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NEWS AND EVENTS

Travelling Light ~ A photographic exhibition
March 15 to March 22, 2010.

Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University

Opening Reception March 15th from 6:30pm to 9pm

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Fade To White~ A selection of paintings from Visa 3p04
March 23 to April 14, 2010.

Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

Opening Reception March 24th from 7pm to 9pm

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David Wright ~ Paintings
April 10 to May 16, 2010.

A Mano Libera, St.Catharines.

Reception: Friday April 9, 6 - 9 pm.

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Assorted Flavours: Brock University Department of Visual Arts Juried Student Exhibition
March 27 to April 11, 2010.

Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock University.

Reception: Friday, March 26, 7 pm.

Download entry form HERE

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The Great Canadian Beaver Ball
Friday, March 12, 2010, 8 – 11 pm.

Rodman Hall Arts Centre St. Catharines, ON.

Reception: March 5, 7 - 10 pm.
Admission: $5/Members, $6/General, Free/Students

Get ‘em while they’re hot! For a third year, Brock University students have created hundreds of Beaver Ball artist multiples to be sold from classic Northern Beaver vending machines for a mere $2. The new crop is created by students in Visiting Artist Professor Catherine Heard’s Foundation Studio and Thematic Studies in Integrated Media classes and students in Professor Linda Steer’s Appropriation class. Featuring performances by Finger in the Dyke Productions’ Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, and music by Tebley Serf. Plus, get in on the action by making your own pint-size artist’s book.

Presented in conjunction with the Department of Visual Arts, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University.

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Scott Sawtell ~ The Complete History of Civilization (abbr.)
March 3 to March 28, 2010.

Le Gallery, Toronto, ON.

Reception: March 5, 7 - 10 pm.

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Jean Bridge ~ Livelihood
March 5 to 27, 2010.

Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

Reception Saturday Marchy 6, 2 - 5 pm.

Livelihood is a constructed collection of images and sounds that explore the texture and syntax of our urban and suburban environment. Using an interactive system with large-scale projection, Livelihood creates a seamless and fluid parade of ordinary places, people and things that represent a placeless everywhere and nowhere. The work is a response to the terrain of the modern edge-city. It a series of counter-places shaped by the economics of consumption and automobility. Livelihood seeks to disrupt the passive progression we commonly experience as drivers with the (re)flexibility of the walker who gathers sensations, knowledge and sentiment with which to build a virtually inhabited sense of place.
Taken as a whole, Livelihood forms a dynamic stream of idiosyncratic particularity based in the lived experience of our social and material world. It questions the inevitability of standardization. It is a virtual place where the participant can enact a sense of belonging in the ordinary and awkward places we regularly bypass.

Jean Bridge is an interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from painting to digital media. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. Bridge lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she teaches new media at Brock University. She is also the founder of nGen, Niagara Interactive Media Generator.

Thanks to: Andrew Roth, Jeff Mann and Duncan MacDonald for technical assistance.

for further information contact:
Gallery Hours are Wednesday to Saturday noon to 5 pm or by appointment - jbridge@brocku.ca

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Amy Friend ~ Transpierce: a photographic exhibition
March 1 to 14, 2010.

Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

Opening Reception March 1st from 7pm to 9pm

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Brock announces first Marilyn I. Walker Chair in Creativity, Imagination and Innovation

Brock University announced the creation and first recipient of the Marilyn I. Walker Chair in Creativity, Imagination and Innovation. The Chair is awarded to the Director of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts for the duration of their term as Director.

Derek Knight, the current Director of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, is the first person to hold the position. The endowed Chair supports building the school’s programs, enhancing its facilities and positioning it to be one of the best fine arts schools in North America, if not the world. Click HERE to view the full Brock University announcement.

Congratulations Derek!

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Amy Friend ~ Firmanent
March 7 to 31, 2010.

Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Canning, Nova Scotia.

