ART in the GARDEN, Summertime!

The Summer Edition of the ART in the Garden Show & Sale is upon us.  The exhibition will run on Saturday, July 27, from 2:00 - 7:00 PM.  It will be held at 58 College Park Drive, in Red Deer (note: this is near the intersection of Timoty Drive and 30th Avenue).

There is free admission to the event, and you are welcome to come and enjoy fine art and craft in a lovely garden setting.  If you have any questions about the event, they can be directed to Marlene Kallstrom-Barritt (403-346-6235).

Our esteemed graduates....

Here's some quick tidbits on our recent grads from the two-year visual art department at Red Deer College:

Emily Thompson made the front page of the paper on Monday with a project working to combat negative vandalism in downtown Red Deer.  She is working to paint murals on buildings in hopes to discourage vandals from tagging walls.

Mia Riley is being featured in the Alberta Craft Councils' Coming up Next show.  The show runs from June 20-July 27.  Leah Spagrud and Janet Peters (past students from RDC) are in the show, and a previous technician/visiting artist/student from the College, Julia Rayne Shumacher is also displaying some of her work.  You can check out the exhibition in an online form here.

We also have Summer Series going on at the College for the month of July, and a bit of August.  I know of quite a few students lucky enough to attend.  I am incredibly jealous of those taking part in Julia Galloway's class.  If you are interested in taking part, there is more information available here.

If you hear of anyone else that should be featured here, please pass along the information.  I would be happy to do a quick write-up and post it on the site.

Tiles!

Hopefully this will make it out to most of the students that were in the second-year ceramics class who produced tiles.  Please feel free to pass this post along to anyone else you can think of.  The Centennial Show for Red Deer, Points of View, has come down.  Above you can see a lovely panoramic picture that I tried to take of all the tiles.  Well, most of them.  There were a few sets that we had on the walls as complete sets by themselves.  The tiles are now all at the College, waiting to be collected.  There was some interest from the public in purchasing some of the sets, but I have yet to hear back with any definitive requests.

If you would like to collect the tiles before September when the College is open for regular hours, please let me know via email (carlene.larue@gmail.com), otherwise they will hang out there until you can pick them up in the fall.  I have extra postcards for the exhibition, as well, if you are interested in collecting one of those for your C.V. or personal scrapbook... if you have one of those... because it would be totally cool if you did.

Ann-Charlotte Ohlsson update

In the most recent issue of Ceramics: TECHNICAL (#36), Paul Leathers details Ann-Charlotte Ohlsson's recent residency at Red Deer College.  We were very fortunate to have her work at the college last year as she was generous in sharing her wood-firing knowledge and time with students.

The article documents some of her pieces made using the quarter-mould technique, as well as the firings that took place.  Paul Leathers has his photography of her works accompany the article that he wrote.  This is definitely worth a pick-up if possible.  I know that the Red Deer Chapters store does carry this magazine on occasion.  You can also purchase it online as a digital copy at a discounted rate here.