Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Member News
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Hello everybody,
Lots on the go with old exhibitions going down and new ones going up! Come on down this Saturday for the Opening Reception from 2-4pm.
 Opening Reception: August 28, 2010 from 2-4pm
Show Dates: August 28 - October 3, 2010
Great fun for the whole family with live music featuring the fiddle
music of Danna Hunter. No admission and refreshments will be served.
Come All Ye! - Second Verse
Cara Kansala, Pam Dorey, and Caroline Clarke
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3-artist show provides a light-hearted portrait of Newfoundland folk
music through the prints of Caroline Clarke and the woodwork and mixed
media creations of Cara Kansala and Pam Dorey.
In the Annex Gallery - Puffins, Kittiwakes & Murres...OH MY!
Rosalind Ford
Soft sculpture birds and their young populate the Craft Council Annex Gallery in this solo show by textile artist Rosalind Ford.
Caroline Clarke
Director of Communications
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From the Craft Council
NEW! 1) Call For Submissions: 2010 Provincial Art Bank Program (NL)
Submission Deadline: Post-marked no later than September 10, 2010
The Rooms Corporation Provincial Art Gallery Divisions is seeking submissions from the local arts community for the 2010 Provincial Art Bank Program. Details regarding eligibility; artwork criteria; submission guidelines; and the jury process are available by contacting the Room gallery by visiting http://www.therooms.ca/artgallery/pab.asp
Craft Council Members can also take advantage of our services by applying as part of the Craft Council Gallery submission. The Craft Council Gallery will act as the dealer for you and will handle the application process. Standard Craft Council commission rates will apply to all accepted entries and reimbursements will be made through the Craft Council.
Please contact Sharon LeRiche at 709-753-2749 or gallery@craftcouncil.nl.ca for more information to make a submission.
NEW! 2) From the Clay Studio...Pottery Workshop with Neil Forrest
Date: Labour Day Weekend! Saturday September 4 from 9am-5pm with presentation in the evening, and Sunday, September 5 from 9am-4pm
Cost: $100 for Entire Weekend
Additional Info: lunch will be provided on the first day - please let us know of any dietary restrictions.
Join us at the Clay Studio for a two-day, fun-filled workshop hosted by NSCAD Ceramics professor Neil Forrest. This is a great learning opportunity as Forrest brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our ceramics community.
In the lecture and workshop entitled "Ceramics & Landscape", ceramicist Neil Forrest will explore the historical and contemporary relation of landscape to ceramic art.
In his own work, Forrest builds 'synthetic colonies' sometimes involving hundreds of ceramics objects as well as large singular landscape forms. He considers his work in the tradition of architectural ornament, yet his forms are unattached to surfaces and instead creep along walls and floors.
The workshop will demonstrate modeling and molding that Forrest uses in his own work. The focus will be on hand forming techniques for large-scale construction and use of plaster molds. Information about stoneware clay bodies and oxidation glazing will be discussed.
Historian Simon Schama said "landscapes are constructs of the imagination projected onto wood, water and rock" and Forrest will show how landscape informed ceramics history and continues to be a vibrant part of ceramic art.
For more information or to register please email: claystudio@craftcouncil.nl.ca or call 753-2534.
NEW! 3) West Coast Craft Fair on the World Wide Web!
West Coast Craft Fair Coordinator Brenda Stratton is inviting everybody to visit the Fairs' new blog at http://wwwwestcoastcraftfair.blogspot.com. So check it out and keep up to date with the latest news.
4) Craft Fair Applications Ready and in the Mail!
First of all, a big welcome to new Craft Fair Coordinators Lisa Pike (The Christmas Craft Fair) and Brenda Stratton (West Coast Craft Fair). You can contact Lisa at fair@craftcouncil.nl.ca and Brenda at brenda_stratton@hotmail.com and they will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Already they've been working hard with their committees putting together this years' Craft Fairs for St. John's and Steady Brook.
Applications are now ready and can be downloaded here along with other important information you need to know.
Deadline for applications is September 10th, 2010. You can choose to do one four-day show, or two four-day shows; the application form outlines the cost for each option. A 10% discount has been factored in for those choosing the eight-day option.
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Professional Opportunities
NEW! 5) Dept of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development (INTRD) Upcoming Product Review Dates for 2010
September 9, 2010 - REMINDER: The September session will be the last Product Review date for any new INTRD Booth guests for ACTS 2011. So if you are interested in applying for space in our 2011 booth and you haven't been to Product Review before, please get in touch with us and prepare your PR submission in time for the September meeting.
Just a reminder - Product samples and the Product Review application should be received two weeks prior to the meeting date (if you can't get the submission to us by then please contact us and we'll do our best to accommodate you). You can download the Product Review application from our website at http://www.intrd.gov.nl.ca/intrd/sectordev/provincialcrafts/productreview.html .
