographies. </span><br />
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Peck and Friesen draw upon their respective backgrounds as writers
and photographers who design books. Their sense of photographic composition is
translated into a rhythmic sequence of images between the covers of their
books. Edward Peck’s publishing career began in the 1970s as an editor of
Canadian fiction, poetry and drama anthologies and assistant editor of the <i>Canadian Fiction Magazine</i>. His recent
publications include exhibition catalogues and photographic documentation of
artist studios. </span><span lang="EN-US">Jim Friesen studied journalism and
creative writing at Red River College in Winnipeg and digital photography at
Langara College, in Vancouver. As a poet and independent photographer, he has
collaborated with Stephen Gross, of Gravity Press, to design and print books of
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This limited edition exhibition catalogue will be available at the BestB4 Collective's Artist Tour and Exhibition Catalogue Launch on Saturday, 29 November (2-4 pm) in the On-Tak Cheung Exhibition Hall in the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street at Keefer, Vancouver). The catalogue will be available for purchase at a special event price ($20). It is also <a href="http://www.blurb.com/books/6588898-telling-stories">available for purchase on line</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like jade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soft, heals your heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gives you life and comfort</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one can live without it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is Yin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is female</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soft flannel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like with friends or lovers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweet, lingering…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the moon is reflected on such water,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waves galloping like white horses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mountains loom with peaks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like strong, solid shoulders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are Yang!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the great billows roll and smash against rocks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mountains frame water a garden,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give water a home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are talking to each other for thousands, thousands years</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A partnership forever…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water, mountain (soil), wood, metal and fire are different</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They all exist in the same world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and are a part of world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water plays music for mountains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mountains stand beside water, always</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are Yin and Yang’s harmony</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nature’s harmony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The “Mountains and Water” poem inspired drawings, words and symbols on the paper, using ancient Chinese pictography style calligraphy to draw Yun's thoughts and what she saw in Banff (deer, clouds, river, birds, flowers, Yin and Yang, mountain and water). It extended and enriched her poem, and also reconnected her to her own ancestral tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The students interviewing elders and listening to their stories have woven connections across generations and cultures. They have heard details about long, interesting lives that help students learn community history. Most of the elders attended Strathcona Elementary School, and in their interviews, students learned about what has changed and what remains the same. These interviews will be published on a future blog and displayed in the foyer of the Vancouver School Board in the New Year. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">Jim
Friesen’s photography reads as a metaphor of oncoming disaster or the release
of tension, implying the cyclical nature of storytelling. Having studied both literature and photography, he is interested in the dynamic between words and images and how the imagination is stimulated by their collaboration. Friesen's landscape series in <i>Telling Stories </i>is an experiment in that direction. His titles are doors to
