FUNDED PROJECTS - STUDIO ARTS
VISUAL, MEDIA AND LITERARY ARTS
Lead Organization: Bill Reid Foundation
Project Title: Continuum: Vision and Creativity of the Northwest Coast
Amount Awarded: $200,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Alert Bay, Masset, Skidegate, Cape Mudge, Terrace, Prince George, Vancouver
Artist Reach: B.C. and international
Discipline(s): Visual arts, media arts, museums
Start Date: 03/01/2008
End Date: 31/12/2008
Key Artists: Shawn Hunt, Marianne Nicolson, Jay Simeon, Mike Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Krista Point , Shaun Peterson, Carrie Ann Vanderhoop, Philip Gray, Sonny Assu, Teri Rofkar, Mike Dangeli, Nick Galanin, Aaron Nelson-Moody, Dan Wallace, Corey Moraes, Ian Reid, Dean Hunt, Kelly Canell, Hollie Bear Bartlett, Tanis S’etiltin, Moy Sutherland, William Wasden Jr., John Brent Bennett
Project Description: The Bill Reid Foundation will commission multiple artists to create works for a group exhibition to be developed in collaboration with Northwest Coast Aboriginal communities. Complementing the exhibition will be community-based dialogues facilitated by curators from the Haida Heritage Centre, the Freda Diesing School of Art and U’Mista Cultural Centre. The dialogues will explore the relationship between contemporary and traditional practices. The exhibition and accompanying dialogues are intended to expand Northwest Coast artistic traditions and demonstrate innovations that will further the vision and creativity of the Northwest Coast artistic continuum.
Funded: Summer 2007
Lead Organization: Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Project Title: Another City
Amount Awarded: $13,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland, national, international
Artist Reach: Lower Mainland, international
Partners: Gallery Koyanagi, Musee d'art de Joliette
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/07/2007
End Date: 31/08/2008
Key Artists:
Masashi Ogura – Visual Artist (Japan)
Paul de Guzman – Visual Artist (Vancouver)
Yoshihiro Suda – Visual Artist (Japan)
Project Description: Centre A will commission three artists to create Another City, a site specific installation work, with companion publication, that is inspired by architecture, urban ecology and conceptual art. Writer Masashi Ogura provides the text and visual artists Paul de Guzman and Yoshiro Suda respond with ideas, drawings and models, which in turn inspire changes to the writing as the work evolves. De Guzman will build a transient architectural structure that will be reminiscent of those spaces designed to serve the traveller or urban commuter. Suda, an artist acclaimed for his installations of delicately carved wooden plants, will create sculptures of flowers, indigenous plants and common weeds based on the writings and drawings of his collaborators, and the natural environment of B.C. These true-to-life scale sculptures will then be inserted into de Guzman’s architectural labyrinth and throughout the gallery. Ogura’s final text will be published in book form and illustrated with drawings and photographs by de Guzman and Suda. Like the world it describes, the final result of Another City will be open-ended and will invite diverse interpretation about mobility and the way we move through physical space, as well as the virtual spaces of the telephone and Internet.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
Project Title: containR
Amount Awarded: $50,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Canada, International
Partners: Springboard, Bravo!FACT, Banff New Media Institute, eatART, VANOC/Cultural Olympiad
Discipline(s): Media Arts
Start Date: 5/1/2009
End Date: 5/30/2010
Key Artists:
Nicole Mion – Artistic Director and Curator (Vancouver)
Evann Siebens – Artistic Director and Curator (Vancouver)
Project Description: Cineworks will commission a series of short films to be screened in reconfigured, recycled shipping containers as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad and for broadcast on Bravo!FACT. The short films will feature Canadian media artists visually addressing the themes of winter sports, performance, dance and the physicality of the body whether it be an Olympic athlete, a dancer or a person with a disability.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
Project Title: Pat Martin-Bates: Visual Bridging
Amount Awarded: $39,600
Town/City: Victoria
Project Scope: Victoria
Artist Reach: Victoria
Discipline(s): Literary
Start Date: 01/02/2008
End Date: 28/02/2009
Key Artists:
Patricia E. Bovey FRSA – Writer (Victoria)
Pat Martin Bates RCA – Artist (Victoria)
Bob Matheson – Photographer (Victoria)
Sarah Yates – Editor (Victoria)
Project Description: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, author Patricia Bovey will write the first major monograph on Pat Martin Bates, one of Victoria’s acclaimed senior visual artists and founder of the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria. Pat Martin Bates: Visual Bridging, will explore the roots of Bates' multi-dimensional expression, contextualizing it nationally and internationally through interviews, analysis, high quality reproductions and archival photographs. Now in her 80s and renowned for her contribution to Canadian printmaking, painting and sculpture, Bates continues to create complex and compelling works of depth and imagination. A reading from Pat Martin Bates: Visual Bridging will accompany an exhibition of the artists’ work entitled “Illuminating the World of Printmaking” to take place at the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria’s Gallery in the fall of 2008 as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Doryphore Independent Curators Society
