Through the Feminine Lens | until Jul 25 Experience Art in the

IN THE MAIN GALLERY
Women in Focus | Through the Feminine Lens | until Jul 25
Enjoy the photography and photo art from around the world, reflecting the creativity and life experiences of contributing members,
including:
Connie Sanders
Melonie Eva
Gina Myhill-Jones
Rosanne Parchomchuk
Bev Abbs
Joyce Schwab
Dawn Myers
Claudette Collinge
Kimberly L Rankin
Dale Lunniss Grinyer
Doerte Pavlik
Marilynn Kelly
Monika Paterson
Jen Oslund
Kathy Stocks
Peggie Freed
Bronwyn Begg
This show is being met with rave reviews! You have until July 25th to check it out!
Experience Art in the Parkside’s Garden in July!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
July 20
July 21
July 22
July 23
July 24
July 25
Wet Felting
Claudia Ring
Spinning
Spinners
and Weavers
Wood Carving
denise Swift
Chuck Brager
Encaustic
Barb Brown
Painting
Bobbie Crane
NEXT SHOW AT PARKSIDE GALLERY
The Cariboo Artists’ Guild | 35th Annual Show and Sale: Passage of Time | Jul 30-Sep 12
Come and join guild members on Thursday, July 30th from 5-7 pm for their opening reception.
Members have produced some interesting and provocative pictures for this year’s theme: 'The Passage
of Time'
Photography
Women in Focus
Dress up and have
your picture
taken
WISHING PATSY HEATH ALL THE BEST!
Fellow Parkside volunteers gathered at Claudia Ring’s home, on June 29th, for a
luncheon to say goodbye to long-time volunteer Patsy Heath. She was surprised
with a beautiful pillow created by Claudia and cards painted by Tom Godin. Patsy
was a dedicated volunteer who volunteered on Saturdays and will be greatly
missed. We are very grateful for everything she has done for Parkside and for
bringing her cheerful smile into our lives. We wish her the best in her new journey,
as she moves to Sechelt.
Volunteers gathered to say good-bye to
Patsy.
IN THE STUDENT GALLERY in JULY
My name is Violet Stock, and I'm fourteen. I've been loving the
Japanese manga style for about three or four years! Manga is so
popular in Japan, and is written for every age. Very small kids to
adults read it! I think that's so amazing. This art can touch
everyone. The style is so much more appealing to me than our
Western comic style. Big eyes, beautiful hair, and stylized bodies
are common in manga... Manga is popular in North America too.
Series such as Naruto, Bleach, Black Butler, and Death Note are
popular here. My favourite manga is Bakuman. I was so touched by
it. I learned that even a manga can make you cry. That's pretty
hard to say about our comics here.
Lately I've been trying out new styles and learning about new
things! Drawing is an amazing way of expressing yourself. There
are so many new things, and my style changes along with my
interests and moods. My art has slowly been evolving into
something different and completely me. I am heavily inspired by
manga, but there are many other styles mixed in.
I have so many artists that I look up to. Alphonse Mucha, Masashi
Kishimoto, Tama, and dozens of artists on www.deviantart.com. I
am forever a student of the amazing artists in the world, and I feel
very blessed for the chance to maybe join them someday.
My favourite media is copic markers. I really couldn't live without
them. The colours can be so bold, but it's also possible to make
them transparent and pastel. Sometimes I use watercolour paints
or coloured pencils. I always do traditional art. Digital drawings are an art in themselves, but when you use traditional tools your hand is
really putting each stroke on the paper. There is more soul in the drawing that way.
I always want to teach people what I know. Please never give up drawing. That seems like what everyone says, but there's a reason why
they say it. Don't draw for everyone else, draw for yourself. If you show yourself in your art, that's what you want. I believe that’s what
art is for.
I've extremely enjoyed the analytical side of art since the age of
two but even more so the creative side of it. I've been sketching
since I can remember and shall continue to do so till my last
breath. I'm quite inspired by the beauty and detail of wildlife. I
hope to pursue art for the rest of my life, whether that be as a
career or a hobby. Jacob Bryan
I've always liked drawing fantasy creatures, knights, and dragons.
