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Photography by Anna Karpinski
Julie on the Ice. Tuesday afternoon, Founders Hall, Charlottetown (Anna Karpinski)
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Students explore theme of home at the Young People’s Gallery
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
The Chappell Picture, (David Thauberger, 1993)
Students from François-Buote School will explore the sense of home in a new exhibit in the Young People’s Gallery at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Entitled Home Sweet Home, the exhibit opens March 3.
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Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Patrick Rapati is a Halifax-based artist who blurs the line between math and art. He argues that there is no such divide—both are experiments in abstraction. His works express his conversation with numbers and the explorations of the behaviours they display when engaged in basic mathematical equations.
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A glimpse into another dimension with macro photography of miniature fairy sculptures
Fairy (Cecily Lalande)
Cecily Lalande's photo series Northumberland Fairies is on display for the month of March. She creates tiny, expressive fairy forms from an eclectic mix of man-made and natural materials and then places them in everyday environments. Photographing them in extreme close-up gives them a realm of their own.
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Photography by George Hunter on display at Confederation Centre Gallery
![Don Messer and his Islanders, Charlottetown, 1948. [Black and white photograph] (George Hunter)](/images/stories/thumbs/L3Zhci93d3cvam9vbWxhL2ltYWdlcy9zdG9yaWVzLzIwMTAvZG9uLW1lc3Nlci1naC5qcGc=.png "Don Messer and his Islanders, Charlottetown, 1948. [Black and white photograph] (George Hunter)")
Don Messer and his Islanders, Charlottetown, 1948. [Black and white photograph] (George Hunter)
Works by a Canadian documentary photographer is the subject of a new exhibition at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. George Hunter has spent more than 65 year photographing the world, particularly Canada, and a decade of his career is highlighted in George Hunter’s Canada: 1945-1955.
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| ARTS Space East, located in the Centre for Performing ARTS, in Montague, features the latest installation at the gallery beginning this month and running until April 15. Island artist, Anita Rooney who lives at her farm in Orwell presents her collection featuring familiar Island scenes, local Islanders, including various mediums and artistic styles.
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The Art of Newcomers to PEI show
Gallery @ The Guild
Refuge (Marie Gauthier)
Artwork by artists from Japan, Korea and Colombia, among several others, will be featured at a new exhibit opening at the Gallery @ The Guild on March 5.
Organized and curated by the P.E.I. Council of the Arts, Here. Now. The Art of Newcomers to P.E.I. has become a much-anticipated March feature at the Gallery. Of special note in this fourth edition of the show is a large artwork entitled “A Japanese View of Prince Edward Island” by Tomoyo Suzuki and a series of paintings based on the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage in Spain by Marie Gauthier.
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Marcela Rosenberg
Marcela Rosenberg of Royal Glass Design was presented with the award for best newproduct at the 10th annual PEI Craft & Giftware Buyers Market held in January at the Charlottetown Civic Centre for a new line of fused glass jewellery. Her winning jewellery will be used as the product illustration for the cover of the 2010 PEI Craft &Giftware brochure. |
Exhibit from the Gallery collection compares figurative works
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Suzanne by Brian Burke from his Charlottetown Series, 2005
You’re not seeing double. You’re seeing two takes on the same subject. Double Take is the newest exhibit in the concourse of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. It presents historical and contemporary works from the collection of Confederation Centre Art Gallery.
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Twelve projects in Island schools
Hannah Ives shows classmate Jayne Norrie and Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Doug Currie how she can create the intricate details of the flower they are sketching as school ArtsSmartscoordinator Leslie Macdonald looks on. Grade five and six students at Eliot River Elementary have been working with artist Terry Dunton-Stevenson.
Students in Prince Edward Island schools are experiencing a creative approach to learning and developing their artistic skills through the twelve new ArtsSmarts projectst. ArtsSmarts brings students, educators and artistic communities together to nurture creative thinkers and foster an appreciation for the arts.
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![Don Messer and his Islanders, Charlottetown, 1948. [Black and white photograph] (George Hunter)](/images/stories/2010/don-messer-gh.jpg "Don Messer and his Islanders, Charlottetown, 1948. [Black and white photograph] (George Hunter)")
