January 16, 2013 
Vancouver Island School of Art Newsletter

EXHIBITION OPENS THIS FRIDAY

STUCK

Curated by Tyler Hodgins
 

Exhibition Opening | Friday January 18

Opening Reception 7:30 pm
Curator's Introduction 8:00 pm




Sarah Gee  Randy Grskovic  Dorothy Field 
Sébastien Liénard-Boisjoli   John Luna

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide Room Gallery
2549 Quadra Street Victoria BC
info@slideroomgallery.com
Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm   

 

Exhibition continues until February 18  

 

 

 

CRD - Making a difference together 

 

Image: Sarah Gee  

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AT VISA 

 
VISA WORKSHOPS:

New! Printmaking & Mixed Media Drawing
Jan 24 - Feb 14 (4 sessions)

Architecture as Abstraction - Sat Jan 19

Video on the Fly - New Date TBA

Watercolour Play - Sat  Feb 16

Printmaking: Photo Etching
Feb 28 - Mar 21 (4 sessions)

The Contemporary Botanical - Sat Mar 9

Drawing with Ink - Sat Mar 23

Collage: Expressing your Innate Creativity
Sat Apr 20

Archi-Sculpture Sat & Sun Apr 20-21

Map as Biography  Sat May 23



Please visit the WORKSHOP  page of our website

 
Image:  Printmaking course: Printmaking  & Mixed Media

 TO REGISTER Please email us with the workshop title.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
with Wendy Welch

There is still time to register for this course. 

Course begins:

Wednesday
Jan 23  2-5pm
 

Do you wish you could get your act together and have a comprehensive website that showcases your work by category, theme or media?

Do you wish you had an excellent artist statement and set of images on a disk that you could send out to galleries?

Do you want to find galleries that would be amenable to your work?
Would you like to learn the best ways to get your work out in the world?

If you have answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then this might be the perfect course for you. Prerequisites: you need to already have at least one substantial body of work to take this course. A 'a body of work' consists of a group of works connected together by a similar theme or focus.

A laptop and digital camera are also required. Textbook for course:The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

Tuition: $395 for 36 hours of instruction.  TO REGISTER

Course starts a week later than other Winter courses giving you plenty of extra time to register!
THURSDAY NIGHT OPENING
 




        

                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 



TRACES 

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

LAB EXHIBITION OPENING  

 
Exhibition Opening:
Friday, Jan 18 2013
8:00pm - 10:00pm


Exhibition dates:
Jan 18
- Apr 21, 2013

        

                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: Alison Norle 

TONIGHT
 
ED PIEN  | ARTIST TALK

University of Victoria

8pm Wednesday, January 16

Room A162 | Visual Arts building

Installation by Ed Pien

As posted on Uvic website: Up next is a visit by Ed Pien. Born in Taiwan, the now Toronto-based artist Ed Pien has been drawing for nearly 30 years, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has taught at ECAD, NSCAD and OCAD, and is  currently teaching at the University of Toronto. Pien is in town as part of the AGGV's January exhibit, Traces: Fantasy Worlds and Tales of Truth.
 

                        

Blue Repulic


DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART
636 Yates St



CRYSTAL PALACE | Blue Republic


Opening Friday, Jan 25, 7pm


Exhibition Continues:
Jan 25 to Mar 2, 2013



Wendy is back next week!  We will get to see her around the school and of course in the classroom! 
 
For more information about our courses or events contact
Linda or Jen at the office: 250-380-3500 or info@vancouverislandschoolart.com
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