works of art, invitations to dwell in the visual space and contemplate. The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "american typewriter";">In his own words, </span><i>Photographs are an exploration. Photographers explore the world, and through their choices they explore themselves. The viewer enters the process which creates a narrative. <b>Insufflation</b> was the word that triggered the idea for the four-photo series in this show. It describes a process in both forensic sciences that has to do with revealing fingerprints. It also describes an arcane practice in the exorcism ritual. I hoped for titles that added a layer of meaning and inspired the imagination without limiting the responses of the viewer.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best B4 Collective Artist, June Yun<br />speaking to Strathcona Elementary School visitors <br />about her appreciation for Jim Friesen's <i>Pitt Lake — Insuflation</i></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-56205787365348890632015-11-15T00:42:00.000-08:002015-11-15T21:00:47.853-08:00School Tours Begin ~ Strathcona Students Visit Telling Stories — a visual art exhibition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daphne Harwood welcomes students from Strathcona Elementary School</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Students from Strathcona Elementary School visited <i>Telling Stories—a visual art exhibition</i> in the On-Tak Cheung Exhibition Hall on Friday 13 September. Grade 4/5 students in Annie Simard's class were toured by visual artists Daphne Harwood, Alison Keenan and Phyllis Schwartz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Daphne Harwood challenged students to consider the story about impact of neighbourhood change in her quilts documenting of the demise of the building that housed Imagination Market. Alison Keenan posed questions about her series Avian Fables, paintings about the territory shared by avian and human inhabitants. Phyllis Schwartz asked students to consider the back story of food production and industry in North America, showing photographs of resultant environmental devastation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Best B4 Collective</b> artists will work with these students and their classroom teachers to learn interviewing and story writing skills for a project about Chinatown Elders. These students will return to the Chinese Cultural Centre to meet these elders to interview them so that they can write stories about their lives. These interviews, along with photographs, will appear in subsequent blogs.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking for stories in Edward Peck's <i>On the Wall </i>Series</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-90503028997568041942015-11-11T23:13:00.001-08:002015-11-11T23:14:41.038-08:00The Story behind the Story<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alison Keenan, Avian Fables 3 (2015)</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alison
Keenan’s paintings explore stories in the surreal bodies of land and water,
aided by avian guides, harbingers of seasonal and environmental change. These
avian guides alert the viewer to a territorial power struggle. The constructed
story shows a change in scale and perspective: angry birds eye their occupied
territory from this perspective. From a bird’s eye view, there is a claim to
land currently occupied rather than shared for mutual coexistence, and an
aggressive stance invites speculation about each bird’s next move. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In her own words, Alison Keenan tells the story behind the story of her series on show in <i>Telling Stories: a visual art exhibition.</i> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When I create a new body of work I often think of the possibilities of a series of paintings or drawings. Images/ideas start to percolate at the research level- although the process often starts with note taking, loose papers/jottings, conversations.</span></i></div>
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<span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A gift of binoculars was the entry point for sweeping the skyline and focusing on wildlife. At some point I began to recognise bird migrations in spring and fall and realized that the life patterns and survival of birds was completely reliant and to some extent controlled by environmental climate changes. During many conversations/discussions, my observations on the changing weather patterns and human behaviour now shifted to the plight and narrative of birdlife.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alison Keenan's work is currently featured in the current <a href="http://ecuaa.ca/alumni-exhibition-telling-stories-a-visual-art-exhibition/">Emily Carr Alumni Calendar</a>. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-70665813174930370762015-11-06T23:42:00.002-08:002015-11-07T22:39:50.740-08:00Happy to Meet You<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Creative and inspirational printmaker, Colette Lisoway's six-pannel print installation says it all on opening day: <i>Happy to Meet You. </i>Her screenprints interweave her connections in the community and that of shared stories, camera-captured observances and chance encounters. The pannels buzz with activity and urban commerce, all connected together in a heartfelt welcome to all.<br />
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In her own words, Colette Lisoway says: <i>The people and places I have yet to discover have always been my greatest fascination. Throughout life and wherever I am in the world, I have always been compelled to create connections with people in the communities in which I find myself. I am constantly awed and inspired by the generosity of strangers and their willingness to share their lives and their stories with me. These relationships continue to fuel and inform my personal narrative; the basis of my current work. Contained within layers of ink and images, <b>Happy to Meet You</b>, is the entwining of shared stories, camera captured observances and chance encounters in Vancouver’s Chinatown.</i><br />