Project Title: Memory Palace: three artists in the library
Amount Awarded: $36,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland
Artist Reach: Lower Mainland, B.C., national and international
Partners: Vancouver Public Library, City of Vancouver Public Art Program
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/03/2008
End Date: 31/01/2010
Key Artists:
Angela Grauherholz - Visual Artist (Montreal)
Carol Sawyer – Visual Artist and Singer (Vancouver)
Esther Shalev-Gerz – Visual Artist (Paris)
Toni Samek – Writer (Vancouver)
Karen Love – Writer (Vancouver)
Project Description: Memory Palace: three artists in the library centres around the idea of the library as a utopian space – one that nurtures knowledge, understanding, and creativity. This project will feature commissioned works from visual artists: Carol Sawyer, Angela Grauherholz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, and two writers; Lorna Brown and Karen Love. The project will explore a wide range of issues related to the role of the library and collective/individual knowledge in society, including notions of the “living archive” and human “trace.” The resulting works that will be manifested in several forms including poetry, song, photography, video and audio projection and the installation of three 20-foot banners in the Atrium and other high traffic areas on the library site.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Geist Foundation
Project Title: The Memory Project
Amount Awarded: $53,800
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Primarily B.C.
Artist Reach: B.C.
Partners: SFU Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, SFU Writing and Publishing Program, UBC Creative Writing Program, The Tyee, Vancouver International Writers' Festival, Listel Hotel
Discipline(s): Visual arts, literary arts
Start Date: 01/09/2007
End Date: 30/09/2008
Key Artists:
Christopher Grabowski, photographer and writer
Goran Basaric, photographer
David Campion, photographer and writer
Anne Grant, photographer
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, carver and graphic artist
Faith Moosang, photographer, animator, filmmaker, writer, curator
Project Description: The Geist Foundation will commission six major artists to develop six new works for the Geist Memory Project. The artists will explore aspects of memory, place and imagination as reflected in their cultural backgrounds and artistic sensibilities, as well as their unique sense of "home" and the "New World." Questions of remembering, forgetting and the nature of memory itself will lie at the heart of each piece. The resulting works will be featured in Geist magazine, and will appear as public exhibitions on thetyee.ca and geist.com websites.
Funded: Summer 2007
Lead Organization: Geist Foundation
Project Title: Profiles from the West
Amount Awarded: $30,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Discipline(s): Literary, Visual Arts
Start Date: 9/1/2009
End Date: 9/30/2010
Key Artists:
George Fetherling – writer (Vancouver)
Annabel Lyon – writer (New Westminster)
Michael Hayward – writer (Vancouver)
Michal Kozlowski – writer (Vancouver)
Larry Loyie – writer (High Prairie)
Constance Brissenden – writer (Kingston)
Brian Howell – photographer (Vancouver)
Project Description: The Geist Foundation will commission five writers to create narrative profiles on historically significant British Columbians whose stories are not widely known. Photographer Brian Howell will be commissioned to produce portraits to accompany each profile. The five finished works will be published in issues of Geist magazine and will be presented in public workshops, exhibitions and readings.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: I.E. Artspeak Gallery Society
Project Title: Carrall Street
Amount Awarded: $57,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland
Artist Reach: Lower Mainland
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/01/2008
End Date: 30/09/2008
Key Artists: Althea Thauberger – Visual Artist (Vancouver/Berlin)
Project Description: Artspeak will commission Canadian visual artist Althea Thauberger to create a site specific work in collaboration with community members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. Carrall Street is a unique, process-oriented project that will culminate in a performance, forum and publication. Thauberger will probe the vital questions and distinctive stories that are important to people who live in this neighbourhood and consider how creativity can enhance, enable, or complicate the way a person or group finds their place in a community. Stories explored in the script may include personal histories gathered from, and enacted by, local residents. A wide cross section of community members including artists, addicts, homeless people, social workers, politicians and developers will participate in the process. With the street as a stage, the interweaving and spontaneous interactions between organized performers, audience and random passersby will form an integral part of the final performance.
