Archive 1997-2016
By Tom McLean
The Ottawa School of Art Gallery is inviting Centretown residents to open all their senses to its latest exhibition, featuring the work of Polish artist Ryszard Litwiniuk.
Inside the exhibition room, signs reading “Please do not touch” are nowhere to be found. Patrons are encouraged to smell, touch and even move the solid art pieces on display to complete Litwiniuk’s expression of his work.
By Jan Daniels
In honor of April being National Poetry Month, I was browsing through the Web to find out what will be going on in the local scene. Starting with The Academy of American Poets Web site (www.poets.org) and the League of Canadian Poets (www.swifty.com/lc/index.html) these sites linked me to online magazines, which led to electronic zines. Zines are wild and crazy distortions of art that jump, flip and plop all over the place.
By Bethany Harpur
Local artists are joining forces to celebrate the National Capital Fine Art Festival’s fifth year as a fund-raiser for the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
“I think it’s fantastic,” says Marilyn Henricksen, executive assistant with the foundation and a member of the festival’s committee. “(The artists) are a great group of people, and they seem very happy to be involved.”
By Danielle Gauthier
Imagine the life of a child in a country where even playground swings swaying in the breeze represent contamination.
It’s the horror faced daily by Belarussian children living under the shroud of Chernobyl, the site of the worst peacetime nuclear disaster in history.