vancouver artists
Vancouver: Process & Intent: The Making of Art
The Eastside Cultural Crawl has become a Vancouver institution. From very modest beginnings to one of Canada’s most celebrated visuals arts festivals, bringing a broad public into artists’ studios for their yearly pilgrimage. For many it is a glimpse into the vast and diverse Vancouver artistic community. For the artists it is a greatly anticipated [...]
Heart of City Festival shines light on home and native land: Downtown Eastside festival features carvers, films, workshops, music
The seventh annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival continues to celebrate the artists and activists of the neighbourhood with 12 days of performances, films, forums, workshops, visual art and historic walks and talks. This year’s festival focuses more than ever on First Nations artists and will animate sidewalks and parks with music and [...]
Torn between cinema and theatre, The Stanley is both star and starred in as part of a creative, collaborative plot
The “reel” history of the Stanley Theatre and what lurks behind? That’s the tease on the poster for the Arts Club/Electric Company collaboration Tear the Curtain! An innovative mix of cinema and theatre, the show’s venue is as integral to the storytelling as the plot itself. “When the commission came, we wanted to make a [...]
Vancouver: Cargo containers showcase local artists
The PNE is about the last place you would expect to find some thought-provoking art. But it is there, interestingly packed into a couple-dozen cargo containers inside the PNE’s Celebration Plaza. The hugely popular “container art” exhibit is the brainchild of the PNE’s Peter Male. What started out at last summer’s PNE as a small [...]
Graffiti artists portray Vancouver history and war heroes, Five Victoria Cross recipients will appear on wall
A new mural replacing the graffiti covered in blue by the city shortly before the Olympics will be complete in two weeks, its creators say. Vince Dumoulin, one of 15 artists who painted the previous Beatty Street graffiti mural on a concrete wall that stretches between Dunsmuir and Georgia streets, said his concept will reflect [...]
Arts and the city: Meet the new breed of impresario taking Vancouver culture to the cusp
Vancouver’s ebullient arts scene is expanding, shifting and changing. Underneath the surface, key individuals are boldly shaping new trends, embracing community and collaboration, and discovering local talent. They are curators, promoters, managers and masterminds, and their involvement isn’t limited to their own fields: It involves breaking down barriers and seeking out new and exciting opportunities, [...]
W2′s Creative Technology Youth Summer Camps
W2 Community Media Arts Society is a Vancouver cultural institution dedicated to providing individuals and communities with access to technology, learning, production and distribution. W2 also operates creative spaces in Vancouver’s inner-city. Creative Tech Summer Camps are a fun way for young people to participate in art making, learning new skills, creating the future, and [...]
This is East Van Community Photography Project
Vancouver’s certainly not the only city that seems to like to split itself along east/west lines. Montreal and Toronto both do (I grew up in the East End of Toronto, and those West End Oakville kids definitely have an attitude.) West Seattle is separated by the bay from the areas of town I used to [...]
Vancouver: Like inexpensive art? You had to line up early at the Cheaper Show
“I’ve been here since around 6:30 or 7,” says one young man near the front of the line—he’s referring to 6:30 or 7 a.m. (!!) on a Saturday. He has set up camp with a foldable chair, a blanket, and a book, by the front doors of the W2 Storyeum on June 26. By around [...]
Creamier rises to the top: Vancouver contributes to top 100 emerging artists
It’s official: Vancouver artists are among the cream of the crop. A new book on 100 emerging contemporary artists from around the world includes three artists who live and work in Vancouver, and will have its global launch here this Saturday. Geoffrey Farmer, Ron Terada and Althea Thauberger are the only artists living in Canada [...]
Vancouver graffiti gone wild: An artist warns that the death of Vancouver’s graffiti program will lead to harder times for kids in need of a second chance
Vince Dumoulin was once a self-described criminal. He spent his early 20s jumping freight trains. He’d start in Montreal and make stops in Toronto and Calgary before arriving at the end of the line: Vancouver. He says he was a drifter with shoplifting and petty theft as his only means of income. Along the way, [...]
New Cultch season set to wow crowds: Despite some shrinkage, Vancouver East Cultural Centre offers exciting mix of music, theatre, dance
Fans of the Vancouver East Cultural Centre were spoiled for choice this year as the Cultural Olympiad flooded the Cultch with interesting offerings of music, theatre and dance. Executive director Heather Redfern says that while the party’s not over, it is a little quieter for the 2010/11 season. “This is a smaller program than last [...]
Vanessa Kwan’s Public Art, Vancouver, and the Olympics
Now that the Olympics are over and the breathing room has returned, we have the opportunity to evaluate their actual affect on the arts community. Public artwork was one of the foremost areas supported by the Cultural Olympiad funding, and many artists benefited from that attention — among them was Vanessa Kwan. Throughout the Olympics, [...]
Auction of 1992 shot could fetch Vancouver photographer over $1 million
The Canadian master of contemporary photography, Jeff Wall, whose carefully composed scenes exhibit a deceptive ordinariness but tap deep wells of thought in art and philosophy, is set to crack the million-dollar mark again at a New York auction next month with a 1992 picture of a fellow artist sketching a cadaver’s forearm. The large, [...]
Vancouver: The Cheaper Show Launches The Chosen Ones
One morning about three months ago I turned on my computer to check my emails like I do each and every day after breakfast and noticed a message from a local gallery owner and friend by the name of Lisa Giroday. Lisa is the owner and operator of the LES Gallery in Vancouver and her [...]