Funded: Summer 2007
Lead Organization: Kamloops Art Gallery
Project Title: Jayce Salloum: Collaborative Art Production with Native Youth
Amount Awarded: $85,130
Town/City: Kamloops
Project Scope: B.C., Canada
Artist Reach: B.C.
Partners: Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, Interior Aboriginal Artists Society, Kamloops Indian Band, Bonaparte Indian Band, Secwepemc Cultural Education Society
Discipline(s): Visual Arts, Media Arts
Start Date: 01/05/2007
End Date: 30/09/2009
Key Artists:
Jayce Salloum – Visual Artist (Kamloops)
Meeka Morgan – Artistic Facilitator (Kamloops)
Project Description: Collaborative Art Production with Native Youth is a large-scale, 2-dimensional multi-media art production designed for the North Corridor of the Kamloops Art Gallery by internationally renowned B.C. artist Jayce Salloum in collaboration with First Nations youth from the Kamloops region. The completed work will be exposed to the public inside and outside the gallery through floor-to-ceiling windows. The work will consist of large panels containing a variety of objects, paintings, writings, graffiti and photographs. In addition, flat monitors will be embedded into the panels and will project images, text and sound, much of which will be created by First Nations youth. A two-year project in the making, the finished work will be displayed at the KAG in the fall of 2009 and then tour to other communities in B.C. and across Canada.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Kootenay School of Writing Society, The
Project Title: What is to be undone?: Positions and Poetics in the 21st Century (formerly Vancouver Post-Millennial Poetics Colloquium)
Amount Awarded: $50,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: B.C., national
Artist Reach: B.C., national, international
Discipline(s): Literary, Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/08/2007
End Date: 31/08/2009
Writers:
Jules Boycoff (Portland)
Clint Burnham (Vancouver)
Louis Cabri (Windsor)
Jeff Derkson (Vancouver)
Stacy Doris (San Francisco)
Laura Elrick (Brooklyn)
Robert Fitterman (Manhattan)
Kevin Killian (San Francisco)
Roger Farr, Reg Johanson, Aaron Vidaver (PILLS) (Vancouver)
Judy Radul (Vancouver)
Lisa Robertson (Vancouver/Oakland)
Brian Kim Stefans (Philadelphia)
Catriona Strang (Vancouver)
Rod Smith (Washington)
Juliana Spahr (Oakland)
Rodrigo Toscano (Brooklyn)
Mark Wallace (San Diego)
Darren Wershler-Henry (Waterloo)
Project Description: The Kootenay School of Writing will commission 18 Canadian and American poets to create new works to be presented at What Is To Be Undone?: Positions and Poetics in the 21st Century, a major colloquium for North American poets that will take place in Vancouver from August 19 to 24, 2008. The colloquium aims to foster dialogue between the leading innovative poets of the day, and showcase emergent and experimental trends in poetry and artistic practices. Many of the commissioned writers are extending their practices through elements of other artistic genres, such as through theatre performance, the relationship between image and text, and electronic frameworks for reading practices found through video games and online. The five day colloquium will include performances and exhibitions of all of the commissioned works after which they will be published in West Coast Line, The Capilano Review, and in an anthology and extensive web archive of the event.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Langley Centennial Museum and National Exhibition Centre
Project Title: Revealing Nlaka'pamux Roots: The Changing Role of Cedar Root Baskets
Amount Awarded: $13,130
Town/City: Fort Langley
Project Scope: B.C.
