It is January and there are exciting things happening this month that I am very excited to blog about:
January 29th, 2011 10 am - 10 pm
Suncor Community Leisure Center at Mac Donald Island
Decadent Pink is: "A day to Honour, Empower, Encourage, Pamper & Inspire the Women of Our Community!"
This is an interactive day filled with inspiration and education, spa services, photography sessions and boutique shopping. A fashion show, silent auction and cafe lounge will also be offered.
Pottery Verve is participating as a vendor in the boutique shopping for the entire day. We are making lovely new pottery for this event, and look forward to meeting many new people in the community.
More information is available at:
780-792-8113
MacDonald Island Community Art Gallery
The Wood Buffalo Artists Forum and MacDonald Island Park is celebrating the grand opening of the first community art gallery in Wood Buffalo.
Thursday January 27, 2011
Second Level Concourse
Suncor Community Leisure Centre
MacDonald Island Park
C E L E B R A T I O N January 27th to February 16, 2011
"Our Opening exhibition, Celebration, features visual art in various media by over 50 regional artists. The exhibit will also feature a special work loaned to the gallery by Suncor Energy Inc. This painting by internationally renowned Fort McMurray artist Fred MacDonald, was commissioned by Suncor Energy to celebrate the first tailings pond reclaimed in the region."
I have sort of finished an ongoing (9 or 10 years???) painting. It is entitled "Late July 2010). This painting has an ongoing history in that it began as an image of Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" painted using imagery mimicking Takashi Murakami's sculpture. That painting evolved over the time I attended White Mountain Academy. Once I started my own studio, I rebelliously gessoed over Venus (and all her pseudo-anime glamour) and painted a giant orange abstract hibiscus flower. I boldly used low grade craft paint! I covered the sides of the structure with Ralph Lauren paint in brown (reusing paint after I installed DIY wainscotting in the bathroom in my apartment above Tribal Voices.) That particular version landed in the care of Erin Socall for a few years when I left for Alberta in '06. She returned that painting to me (dammit!) some time last year. It was as ugly as the day it left! Despite being in a flood, she did take very good care of it. That structure was my first big one and I feel obligated to honour the Herstory it represents.
Here is a blurry photo, as taken with my Blackberry, from last night when I dropped it off at the gallery:
The photo does not do the painting any justice and I do know better. I promise to take my camera and tripod and photograph it properly when time allows.
Have a great January, to spite the cold. Hot chocolate, hot mocha, hot apple cider, hot toddies, hot homemade soups, hot homemade breads, hot dreams, think hot!!