Amy would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council.

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Arnold McBay ~ Common Knowledge
January 5 to 28, 2010.

Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

Reception: Thursday January 14, 6 - 8 pm.

This exhibit features a relief sculpture installation and recent drawings.

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Visual Arts Department silent auction a success!.
Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

The Visual Arts Department First Annual Silent Auction was a resounding success raising $3500 for the VISA Student Scholarship fund. This fund raiser would not have been possible without the kindness of our art purchasing patrons and of course generous donations from the following artists: Lesley Bell, Lorene Bourgeois, Jean Bridge, Amy Friend, Catherine Heard, Murray Kropf, Judy Marquis, Arnold McBay, Carrie Perreault, Scott Sawtell and David Wright.

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Arnold McBay: recent drawings
November 3 - December 24, 2009

Pan Cafe
120 St. Paul St. St. Catharines, ON.

Reception: Saturday, December 5, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

4th year VISA Honours Student Michael Dirisio has written a review of this exhibition. Click HERE to view a copy.

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Visa faculty member wins award at Toronto Urban Film Festival.

Lorene Bourgeois won the "Best in Urban Encounters" award at the recent Toronto Urban Film Festival for her short film "Water Children (an urban ballet). Congratulations Lorene.

http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com/films/water-children-urban-ballet

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Visual Arts Department silent auction/fundraiser.
November 26th to December 11 , 2009
Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

Closing reception and silent auction
December 11, 2009
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Visual Arts Department will be holding a departmental fundraiser in order to generate funds for the newly established "Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts" Scholarship.

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Lorène Bourgeois.
October 27 to December 11, 2009

Glendon Gallery, Toronto, ON.

Opening reception: Thursday, October 27, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (artist’s talk, 5:30 pm)

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Arnold McBay & Susan Wintrop: Surfacing
September 19 - November 1, 2009

Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON.
Curated by George Wale

Reception October 4, 2009. 2 - 4pm
Poetry readings by members of the Canadian Federation of Poets, in response to the artworks in the AIC Gallery.

Tour and talk with Arnold McBay and Susan Wintrop
November 1, 2009 1:30pm

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David Wright ~ Paintings
October 5 to October 31, 2009.

Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

Reception Tuesday October 6 7 - 9 pm.

David Wright recently returned to Ontario from central Mexico where, during the last fifteen years, he has maintained a studio and spent time painting and exhibiting. Having trained as a painter in England he moved to Toronto in 1972 and has exhibited consistently in galleries in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

His work is represented in more than one hundred Corporate and Public collections and in numerous private collections internationally. The paintings in this exhibit include some of his favourite subjects - Mexican landscapes, still lifes, fish ponds and, most recently, images from Twenty Valley in the Niagara Escarpment, close to his present home in Ball’s Falls.

To see more of his work, or to contact the artist, check his web site at www.davidtwright.com

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Amy Friend ~ Soon this space will be too small
Septmber 28 to October 23, 2009.

Riley Hall of Art and Design. University of Notre Dame, IN.

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Scott Sawtell ~ The Complete History of Civilization (abbr)
September 5 to October 2, 2009.

Sean O'Sullivan Lobby, Brock University.

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Brock University announces 15 Million dollar donation

Brock recently received the single largest donation in its history. The funds were donated to the School of Fine and Performing Arts by master textile artist Marilyn I. Walker. In tribute to the artist, Brock has renamed its Arts School the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. For the full story click here and for media coverage on this story and developments regarding the MIWSFPA see the links below:

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Perdu et trouvé
March 23 - April 19, 2009

James A. Gibson Library, Brock University

(located on the first floor in the display cases across from the Help Desk in the Matheson Learning Commons)

The work of Visual Arts Department Facilities Technician Arnold McBay is featured in this site-specific exhibition. Arnold would like to acknowledge the assistance of fellow-artist Brian Durocher in the development of the technological component of this work.

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