Partners: Yale & District Historical Society, Lytton First Nation, Kwantlen First Nation
Discipline(s): Visual Arts, Museums
Start Date: 7/30/2008
End Date: 7/30/2009
Key Artists:
Marion Dixon – Basket maker (Hope)
Nita Bobb – Basket maker (Hope)
Laurieanne Rockel – Basket maker (Hope)
Brenda Peters – Basket maker (Chilliwack)
Mandy Brown – Basket maker (Lytton)
Hazel Gludo – Basket maker (Fort Langley)
Project Description: The Langley Centennial Museum will commission six First Nations artists to create split-cedar-root-coiled baskets in forms and designs that are faithful to traditional materials, shapes and decorative techniques. In addition, baskets will be created in new and different forms using approaches that will stretch the current boundaries of the cedar basket medium. The basket-making process will be documented and the completed works will be used in exhibitions and added to the collections of the Langley and Yale museums and First Nations partners.
Funded: Summer 2008
Lead Organization: LIVE Biennale of Performance Art Society
Project Title: Streets of Home
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Vancouver, International
Discipline(s): Inter-disciplinary, Visual Arts
Start Date: 10/10/2009
End Date: 10/15/2009
Key Artists:
Daina Warren – Curator (Vancouver)
Rich Tawhanga Kereopa – Artist (Aotearoa, New Zealand)
Peter Morin – Artist (Victoria)
Tanya Lukin-Linklater – Artist (Edmonton)
Robin Brass – Artist (Regina)
Project Description: The Streets of Home project will involve four Aboriginal artists, three from Canada and one from New Zealand, who will be commissioned to develop new performance artworks that will be presented at the 2009 LIVE International Performance Art Biennale. Each work will address traditional artistic forms found within Aboriginal cultures and new forms of social practice and public intervention. The artists will use the Downtown Eastside as a place of departure for their site-responsive works to activate ideas around urban and social realities of Aboriginal people who live within and beyond the city limits.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: Malaspina Printmakers Society
Project Title: Fire/Fire
Amount Awarded: $19,500
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Local, National
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 09/07/2010
End Date: 09/08/2011
Key Artists:
Marina Roy – Artist (Vancouver)
Abbas Akhavan – Artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan will create Fire/Fire, an installation that will include an animation by Roy, sculpture and drawings by Akhavan and a collaborative artist book. Fire/Fire will draw upon socio-political history and Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. The exhibition will be co-operatively presented by Malaspina Printmakers and Centre A, and will take place at both venues.
Funded: Summer 2010
Lead Organization: Okanagan Artists Alternative
Project Title: Edges of Diversity
Amount Awarded: $106,920
Town/City: Kelowna
Project Scope: Kelowna, national and international
Artist Reach: B.C.
Discipline(s): Media arts
Start Date: 01/09/2007
End Date: 30/05/2008
Artists:
Dana Claxton, artist
Jayce Salloum, artist
Henry Tsang, artist
Project Description: Edges of Diversity, the Okanagan Artists Alternative’s commissioning program, will engage B.C. media artists Dana Claxton, Jayce Salloum and Henry Tsang to create works that reflect on challenging social and political topics in Canada and abroad. The work of these three contemporary artists will be exhibited to local, regional, national and international audiences when the Alternator Gallery hosts the Independent Media Arts Alliance national conference in 2008.