As I have gotten older my interest in them lessened, but since I
have always drawn these things, they are what I am best at, and
enjoy creating with my pencil most. To draw or paint something
incredible is one thing, but to enjoy doing so is absolutely
necessary. Cory Mapson
NEW AT PARKSIDE
Driftwood Art by D&G Brothers
Booties by Loanna King
To check out what else is new at Parkside check out our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/parksideartgallery
100 MILE Welcomes Lynda Lipsett
Lynda Lipsett, BMus, Voice, is a singing teacher who is moving to town. She is a graduate in Voice Performance from the
University of Toronto and its Opera School. She has had an extensive recital and concert career, performing with many
orchestras, primarily in Ontario. After studying with Bernard Diamant and Maureen Forrester, she received a Canada
Council grant and studied for a year with Martial Singher in Santa Barbara, California. She holds a teaching degree and has
taught in the school systems in Ontario and B.C., but focuses now on private voice teaching.
Along the way she has conducted many choirs, including one featured in a CBC documentary about Handel, on the 250th
anniversary of the first performance of The Messiah. (It is still broadcast annually.) She had a church choir in Summerland
and has conducted children’s choirs at the Penticton Academy of Music, Kelowna Community Music School and at
Summerland Baptist Church. She conducted a choir of 1,750 school children as part of the Canada 125 Project in Parry
Sound, Ontario. In Summerland and Kelowna she ran a “Kids on Broadway” summer program for a number of years.
Many of her students have pursued performing careers. Two are currently enrolled in music programs at universities and one has just completed her
Master’s degree at UBC. Many have competed in the BC Provincial Music Festival; in 2013, one student was the Senior Classical Voice winner. Others
have been BC provincial candidates and winners at other levels.
As part of her teaching, she orchestrates three recitals a year. She encourages her students to participate in Kiwanis and local music festivals, if the
desire is there, and to take part both in the Broadway classes, as many as possible, and in the classical voice section. In addition, she provides the
opportunity to work through the Royal Conservatory of Music exam programs, which broaden the understanding of what it takes to “make music” and
build musicianship.
The repertoire that she uses is quite varied, beginning with folk and art songs, lieder, oratorio and, where appropriate, opera, and of course, Broadway
music. Her approach to singing is very technically driven, with lots of work with the breath, support, placement, and a good, clear, ringing sound.
During her stay in Fort McMurray this past year Lynda has worked at the UpTown Music School. She continues to inform herself about recent studies
on the voice with the Voice Clinic in Vancouver, and keeps up-to-date with musical happenings across Canada. Lynda loves teaching singing and she
looks forward to working with many prospective performers in the 100 Mile House area, where she is making her permanent home this summer.
JUNE IN THE RECIPE GALLERY: Tomato and Dill Soup for a Hot Day
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6 medium fresh tomatoes, cut into chunks (about 8 cups)
4 cups chicken broth
3 large uncooked onions, cut into chunks (about 3 cups)
1/4 cup canned tomato paste
3 cloves garlic cloves, peeled
1 1/2 tsp table salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cups dill, fresh, leaves, chopped (stems removed)
Instructions
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In a large pot, bring tomatoes, broth, onions, tomato paste, garlic, salt and pepper to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover, reduce
heat to low and simmer until onions are tender, about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat; cool slightly.
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Puree soup in pot using an immersion blender. Or transfer soup to a food processor or blender and puree until smooth. Pour
pureed ingredients into a large bowl along with any liquid left in pot; stir in buttermilk and dill. Refrigerate until chilled (can be
refrigerated for up to 5 days). Yields about 1 1/2 cups per serving.
MEMBERS’ GALLERY TRANSITIONING
If you have art in the Members’ Gallery please pick it up by July 25th as the Member’s Gallery will be transitioning.
New art for the Member’s Gallery will be accepted again beginning on September 14th. Thank you to all the members who have participated
in the gallery so far this year!!
BOOK REVIEW for July
BY Caoimhe Morgan-Feir
From CANADIAN ART
Bright Eyed: Insomnia and Its Cultures, R.M. Vaughan, Coach House Books.
R.M. Vaughan can’t sleep. It’s the impetus behind his new book, Bright Eyed: Insomnia and Its
Cultures, which takes an expanded look at fitful nights, and sees Vaughan canvassing artist Douglas
Coupland (who is known to sleep for 12 hours every day), a doctor in Reykjavik, his friends who toss
and turn into the wee hours of the morning, a Montreal sleep specialist and more. Over the course of
these discussions, he arrives at the conclusion that late-capitalist pressures are keeping countless
people awake, creating a widespread condition that is affecting more than just our health.
