"Cattails - Best"
by Jocelyn Duchek
Esterhazy and District Arts Council
VISUAL ARTS
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Esterhazy and District Arts Council VISUAL ARTS |
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Assistant - Audrey Johnson |
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Jocelyn's Fine Art Gallery at 418 Main Street (lower level) in Esterhazy - 745-2800 Jocelyn is offering original art, reproductions,
art supplies, and fine art classes. |
Current and Upcoming Events
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Date: October
22, 2011 This festival is a joint effort by the Lions Club of Esterhazy and the Esterhazy & District Arts Council, combining the bi-annual wine fest as the Lions' fall fund-raiser for charity and the annual EDAC art show and sale, formerly billed as Autumn Skies. This year's recipient of the funds raised by this event is St. Anthony's Hospital Foundation. According to recent announcements, whatever money is raised by this event for St. Anthony's will be matched by Mosaic Potash. The art show now has 19 artists registered, with a total of over 100 pieces of art to show. Our
Silent Auction has some magnificent pieces to offer for bidding this
year from our many generous donors: Audrey Johnson, Jocelyn Duchek,
Bob Ford, Along with the many varieties of delicious
hors d'oeuvres being served at the Fest, provided by the Esterhazy
and District Arts Council and supporters of Wine Fest, you'll have
the opportunity to taste wines of all kinds, provided by the local
business of Esterhazy An exciting new feature of the art show
portion of the fest is a $100 prize to the winner Beautiful gift baskets from the Lion's Club will be presented to the winners of the various draws. Another fun new feature of this year's
event will be the wonderful music stylings |
Dates: February, 2012 For background, the February 2010 workshop
started the ball rolling The workshop that was held in February of
2011 in Esterhazy Ward Schell's Bio Regina Beach artist Ward Schell received his art education at the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver, the University of Regina, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Over the last 22 years Ward has exhibited his work nationally in many solo and group exhibitions. Ward began teaching a variety of painting and drawing classes at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre in Regina in 1990 and has given numerous workshops on drawing and painting throughout Saskatchewan. He was the Artist in Residence for painting at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre between 1994 and 1998 and was also awarded a Saskatchewan Arts Board, Artist in Residence grant along with his wife, artist Jennifer McRorie, for the Town of Regina Beach in 1998-99. Ward has been painting dioramas and wall murals in Museums and Science Centres throughout North America since 1989. His love of nature and travel has taken him around the
world, painting and drawing the people and the diverse landscapes that
he encounters. Ward and his wife continue to visit Europe regularly
and have fallen in love with the French country side of Provence, where
they guided a painting tour in 2004. |
An OSAC visual arts presentation, sponsored by EDAC - to be held in Esterhazy. Date: March, 2012 - specific dates and time
TBA Holly Hildebrand is a collector. She collects bits and pieces of discarded or forgotten items, storing these treasures away for some later investigation in her studio. Triggers for memory, long forgotten or even buried, Holly uses letters, journals, and images as a physical representation of a past both real and imagined. Hildebrand explores in her work how meaning might be uncovered by the very act of covering up, layering one piece upon another in a narrative that is enacted between image and implied story, fragments coalescing to create suggestions. It is Holly’s hope that the images she is presenting will remind or stimulate the viewer to recall moments or stories from their own past. The odd moment and comment we sometimes remember, from stories we have heard first-hand or have been passed down and slightly transformed by each telling, begin to take shape in our own fabric of being. They add to our sense of identity, as it is these stories and moments that help us each define, in some way, who we are. |
Past Events
Dorothy Knowles (b. 1927, Unity, Saskatchewan) is one of Canada's top landscape painters. She studied art in the late 1940s and early 1950s at night school and summer school in Saskatoon and Emma Lake and briefly in London, England. A turning pointing in her career came at an Emma Lake Artists Workshop in 1962 when she was encouraged by the American critic, Clement Greenberg, to pursue painting from nature regardless of the contemporary predominance of abstraction. Her paintings from the mid 1960s to the present have had an enormous influence on younger painters across Western Canada, acquired in part through Knowles' frequent presence as both participant and leader at Emma Lake Artists Workshops. She has continued to paint prolifically in watercolour, acrylic and oil throughout her career - working in a variety of different manners and using a range of subject matter. Her works bring to life the rich and colourful landscapes that surround her home and studio and her paintings have found homes in some of the most prestigious museums in Canada. She curreently lives in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. |
Dates: February 11-13, 2011 The workshop that was held in February of
2010 in Esterhazy was such a huge success, |
An enormously successful evening was enjoyed
by more than 200 people on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 Tickets were $25 per person, with all of the proceeds of the evening (with the exception of art and book sales) going to the Esterhazy Community Daycare Centre. |
The exciting thing about this workshop is that it was so well received and appreciated that many requests were made to Helen to offer the course again next spring. Helen agreed, and the field trip workshop will be slotted into the EDAC schedule for some time in the spring or early summer. That workshop will be similar to the one held on Sept. 11th. Then, following that, at a time agreeable to all concerned, Helen will present the workshop outlining more advanced techniques, as the logical next-step in this series of workshop. More details will be available closer to the time. Photograph: "Sheep at Spiller's Cove" © 2009 by Helen Solmes |
Art Display
during Esterhazy Days - June
26, 2010 - former Harvard Zavedosky studio, Esterhazy, Sask.,
graciously offered by Brian and Elaine Tochor.
On display were artwork and photography
of various local artists.
