Celebrate Summer 2011

A few pictures of flowers in my garden and on the deck.  Great show of colour and this seems to be a good year for blooms.  Happy Canada Day to everyone celebrating the first long weekend of summer. 

My week - Gardening Season

I love this time of year, everything is so fresh and green. However my eyes are usually bigger than my flower beds. I see so many great plants that I know would look fantastic, the problem is I don't always have the space in my existing flower beds.  I am especially enjoying springtime this year as I have so much less arthritis pain since the operation on my hip which has made me a bionic woman. I have purchased two phlox plants, another hosta, ornamental grass and a clematis vine as well as several petunias for planters.  I am including a few pictures of the poor little things waiting to be planted.

A display stand that I used in my flower shop now does duty as a plant stand in summer and a frame for Christmas lights in winter.

Great year for lilacs.

My petinuas have all been planted

This beauty will be planted in the next couple of days

This creeper is well established and looks so beautiful in its bright red colours in the fall

Call to Craft and Visual Artists - Deadline June 30

Calls For Submission

Rooms Provincial Art Gallery / Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador (St. John's, NL): Call to Craft & Visual Artists, Deadline June 30

The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery & the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Boxed In!

an exhibition of small sculptural works


Deadline: 30 June 2011

Simply put, a box is a container with a lid. Until it is opened, a box protects the secrecy of its contents. It is imbued with mystery and the promise of surprise. As such, the empty box can metaphorically take various meaning such as that of confinement, absence, hiding place. In our day to day life we make casual contact with the mail box, the lunch box or the tool box. And then, there are others such as the fuse box, black box, glory box, coach box, treasure box and ballot box. Each one has its own particularities and functions, a direct meaning that can take on a metaphorical one if we think outside the box.

To bring Canadian artists together, and considering the size of our country and the cost of shipping, we propose an exhibition of small sculptural works that would fit in a specific box and spring from the idea of the box itself or of one of its metaphors. The works must be three-dimensional and can be presented on a shelf, plinth, suspended or mounted on the wall.

Your proposed work should fit in a box no bigger than 16 x 12 x 12 inches, wrapping included with the lid on, without any alteration to the box. Of course, the work can be smaller but not bigger than this set size. The proposal should be for a work of expression, functional or not, that pushes the limits of your practice within a conceptual approach.

Your application must include the attached completed form, a half to one page proposal, artist statement, drawings or sketches of the proposed work and its technical information (medium, finished size, presentation), CV or resume (maximum of three pages), up to ten digital images of recent works (no earlier than 2005) and a list of images. All images (drawings, sketches and previous works) should be in JPG format at a resolution of 72 dpi (no more than 1800 x 1800 dpi in size). For more information: http://www.therooms.ca/artgallery/

Inquiries : box.exhibition@gmail.com

Submissions should be sent to the following address:

Denis Longchamps, curator
Boxed in! Exhibition Project
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
9 Bonaventure Avenue
P.O. Box 1800, Station C
St. John's, NL, Canada
A1C 5P9

Deadline to send your application: postmarked no later than June 30, 2011.

Canada Council for the Arts - Call for Nominations

Canada Council for the Arts  Call for Nominations, Deadline June 1

GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARDS IN VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS 2012

The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts are Canada's foremost distinctions for excellence in visual and media arts.

Help us to honour Canada's finest artists. Nominate someone who you feel is deserving of one of these prestigious awards.

Deadline for nominations:
June 1, 2011

http://www.canadacouncil.ca

Banff Centre - Call for Submissions

19 Adam Chodzko: Something in the Water. A Search for the Turn of the Backwash
Program dates: November 14 – December 9, 2011
Application deadline: July 15, 2011
It’s a collaboration. Each participant contributing equally. Field trips, hikes, meetings with “real” people, collaborative video projects, individual quests, a lot of “show and tell,” too much late night Googling, and lots of misunderstandings will steer us through this residency.

02 Ken Lum's Master Class: Art and the effects of the Real
Program dates: January 4 – February 21, 2012
Application deadline: July 25, 2011
The most interesting contemporary art is focused on the uneasy relationship between identity and the Real, concerned centrally with the social and spatial impediments that so often divide people from one another. It is the aim of Art and the effects of the Real to investigate the deepening interest of art towards its contingencies. This is an intensive residency with a structured program schedule that includes weekly seminars, discussion groups, and film screenings.

Self-directed Creative Residencies
Self-directed residencies are self-guided opportunities where the artist is free to experiment and explore new directions in the production of their work. Program dates are available year-round.

For more information and to apply:
Office of the Registrar
Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989
www.banffcentre.ca/va

Call to Visual Artists & Craft Artists, Deadline May 20

Scarborough Arts Annual Outdoor Art Show & Sale (ON):
Call to Visual Artists & Craft Artists, Deadline May 20


Call for Entry

Scarborough Arts Annual Outdoor Art Show & Sale

Entry deadline = Friday, May 20, 2011

drawing, illustration, painting, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, pottery, jewelry, photography, glass works, original textiles, fibre arts, and more!
Art in the Park is an annual juried outdoor community arts festival held in the beautiful parkland surrounding the Scarborough Arts building.

On Saturday, July 16, 2011 artists will have the opportunity to connect with the community, sell their original work and discuss ideas and practices.

Art in the Park is a one-day event and is open to all artists working in fine art and craft.

Date & Time:
Harrison Estate Park (behind Scarborough Arts)
Saturday, July 16, 2011, 10:00am – 4:00pm
1859 Kingston Road, Scarborough
Download entry form:

http://www.scarborougharts.com/2011/02/07/art-in-the-park-call-for-entry/
To request a submission form, or if you have any questions please contact us:
t: 416 698 7322
e: programs@scarborougharts.com
w: http://www.scarborougharts.com

Federal Election 2011: Political party responses

On April 5, the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) sent the leaders of the five major federal parties a series of questions relevant to the arts, culture and heritage sector. We are publishing the responses we received in their entirety, without any edits or commentary. In order to facilitate comparison among the parties' responses, we have formatted their answers in a table format, according to each individual question asked. An empty table indicates that we did not receive an answer to that particular question. Please note that the CCA translated the Bloc Québécois' answers from French to English.

To read the responses please visit http://ccarts.ca/en/advocacy/bulletins/2011/1611.htm