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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Autumn and Artist Studio Tours In Plain View

The crunch of fallen leaves underfoot heralds the changing seasons. Leaving behind the slow, long, warm summer days and BANG! into frantic preparations for the oncoming winter.
It's always something of a shock, isn't it? Where did summer go? What happened to our sunlit summer evenings?
But what beautiful visual vistas! The trees donning robes of gold and orange. Gradually shedding them to display their limbs in diaphanous veils.

But enough of that - On to the news.
The new In Plain View Winnipeg brochures are here! They will be hitting the stands soon. To get your hands on one, check out our website and call an artist near you to pick up a brochure.

Our Website:  www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com.
Here you can find all the information about our artists, their work and vision. You can also access maps that help you find where the studios and artist-run galleries are located.

The Next Artist Tour will be on the 1st weekend in November - the 6th&7th.
All studios will be open from noon till 5pm.

Come out and support your local artists. Visit their homes and studios and
see where creative inspiration begins. 

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KICK ASS art show/sale Katharine Bruce  Thursday, Sept. 30, 5-8 pm at Lazy Monk - 843 Corydon @Lilac This is the OPENING for KICK ASS artist Katharine Bruce show of paintings. It will be up for the month of OCTOBER Wed-Saturday 1-5pm

**************************** Life Structures & Other Personalities by Jordan MIller, 364 Artworks   Opening Reception October 1*, 7:30-11 pm; free Additional Hours: Tuesday Through Saturday, 12-5; Monday* & Thursday Evenings, 6-10 pm *closed Thanksgiving Monday* Exhibition closes October 12, 5 pm Artist Statement: Predominant themes from my past exhibitions regarding life, time, and relationships have resurfaced in Life Structures & Other Personalities, an exhibition of 364 mixed media/collage works and stitched 'personalities'. Each work represents a day in our daily life. Overall, "Life Structures” is a personal reflection and commentary on how people's lives differ, how busy we all are, how much or little we appreciate what we have, and how easily we can push away important aspects of life—joyful moments and people we cherish. “Other Personalities” is a playful interpretation of stitched hands interacting like bodies, some of which are abstracted and morphed into humorous or serious characters. Inspired and guided by both beautiful and devastating images, this series was created as a representation of the lives of others, a concerned reaction to the environment, and an emotional response to the moment in which it was created.  *****************************************************   ***************************************  Wayne Arthur Gallery 186 Provencher Blvd Invites you to HERSTORY Paintings and Stories by Naomi Gerrard and Lori Zébière From October 5 to November 2, Artist reception Thursday, October 7 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 5 PM Web site: http://www.waynearthurgallery.com For more information Call Bev at 477-5249 About the show HERSTORY - Canadian Painters Naomi Gerrard and Lori Zébière explore life experiences, beliefs, loves, losses, hopes and dreams from the female perspective. They invite you to share in their unique stories, and then to ponder your own. If you were to tell your story, what would it be? *******************************************

 

Government Support In Plain View

Last Friday I had a very welcome visitor -

Rob Altemeyer, MLA for Wolseley. 

Rob had a present for me. He brought a cheque from the provincial government department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism. This was wonderful news for our In Plain View Winnipeg co-op - This was a grant to our organization to help us carry on our community cultural events - our Artists' Studio Tours, and the second year we have received this recognition.

We are very grateful to the province of Manitoba, and in particular to Culture, Heritage and Tourism for this assistance, and to Rob Altemeyer for being the bearer of such good news. Thanks to all.

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Wayne Arthur Gallery

186 Provencher Blvd
Invites you to
ABC’s The World as a Bee Sees Photographs by Stew McCulloch
Opening Wednesday, August 4,
and continues to Wednesday, August 25
Artist reception: Sunday, August 8, from 1 to 4 PM
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 5PM
Web site: http://www.waynearthurgallery.com
For more information
Call Bev at 477-5249

Cottonwoods in Plain View

My back yard has recently been looking a little like a winter scene. The ground and decks are covered in a fine dusting of white.

But it isn’t snow – it’s fluffy little seed parachutes from the cottonwood trees on the riverbank. They drift along on the breeze like little ghostly creatures, tumble along the ground and collect in white heaps in corners, catching on spider webs and giving the place that creepy Hallowe’enish look.
There is so much of the stuff, it leads me to wonder if the cottonwoods know something. Are they trying to proliferate their kind in a desperate bid to populate the earth with as many trees as they can? Is there a foreboding that the bank from which they grow will cave in and they will all fall into the river? The water is still so high that I worry about this too. Is the bank being eroded silently from underneath by the fast-flowing, abnormally high water?
The riverbank where I live changes thus from year to year. Parts of it have collapsed into the river and trees have been lost. On the other hand, following the annual spring flood, new river-mud has been deposited on top of the banks and so they build up again, with new young trees pushing up through the cracked river clay.