Funded: Summer 2007
Lead Organization: Or Gallery Society
Project Title: Three Correlated Rotations
Amount Awarded: $91,890
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Vancouver, North America
Discipline(s): Media Arts, Visual Arts
Start Date: 8/1/2009
End Date: 8/1/2010
Key Artists: Mark Soo – artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: Or Gallery will commission Vancouver-based artist Mark Soo to create a new film installation entitled Three Correlated Rotations. The work will explore the associations between the Mississippi steamship of the 1870s and the American automobile of the 1970s, two forms of mechanical power that bookend a period of the emergence and decline of American industrial might. In addition, Soo will incorporate references ranging from Walt Disney’s seminal 1928 animation Steamboat Willy and Buster Keaton’s iconic Steamboat Bill Jr. to conventions of vaudeville and Mississippi-genre musicals.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: Out on Screen Film and Video Society
Project Title: The Queer History Project
Amount Awarded: $65,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Vancouver
Partners: The Centre’s Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered, Bisexual (LGTB) Generations Project, Video Out, Vancouver Art Gallery
Discipline(s): Media Arts, Inter-disciplinary, Literary, Dance, Visual Arts
Start Date: 9/1/2008
End Date: 7/15/2011
Key Artists:
Daphne Marlatt - Author (Vancouver)
Aerlyn Weissman - Media Artist (Vancouver)
Byron Chief-Moon - Dancer/Actor/Filmmaker (Vancouver)
Joe Average - Visual Artist (Vancouver)
jaime griffiths - Media Artist (Vancouver)
Debora O - Media Artist (Vancouver)
Gwen Haworth - Media Artist (Vancouver)
David C. Jones - Comedian/Actor/Director (Vancouver)
Claudia Medina - Media Artist (Galiano Island)
Project Description: The Out on Screen Film and Video Society will commission three short films and a community-based street level installation as part of The Queer History Project. The films and installation work will celebrate the dynamic experiences of queer life and culture, past, present and future. This accomplished and eclectic group of commissioned artists will create works that explore their communities’ history and diverse aspects of the queer experience.
Funded: Summer 2008
Lead Organization: Poetry Gabriola Society
Project Title: Canada Speaks: New Literary Performance Works by Twelve Canadian Artists
Amount Awarded: $24,000
Town/City: Gabriola Island
Project Scope: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Partners: League of Canadian Poets
Discipline(s): Literary
Start Date: 10/1/2009
End Date: 4/1/2010
Key Artists:
Darak Dawda – spoken word artist (Winnipeg)
Sheri-D Wilson – spoken word artist (Calgary)
Fortner Anderson – spoken word artist (Montreal)
David Bateman – spoken word artist (Toronto)
Kaie Kellough –spoken word artist (Montreal)
Ivan Coyote – spoken word artist (Vancouver)
Cheryl L'Hirondelle – spoken word artist (Vancouver)
Ian Ferrier – spoken word artist (Montreal)
bill bissett – spoken word artist (Vancouver)
Robert Priest – spoken word artist (Toronto)
Evalyn Parry – spoken word artist (Toronto)
Richard Van Camp – spoken word artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: The Poetry Gabriola Society will commission 12 spoken word artists to create new literary works for performance. The artists are all leaders in the emerging Canadian genre of spoken word, and represent a broad range in aesthetic style, cultural diversity, age and literary tradition. The new works will receive their premiere performances during National Poetry Month in April 2010 on Gabriola Island and in Vancouver.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: Poetry Gabriola Society
Project Title: 7th Annual Poetry Gabriola Festival: Canada Speaks Showcase
Amount Awarded: $5,500
Town/City: Gabriola Island
Project Scope: Local, National
Partners: Words Aloud!
Discipline(s): Literary, Inter-disciplinary
Start Date: 11/10/2010
End Date: 11/14/2010
Key Artists:
Fortner Anderson – Artist (Montreal)
David Bateman – Artist (Toronto)
bill bissett – Artist (Toronto/Vancouver)
Ivan Coyote – Artist (Vancouver)
Darek Dawda – Artist (Winnipeg)
Ian Ferrier – Artist (Montreal)
Kaie Kellough – Artist (Montreal)
Cheryl L’Hirondelle – Artist (Toronto/Vancouver)
Evalyn Parry – Artist (Toronto)
Robert Priest – Artist (Toronto)
Richard Van Camp – Artist (Vancouver)
Sheri-D Wilson – Artist (Calgary)
Project Description: Previously funded for the commissioning of twelve new works, Poetry Gabriola Society will premiere them at the 7th Annual Poetry Gabriola Festival: Canada Speaks Showcase. This is the second largest literary performance festival in Canada, which features 35 to 50 artists over four days, making it a significant national festival.