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Date of Registration, Workshops and
Adjudication: June 4 - 5, 2010 The intention of this weekend's events was to promote the growth of culture by providing opportunities for emerging visual artists and craftspeople to exhibit their work, participate in informational and hands-on workshops and develop critical skills through participating in group and individual critiques with the guest adjudicators. These adjudicators were Timothy Long, head curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and Bruce Anderson, collections manager of the MacKenzie Art Gallery. All artists resided within the Parkland Regional District. Five pieces of work must be submitted for adjudication. Work must have been completed in the past 3 years and NOT have been submitted for exhibition or adjudication in PRADO I, 2009. Local adjudication entry form and exhibition agreement for artists must be completed with payment ($40.00 made payable to Yorkton Arts Council, 49 Smith Street East, Yorkton, SK S3N 0H2) and submitted by deadline. For program purposes, a short personal biolgraphy must be enclosed. Winner of this adjudicated show was .... Entry deadline: April 30 For more information re entries and full
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Dates: Mon., Mar. 1 - Wed., Mar.
3 - Fri., Mar. 5, 2010 Under the fun guidance of talented artist
and instructor Juanita Heembrock, this arts program |
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Date: February 6 and 7, 2010 Ward Schell Regina Beach artist Ward Schell received his art education at the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver, the University of Regina, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Ward has exhibited his work in many solo and group exhibitions throughout Saskatchewan and has displayed his work in group exhibitions throughout British Columbia. Ward began teaching a variety of painting and drawing classes at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre in Regina in 1990 and has given numerous workshops on drawing and painting throughout Saskatchewan. He was the Artist in Residence for painting at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre between 1994 and 1998 and was also awarded a Saskatchewan Arts Board, Artist in Residence grant along with his wife, artist Jennifer McRorie, for the Town of Regina Beach in 1998-99. Ward has been painting dioramas and wall murals in Museums and Science Centres throughout North America since 1989. His love of nature and travel has taken him around the world, painting and drawing the people and the diverse landscapes that he encounters. Ward and his wife continue to visit Europe regularly and have fallen in love with the French countryside of Provence, where they guided a painting tour in 2004. For more details on the workshop itself, go to About Us.
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Date: October
24, 2009 This festival was a joint effort by the Lions Club of Esterhazy, the Esterhazy & District Arts Council and the Day care Cooperative, combining the bi-annual wine fest as the Lions' fall fund-raiser for charity and the annual EDAC art show, formerly billed as Autumn Skies. NOTE: Because of the tremendous success of this combined festival, the Lions Club has decided to present another such festival in 2010, instead of 2011. They have invited EDAC to once again join with them in making another outstanding evening of wine and fine art for the patrons of both items. Therefore, another Cultural Festival of Fine Wine & Art will be held in October of 2010. Watch this site for more details as they become known. For more details about this very successful event go to About Us. |
On the launch of her new website at www.helensolmes.com The culmination of a years-long goal, Helen has successfully launched her site as "Helen Solmes - Photojournalist, Writer, Photographer." Offering her considerable skills and talents on a freelance basis, Helen's site showcases her beautiful photography from around North America, with amazing colour photos, stunning black and white photos (her specialty), and the special montage of colour photos she took in Antelope Canyon, Arizona. You can also see some examples of her award-winning photojournalism on her site, as well as a little bit about this extraordinary woman. Take a look at her work and pass the word about the wonderful collection of photographs to be found at her site. |
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Excerpts
from the Annual Report of the Visual Arts Chairperson to the Board
Members
On September 27 & 28, 2008, we held a Non-adjudicated Art Show which featured 14 artists displaying a total of 52 pieces of art. The entries were a mixture of paintings, photographs, henna art on canvas, crop art and papier maché. Sixty-one people attended the reception. We held a people's choice award during the receiption as well as a silent auction. Both went over very well. Auction items were donated by the EDAC members. The Literary Arts Division of the Arts Council set up a table to autograph and sell their new book, In the Shadow of the Burr Oak - An Anthology. Seven artists attended a workshop led by Crystal Howie on "Professional Issues." Crystal talked about the packaging of art to mail out, resources and sources of income for artists, and a general discussion on what the artists found to be either helpful or a barrier in their pursuit of creating art. Thanks to Pat (Arndt) we always have some fantastic school tours. November 13 to 18, 2008, we held the exhibit "Tattoo" at the Esterhazy High School. This compelling exhibition featured art by three of Canada's leading tattoo artists, Jarret Clarkson, Andres Merrill and Craig Fenrick. Approximately 240 people attended. April 10 to 19, 2009, was the showing of "Light, Line and Imaginings," an intimate look at Harvard Zavedosky's photography. It was a smashing success with approximately 600 people attending. A big thanks goes out to Helen Solmes for preparing this show and Brian and Elaine Tochor for the facility. Their effort was very much appreciated by the council, the community and Harvard's family. Also a big thanks goes out to Juanita Heembrock for making us some fabulous easels to display art for this show and many more shows to come. The final project to date was the 1st annual, combined adjudication with Yorkton and Melville--PRADO--on May 29 to 31. Twenty-seven artists participated from the area, two of which were from here (Esterhazy & district). There were 137 pieces of art on display. There were some fabulous workshops held throughout the weekend--Caricature, Photographing your art work, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and writing an artist statement. There was also a panel discussion with the two adjudicators, Kate Davis and John Noestheden, (as well as) Don Stein from the Godfrey Dean and Jennifer Schell McRorie from OSAC. It went over very well... Thank you to everyone for all your hard work this year; it has been another productive year. I am looking forward to this year as the visual arts coordinator, now that I have more time to do a better job. Thanks for being patient with me. Jocelyn
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