Create your own 12” Chicken Wire Garden Fairy!

Make her a garden accent, sitting on your fencing or flying through your trees.

Join wire artist Sheena McCorquodale from the Cathouse  Gallery in this relaxed 2-hour evening workshop.

All materials & tools supplied.

Bring your own gardening gloves

register online

Mondays – 5:00 to 7:00 PM

Now until December 19, 2022
Drop-in: no pre-registration required

Experience the benefits of creative expression in a supportive group environment. No experience required.

Join us at our weekly open studio, each with its own theme, using a variety of art making mediums and techniques like mending, stitching, paint, collage, clay, found objects, 2d and 3d, weaving, and nature to explore what is immediate for you in the moment.

Making art together can support us to move through life’s challenges, helping us to grieve our losses, mitigate feelings of isolation and loneliness and reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety.

The sessions will be facilitated by Art Therapist Heidi Abbott, and Art Therapy Intern Farrell Elliot.  Heidi and Farell both have a love for the therapeutic, meditative, healing, and self-expressive attributes of creating together.

Everyone welcome, free, all supplies are provided.

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Visit Sheena’s Virtual Gallery here

McMillan Arts Centre will host Sheena McCorquodale’s first solo exhibition of wire sculptures, featuring over a dozen full sized figures along with a collection of smaller wall and table mount figures, shown in a blacked out room with projected lighting onto the sculptures.  

Sheena uses painted galvanized chicken wire to create these lifelike sculptures that are suitable for interior or exterior applications, making them ideal for garden features. The figures are not fragile and are lightweight (approx 20 lbs without a base), making them easily shipped.  There is a low wind load factor for easy installations. A surprisingly forgiving medium, it provides her with endless opportunities to create, breathing life into this relatively industrial, unlikely material.

Sheena worked as a commercial artist all her adult life in sign design, computer graphics, hand-painted designs, tv set graphics, theatre set & prop design, and typography. She explored her own c

Get ready to loosen up!

By using bold and bright colours we will first paint the background, looking for light as it shimmers through the forest.

Then we will have fun working on the foreground with the tangle of twisted branches and limbs.

Work BIG – Work LOOSE and have FUN!

Saturday June 11, 10:00 – 3:00 pm

$115.00 (+gst)

 Register online, at the MAC or Call Susan • 250-586-5510

In this workshop we will start the day with a short talk and demo, and then move on to paint our masterpieces! We will break for a short lunch around noon so bring something or plan on slipping out to pick something up. We will pick up our brushes after that and have a short critique session at the end of the day.

In this workshop we will focus our efforts on incorporating shapes and how that effects the outcome!

Create your own 12” Chicken Wire Garden Fairy!

Make her a garden accent, sitting on your fencing or flying through your trees.

Join wire artist Sheena McCorquodale from the Cathouse  Gallery in this relaxed 2-hour evening workshop.

All materials & tools supplied.

Bring your own gardening gloves

Acoustic music phenomenons, Pierre and Adam are among the very best in the world. The last time Pierre played the club he got an unreserved standing ovation. A recipient of numerous titles and awards including Canadian Open Fiddle Champion, Grand Masters Champion, Violoneux Championnat, and North American Irish Fiddle Champion, Pierre truly captivates an audience with his energy and genuine warmth. His ability knows no bounds, covering styles from Irish, Scottish, Québecois, and Cape Breton to Canadian Old Time, American Swing, Gypsy Jazz and more.His ally Adam is the accompanist of choice for a veritable who's who of pop and folk music, including Toni Childs, Ruth Moody and Dustin Bentall. He is an acknowledged master  guitar player. This Juno award winning duo  will undoubtably thrill with their fiery  performance. Check them out below....
https://youtu.be/_Qf37QTFC5g

to reserve your seats please contact micksherlock58@gmail.com or by call 403 608 7380

This is a very exciting event. Scott is considered arguably to be the bearer of the mantle once carried by Woody Guthrie  and Pete Seeger.  A travelling folk singer proclaiming a folkie gospel isn't that unusual.....but nobody writes songs like Scott. His biography is much too extensive  to print here and to cherry pick it would be like trying to find the best bits in 'War and Peace'. 
See Scott here....at this link.
 

The  spring show entitled “Moving Forward” exhibited by the Arrowsmith Chapter of the Federation of Canadian Artists will run from March 29^th through May 1^st, 2022.  This exhibit at the McMillan Art Centre will be our first major public open show since the beginning of Covid19. The MAC has kindly supported us by providing the use of the entire gallery.

 Over 125 paintings were juried for this show with over 90 being successful. This is an outstanding level of acceptance for this show. The FCA will also be hosting an online presentation of the same exhibit.

The artists are excited to present some of their best works. This show celebrates the importance and depth of our community in art.”

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Oil paints by Cisario