SPARK Disability Art Festival (Calgary) - Nov 30-Dec 04, 2015

Artist Paula Timm holds her mixed media piece entitled “I wonder, Woman” in Studio C Gallery in the Burns Building downtown. Timm is one of the artists taking part in SPARK, a festival of artists with disabilities in galleries around Calgary.

 

SPARK Disability Art Festival (Calgary) - Nov 30-Dec 04, 2015

***** Our grandson, Morgan Paul ( Artist: Morgan M. Paul ) is involved in this special event. He will be participating as a panel member at the Closing Reception at Studio C, December 3, 2015. Those attending this event (it's FREE, 6:30-8:30 pm) will hear feedback directly from the diverse artists who exhibited in SPARK 2015. They will learn about the challenges and successes of being a Calgary artist from five emerging visual artists who approach art and disability from unique perspectives.***** 

(http://calgaryartsdevelopment.com/…/industry-event-spark-di…) (http://www.indefinitearts.com/PDFs/SPARK_Event_Flyer.pdf)

Spark Festival showcases creativity regardless of disability (text & video)

by Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald, December 1, 2015

It took dying for Paula Timm to understand the value of art in her life.

Timm is one of the close to 100 artists featured in the 2015 Spark Disability Art Festival, which kicked off Monday at a quartet of venues across Calgary (ACAD, Studio C at the Burns Building, Loft 112 in the East Village and InDefinite Arts Society at 8030 Fairmount Dr SE).

It’s a festival that’s been produced since 2011 by Studio C, an arts centre run by Prospect Human Services, a non-profit focused on helping anyone who has barriers to employment, says program manager Colin Menzies.

“We offer skill development,” says Menzies, “so that people can get those skills to get out into the workforce through art — or we train companies as to how to be more diverse and inclusive and again we engage them through the creative process.”

That culminates each year in the Spark Festival, which showcases artists from across the city, and the country, Menzies says.

“It’s Calgary’s only disability visual art festival,” Menzies says, “and so in that sense, it’s a celebration of creative expression by emerging artists and professional artists who identify as having mental, physical or sensory disabilities.

“It’s also for artists,” he says, “who might be experiencing mental health barriers, brain injury or any chronic illness as well — so it’s really just creating a really cool platform for them to share about their experiences and it allows them to advance within their own arts practice in Calgary.”

Read more here: http://calgaryherald.com/…/spark-festival-showcases-creativ…

Artist Robert Bateman explores creative process, love of nature in new memoirs

Artist and author Robert Bateman. Courtesy, Birgit Freybe Bateman. Calgary Herald

**** Robert Bateman will be at Indigo Signal Hill (Calgary) Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. ****

Artist Robert Bateman explores creative process, love of nature in new memoirs

by Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald, November 9, 2015 

At 85, Robert Bateman may seem like a creature of habit.

The acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist still paints seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., although admits these days he is “interrupted a lot.”

For instance, he goes on a 40-minute hike each afternoon with his wife Birgit, taking the same route every day on his property near Ford Lake on Saltspring Island.

In the epilogue of his new book, Life Sketches: A Memoir, Bateman takes the reader on one of these walks. We join him on the gravel driveway, past what he calls the “map of little mysteries” of his own property, onto a forest road, into a meadow and past the giant beaver pond. Along the way, Bateman writes about a painting he did for Birgit in 2009, inspired by what he calls an “Aha!” moment that happened during one of these daily walks. It was simply the sight of his wife up ahead, carrying an umbrella and “wistfully looking at the ground.”

It was “a very quiet and unspectacular moment, but full of meaning and the memory of so many hikes together,” the artist writes.

Read more at this link: http://calgaryherald.com/…/artist-robert-bateman-explores-c…

Hooked: Fish, Water and Angling in Art

Hooked: Fish, Water and Angling in Art

May 30 – October 4, 2015

Organized by Glenbow
Curated by Mary-Beth Laviolette and Douglas MacLean

The Oldman, Crowsnest, Castle, Highwood, Sheep, Kananaskis, Elbow and the Bow: boasting some of the best fishing in the world, the streams and rivers of southern Alberta and British Columbia have long attracted visitors from all over the globe.

The breathtaking scenery and meditative act of fishing has inspired many artists and photographers; Hooked takes a unique look at the art and culture of fishing.