The river giveth and the river taketh away.

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Jane Gateson, an artist In Plain View Winnipeg, is also a member of a group of seven women who call themselves

The Group of Eight

They will be showing at the Wasagaming gallery at Clear Lake from August 13 to Sept. 6.

The opening is Friday, August 13 at 8 p.m.

This is how they describe themselves:

As a group of artists who share a passion for painting, we embrace the tradition of the Salon as ". . . an intellectual, social, political, and cultural gathering under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation.” (Wikipedia)

The Group of 8 Artist Salon has been meeting monthly since 2008. It is made up of 7 women artists, all of whom studied under Milos Milidrag. The eighth place is a virtual one, reserved for an invited guest to join the group for an evening.

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And In Plain View Winnipeg Artists Studio Tour is gearing up for our new season. Come visit our homes, studios and galleries on Novemember 6 & 7. Check out our website at http://www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com/.

   

Artists, Cats, and Other Things - In Plain View

My cats sometimes leave me offerings. I will occasionally find a poor little dead creature lying on my bedroom floor – sometimes in my bed!

There are times when the little thing is not quite dead, and times when it is very much alive, flying around the room, battering against the windows, trying to get out, or if a non-flying creature, running around desperatelly trying to hide in every nook and cranny.

If it’s still alive, I swing into action – close the door, grab a towel or a box, and race around trying to catch it before said cats do. All the while with the dogs sitting on the bed barking encouragement. I even have a butterfly net stashed in the corner of my bedroom for such occasions.

I usually manage to rescue these creatures: birds, mice, squirrels, even baby rabbits. If they are badly injured, the rescue includes a trip to the Humane Society or even out to the Wildlife Sanctuary in St. Adolph.

However, once I woke up and spotted two tiny creatures squirming around on the bedroom floor. Two tiny newborn mice. They were each about the size of a thimble, hairless and blind. And they were alive! Obviously the cats didn't know what to do with them.

I called the Humane Society and the Wildlife rescue people to no avail. They would have nothing to do with mice. Even my vet was no help. He could only offer to euthanize them. I felt that the gods had put these helpless creatures in my path and it was up to me to do something about it.

So I checked out the Internet and – of course- there were websites that told me what to do.

I went to the nearest pet store and bought some canned kitten milk, improvised a feeding bottle from an eyedropper and a rubber squeezebottle cap over a small metal dye applicator tip, and began a feeding regimen that consisted of feeding warmed kitten milk to these tiny things every 4 hours , day and night for the next two weeks.

Sadly, one of the mice didn’t make it, but Victoria did. When her eyes opened, I started her on adult mice food. She thrived. She especially liked oatmeal.  And I bought her an aquarium to live in, with toys and a running tube made out of a flexible plastic duct tube actually intended to catch sawdust from a table saw.

Victoria lived for 2 and a half years. This is, apparently, a very long life for a wild mouse. She provided endless entertainment for my cats, needless to say. They would sit beside the aquarium for minutes on end, peering in at her, trying to convince her that they intended no harm. She was really their pet.

By the way, does anyone want an aquarium?

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Now that the June Studio Tours are over, some of the artists are onto SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

For example, Aliza Amihude has taken a break from making that fascinating, and "out there" jewellery, and has turned her attendtion to her other interest in life: Song, dance, and other things.

She and her troupe: Aliza and the KGB (Klezmer Gypsy Boys) will be playing at the Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne Ave,

Winnipeg, MB during the International Jazz Winnipeg Festival

Monday, 28 June, 2010 @ 8pm.

Tix $12 in advance, $15 at the door

Buy tix online: http://www.jazzwinnipeg.com/

Here's info about the band:

Aliza and the KGB deliver Klezmer music with a Gypsy heart. Aliza Amihude's expressive voice and
theatrical presence blend perfectly with Eli Herscovitch's smooth clarinet and sax playing like bagel with
cream cheese. Timothy J. Butler, Daniel Koulack, and Ariel Posen make up a world-class string section.
The KGB's repertoire includes original Klezmer and Gypsy melodies, jazz standards translated into
Yiddish, French swing tunes, and Russian folk songs.

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Wayne Arthur Gallery

186 Provencher Blvd

Invites you to

"ART ON THE BOULEVARD"

Paintings by the Norwood Art Group (NAG)

Opening Sunday, July 4, 1 to 4 PM

and continues to Saturday, July 31

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 5PM

Web site: http://www.waynearthurgallery.com/

For more information

Call Bev at 477-5249

About the Show:

Come see the work of multi-talented artists featuring contemporary original paintings in watercolour and acrylics.

