Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

Rachel Carter possesses a sophistication that extends beyond her years. It sounds so cliché, but she’s a young person with an old soul. Not to mention a gentle way of articulating her views on art and a quiet confidence lying beneath.

Carter is a talented and highly trained fine artist in painting who moved to Summerside with her husband a year and a half ago. She
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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

Okay, I admit it. Sometimes I’d avoid him. Sometimes when I saw Milton Acorn coming toward my table at Pat’s Rose and Gray, I’d throw my coat over the empty chair, shun his imperious gaze. But the next day, the next day if, by God, if he didn’t stand next to me and declaim the most amazing poem about crows. I am thinking about this as I stare at Brian
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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

The tiny white dresses pose as if they had floated into the Confederation Centre Gallery through a window, landing with perfect, wind borne grace. They are made of porcelain, each as fragile as old cotton. My hand longs to ignore the museum’s prohibition, to touch the little dresses with the same loving caress that every mother knows. How many times did I touch
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Island artist Haley Lewis feels at home when she is away

by Ann MacNiven

You say you haven’t seen much of Haley Lewis lately? So say we all. During the past ten years Haley has lived in Paris, a few cities in China and, more recently, in Vietnam. She has also traveled extensively in those countries, as well as in India, Nepal, and Burma.

Haley finally landed on PEI long enough for a good visit.
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Island artist’s report from Ontario’s Spark Box Studio

by Monica Lacey

For the month of July this past summer, I was accepted to be an artist-in-residence at Spark Box Studio, a printmaking studio near Picton, Ontario in Prince Edward County. I had my own studio in the printmaking building, and a room in the owners’ house.

I graduated in June from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
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Interactive, creative, and those bloody crows

by Henk van Leeuwen

The bloody crows were everywhere. Sinister, glorious and cawing awfully, they emerged from the belly of the Confederation Centre of the Arts to provoke and preen for the people of Charlottetown. Some had splendid beaks; others trundled over sidewalks on large, rubbery toes. They threaded through the crowd on Richmond Street, owned
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Profile: B.J. McCarville

by Jane Ledwell

Visual artist and educator B.J. McCarville has been home on PEI less than a year since living “away” and studying studio arts and education, and the comment she hears most is, “I didn’t know you were into art.” Now her mission as an arts educator at Confederation Centre Art Gallery is to engage people with art in life-altering ways—whether
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Island artisans take up a challenge at Eptek Centre

Celebration of Crafts at Eptek Centre this summer is a testament to the creativity of Island artisans. When presented with the challenge of designing and crafting a piece of visual art that was inspired by a handcrafted museum artefact, the craftspeople across the province took the challenge to heart and the results are on display all summer at
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The Other Notebook
by David Helwig

The photographs show two young men posing in a deliberate fashion in front of a very large abstract painting. One is small, dark, the other taller, sturdier. In one of the two photos you can see that they both have paint on their trousers. The abstract behind them is eight feet tall, more than five feet wide, the background dark blue, the soaring and falling
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Profile: Pan Wendt

by Jane Ledwell

When I meet Pan Wendt at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, kids are playing in the concourse outside Mavor’s Bistro, poking at glass display cases for visual art exhibitions. “As a kid,” Pan remembers, “I was in here all the time, and in some senses it was just the place where my dad [Konrad Wendt] worked. I had no idea of its place in the community.”

Now
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The Other Notebook
by David Helwig

Toronto again, rain again. I am in the city for the ordination of my elder daughter Maggie as a deacon of the Anglican church; she has been working toward this concretely for the last several years, emotionally and spiritually for a good deal longer. Today, carrying my umbrella, I am wandering through the streets of the downtown, some streets I’ve known since
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Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

In recent years Summerside has rebranded itself with a “small is big” message. You may have seen the message presented as “Small City. Big ideas” (or “Big opportunity” or “Big possibilities”).

With the launch of a new artist-in-residence program, Summerside can add another tagline to the mix—“Small House. Big Vision.”

The house itself can be found at 471 Notre
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