Sumer Is Icumen In Plain View

Sumer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
and springth the wde nu.
Sing cuccu!

Florrie contemplates summer cumen in.  The river is still in flood and probably will be all summer. She doesn't hear cuckoos, but lots of crows again.

And certainly the wood does spring anew. The air is full of gossamer seeds from the cottonwood trees on the riverbank, celebrating life, though their roots are deep in the water.

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Congratulations to:

Maureen Miller ( photographer from Wolseley ) who won the IPV gift certificate for $100 towards an art piece by an In Plain View Artist

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Here's what sounds like a truly fun and great cultural event in Morden, MB.

~ An event like no other ~

 MORDEN, 1^ST IN MANITOBA FREE ART SHOW AND WORKSHOP 

 July 4^th – 6^th Art Show & Workshops 

July 7^th “Evening at the Stones”

This one of a kind event is open to the public.  However, the primary goal and mission is to link artist to artist to art lovers, who will come together for a three day, 1^st in Manitoba totally Free Art Show and Workshop.  All art enthusiasts have the option of attending one day up to all three days, should the various workshops match their interests. 

There will be an incredible array of artists; the internationally known, to the proudly unusual, facilitating workshops/demos in stone sculpture, textures and air brushing, Zombies art?, aboriginal art and dance, cartoon creation, hand building with clay, raku firing, photography, hands on a pottery wheel; one of the finest pastel artists in Manitoba will do a workshop; plus we have delightful surprises on copper,  computer images on clay, oil techniques, ink abstract (with a few artists  - to many artists with the same medium, demonstrating in each medium aforementioned, and much more.  For example: we have 11 potters doing workshops plus10 pastel artists and the variety of art mediums will expand daily.  We invite you to sign up to conduct a workshop or demo and share your own favorite art medium.

Web site:

http://www.wix.com/yvettecuthbert/morden-free-art-show-workshop?ref=nf

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Two artists are joining In Plain View Winnipeg:

Tom Roberts and Kristina Karlsson

Both Tom and Kristina work out of Clifton Street Studio, (joined there by Gloria de Neve) 587 Clifton Street - 1/2 block north of Portage. And as you can see, both work in pottery.

 Welcome aboard!!!

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Here's Karen Johannssen showing work at the recent In Plain View Winnipeg tour. 

She joined Gloria de Neve at Clifton St. Studios.

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And here's some of Gloria de Neve's new work shown during that
June studio tour at Clifton St. Studio.

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 Jolanta Sokalska won 'Best in Mixed Media" for Theta = Prosperity at the recent Red River Exhibition Art Extravaganza. 

 Here is the winning piece:

Congratulations Jolanta!!!!!

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Enjoy a new painting by Jane Gateson

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and here's some of my recent work. Do you remember who I am?

Jo'Anne Kelly

www.kellyartobjects.com

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And here's a recent photograph by Pat Bragg:

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 To see work by In Plain View Winnipeg artists, go to:

www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com

OPEN STUDIOS IN PLAIN VIEW

WE'RE AT IT AGAIN!!!!

come and visit us next weekend

In Plain View Winnipeg Artists and Galleries are hosting

our annual June open studio tour

Visit www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com to download map locations, and check out the various artists' pages to see what we do and 

where we do it.

there will be a few changes in the locations of some artists and times: 

The following artists will not be participating in our June tour:
Pat Courtnage, Katharine Bruce, 
Briony Haig, Bob Hanley

*Gloria De Neve will be showing at her new studio space at

Clifton Studios

587 Clifton St.

( 2nd floor - 1/2 block north of Portage )

Phone : (204) 489-9795

E -mail : g.de_nevestudio@mts.net

 Gloria will be sharing her studio with Batik artist Karen Johannsson,

and guest studio clay artists  Tom Roberts and Kristina Karlson, for the June Tour.

 (Karen Johannsson is listed on our website under Lipton St. Studio)

Nancy Blokland is hosting Pat Bragg Photography 
and a line of locally made soaps and skin care products at 273 Enfield Crescent during In Plain View for the June tour. 

Pat Bragg has moved from her residence on Camden Place.

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Artists In Plain View at the Wolseley Arts Festival

Several In Plain View Winnipeg Artists were showing their stuff at:

Envision: Wolseley’s Arts Festival! 