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The <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Best B4 Collective </span></b>are happy to meet the public at our opening Saturday, 07 November (2-4 pm) in the On-Tak Exhibition Hall at the Chinese Cultural Centre (555 Columbia Street at Keefer). Check out the <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Best B4 Collective </span></b>Events Page for more community events throughout November and December.<a href="http://bestb4collective.blogspot.ca/p/events.html"> http://bestb4collective.blogspot.ca/p/events.html</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-174368673240022732015-11-01T23:34:00.000-08:002015-11-02T21:50:06.917-08:00Daphne Harwood Continues the Great Storytelling Tradition<div style="text-align: left;">
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The Imagination Market Quilt Story by Daphne Harwood is a continuation of her work in the great storytelling tradition. Her quilt series exhibiting in <i>Telling Stories: a visual art exhibition </i>nuances the clash of urban erasure using panelled images as a means of comprehending the transformation caused by an uncontrollable urban development process. It begins with a quilted map of Vancouver pinpointing the location of Imagination Market and in the quilting form transforms to map urban transformation.<br />
Daphne Harwood's <i>Much Depends on This Quilt i</i>s a ten quilt series honouring the people and things that make quilt-making possible. This body of work is part of a permanent collection belonging to the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Mass. It was exhibited in<i> Great Quilts, Great Stories</i> (2012). Follow <a href="http://sewdaphne.blogspot.ca/2012/10/great-quilts-great-stories.html">Sew Daphne</a> for more quilting stories. More about <a href="http://nequiltmuseum.org/uploads/3/0/0/4/3004637/winter_2012-2013.pdf">Great Quilts, Great Stories. </a><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-28901902968017380952015-10-27T23:21:00.000-07:002015-10-28T11:35:51.214-07:00Debra Sloan — Award Winning Sculptor Telling Stories<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This year's<a href="http://hilde%20gerson%20award/"> Hilde Gerson Award</a> goes to Debra Sloan, a Vancouver ceramics sculptor gaining international recognition. The Hilde Gerson award was established by the Craft Council of British Coloumbia and is awarded biannually to a craftsperson who demonstrates excellence, innovation and leadership in the BC craft community. Currently Debra Sloan is completing a <a href="http://www.cretarome.com/">c.r.e.t.a. </a>ceramics residency in Rome, and an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1656769081252418/">exhibition</a> of her work opens there on 31 October.<br />
Debra Sloan will join members of the Best B4 Collective on Sunday, 29th November for an artist tour and book launch. She will join Daphne Harwood in conversation at the Best B4 Collective Artist Salon on Sunday, 06 December. Both events are at the Chinese Cultural Centre, starting at 2pm and are free events.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-62684726961550468922015-10-24T21:05:00.003-07:002015-10-25T20:16:47.174-07:00Award Winning Photograph is on show in Telling Stories<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><i>Entrance 1, Berlin</i> was selected this Fall by the<a href="http://nvartscouncil.ca/" target="_blank"> </a><span class="s2"><a href="http://nvartscouncil.ca/" target="_blank">North Vancouver Arts Council</a> </span>for the <i>Best Photograph Award</i>. </span>This image is part of the series <i>On the Wall</i> photographed in Germany in 2014. The series explores the infusion of graffiti and art on the walls of buildings in Germany's two largest cities, Hamburg and Berlin. It<i> </i>was also featured in the current edition of<a href="http://www.gallerieswest.ca/calendar/previews/alison-keenan-edward-peck-and-phyllis-schwartz/"> Galleries West</a>.<br />
Edward Peck uses his camera and the digital darkroom to explore hidden beauty in what surrounds us, using the very technology that blinds us. His use of technology isolates images and moves them into the print medium producing photographs that hover on the edge of photography and watercolour. In printed form, Peck's images allow the viewer to see something missed in an environment of incessant media bombardment and reveal insights into what surrounds us.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-25599753390498832892015-10-01T22:59:00.000-07:002015-10-06T21:53:32.793-07:00Making Storytelling Visual<div class="MsoNormal">
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new exhibition presented by the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver in
collaboration with the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BestB4 Collective</b>,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vancouver visual artists
Alison Keenan, Edward Peck, Phyllis Schwartz of BestB4 Collective bring their
new project <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Telling Stories: a visual art exhibition</i></b> to the Chinese
Cultural Centre Museum, opening November 7. In collaboration with six other
artists and community members, the gallery is transformed into a meeting place
where photography, painting, ceramics, fibre and installations tell and evoke
stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A series of community events
are planned that include an Artist Tour and Exhibition Catalogue launch (29
November), Tea and Talk Party (21 November), Printmaking Workshop (22
November), Calligraphy Workshop (05 December) and Artist Salon (06 December). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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entertaining, comforting and connecting. These stories require time to relate,
absorb and reflect upon, as do personal tales and critical opinion, and in
contemporary visual culture, stories are compressed into instantaneous imagery.