Caoimhe Morgan-Feir spoke to Vaughan about his research and examined his arguments that
sleepless nights are taking a toll on the visual arts.
CMF: What is an “insomnia culture”?
RMV: As a lifelong insomniac, I’ve always felt that I was alone, and that I was outside of the world. In the last 10 or 15 years, I’ve noticed
that I meet more and more people who are also chronically suffering from insomnia. I realized this is a larger issue.
We have naturalized not sleeping—we have a culture that is defined by being both chronically under-slept, and one that also fuels being
under-slept. A big chunk of that is the concept of the 24/7 work day, and a level of productivity that late capitalism is driving people to: the
idea that sleep is wasted time.
It’s very tempting to say, “Oh it’s all these devices we have.” But it’s not about the devices and the technology; it’s about our feeling that
we need them.
It’s this impulse to be constantly connected and to feel that if you aren’t constantly connected and constantly alert, you’re not
participating.
CMF: Is this a recent development?
RMV: Yes, but it’s something that cultural theorists have been aware of for some time. The two books I read most extensively and quote
from (Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep and Eluned Summers-Bremner’s Insomnia: A Cultural History) were
both written in the mid- or early 2000s.
CMF: What effect have these changes had on cultural production?
RMV: In the book I go over several different genres I think are defined by the fact that we live in an insomnia culture. I’m not describing
these works to deride them, but I’m pointing out that insomnia culture has an aversion to the contemplative, the still and anything that
can’t be easily referenced to something else. That breeds work that looks very jejune or childish and, on the other side, the New
Minimalism, which stresses no effort.
CMF: You write that, “The insomniac mind…shuts off the intellectual urge to problem-solve, and seeks comfort in a low-grade,
profoundly (and chicly) disinterested, reflex nihilism.” Reading this out of context, I would guess it is a description of “Millennials.” Is
there connection here?
RMV: No, no—it’s pervasive, it’s everybody now. I could easily name seven artists off the top of my head who are my age or older and are
making work that feeds into this. It’s not a generationally defined thing.
However, I think that your generation has a very different relationship to sleep, and I talk about that in the book, with my brother’s
children who are all in their 20s. Their work patterns are to work, work, work and sleep very little. They often use language like, “I powered
through the day, and then I crashed.” They have this violent, confrontational language around sleep. I think that might be a particular thing
to your generation.
CMF: For me, artists like Camille Henrot and Ryan Trecartin, who have streams of information that are totally overwhelming, would be
representative of an insomnia culture. But I wouldn’t identify them with the two schools you note. Could that be another offshoot?
RMV: That work would be part of what the collective FASTWURMS labelled attention surplus disorder, where the goal is to have it all in
your head at once, or at least the illusion of having it all in your head at once.
At one point in the draft of this book I named lots of names, and had lots of examples. And then I remembered that I live in Canada, and I
decided not to do that. I’ve been down that road before.
CMF: What is the effect of all of this on an art-going public?
RMV: In terms of how people look at art, I think they tend to absorb it in masses. There are big shows with lots of stuff in them, and people
go on things like the Canadian Art Foundation’s Gallery Hops, and they see a whole bunch of stuff at once.
Also, most people now look at art online. They are constantly streaming and looking at things. I know many contemporary artists who
rarely set foot in contemporary galleries, but they know what’s going on.
CMF: Is fear a motivating factor in all of this?
RMV: Absolutely. I did a talk at a library a couple of weeks ago in the suburbs, and who’s at a public library in the afternoon? Seniors. So I
was talking about insomnia, and they all read it as exclusively a health thing. When they spoke about work they said that, when they were
of working age, their day stopped at a certain time, and they had the rest of the day and evening to themselves. One gentleman said,
“When the bell rings at the car factory you don’t think about cars anymore.”
I explained to him that that’s not how capitalism works anymore. When you leave the car factory, or whatever you did that day, someone
will say you are 3% behind the factory in Mexico, or you’re 4% behind the factory in Thailand, and when you come back tomorrow you
need to catch up on that 4%, so you can’t sleep, because you’re worried, so you’re less productive the next day, so you get in more
trouble, and it goes around and around.