NEW! 6) Call for Entry (all media): Menorah DESIGN ART Competition, Port Coquitlam (BC)
Deadline for Application: October 25, 2010
Location: Leigh Square Community Arts Village, 2253 Leigh Square, Port Coquitlam
Exhibition Dates: November 13, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Burquest Jewish Community Association and Leigh Square Community Arts Village collaborate to present the inaugural Chanukah Menorah Design Competition & Auction. Artists are encouraged to submit their interpretation of a menorah design in any medium as long as the work is functional. Works submitted will form a visual art exhibition and auction in "Celebration of Light." Grand prize is $1,000 with proceeds from the auction benefiting the artists and community programming at Leigh Square. All artists are eligible to participate from across Canada, United States and internationally.
Full details and guidelines available at www.burquest.org and www.portcoquitlam.ca/arts.
7) Call for Applications: Doors Open Weekend, St. John's (NL)
Doors Open St. John's 2010 is returning this September 25-26 to coincide with Culture Days.
If you would like to participate with your studio please contact:
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Newman Building
1 Springdale Street, PO Box 5171
St. John's, NL A1C 5V5
1-888-739-1892
Email: doorsopenstjohns@gmail.com
www.doorsopendays.com
8) Call for Entries: Potters Council 2011 Exhibition: "The Shoulders We Stand On", Tampa, Florida USA
Application Deadline: September 1, 2010
Once again, we celebrate the community of our council with a show of members' work in conjunction with NCECA 2011.
The 2011 Potters Council members show in Tampa, Florida will pay tribute to our roots, the significant influences that shape us and guide our work in clay. We are creative heirs, standing on the shoulders of Giants. We cannot help but reference and renew their ideas in our own work. These distinctive inspirations become the touchstones of our best original efforts.
These muses are not always specific or singular. Your inspiration might lie in the simple forms of an anonymous ancient potter. Perhaps you've been seduced from afar by the work of legendary potters. A teacher may have given you a unique point of view, personal guidance or new set of skills.
Your work for this particular exhibition may have a visual link to a particular culture or artist. It might find its connection on a more philosophical level. It must however, show both a clear source of inspiration and a truly original new direction. We do not seek copies of our roots, but works, which honour them with fresh, innovative interpretations.
For information on how to submit to this show go to: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/potters-council-members-only/potters-council-2011-juried-exhibition.
9) Canadian Crafts Federation Survey
Deadline: Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Canadian Crafts Federation is seeking feedback from the craft community. In order to do so, we have developed an online survey that should take less than 10 minutes to complete. We would like responses from all members of the community, as this feedback will help guide future projects and the overall direction of the organization.
Take this opportunity to have your say, and let us know what you think!
Complete the survey by clicking on the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TWFF87W
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Grants, Awards, and Funding
10) Professional Project Grants Program, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC), (NL)
Application Deadline: September 15, 2010 (Projects must start on/after November 15, 2010)
The NLAC is now accepting applications for its Professional Project Grants Program for individual artists, groups, and non-profit arts organizations)
Contact the NLAC for an application form and details:
The Newman Building, 1 Springdale Street, St. John's
709-726-2212 or toll free 1-866-726-2212 (NL only)
www.nlac.nf.ca nlacmail@nfld.net
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NEW! 11) Norton's Cove Studio Events, Wesleyville (NL)
Date: Tuesday, August 31 from 10am-noon
Art Class with guest instructor, Mr. Paul Kirby
10am-noon (you might want to bring a snack)
$12 + HST
Call or email to sign up at 709-536-2533 or nortonscovestudio@nf.aibn.com.
Also, Janet will be travelling to Glovertown and will present a workshop in printmaking at the House of Diamonds on September 18 - 19, 2010.
For more information or to register contact the House of Diamonds at: http://www.houseofdiamondsart.com/
NEW! 12) English Habour Arts Centre: Natural Dye Class with Rosalind Ford, English Harbour (NL)
Date: August 28-29, 2010
Cost: $125.00
The English Harbor Arts Centre will be hosting a natural dye class taught by CCNL member Roz Ford. Each participant will create a catalogue of dye samples using wool, silk and cotton as supports. By the end of the workshop everyone will have 25 different colour samples from one local Newfoundland dye. These samples can be used as a point of departure for dyeing fabrics to be used in rug hooking, knitting, quilting, art and fashion.
To register or for more info: http://englishharbourartsassociation.com/index.php
13) Career Training for Aspiring Artists, Arts Career Training, St. John's (NL)
Dates: August 25-27, 2010
Location: Gower Street United Church, 99 Queen's Rd, St. John's
Cost: FREE
Our province's aspiring artists will have a unique opportunity to get the inside story and guidance from professionals, free of charge. A.C.T., the Arts Career Training conference, will bring established members of the local arts community to one location, to speak about the road to making a career in the arts and how to avoid the potholes.
The line-up includes representatives of a variety of groups and fields, such as Music NL, The Anna Templeton Centre, The Association of Cultural Industries, Harbourside Studio, Artistic Fraud, Rabbittown Theatre, Resource Centre for the Arts, Breakwater Books, The Newfoundland and Labrador Craft Council and Neighbourhood Dance Works.
Sponsored and coordinated by youth non-profit For the Love of Learning, Inc., the conference will run August 25-27, inclusive, in the lecture hall of Gower United Church, 99 Queen's Rd. Networking receptions will open and close the conference on August 24 and 27, from 6-7 pm. An exhibition of new work by For the Love of Learning's artists-in-residence and youth participants will take place concurrently.
