August and September 2010 The Community Arts Council will be hosting Annerose Georgeson and Leanna Carlson in the Feature Gallery at Studio 2880. Opening Night and reception will be held on Thursday, August 12th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Come meet the artists and support our local artistic community. Light refreshments will be served and Studio 2880 will feature 10% off all Gift Shoppe merchandise.
August 2010 - September 2010
Annerose Georgeson
"Global warming is changing landscapes all over the world. It has certainly changed mine. I used to live in the middle of a pine forest and now I live in a clear-cut. Some parts of the world are losing their glaciers and their coastlines; in the central interior of BC we lost our forest. Our land is now covered by hundreds of miles of dead trees.
One of the results of this ecological disaster has been an increase in logging and clear-cuts. My entire family, including myself, is, or was at some time, employed in the forest industry. I know each of us are very conscientious about the environment both in our personal lives and at work and careful about our forest practices. I should have been more aware, but when I first saw my region on satellite maps on Google Earth, I was shocked by the proliferation of logging clear-cuts known as cut blocks.
Logging is what puts the food on our tables. Yet there are just so many cut blocks."
Annerose Georgeson makes acrylic paintings based on imagery from nature. Georgeson has a BFA in Visual Arts from UVic and has shown her artwork in many solo shows. She curated the Red & Blue Beetle Art, a regional exhibition about the impact of the mountain pine beetle, which toured the region. She has taught art to adults and children for many years.
Georgeson was born in Switzerland, and as a child immigrated to Canada with her family. She lives on the same piece of land where she grew up, near Vanderhoof.
Leanna Carlson
Leanna Carlson is the President of the Community Arts Council, Secretary of the Central Interior Regional Arts Council and an active member of the Prince George Potters' Guild. Among her many responsibilities Leanna is also a potter, creating unique works, blending the earthenware's functional aspects with artistic design. Leanna has recently acquired a clay claim, allowing her to create in as sustainable a fashion as possible. From digging up her clay to mixing her own glazes Leanna is the sole producer of her work. Each piece is thrown and fired either at her home in Prince George or in a friend's wood kiln. Her work often resembles her surrounding environment, taking on the form, nature and colour of the forest and fields that border her home.
Her work has been sold at the Peace Gallery North in Fort St. John, Mountain Gifts in Mackenzie, the Two Rivers Gallery and Studio 2880.
June 2010 - July 2010
Jane Anderlini
Jane has been painting with acrylics for almost thirty years. In 1998, she began painting seriously with a move to larger canvasses and the development of several series. She began exhibiting at the 2004 Arts Fest and since then, has participated in many group exhibits in the Central Interior - Vancouver areas. She was also the recipient of an Emerging Artist award from the Federation of Canadian Artists in 2006 for a painting entered in their Painting on the Edge international juried exhibition. Jane paints primarily abstract and semi-abstract images, with a love of large canvas action-abstraction painting. She has taught art in many elementary schools and now teaches art education in UNBC’s School of Education. Jane works out of her home-based Moonlight Art Studio in Prince George.
Elizabeth MacIsaac
As a child Elizabeth has been described as a "rock hound", finding pleasure in the landscape around her. Her creativity flourished after her mother introduced Elizabeth to beading in the form of macrame. Later in life she was seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident she began to bead again. It quickly developed from macrame to stringing with stones. Engaging in this activity has helped her to heal from chronic pain.
Elizabeth has been successfully selling her jewellery for three years and in that time she has learned from her customer base, books as well as her own imagination and intuition. She pays close attention to what people comment on and purchase. Currently, her work is sold at the Studio 2880 Gift Shoppe, The Railway and Forestry Museum and through her home. In the past year she has also begun doing her own wiring, custom work and repairs.
April 2010 - May 2010
Dahne Harding
Dahne Harding is a mother, an artist, and a feminist social justice activist who lives and works in Prince George. Twenty years ago, Dahne moved here from Nova Scotia to raise a family and she has been painting and exhibiting her work in Prince George and across Canada for ten years.
She has contributed to the arts community in a variety of ways, including participating in “Artist in the Schools”, and as an instructor and workshop facilitator. She has taught in the Fine Art and New Media programs at the College of New Caledonia where she participated in the original focus groups regarding the development of a fine art program in the 1990’s. Dahne has volunteered in a variety of administrative capacities to the arts community at the municipal and post secondary levels as well as initiating arts-based , participatory action community research
Dahne is currently a candidate for a Master of Arts (Gender Studies) degree at UNBC. Her thesis is titled, “Voices and Visions: Art as an Alternative Voice for Subaltern Women”. The work is based on the idea that visual art can be an effective platform for women (and men) who are marginalized by multiple social factors to participate in dialogues about community development and to theorize about the structural oppressions that shape their daily lives.
Laura Fry
Laura Fry chose weaving as a career in 1975 and took weaving classes at every opportunity, including study at Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta and Varpapuu Summer Weaving School in Finland. She started her business in 1977 and since 1980 has worked full-time as a professional handweaver.
Laura's business focus has evolved with the changing economy and market trends from a concentration on table textiles to weaving yardage on contract for a fashion designer. In addition, Laura teaches throughout Canada and the United States, writes for a variety of textile publications, and wins awards for the beautiful clothing fabrics that have always been her passion. After years of work and study, Laura has earned certification as one of Canada's Master Weavers, only the 27th weaver to achieve the honor.
Laura's meticulous approach to weaving quality fabrics is characterized by her attention to wet finishing, a procedure often neglected and little understood by most handweavers. In Magic in the Water, Laura Fry shares her expertise derived from years of research and experimentation. Her guidelines make professional-quality finishing achievable by every handweaver, hobbyist and professional alike. By examining her actual fabrics, both before and after wet finishing, you will understand why Laura says, "It isn't finished until it's wet finished."
February 2010 - March 2010
Elmer Gunderson
Since childhood I've been consumed with the urge to artistically manipulate the world around me. I started with doodling, and then progressed to using water colors and 'pen&ink'. As I continued to explore my creative talents I found the challenge of art in three dimentional form to be the most fulfilling. To create something within the boundaries of a natural object rather then that of a piece of paper allows me to explore my limits as an artist.
The intricacy of each piece of wood or stone creates a character or emotion distinct to every piece. The feeling I get when I can bring beauty to a piece of discarded Juniper or a simple stone is a natural high. I enjoy sculpting the human form because I strive to create a unique piece, the cracks and lines in the human face and body are as original as a fingerprint.
Whether I'm working in stone or wood I feel that I'm giving back to nature. Combining the beauty of the natural world with my own creativity I can give something ordinary a finer distinction. I hope you can get as much pleasure from viewing my work as I get from creating it.
Elmer Gunderson
Dan Moore
I am a local photographer and I am a member of the local Prince George Photographic Society. My primary interest is nature photography,as well as a strong interest in macro and abstract imagery, but I will shoot just about anything that catches my eye.
I have been interested in art all my life and have some background as a graphic artist, but in the last few years I have found a level of fulfilment, through the lens of a camera, that seems to truly hold my focus and gives myself a deep sense of satisfaction that other experiences have not. I am hopeful that this experience lasts a lifetime.
In my work, I endeavor to encourage the camera to see beyond the simple reproduction of a scene or object, but to evoke the qualities and tonal values of a painting or capture a unique perspective in light and colour that the human eye is not normally privilaged to see. In doing so, I hope that you find these images, not as mere copies of the world around us, but works of art inspired by it.
Dan Moore - Mortusee Photography"