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Thames Art Gallery & ARTspace painting competition: the Brush Off (Eye for Art 2012)

The Brush Off was held at the Thames Art Gallery as part of the biennial exhibition and fundraiser, Eye for Art 2012, on October 27, 2012. Tweny-four artists participated; twelve artists painted during a 30-minute round, and there were two rounds. Artists were selected by ballot. All works created during the Brush Off were auctioned off at the end of the night, with all proceeds going to ARTspace, a community outreach program of the Thames Art Gallery. The Thames Art Gallery is located in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Support ARTspace! Buy a Culture Vulture membership at cktickets.com

Artist builds his Savannah studio with shipping containers

Architect, artist, designer Julio Garcia had been designing plans for shipping container homes for a decade before he found the perfect place to build one: on a long, narrow stretch of his property in Savannah, Georgia. “I’m a big believer we should be adapting to the environment… I remember walking out and looking at the yard and thinking oh my god the land is calling for this linear design.”

He picked up two 40 foot shipping containers from the Port of Savannah and, thanks to much advance planning, he was able to install them without removing one tree from his property. He offset the two boxes, cut out the interior container walls and added I-beams, a shed roof and clerestory windows in the center to provide plenty of daylighting.

“There’s nothing worse than feeling like you’re inside a container so in the design we had to address that. I’ve been in a couple of projects and they don’t function very well and you’re like, ‘Oh, I still feel like I’m in a metal box’.”

Garcia believes containers can make for affordable homes: “you could put up a structure like this for about 50K”, but much of the interior was salvaged from other job sites (i.e. the drywall and the kitchen). His Price Street Projects creates plans that are “almost do-it-yourself plans” for shipping container homes and he has installed commercial container spaces, but he’s a big believer that the site should determine the design.



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Thames Art Gallery Chatham studio dedication to volunteer Audrey Mistele March 2013

The Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario recently dedicated art Studio Two to longtime volunteer (37 years), Audrey Mistele. This is a video of her acceptance speech. Special guest is art historian and professor Michael Farrell of Detroit, a dear friend of Audrey's. March 2013

CK on the Edge coming to Chatham in July.wmv

CK On the Edge is a multi-disciplinary arts festival featuring traditional and contemporary art of all types theatre, music, dance, visual arts, literary arts, film and more, a release issued by their committee states. It will run 11 days during the summer July 8 18, 2010 in downtown Chatham and be anchored on either side by three already successful events the BIAs Tastefest, the Rotary Ribfest and Dances in the Park. The festival will promote local and regional artists as well as showcase national artists in one of two professional theatres and a number of smaller, intimate venues in the downtown core. Chatham-Kent Daily Post (ckdp.ca) Editor Aaron Hall speaks with Lesley Grand, board president, and Christine Dudley, artistic director, in this video.

Perle Fine at BERRY CAMPBELL, Jason Fox at CANADA, Peter Acheson at BRENNAN & GRIFFIN

James Kalm slips through the slush, and dodges snow banks, to make it into Chelsea to check out the opening of Perle Fine: Prescience Series (1950s) at
Berry Campbell Gallery. Perle was an art world Zelig, coming to New York in the late 1920s she studied with Hans Hofmann, was invited to join the Artists’ Club by Bill deKooning, and showed at Betty Parsons early on with the likes of Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. This body of work attracted your correspondent because he senses its relation to the color field painting, which would manifest about a decade later, and also perhaps more “presciently” to a wedge of Patter&Decorative which coincided with the beginnings of Feminism in the early 1970s.
The following Sunday, viewers are invited for a visit to two Lower East Side shows beginning with Jason Fox “Square Cave” at Canada. This group of about twenty-four same sized canvases is installed chronologically, and a walk down the line is akin to flipping through the pages of the artist’s sketchbook. His themes vary from memorials to dead pets to versions of TV characters and icons of pop culture. We’ll also get glimpses of his drawings.
Then your reporter ends up at Peter Acheson: New Paintings at Brennan & Griffin. In the years since he’s departed the Williamsburg painters enclave, Acheson has dug deep into his personal vision of painting that is less attentive to the market, and fashionable art trends, and more resonant of the primitive and primordial. This group of intimate sized works shows a consistency and maturity that is garnering the artist new found relevance not only to critics, but new generations of young painters. This program was recorded on March 16, and 19, 2017.

