Art In Public Places… 2009

This is an initiative of the Elora Arts Council. Its purpose is to enrich exterior and interior spaces in our community with the vibrancy and beauty of visual art.

Art in The Municipal Building, Township of Centre Wellington, Elora
in the council chamber

SCENES OF FERGUS AND ELORA

Barbara K. Enders (nee Cook)

was born in 1922 in Toronto.

She grew up in the Beaches area, attended Branksome Hall and the Ontario College of Arts (now the Ontario College of Art and Design). These pictures were painted on visits to her sister in Fergus. 13 small sketches of marathon, ON, are also exhibited.

She studied with, among others: Franklin Carmichael, Franklin Arbuckle and Rowley Murphy, RCA.

She worked in commercial art firms in Winnepeg, and

exhibited works in oils and watercolours many times with the Manitoba Society of Artists and has sold works to clients such as Great West Life Assurance.

She participated in creating a large mural in Vancouver with the late Charles Comfort. Another mural was created in St. Ignatious Church, Winnepeg. She designed sets for the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

Barbara Enders presently lives in Winnepeg.

In the main hallway

Textile Art by Maggie Vanderweit

This beautiful, large textile was photographed with the shadows of the morning on the wall of the Municipal Building

Maggie Vanderweit has been quilting for over 30 years and sewing since childhood. She went to university in Toronto, France and Montreal and taught school in Northern Quebec and Ontario until she had her children. l She operates her business Stone Threads Fibre Art full-time from her studio in Fergus.
Maggie is a member of the CQA, ONN, Connections and the Royal City Quilters' Guild. She offers inspirational lectures, slide presentations, trunk shows and classes to guilds, schools, colleges, art classes, retreats, quilt shops, private groups and national needlework shows and quilting conferences.
Stone Threads Fibre Art, 640 Colquhoun Street.Fergus, Ontario N1M 1S3, Phone: 519.843.6361,
Email: info@stonethreads.ca

Art at Groves Memorial Community Hospital, Fergus

IN THE LOBBY:

The large Triptych
”Cill Rialaig Sky”, oil on Baltic birch panel 60”x144”
by Eva McCauley

On display till October 11.

This large triptych from the 2009 Solas Agus Scath (Light and Shadow) show can now be viewed once again.

In 2007 artist and printmaker Eva McCauley was in residence at Cill Rialaig, on  the south west coast of County Kerry, Ireland, living in one of a cluster of stone cottages looking out to sea. The changing drama of the sea ond sky, clouds and water, inspired many paintings, the largest being this triptych. Oil on birch panel, each of the three panels depicts a different mood of the sky, yet positioned beside each other they are a visual continuum
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Eva McCauley has always been interested in the persistence of memory. "I view the act of painting as a way of stopping time- as a tangible way to document the process of my existence". 

Eva is currently living  near Damascus, ON. She studied visual art at OCAD, and has a BFA from U of Guelph and an MFA from U of Waterloo. She has had numbers of solo exhibitions locally and internationally, with an upcoming solo show at  the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in Limerick, Ireland in August/September 2010. Her works are in many private, corporate and public collections

In August Eva will return to her beloved Cill Rialaig, living in a stone cottage by the sea. This year she will focus on printmaking. Eva is also well known as a  musician, playing traditional Irish music on the fiddle, mandolin and concertina,  and she will  join in  many lively pub sessions in Ireland.

In the Day Surgery Corridor of Groves Hospital

Elora/Fergus Home School group self portraits under the guidance of art instructor Heather Wadsworth.   The portraits were done in pencil from a photograph - for many of the students, it was the first time they had done anything like this, so it was really very challenging for them.  The results of their efforts is impressive,

Photos of new-born babies and children by Sheri Visakaly

Sheri’s photography studio is at the Elora Centre for the Arts. While photographing a wide range of subjects, her particular interests are babies and children. These are portrayed in spontaneous and original photographs.

Art in the Sportsplex Board Rooms

“Congruent Running”, 20 artists from Grds 9-12 from St; John’s Kilmarnock School The Visual Arts program at St. John's Kilmarnock is a dynamic and multi - disciplinary department directed by internationally and nationally recognized sculptor Catherine Paleczny . The students are encouraged to work in many mediums including but not limited to: clay sculpture, printmaking, two-dimensional design, life drawing, new media and mixed media.  We are pleased to offer Advanced Placement Courses in Two - Dimensional and Three - Dimensional Design.  The students are exposed to a variety of artists and techniques through gallery and studio visits.  The end of year culminates with a show that is curated and installed by the students. St. John's Kilmarnock School 2201 Shantz Station Road Breslau, ON, N0B 1M0

Art Instructor: Catherine Paleczny completed a Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Calgary, Alberta, and has studied at the University of Michigan and the University of Western Sydney Australia.  Additionally she also completed her Master of Science in Education degree at Niagara University.  She has been a guest artist in residence at the International Ceramic Center in Denmark, the Banff Center in Alberta, the International Ceramic Sculpture Symposium in Boleslawiec, Poland and the Experimental Sculpture Factory in China. She has exhibited in Australia, Europe, Canada, China and in the USA. has received the Mary Bales Leading Edge Award from the  K-W Arts Foundation.  She is currently a full time teacher and coach at St. John’s Kilmarnock. Catherine also has work in the permanent collection at the Grimmerhaus Museum in Denmark, the Culture Centre in Boleslawiek Poland and the Experimental Pottery Workshop in China. Catherine Paleczny BFA, MFA, MSE.d,OCA Visual Arts Instructor - www.paleczny.net

ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
supported by artists and the entirely volunteer work of the Elora Arts Council

AT GROVES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Our first endeavour was to work with a committee from the staff of Groves Memorial Community Hospital.  We began by reviewing the space in hospital areas and  by developing guidelines for the purchase, donation, and hanging of artworks in the building. The Boardroom of the hospital has been brightened with a collection of framed original landscapes from the Charandini collection, donated to the hospital previously and now hung. The collection has recently been augmented, and more of these paintings were hung to grace the corridors in December 2003. The main lobby is an ideal place for a rotating art display of works on loan.  Permanent track facilities for displays have been put in the lobby. Exhibits rotate every three months or so, featuring the work of local artists. Frames have been jointly purchased for displays of youth and children's art. Frames in the long Day-Surgery .hallway are now filled with the colourful paintings and drawings. Our thanks, as ever, to all who have lent work. Their bright pictures add cheer to some large wall spaces. Students are enthusiastic about lending their work to the hospital. A recent initiative is the hanging of the photos of new-born babies and children by Sheri Visakaly in the maternity ward corridor.

ART FOR OUR MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS Temporary exhibitions, temporary loans and acquisitions, and displays of existing art in McDonald Square Municipal Building As art expands in our community, so it is also expanding in our public buildings. Through the initiative of the Cultural Committee of the Township of Centre Wellington, the Elora Arts Council has been asked to bring art representative of our community into the Municipal Building. This is a very exciting and important development. EAC has worked with the Municipal Cultural Committee to draw up guidelines for the acquisition of art, temporary exhibitions etc. This initiative has now been expanded to exhibit art in the two Board Rooms of the Sportsplex, Fergus.

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