Funded: Summer 2010
Lead Organization: Presentation House Gallery
Project Title: Vancouver Project - Stan Douglas
Amount Awarded: $270,000
Town/City: North Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland
Discipline(s): Visual Arts, Media Arts
Start Date: 9/15/2008
End Date: 2/28/2010
Key Artists:
Stan Douglas - Media Artist (Vancouver)
Chris Haddock - Writer (Vancouver)
Project Description: Presentation House Gallery will commission internationally recognized media artist Stan Douglas to create a unique multi-media interpretation of the history of British Columbia in the mid-1950s. The project is conceived as a one-hour television drama composed of three variations and interpreted from three distinct points of view, with a modified version for a gallery setting. Viewers will access various aspects of the story while aware that there will always be some elements of the story that elude them. The work will be presented in two contexts: as a live television broadcast using web-based platforms and as an installation at the Presentation House Gallery.
Funded: Summer 2008
Lead Organization: Presentation House Gallery operated by the BC Photography and Media Arts Society
Project Title: Bomford Project
Amount Awarded: $82,000
Town/City: North Vancouver
Project Scope: Local
Partners: Other Sites
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 08/01/2010
End Date: 11/01/2011
Key Artists:
Cedric Bomford – Artist (Vancouver)
Nathan Bomford – Artist (Vancouver)
Jim Bomford – Engineer (Vancouver)
Project Description: A public art work will be developed for Vancouver by visual artist Cedric Bomford and his collaborators Nathan and Jim Bomford. The work will interpret our local history and the city’s evolving landscape that will be experienced for several years. The Bomford Project will be a significant development for Presentation House Gallery’s public art programming.
Funded: Summer 2010
Lead Organization: Presentation House Gallery operated by The BC Photography and Media Arts Society
Project Title: Ballgame
Amount Awarded: $41,460
Town/City: North Vancouver
Project Scope: North Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Partners: Presentation House Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts
Discipline(s): Media Arts, Visual Arts
Start Date: 8/1/2009
End Date: 9/30/2010
Key Artists: Janice Kerbel – artist (London, U.K.)
Project Description: Presentation House Gallery will commission Canadian visual artist Janice Kerbel to produce Ballgame, a play for single voice. Ballgame takes the form of a play-by-play radio broadcast of an ideal baseball game, wherein a single male voice articulates an imagined game in real time. The work will take three different forms: it will be recorded as an audio work, published as a play script, and presented as a live performance by a single actor.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: Prince George Regional Art Gallery Association (Two Rivers Gallery)
Project Title: Balance
Amount Awarded: $201,850
Town/City: Prince George
Project Scope: Prince George
Artist Reach: national
Partner: City of Prince George
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/01/2008
End Date: 30/11/2009
Key Artists:
Peter von Tiesenhausen – Visual Artist (Alberta)
Project Description: The Two Rivers Gallery will commission Peter von Tiesenhausen to create a sculpture that will be centrally located in the City of Prince George. The sculpture, entitled Balance, will be a 20-foot-tall iron and bronze form addressing aspects of the current pine beetle epidemic. The new work brings together human and tree forms drawing an important link between nature, human beings and our community. Internationally renowned, artist Peter von Tiesenhausen is well known to Prince George through his 2005 exhibition Requiem- art that explored the relationship between humans and the pine forest. Balance is designed to inspire our faith in nature while urging us to assume responsibility for our lives and our environment.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Sto:lo Heritage Trust Society
Project Title: Xa:ytem Artist-in-Residence House Post Program
Amount Awarded: $50,000
Town/City: Mission
Project Scope: B.C.
Artist Reach: B.C.