Envision is a festival that celebtrates the huge amount of artistic talent that lives and works in our Wolseley-West Broadway community . The festival showcases all forms of the arts; visual, literary and performing. We encourage all levels of artistic endeavour; professional, aspiring, young and old to show our community and the rest of Winnipeg what you are doing with your talent.

This festival took place at Robert A. Steen Community Centre in fabled Wolseley this past weekend. Check out the video showing our work.

  (It's been a challenge figuring out how to upload this video; but now the world's my oyster, so watch out for more, and please forgive the learning curve. I won't be producing any great flics anytime soon.  - Jo'Anne.)

 By the way, don't forget our next artist's studio tour is happening soon:

the first weekend in June:  

June 4&5 

from noon till 5 pm.

For more information check out our website:

www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com

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In Plain View Artists In Plain View

Karen Johannsson is hard at work here in Pat Courtnage's studio at 164 Langside at Sara.
Pat (in the background) generously offered Karen a place in her large studio after Karen lost working space in a fire at her house on Lenore St.
This has been a difficult time for Karen since the loss last year of her own well-known Lipton Street Studio, in which she worked and held classes for years.
We see Pat also at work here with Karen in the background, as she glazes a shoe for upcoming shows. (See Below).

They are both getting ready for the upcoming show at Wayne Arthur Gallery on Provencher which opens this coming Sunday, May 1st. And Pat is doing double duty, preparing for the Shoe Show in Kenora which opens next weekend.(see invitations below.)

All In Plain View artists - your friends and neighbours, invite you to join them this coming Sunday at Wayne Arthur Gallery at 186 Provencher.
If you can't make it to the opening, you have a month to check it out.

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And Pat Courtnage's shoe is headed to Kenora for this upcoming show:

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Medea Artists invite you to:

 

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Kathleen Black shares an image of her piece that was selected for Make Stop Repeat the Juried Manitoba Craft Council Show.

Kathleen describes her work: 

"This piece was envisioned to fullfill the idea of make then stop and do it again! Nature makes snowflakes- each unique! Over and over again as Manitobans know. This glass pate de verre piece was made in stages with a layer over unique snowflakes -fired and the process repeated again and again to achieve the depth shown in the detail."

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Does the term "Starving Artists" present a false image of those who devote their lives to creativity? - NO WAY!!

Here are some interesting statistics recently published in the Globe and Mail:

Earnings by most Canadian artists are hovering at poverty levels and the situation is likely to worsen as the worldwide recession deepens, according to a statistical profile of the country's artists released yesterday.

The findings of the 43-page study, prepared by Hill Strategies Research of Hamilton for Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, are derived from the 2006 census. It identified 140,000 Canadians as artists – defined as those who spent most of their working time in nine occupational categories, including actors, dancers, authors/writers, visual artists and producers/directors/choreographers.

The study reports that artists over all are working for near-poverty-level wages, with an average annual earnings in calendar year 2005 of just $22,731, compared with $36,301 for all Canadian workers – a 37-per-cent wage chasm.

In fact, of the 140,000 artists analyzed, 43 per cent earned less than $10,000, whereas in the overall labour force that percentage was 25 per cent. The study notes that the $22,700 average is only 9 per cent higher than the $20,800 that Statistics Canada has identified as the “low-income cutoff” for a single person living in a city with 500,000 people or more.

What makes the situation even more distressing is that artist earnings have been decreasing since 1990 – a decline likely to intensify over the next two years.

According to the Hill study, the poorest-paid Canadian artist category is that of female visual artist, with average earnings in 2005 of $11,421, closely followed by female artisan/craftsperson ($12,307)

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The Flood - In Plain View

Back in business - just in time to monitor the flooding Assiniboine River at the foot of my back yard. I'm estimating how high it has to go before it gets into my studio, which is lower than my house. So far, so good.

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Lots of news since I last blogged.
In Plain View Winnipeg had its AGM in February and we will be going ahead with our plans to hold an exhibition of members' work in May at Wayne Arthur Gallery.
And on the first weekend of June - 4th and 5th - we will be holding our spring artists' tour.

So two dates to look out for:

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PRAIRIE STAINED GLASS IS OFFERING:

 

"Images in Glass with Roger Thomas"

September 1-4

Tuition $800 plus GST with all materials included.

