by Carole Epp | Jun 17, 2021 | emerging artist
About: Bealart is a critical mass of Visual Art instructors and students at HB Beal Secondary School that enables extraordinary life-world experiences! At Bealart, we believe that skills, technique and style should be in service of well-formed thinking and we challenge our students to develop, research and present their own ideas. Our program teaches students to consider the consequences of their creativity; to be responsible to the environment and those around them for the artifacts they create.
Bealart provides critical, contemporary art making experiences, culminating in a portfolio of finished and experimental works that will distinguish our students from others and help them to succeed in post-secondary environments. We endeavour to direct students toward self-motivated, concept-driven artworks which showcase the skills and techniques learned using our unique facilities. Students are encouraged to be accountable for their work, the processes of its creation, as well as its meaning, through critique, self-reflective practice and peer to peer interactions. Bealart works closely with the community to showcase the talents of the students and foster positive relationships outside of the classroom while promoting the visual arts and a sense of responsibility to that community.
Bealart’s Annual Year End Show – This exhibition is a Bealart tradition and has existed for over 40 years.
Pre-Covid: At the end of each school year (often falling on Father’s Day Weekend) we run a 3 day Show and Sale. From Saturday at 12noon to Monday at 9pm. Our Bealart community – staff and students work together to set up, welcome the community and operate the exhibition. All of our studio/classroom’s are deconstructed and reconstructed, creating a total of 10 gallery spaces brimming with artwork. Walls are erected, plinths, walls and shelves are painted and the work is installed.
Prior to covid our show and sale would draw line ups from the community – a huge public event, facilitated by our staff and students with sales at the end of three days approaching $30 000. Our students receive 70% of the sale and 30% goes back into the Bealart program to continue to support students. (Monies used will pay for YES materials/supplies/promotion and are used to provide additional support for exhibition opportunities, and or supplement costs for field trips.)
Last year amidst all of the changes in the world – thank you Covid, we were able to continue this tradition and launch an online exhibition. This year we will be successful in further extending our online exhibition to include sales. (Unfortunately work cannot be shipped, but it can be picked up on site after sales close on Tuesday, June 22nd. Sales pick up will take place on Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, and Friday 25 from 10am -6pm at H.B. Beal located in London, Ontario)
This exhibition plays a crucial role in our curriculum as it nurtures our students in their understanding of professional practice, roles and responsibilities of the artist in an exhibition context including community/public relations. Students are responsible for pricing and curating their work(supported by research and discussion with their studio instructors) Grade 9,10,11’s curate in collaboration with teachers and specialist leaders. Specialists curate their own work and collaborate with their peers and instructors to ensure quality and connectivity within each gallery space.
Find out more: bealart.com
Lilyana Doyle
Beah Learn
Devin Kim
Elijah Robinson
Olivia Carson
Brianna Montepeque
Charlotte Kelly
Veronica Sarata
Ana Sofia Silva Elizondo
Kenna Robinson
Isaiah Morabito
by Carole Epp | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
ASH + BARREL is an Invitational Exhibition featuring the celebrated craft of contemporary ceramic artists and makers from Southern Ontario. Organized by Andrew Kellner and Heather Smit, The show is a nod to our mentors and to raising a glass in the spirit of celebration. Opening Party hosted by Amsterdam Brewery. Join us in celebration Friday, May 3rd (6-10pm)
Make a toast, meet the artists and get first dibs on their newest work.
Line up: Lauren Blakey, Naomi Clement, Bruce Cochrane, Jennifer Drysdale, Marc Egan, Andrew Kellner, Lesley McInally, Michelle Mendlowitz, Jeannie Pappas, Mary Philpott, Heather Smit, Chandler Swain, Amber Zuber.
Website: https://ashandbarrel.com
Instagram: Ashandbarrel_invitational
by Carole Epp | Jan 8, 2019 | call for entry
The Missouri Western State University Clay Guild is sponsoring the National Ceramic Exhibition titled Twin Cups. The exhibition is open to all artists 18 years and older residing in the U.S. Submitted artworks may be either functional or sculptural representations of a pair of cups, mugs, or drinking vessels, etc. A $30.00 jury fee entitles each artist to submit a maximum of three entries (each entry consisting of a set of two). Artworks must have been completed within the last two years.
