Stepping Out

June is a busy month. The Works is on in Edmonton, a festival of culture in the form of many creative pursuits: music, theatre, visual arts, formal and informal. There are street performances everywhere. As part of that Harcourt House (10215 112 St. Edmonton) opens its doors to the public with two exhibitions and an invitation to visit artists in their studios. I submitted five drawings for the “Naked Show” with the possibility of having one to three showing. ‘Stepping Out’ was one of the ones rejected. It should be a great show. The drawings are all from this past year’s work done in the Annex with a live model. I will submit drawings for the Member show “Symbiosis” which opens in the main gallery on the same night, June 21st at 6:30pm. Two drawings have also been selected for show in the Federation of Canadian Artists’ Gallery in Vancouver (1241 Cartwright St. Granville Is.) I am in the process of framing and packaging them for delivery by June 7th.The exhibition runs from June 12th to 24th.  June 7th also sees me doing demonstrations in the foyer of St. Albert Place as part of the ArtWalk for St. Albert (5 St. Anne St.) which coincides with the opening of the fundraising event for the Art Gallery of St. Albert (19 Perron St.). I have one drawing in that as well. The month begins however with another fundraiser at Holy Family Parish in St. Albert (75 Poirier Ave.) at 6pm on June 1st. I am preparing a mixed media panel that I will finish onsite during the evening. It will be auctioned off at the end in the hopes of garnering mega dollars for a foundation that supports several farming and community activities in Nicaragua (Roots of Change). To finish things off there is an unveiling of vignettes and tableaus in the St. Jean Baptiste Park in Morinville on June 24th probably in the afternoon. I will keep you posted on that event. In the meantime I am going swimming. Have a great week!