Admission is free to all interested participants, and no registration is necessary. More information can be obtained at www.ftlol.org, or by contacting 722-8848 or whatsup@fortheloveoflearning.org.
14) House of Diamonds Art,
'En Plein Air' Workshop, Glovertown (NL)
Dates: Friday, August 27 from 7-8:30pm;
Saturday, August 28 from 10am-4pm; Sunday August 29 from 10am-12pm
Instructor:
Julia Pickard
Cost:
$150
Join Julia Pickard and explore outdoor sketching in pen.
Add colour with watercolour washes to finish your sketches.
Participants are asked to bring a drawing or clipboard and a bag lunch
for Saturday. All other materials will be supplied.
Leave with your own pen, brush, set
of watercolours, new knowledge and a great experience!
To register please call The House of
Diamonds Art Gallery at 709-533-1168 or email hoda@houseofdiamondsart.com.
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THIS WEEKEND! 15) Open Studio Weekend: Pouch Cove (NL)
Dates: Saturday, August 28 and Sunday, August 29
You are invited to see and visit artists at work in Pouch Cove noon-5pm, August 28-29...and feel welcome to bring a friend!
For a list of artists and locations visit: www.pouchcoveopenstudios.com
NEW! 16) Exhibition: A Change of Light, Heritage Art Gallery, St. John's (NL)
Opening Reception: August 29th 2010
A Change of Light will detail the lighthouses of Newfoundland & Labrador as seen through the eyes of some of the province's finest artists.
So come on out and join us for some refreshments and wonderful artwork.
The Heritage Art Gallery
309 Water Street, 2nd Floor
739.7994 or ws@historicsites.ca
NEW! 17) Exhibition: Botanical Garden Art Group Exhibition, St. John's (NL)
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 2 from 7-9pm
Show Dates: September 3 - October 3, 2010
Painting in the Garden Botanical Garden Art Group Exhibition at the MUN Botanical Garden
For viewing hours please call ahead:
Tel.: 737-8590
MUN Botanical Garden
306 Mt. Scio Road, St. John's, NL
www.mun.ca/botgarden
18) Roots Placed Project Event: Artist Talks, Exhibit, Food Tasting, Readings, St. John's (NL)
Date: Tuesday, September 7 from 1:45pm
Location: 44 Torbay Road, Nuport Building (Main Floor - MWONL)
Since February, the participants of the Routes Taken, Roots Placed project have been putting hook to rug and hands to clay, creating art work on the theme of "making a home". Now its time to celebrate their achievements and those of other immigrant artists in the community.
"Roots of Art: Showcasing Images and Words of Immigrant Seniors on Home," will feature:
- original works by the project participants, as well as Philipi Cgul, and George Adamchik.
artist talk with Luben Boykov and Philipi Cgul
-talk on the cultural meaning of food, and guest tasting with Gurbachan Cheema and Kitty Lau
Following the presentations will be a reception during which guests are invited to meet the artists. This event is funded by the New Horizons for Seniors Program, HRSDC, and organized in collaboration by the Refugee and Immigrant Advisory Council (RIAC) and Multicultural Women's Organization of Newfoundland and Labrador (MWONL).
This event is open to the public and free of charge. Transportation can be arranged for seniors wishing to attend by contacting Clare at (709) 754-4122.
19) Exhibition: Ryan Premises Nat'l Historic Site, Bonavista (NL)
Dates: Show continues until October 15, 2010
Have
you been thinking you should get out to Bonavista sometime this
summer? Well, summer's almost gone, so, why not this Sunday?
Janet
Davis will be presenting "S A L T F I S H" Printed, Painted and Hooked
at the Ryan Premises National Historic Site in Bonavista.
For more information contact the Ryan Premises at 709-468-1600/1601 or 709-757-8047.
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General Interest
20) Congratulations to our Community!
Member Margaret Walsh Best is pleased to announce that her latest exhibition, Balancing Act: Invasive Alien Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador has been chosen to tour two locations in Ireland this fall: County Waterford at The Old Market Gallery in Dungarven, and at the Coastguard Station Cultural Centre in Tramore. You can view Margaret's works at www.margaretbest.com.
Congratulations Margaret!
21) Craft Retreat in Upper Amherst Cove
This years' Upper Amherst Cove Craft Retreat will be September 11-12, 2010.
If you are interested in presenting or facilitating a workshop or going, contact Stephanie Stoker and let her. You can contact her by email at stephanie.stoker@cna.nl.ca.
22) Knit Wit Cafe this Month
This month's Knit Wits cafe will be Sunday, August 29th from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Anna Templeton Centre, 278 Duckworth Street.
Bring your current project, start something new or dig out those UFOs (un-finished object)! Bring along your favourite books, magazines, patterns or fibres for inspiration! Have a yarn you just don't know what to do with? Bring it along and swap with others!
If you are new to knitting or have just always wanted to learn, come along...
We will have a cup of tea (and treats if you like brownies), you can even bring your own music for knittin' and purlin' and hookn' to!!
Crocheters welcome too!
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