Awards:
$500 – Best of Show
$200 – 1st Place
$100 – 2nd Place
Awards will be selected at the sole discretion of the juror.
Juror: Veronica Watkins
Find all the details HERE.
by Carole Epp | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Saturday, January 27
Exhibition Tour by Pierre Aupilardjuk
12 – 12:30 pm
Free shuttle bus departs OCAD U (100 McCaul Street) at 11 am, first come, first served
We’re marking the last day of Earthlings with a casual exhibition tour by Pierre Aupilardjuk — he will speak to his work and the collaborative process that runs through so much of the exhibition. Get on the bus and don’t miss this remarkable show!
Doris McCarthy Gallery
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
Canada
t/ 416.287.7007
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~dmg/html/exhibitions/earthlings.html
We are of the earth and from the stars, cooked mud and pigmented wax, soot and soda, ink, wood, tobacco, fur, fire, bronze, and acrylic nails – mortal inhabitants of the earth dreaming of our spiritual or extraterrestrial foil. Drawn from this framework of earthly conditions, the visionary ceramics and works on paper of Earthlings, produced both individually and collaboratively by seven contemporary artists, are at once transformative and otherworldly – and profoundly human.
Though making work from distinct cultural and geographical positions – from Kangiqliniq/Rankin Inlet, Kinngait/Cape Dorset, Qamani’tuaq/Baker Lake, and Toronto – the artists in Earthlings share an intuitive and labour-intensive approach to materials and narrative imagery. In these works, detailed figures are subject to transformations and transmogrifications, hybrid blendings of animal and human, reality and myth, and actual and imagined spaces. These pieces seem to emerge from phantasmagorical worlds, simultaneously fleshly and physical, sensual and spiritual, alien and familiar.
Roger Aksadjuak’s work is complex, inventive, and embraces multiple forms and playful imagery while respecting traditional narratives. It can be found in many public and private collections across North America, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He passed away in 2014.
Shuvinai Ashoona is a contemporary Cape Dorset artist whose work often combines reality and the imaginative. Ashoona’s work is in numerous collections of major art institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, among others.
Pierre Aupilardjuk’s style of work represents his strong roots in a traditional aesthetic and are included in the ceramics collection of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center, Yellowknife; the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; as well as in private collections throughout North America. He lives and works in Rankin Inlet.
Shary Boyle lives in Toronto and works across diverse media, including sculpture, drawing, installation and performance. Collected and exhibited internationally, Boyle represented Canada with her project Music for Silence at the Venice Biennale in 2013. In 2017 her sculptures were featured at South Korea’s Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, and in the Phaidon, UK publication Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art. Boyle’s first public art commission will be installed Spring 2018 on the front grounds of the Gardiner Ceramic Museum in Toronto.
Jessie Kenalogak was born in Back River in the early 1950s and currently lives and works in Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake). Working primarily in drawing, her most meaningful artistic influences came from her grandfather Angushadluk, one of the most important and respected artists ever to work in Baker Lake, and her aunt, Mary Singaqti, another highly respected Baker Lake artist.
John Kurok began working full-time as a Rankin Inlet ceramist in 1996 and is one of a new group of younger ceramicists who also work as printmakers. Kurok’s work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Museum of Inuit Art, Toronto.
Born in the early sixties, Leo Napayok spent most of his time growing up in the towns of Salliq (Coral Harbour) and Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet). He works as a carver in soapstone, ivory, and antler and has long been established as one of the region’s most talented carvers. His collaborative works have since become a part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
by Carole Epp | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Closing Reception: Friday, September 22, 2017 from 5-7pm MT
If you can’t make it in person you can purchase works online.
123 South Broadway
Red Lodge, MT 59068
Lilyana Doyle
Devin Kim
Charlotte Kelly
Veronica Sarata
Ana Sofia Silva Elizondo
Isaiah Morabito