Featuring paintings, prints, photography, sculpture in clay, glass and bronze, Hooked marries all of this creative activity with other fishing-related objects and books from Glenbow’s collection and that of avid fisher and co-curator, Douglas MacLean. Featuring work by artist/fishers like Tom Thomson, Ted Godwin, Jack Cowin, and Walter May among many others, Hooked opens a window into the passionate world of art dedicated to fish, water and angling.

More info here: http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/hooked/

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Derek DeYoung - Gallery Tour

Derek DeYoung writes: "Check out this video for a virtual tour of the DeYoung Gallery, and to see all the original works that we have available for the Holidays." 

http://www.derekdeyoung.com/

The Art of Fishing (Okotoks) - To Sept 07, 2013

Painting: Cutthroat Trout, Oil | Donald Hamm

The Art of Fishing - To Sept 07, 2013

Check out The Art of Fishing exhibit at the Okotoks Cultural Centre in Okotoks. Some amazing art, sculpture, photography. Jim and Lynda McLennan have 4 pieces and a set of 4 Jack Cowin on loan. Exhibit runs to Sept. 7.

More info here: http://bit.ly/1akF12T

“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way,” wrote acclaimed poet Ted Hughes.

Continuing that it's “a form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.”

Interestingly, if the first word that begins the statement, “Fishing,” was replaced by the word “Art,” the meaning would also be valid.

The two activities are conceptually synonymous. Great art, great water, great tackle, great fish, the Okotoks Art Gallery brings you a reflection on this theme in The Art of Fishing, featuring paintings, original prints and glass sculptures.

Painter helped bring western art to forefront

Ted Godwin is being remembered as a brave and influential artist. Photo, Dean Bicknell/Calgary Herald

"If anyone owns the Bow River, it's Ted Goodwin, because he painted it so many times and so well and so intently, both as an artist and also as a fisherman who loved being out there".  - Jeffrey Spalding, Artistic Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary

Here are several items related to Ted Goodwin, who died on Friday. 

- 'Painter helped bring western art to forefront', by Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald, Sat Jan 05, 2013 Acclaimed Regina 5 artist Ted Godwin dies in Calgary 

- The giant of Alberta visual art died on January 4 and his life and legacy is remembered in a conversation between CBC's russell Bowers and Jeffrey Spalding of Calgary's Museum of Contemporary Art. Remembering Ted Godwin 

- The following was written by Don Pike, Director of Special Events, Trout Unlimited Canada. Thanks also to Don for the links. 

It is with great sadness that Trout Unlimited Canada notes the passing of a great Canadian artist; Edward W. (Ted) Godwin. Ted passed away quietly in the morning on January 4th, 2013 after a long battle with congestive heart failure.

He was 79 years old, born in Calgary and graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (and Art) in 1955.

Ted was an avid fly fisher and lover of the Bow River. He was selected as TUC's "Feature Artist" in 2010 for his painting "Silent Witness – Waters of Nova Scotia" which sold for $17,000 at our 2010 Calgary National Conservation Dinner.

He was so passionate about the Bow that in 1992 he issued the book "LOWER BOW" which featured text and images he created about the Bow River. As part of the exhibition a case limited edition of 85 was created. Each book had an enclosed unique hand tinted etching that matched the book number of each book. Ted generously donated three of these book/etching sets to TUC.

Say sayonara to our spectacular summer (Calgary) - Sept 08, 2012

Say sayonara to our spectacular summer with a free family event

Calgarians are invited to ‘bid adieu’ to this spectacular summer by enjoying an evening of music, art and nature appreciation hosted by City of Calgary Parks.

This free family event includes pond-study and nature walks, children’s art activities and games, and an outdoor concert by celebrated Calgary singer Sora. The celebration begins at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, September 8, with Sora's taking the stage at 7 p.m.

Sora’s feature performance promises ethereal Celtic tinged folk music accompanied by stirring backing musicians and an on-stage artist/painter. Calgarians are encouraged to come early and bring a picnic supper to enjoy at our waterside day-use area.

For more information on this event or Ralph Klein Park (12350 84 Street S.E.), please visit calgary.ca/rkp or call 3-1-1.

Via: (Calgary City News Blog)