Capitalism now is relentless in its pursuit.
CMF: Occasionally I worry I’m missing something work-related after hours, but I might just be deeply slothful, because it doesn’t bother
me much.
RMV: No! It’s not about laziness. That’s something that your generation has been brainwashed into, thinking that sleep equals laziness.
CMF: In the closing chapter, there is a fairly grim prognosis—a sense that things are unsustainable, and we will face either a break or a
dire future. That’s for the world at large, but what about the art?
RMV: If these predictions, my own and the ones experts are offering, are true, late capitalism will essentially eat its ants and destroy its
own systems, and I can’t imagine what art would come out of it.
Sleep and its pleasures will be something that the wealthy purchase, and art will play a role in that. In the same way that futurists suggest
we will buy oxygen (and the way we already buy water), sleep could become a commodity that we have to purchase. It might breed an
entire generation of artists who make sleep-based work.
I don’t want to end on a grim note, though. Dr. Karlsson from Reykjavik told me that Icelandic people don’t get seasonal affective disorder
or depression when it’s dark during their winters because they have a practice of never being alone.
I thought that might be the revolutionary act: if you are an insomniac like me, and it’s four o’clock in the morning, you go online and see
that hundreds of people you know are also online. If, in the next step, we could see each other, and create social events and a social
dynamic around our inability to sleep, that might begin the healing of this.
It’s hard to escape capitalism, but those kinds of socially driven enterprises might be a way out, because they’re inherently collective.
"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order." (Henry Miller)
OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE YOUR ART
July 25th is Lone Butte Rocks Day in Lone Butte.
The community hall will be set up as a gallery for artists and artisans to display their works. This includes children’s art.
Please phone Byron at 250-395-7726, or Al at 250-395-5193 for further details, or to reserve a spot.
The 2016 Dog Sled Mail Run is seeking an artist to create a design for the envelope that gets carried by dog sled. Submissions are being
accepted until August 31st. All the info can be found in the attached PDF.
And you can see all the past designs here: http://www.dogsledmailrun.ca/Mail%20Run%20Envelopes/index.html
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. John Berger
PARKSIDE CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
We invite artists, individuals and groups to submit proposals for exhibition at Parkside Art Gallery. Preference is given to those who reside
in the South Cariboo as our mandate is to present the works of local artists and artisans. However if you have a unique proposal we can
and will give it consideration. Deadline for submissions for the 2016 year is Sept. 30th, 2015. Drop in at the gallery to pick up a
submission form, or email us to request one be sent to you, [email protected].
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS/ART /DANCE/MUSIC
ART TUTORING with Neil Pinkett tailored to your needs. $20 per hour for one person, $30 per hour for groups of 2 or 3 people.
Oil and acrylic painting; murals; oil pastels; pencil; ink-pen. Enquiries: 250 397-4140 or [email protected]
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ART WORKSHOPS WITH BOBBIE CRANE
www.bobbiecraneart.ca or contact Bobbie at 250-396-7721
Acrylic workshops are usually 2 day seminars with a cost of $95- for the 2 days… plus supplies. Specific designs are instructed in these
workshops with photo and instruction package included. Private lessons are also available @ $25 per hour with a minimum 4 hour
appointment.
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. Ansel Adams
PARKSIDE ART GALLERY LINE-UP FOR THE REST OF 2015
Women in Focus | Photography Show | on until Jul 25
Cariboo Artist’s Guild | 35th Annual Show and Sale: Passage of Time | Jul 30-Sep 12 (Reception 5-7pm on Jul 30)
Open call to all our members | The Selfie (all medium) | Sep 14-23
Shirley Gibson-Bull | Art Next | Sep 25-Nov 7 (Reception 5-7pm on Sep 25)
Parkside Members | 7th Annual Christmas Bazaar | Nov 14-Dec 23 (Reception Noon-4pm on Nov 14)
PARKSIDE GALLERY HOURS
Tues - Fri 10am – 4 pm, Sat. Noon - 4pm
A Volunteer non-profit society
LOCATION/CONTACT
401 Cedar Avenue in 100 Mile House, BC.
Box 1210, 100 Mile House BC, V0K2E0
250-395-2021 [email protected]
Website: www.parksideartgallery.ca
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