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Artists' Studios In Plain View - Tour June 5&6

Auugghhh! It’s studio clean-up time again! Have to get ready for the next studio tour coming up next weekend, June 5&6. Believe it or not, some artists have declined to be included in these tours because they did not want the hassle of cleaning up their studios. At this point in time – I understand.

This is what my painting and clay studios look like right now. What a mess! So much to do - so little time!

Last Saturday I took some time off to go visit a bee colony. Looking at my messy studios reminds me of a look inside a beehive. It looks like total chaos. The difference, of course, being that the hive is controlled chaos. My studios, not so much.

Organizing these tours is also a little like trying to create order out of chaos. Dealing with so many artists, each of whom has a life with varying demands creates inevitable scheduling challenges.
 
Therefore there are some changes to look out for on this tour. Some artists cannot be involved and a couple of others will be located in different places, and we've added some new artists.
 
Here's the scoop:
Two new locations will be added to this tour -
Steve Jorgensen at 455 Churchill drive and Stoneware Gallery at 778 Corydon Ave. Check them out on our website: http://www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com/.
 The following artists will not be available on this June tour: LeVerne Tucker, Kathleen Black, Larry Rich and Briony Haig
and Guy St. Godard and Nancy Blokland will be in their studios only on Sunday, June 6.
Katharine Bruce will show her work at her home at 139 Canora in Wolseley (not at her Portage Ave. east studio) and
And, as Karen Johannssen has closed her Lipton St. studio, she will be showing work at Pat Courtnage's studio at 164 Langside St. at Sara. (Altogether there will be 4 artists at Pat's - Gloria de Neve, Jane Wood, Karen Johannssen and Pat Courtnage.)

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  Speaking of Karen Johannssen..... Karen writes:

I have been part of a project at Good Neighbours Active Living Centre called "City of Trees, World of Trees".There were a series of storytelling workshops plus workshops in various art media. I of course did BATIK classes.People have asked that the Batik classes continue in the fall..If people are interested they should call Vanessa at Good Neighbours 669-1710. Following  is a description of the proposed class.

 

Thursday from 1-2:30 pm

This is a traditional art class where a wax based method of dying cloth is used. There will be an example on display at the front reception area. Throughout the classes one on one instruction and the opportunity to execute different techniques will be applied. This class potentially may be held in the fall, if you are interested in joining please sign up at the centre, we need to see if there is enough interest to run a class. Instructor: Karen Johannson Cost: $50 (supplies included)
Here is some of Karen's work:

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At cre8ery gallery & studio

various artists will be available with their doors open! Follow this link to see images of who is at cre8ery for inplainview:

http://cre8ery.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Itemid=81  

Also in our main gallery is an exhibition by f/stop collective called "Made In China"

Information about the collective & exhibition can be found through this link:

http://cre8ery.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215&Itemid=34

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MEDEA GALLERY

132 Osborne Street

Listing for the week of May 25, 2010

"Faces, Places, et al." paintings by Lillian Toews

Opening Reception: Sunday May 30th, 1 - 4 p.m.

Exhibition cont. to June 12th.

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Gallery Listings for week of June 7th, 2010

"Manitoba Light"

New Works by photographer Dave Streeter

June 13 - 26, 2010

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Wayne Arthur Gallery
186 Provencher Blvd

Invites you to

Land of Promise, Land of Pain

Paintings by George Gartrell

Opening Saturday, June 5, and continues to Wednesday, June 30

Artist reception, Sunday, June 6, from 12 to 5 PM

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 5PM

Web site: http://www.waynearthurgallery.com

For more information

Call Bev at 477-5249

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Jolanta & Zbigniew Sokalski presided at the unveiling of their huge stained glass window titled "Dream Gate" on Tuesday, May 25th,

at the school: Henry G. Izatt Middle School 960 Scurfield Blvd, Winnipeg South.

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PRAIRIE STAINED GLASS invites you to

The 31st Anniversary Glass Show and Sale

Please come and join us to celebrate excellence in Glass Art.

When: May 31 to June 12 Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM Sat 9 AM to 1 PM

Where: Prairie Stained Glass and School of Craft

587 Sargent Ave

Categories: Stained Glass- Fused Glass- Art Clay Silver- Glass Jewelry and Beads- Mixed Media

GLASS SHOW PARTY!!! THURSDAY June 3 from 7 to 8:30.

Wine, Cheese, music, meet your local artists and take part in a discussion of the techniques used to create many of the pieces on display. Everyone is welcome.

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Check out our website to familiarize yourself with the artists and galleries included in the upcoming
June 5&6 Tour;

www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com

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