Hence, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Telling Stories</i> invites
dialogue about essential contemporary questions between the artists, the Chinese
community and other cultural groups. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alison Keenan: Avian Fables 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phyllis Schwartz: Evidence</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Alison Keenan’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avian
Fables, </i>a series of painting, explore stories in the surreal bodies of land
and water, aided by avian guides, the harbingers of seasonal and environmental
change. Phyllis Schwartz uses photography to tell a story about environmental
devastation and community adaptation in her Salton Sea Series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Cannot Look Away</i>. Edward Peck’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On the Wall</i> series frames the complex
on-going story telling found in Berlin graffiti. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daphne
Harwood’s quilt series nuances the clash of urban erasure using panelled images
as a means of comprehending the transformation caused by an uncontrollable
process. In a similar way, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Happy to Meet
You</i>, Colette Lisoway’s textured, iconic screen print pannels illustrate
cross-cultural connections, which lead to inevitable cultural integration. The
forces of cultural adaptation present conflicting values arising as a result.
Sophi Liang’s installation, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where Does
This Ladder Lead Us</i>, manipulates Chinese symbols to make visual cultural
deconstruction and asks challenging questions about the contemporary
significance of the arts for the Chinese scholar: music, chess, calligraphy and
painting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Debra
Sloan’s sculptures are filled with tension: edgy characters seen as naughty and
mischievous. June Yun’s paintings compel a second look at a seemingly iconic
landscape only to reveal a nuclear winter in China’s polluted landscape. The
impending storm depicted in Jim Friesen’s photography reads as a metaphor of
oncoming disaster or the release of tension, implying the cyclical nature
storytelling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Friesen: Iona Island Confession</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colette Lisoway: Happy to Meet You</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reading
the imagery in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Telling Stories: a Visual
Arts Exhibition</i> invites dialogue about essential contemporary questions.
Taken together, the visual stories told by artists in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BestB4 Collective</b> invite viewers to become active spectators and
interpreters. In this way, the viewer is a community member in conversation
about universals that transcend text and context, geography and culture. The
emerging story in this ongoing process of collaboration ultimately consolidates
this visual chaos.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-77366008138384604632014-03-27T02:11:00.001-07:002014-03-27T12:00:35.963-07:00Tree Takes a Parting Bow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYr6m7jBByXXYRzi9l_gr81Gykn4E_nlWwiD8QmGyzauFzzjbGuPPdiP5lEgBGzs7N358spYOwEwJMPm9GsUOL6fA5xYogtLzyz8My0mNODYoi-S0Mwl4SwG_fpMSqLPSf1qPbTyBJHY/s1600/IMG_0900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYr6m7jBByXXYRzi9l_gr81Gykn4E_nlWwiD8QmGyzauFzzjbGuPPdiP5lEgBGzs7N358spYOwEwJMPm9GsUOL6fA5xYogtLzyz8My0mNODYoi-S0Mwl4SwG_fpMSqLPSf1qPbTyBJHY/s1600/IMG_0900.JPG" height="141" width="200" /></a>It is tempting to muse on the metaphor of a parting bough, but likely the reader wants some quick information about<i> Tree Literal and Figurative</i> at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (Columbia and Pender) closing on Saturday, 05 April. The last day to see Connie Sabo's installation, Information and Impression, will be Saturday, 29 April; not to be missed.<br />