Art Against Tyranny | Jordan Tannahill | Walrus Talks

From the Walrus Talks National Tour: We Desire a Better Country. Recorded March 16th, 2017 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. The Walrus Talks National Tour is a Canada 150 Signature Initiative and would not be possible without our sponsors and financial support of the Government of Canada.

De la tournée nationale The Walrus Talks: Nous désirons une patrie meilleure. Enregistré le 16 mars 2017, Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne à Winnipeg. La tournée nationale The Walrus Talks est un projet signature de Canada 150 et ne serait pas possible sans nos commanditaires et l’appui financier du gouvernement du Canada.

Jordan Tannahill is a playwright and filmmaker. He has received several prizes, including the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Drama, for his book Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays; the 2014 John Hirsch Prize for directing; and Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Play, for rihannaboi95 in 2013 and Concord Floral in 2015. In 2012, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill started the alternative art space Videofag.

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Thames Art Gallery Chaz Langford, Elinor Whidden Roadkill Redux May 2013

Artists Chaz Langford (his debut) and Elinor Whidden (Images of the Old West: Roadkill Redux) discuss their art at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario during their exhibition openings. May 2013. The discussion by artist Simone Jones (middle- All That Is Solid) is in a separate Thames Art Gallery video.

Episode 20 - Plugged In Chatham-Kent: SPARK Program

Ontario Tourism Innovation Lab and Chatham-Kent Tourism sit down with us to discuss the new SPARK Program: a $3000 grant and mentoring program!

Learn about the program and how to apply ASAP

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Thames Art Gallery Simone Jones All That Is Solid exhibition May 2013

Simone Jones discusses her exhibition, All That Is Solid at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario. May 2013

Rob Potylo A line of traffic

Rob Potylo, A line of traffic, live from Dodge Street Bar and Grille in Salem MA, 07 17 2010.

Erindale new Parking Structure, Station and Bus Terminal Open Sept 03-13

September 03, 2013: We see the new Erindale Parking Structure, station and Bus Terminal that just open on Sept 03-13. The structure will hold 1,500 car. The roof has solar panels on it hat will supply about 72%of the power require for this station. The Old station will be torn down

Drawing state of Illinois map ???? by ali

Cotton Museum live @ Detroit Art Space 12/16/04

Detroit sonic and visual artist, Chris Pottinger performs as Cotton Museum. Here he is, making crazy electronic noise, on December 16 2004, at the last noise show at Detroit Art Sace, as Pt.1 of their 3 night closing party. Footage shot by Ben Hernandez.

Van Gogh and Japan Trailer - Cineplex Events

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I envy the Japanese Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. In the exhibition on which this film is based - VAN GOGH & JAPAN at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - one can see why. Though Vincent van Gogh never visited Japan it is the country that had the most profound influence on him and his art. One cannot understand Van Gogh without understanding how Japanese art arrived in Paris in the middle of the 19th century and the profound impact it had on artists like Monet, Degas and, above all, Van Gogh. Visiting the new galleries of Japanese art in Paris and then creating his own image of Japan – through in-depth research, print collecting and detailed discussions with other artists – Van Gogh’s encounter with Japanese artworks gave his work a new and exciting direction. After leaving Paris for the south of France – to what he thought of as near to a kind of Japan as he could find - the productive and yet troubled years that followed must all be seen in the context of Van Gogh bending Japanese influences to his will and defining himself as a modern artist with clear Asian precursors. In this little known story of Van Gogh’s art we see just how important his study of Japan was. The film travels not only to France and the Netherlands but also to Japan to further explore the remarkable heritage that so affected Van Gogh and made him the artist we know of today.