      This 4 day workshop focuses on design and process for landscape in fused glass, as Roger Thomas from Portland Oregon will share his techniques and philosophy of his Glass Paintings. Roger is known to students of glass for his varied and unusual glass fusing techniques with which he creates his art. During this class the student will complete four landscape samples, as Roger discusses and demonstrates how he creates color, depth and translucency in his work. Students should have some glass cutting experience as well as having taken a beginner glass fusing course.

        To see some examples of Rogers art and techniques check out his web site www.rogerthomasglass.com. We’re sure you will be as amazed as we are by his ability to capture amazing detail and depth in his art glass. 

Prairie Stained Glass and School of Craft/ 587 Sargent Ave/ Winnipeg, Mb R3B 1W6/204-783-1117

www.prairiestainedglass.mb.ca    

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 AND...........

Wayne Arthur Gallery

186 Provencher Blvd

Invites you to

The New Landscape:

A Continuing Series of Mixed Media on Rust Collagraph Prints

By Bob Hainstock

From April 1 to April 27,

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 5 PM
Web site: http://www.waynearthurgallery.com

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Artists in Plain View are in Plain View! - this Saturday and Sunday!

Ghoulies and Ghosties have gone back to their haunted places, so on to the next thing!!!

Studio Tours!

The In Plain View Winnipeg Artists' Studio Tours 

Are Happening this coming Weekend!

Visit us where it's at - in our studios

and artist-run galleries.

31 Winnipeg artists and galleries open their working spaces to you on 
Nov. 6 & 7, 
from 12 - 5 pm.

Check out the artists on our website:

www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com

Download maps to help you find your way, join your friends, get in a car, or hoof it, and come enjoy our hospitality.

See the environments where we create our art.
Talk to us about our work and our concepts. 

Find those very special gifts for family and friends.

And Support Your Local Artists! 

 

Mary Anne Rudy In Plain View

Mary Anne Rudy is one of the new artists opening her home studio during this upcoming tour. Mary Anne lives and works in Headingley. Check out her location on our tour map at: www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com. There are other artist in Charleswood to check out as well, as you can see on our maps. Mary Anne  has the following to say about her work:

I am currently interested in creating mainly mixed media monotype prints that are generally abstract, but often include some realistic aspects such as flowers or landscapes.  The first part of the print is created on a metal plate using rollers, brushes and other tools to develop and create patterns of all types.  Blank and partially blank areas are left on the plate in order to allow for further development once the print is run.  Once the print has been run, then it is worked back into with some type of realistic or semi abstract landscape or floral image. Other patterns and metallic embellishments are added as well. I am particularly fond of gold and silver leaf, so a great number of my paintings and prints incorporate the use of this material.  Monotype printmaking of this type involving traditional and innovative techniques provides many opportunities for happy accidents as well as the grace to influence the finished product.

My most recent two person show at the Birchwood Art Gallery included fourteen larger acrylic canvasses, which were mainly semi-abstract landscapes and urban landscapes.  The canvasses were fairly experimental and the semi abstract landscapes seemed to evoke past memories for places people had visited or lived and allowed people to place themselves into the painting in their own way.

As an Interior Designer, I began to produce watercolour paintings as a method for clients to visualize the interiors I was presenting to them.  From this, developed the passion for painting and now my artwork is exclusively prepared for the enrichment of interior spaces.  My influences are everything I see, feel and experience in the built and natural environment.  My daily life involves architecture and interior spaces, therefore art pieces are created as pieces that enhance, and beautify, as well as provide a focal point for the interior environment in which they are placed, private or commercial.  Explanation is generally not required, as it is my hope to evoke visual pleasure for the viewer without a right or wrong message.  It is my intent to generate paintings that speak for themselves and allow the viewer to receive their own message.  Throughout history, art as a means of beautification for our living and working environment has been considered a valid reason for the creation of art.  My paintings are meant to delight and gratify the people who display them in their home or work surroundings. I would like to think my art is grounded in pleasure and aesthetics.

Recently four of my monotype prints have been selected to hang in Canada’s Official Residences in Rideau Hall in Ottawa and Citadel in Quebec City.

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Many of In Plain View Artists are involved in this show:

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Kathleen Black, an In Plain View Winnipeg Artist Invites you to:

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The next In Plain View Winnipeg

Tour is coming up: 1st weekend in November 6 & 7

Join us!!!

Check out our website for information and tour maps:

www.inplainviewwinnpeg.com. 

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