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During the exhibition, The Tree branched out to students from Britania Secondary and Lord Strathcona Elementary Schools who visited the On-Tak Gallery: tour facilitated by Pauline Doyle and art workshops with Phyllis Schwartz and Alison Keenan. Photography students from Britiannia spent two days in the classroom making Lumen prints. Students from Lord Strathcona Elementary spent three days drawing trees using untraditional mark making tools.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91K6WBweTFfIhae48GzIgiXPVEn7RfBhD8k9xa4423ll2zzFpPFW_pPEcNTeaKlvQUCLV1xVcM673jgyW6I-OGwGWMESdfzzcijANVpt_PRfFdkBYVWYFgvTnB26TLyZ7W3jO8CuAHOU/s1600/IMG_0913.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91K6WBweTFfIhae48GzIgiXPVEn7RfBhD8k9xa4423ll2zzFpPFW_pPEcNTeaKlvQUCLV1xVcM673jgyW6I-OGwGWMESdfzzcijANVpt_PRfFdkBYVWYFgvTnB26TLyZ7W3jO8CuAHOU/s1600/IMG_0913.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ECFXbz-e4HPLBtDkEURQHalxL4R_alxJLVI1PdSwwv19qx5LSIOjaXzARnpcIkQAMP_rvuD32BhATI0MEY3x3O0zgzWqhvuZAGfU3hqk6PNXET_owfxEH7IL5iYEpal-as1iLrJaK54/s1600/IMG_0995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ECFXbz-e4HPLBtDkEURQHalxL4R_alxJLVI1PdSwwv19qx5LSIOjaXzARnpcIkQAMP_rvuD32BhATI0MEY3x3O0zgzWqhvuZAGfU3hqk6PNXET_owfxEH7IL5iYEpal-as1iLrJaK54/s1600/IMG_0995.JPG" height="200" width="200" /></a>In our parting bow, we express our gratitude fir our extended and well received exhibition There are many people to thank: Toni Zhang McAfee, the Gallery Manager at the CCCM, Chu Yin Tak who connected the BestB4 Collective with the CCCM, Bryan Melvin for photodocumentation and many people who visited the exhibition. Copies of the exhibition catalogue are still available at the reception desk for $13, and after the exhibition closes, available from <a href="http://blur.by/1csPCcm">Blurb</a> at a much higher cost.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawings made with mark making tools (Students from Lord Strathcona Elementary School)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lumen Prints made from organic found materials near the CCCM (Students from Britannia Secondary School)</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-56525146335348751032014-02-03T15:27:00.002-08:002014-02-03T15:36:03.148-08:00Out of the Mouth of BabesAs part of our BestB4 Residency at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (Vancouver) during the run of the exhibition. <b><i>Tree: Literal and Figurative</i></b>, Pauline Doyle, Alison Keenan and Phyllis Schwartz welcomed students from Britannia Secondary School and Lord Strathcona Elementary School into the gallery and museum classrooms. Student from both schools were quickly engaged with the art work in the gallery and responded with perceptive and knowledgeable observations.<br />
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When standing in front of Anna Ruth's inverted graphite drawings of trees, they speculated on why the tree was installed with roots at the top of the drawing and leaves on the ground: perhaps forests were being destroyed or the artists wanted us to take a more careful look at the entire tree. Looking at Edward Peck's three large scale photographs, their comments indicated that they had an instant understanding of the raw industries that make up the economy of British Columbia; they quickly made the connections between raw materials being converted into building materials, pulp and paper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pauline Doyle leads a discussion about Edward Peck's photographs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students discussing Anna Ruth's inverted tree drawings</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-37552167622162433602014-01-18T01:03:00.000-08:002014-01-18T01:03:34.981-08:00Artist Talk and Exhibition Catalogue Launch<div class="p1">
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<b>The Tree: Landscape, Culture and Identity</b></div>
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Join exhibiting artists in a conversation about their art making process and current exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum.</div>
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Saturday January 25, 2014 2-4pm (Free and open to the public)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906152338168068222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017398717525333981.post-35550255102980292882013-12-24T01:57:00.001-08:002013-12-24T02:00:52.985-08:00Opening Soon — The Tree: Literal and Figurative <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px;">The tree evokes myriad myths and memories. In an exhibition curated by Alison Keenan and Phyllis Schwartz, eight mid-career international artists re-examine the mythologies and metaphorical elements of the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px;">Eight artists working in eight different media include the paintings of Alison Keenan, experimental photography by Phyllis Schwartz, drawings by Anna Ruth and Tony Chu Yin Tak, large scale photography by Edward Peck, ceramics by Pauline Doyle, felt sculpture by Ellen Bang and installation work by Connie Sabo.</span></div>
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