Carver: Robert N. Brown
El Wire Lighting and Photo: Wynne Palmer
#pumpkin #carving #signal #Halloween #elwire #yearoflight
Read Your Pumpkin For Internal Signal. 2014.
Carver: Robert N. Brown El Wire Lighting and Photo: Wynne Palmer #pumpkin #carving #signal #Halloween #elwire #yearoflight
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After 18 months as artists in residency with the Vancouver Park Board Field House Residency Program at Aberthau Mansion - West Point Grey Community Centre and McBride Field Houses, LocoMotoArt are into the last stretch to the end of 2014. Field Guides, has provided us the wonderful opportunity to share our work through 3000 images culminated from group and independent artist workshops, events and exhibitions. Through our field house experiences we have been able to engage the greater communities of West Point Grey and the City of Vancouver. This has been a very rewarding experience for all the artists, allowing us to stretch our boundaries of independent practice, social engagement, and dissemination of ideas and technology, with the goal of educating and engaging the community to digital eco-art! We are especially grateful for the kindness, advice, patience and unwavering support of the staff of West Point Grey Community Centre, Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver in making our experience as field guides a rewarding one! Field Guides: A Guide to Field House Studio Residencies exhibition runs from Sept. 14 - 25, 2014 (opening Sept. 18) at the Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall. Photos: Laura Lee Coles, Wynne Palmer, Victoria Gibson and Sharon Kallis Special Thanks: Natalie Vermaas, Recreation Programmer II West Point Grey Community Centre, Margaret Watts, Supervisor of Recreation Services at City of Vancouver, Jil P. Weaving, Coordinator: Arts and Culture Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, Danita Noyes, Arts Programmer for the West Region and Cyndy Chwelos, Arts Programmer Roundhouse Community Centre. LocoMotoArt, along with 50 artists from 12 field houses who are part of the Artists-in-Studio Field House Program with the Vancouver Park Board, are finalizing their tenure. We'd love to celebrate the conclusion of 18 months creativity and hard work! Please join us for an artist reception: September 18, 2014, 5 – 8PM Guest Speaker: Matt Hern at 6:30PM Show runs from Sept. 14 - 25, 2014 Roundhouse Exhibition Hall 181 Roundhouse Mews Participating LocoMotoArtists: Laura Lee Coles, Wynne Palmer, Rob Scharein, Jamie Griffiths, Sebnem Ozpeta, Miles Thorogood, Phil Thomson, Dave Leith, Sarah Shamash, Graham Brown, Bobbi Kozinuk, Merlyn Chipman, Mark Nazemi Field Guides marks the culmination of the first cycle of the Vancouver Parks Board’s Artists Field House Studio Program – an initiative that transformed former care-takers cottages in parks across Vancouver into studio space for artists with community engaged practices. Over 50 artists (solo and in collectives) in all disciplines have been working in 12 field houses across Vancouver, bringing art into the everyday life of community, by inviting neighbours, colleagues and curious visitors to share in creative work. Field Guides celebrates this three year collaboration highlighting the intimate, generous and adventurous work of artists and community members working together as producers, practitioners and audience. http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/field-house-studio-residencies-in-parks.aspx As part of LocoMotoArt's major 2014 exhibition PATTERNS, a series of free workshops were available to the public from July through mid August, leading up to the August 24 show. July 12, August 9 + 16 residency artist, Laura Lee Coles, lead the workshop, Intertwined Boundaries, combining walking, listening, photography, collecting found items, and creating naturalist collages. This meditative and contemplative workshop was steeped in nature, sound, and place. Continuing into Fall, Coles will guide participants to the next level with naturalist collages by incorporating sensors to trigger sound by the movement of one's hand in front of the glass face of shadow boxes holding the finished collage works. As part of Laura Lee's residency, during the summer of 2014, she will conduct a series of workshops which include nature, sound and photography walks. These are some of the early collage studies Laura Lee has been creating during field research and study in studio. The initial study series, "Dog Walk Collages" were inspired while pet sitting for a friend. Penelope, was walked twice a day. During the morning sessions, Laura Lee gathered items from the ground, that caught her eye. These items represented textures, colours, patterns, and shapes. The items were both natural - that is part of nature, and artificial - that which was man-made. From these items, she created spontaneous collages and photographed them. Then, she explored the various items individually and photographed them, and logging them into a walking and photographic journal. For the upcoming summer and fall workshops, participants will collect items from the nearby urban forest, neighbourhood and beaches surrounding Aberthau Mansion, Stanley Park, and other urban natural areas throughout Vancouver. Participants will create their own collages, which will be photographed. Additionally, several "interactive collage boxes" will be created. The workshops will be designed to bring participant's closer to a sense of nature, landscape, place and provide art making opportunities in the genre of collage with natural and found objects. The following photo gallery depict the various collages made during 14 dog walks. Photos: Laura Lee Coles |
AuthorsLocoMotoArt activities at Aberthau Studio and within the community. Archives
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