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 07/01/2008
End Date: 12/12/2008
Key Artists:
Tom Patterson – Carver (Mission)
Project Description: First Nations carver Tom Patterson is being commissioned to create a 20 by four foot Sto:lo inspired red cedar house post that will become a permanent legacy for the new Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre in Mission. The commission will be undertaken over a six-month period in 2008 at the centre’s Hatzic Rock Interpretive Shed. Patterson will interact with the public during the creation of the piece, sharing his knowledge of the artistic forms, culture and traditions of the Coast Salish and Northwest Coast First Nations.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Surrey Art Gallery
Project Title: Glocal: Me and My World - A Youth New Media Project
Amount Awarded: $56,360
Town/City: Surrey
Project Scope: Lower Mainland, national, international (virtual)
Artist Reach: Lower Mainland, national
Partners: Surrey School District, City of Surrey, Simon Fraser University, Surrey (School of Interactive Art and Technology), Emily Carr Institute
Discipline(s): Visual Arts, Museums
Start Date: 01/12/2007
End Date: 31/12/2009
Key Artists:
Simon Levin – Media Artist (Vancouver)
Sylvia Grace Borda – Media Artist (Surrey/U.K.)
Jer Thorp – Media Artist (Vancouver)
Liane Davison – Curator (Surrey)
Project Description: Glocal: Me and My World is an artwork of artworks. Envisioned and developed by a team of Canadian media artists, Glocal uses digital sound, photography, video and animation technology as well as computer code. Like its name, formed by the merging of the words global and local, Glocal aims to dynamically express the interconnectedness of people sited in one specific place, to people and places around the world. Glocal will be created as an interactive environment to be experienced in public venues and presented on large format screens. Through technology, these sites will become places where local citizens can connect and interact with others around the world. Occurring in real time, individuals will view images of their own community and the people who live there and possibly catch a glimpse of themselves watching the screens. Using the artwork’s technology, the screens invite viewers to share a story or images via email or telephone text messaging. The artwork processes and projects the new content informing viewers where it’s from and calculating the distance between it and those watching it.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Vancouver Access Artist Run Centre (Access Gallery)
Project Title: Come Down
Amount Awarded: $18,760
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Local, National, International
Partners: Fillip, Red Bull 381 Productions, Parkour BC
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 09/11/2010
End Date: 10/30/2010
Key Artists:
Jon Sasaki – Artist (Toronto)
Project Description: In a performance and video featuring local parkour practitioners Toronto-based Jon Sasaki explores overcoming near-impossible challenges in Come Down. Parkour is physical interaction with urban spaces, often overlooked by urban dwellers, using acrobatics. Sasaki proposes a collective form of parkour and a series of challenges that are metaphors for those found in society.
Funded: Summer 2010
Lead Organization: Vancouver Art Gallery
Project Title: Reece Terris: Ought Apartment
Amount Awarded: $75,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland
Artist Reach: Vancouver
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/09/2008
End Date: 31/01/2009
Key Artists:
Reece Terris – Visual Artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: The Vancouver Art Gallery will commission a new installation work by Vancouver artist Reece Terris entitled Ought Apartment. The primary focus of Terris’ artistic practice examines the relationship between constructed architectural spaces and our common experiences and encounters within them. Ought Apartment takes its impetus from the shifting urban environment of the Vancouver area. Combining his art practice with his experience as a renovation contractor, the new work will be a six-story installation that will rise up through the main atrium in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rotunda. The piece will consist of a tower made up of six full scale apartments stacked one on top of another. Each of the six levels will reflect the décor, dimensions and layout of a specific decade from the 1950s through to present day. Terris will recycle and transform discarded household goods into an inclusive work that comments on interior decoration and renovation as social phenomena. The completed work will be exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the fall of 2008.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Vancouver Art Gallery Association
Project Title: Robert Davidson Sculpture Commission
Amount Awarded: $207,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 9/10/2008
End Date: 9/30/2009
Key Artists: Robert Davidson - Visual Artist (Surrey)
Project Description: The Vancouver Art Gallery will commission artist Robert Davidson to create a large, wall-mounted wood sculpture painted in Haida formuline style that will depict the transformation of a killer whale into a thunderbird. The carving will have significant three-dimensional elements and consist of flexible panels that will combine to make the larger work. When the panels are in the closed position the sculpture will depict a killer whale. When opened, they will reveal the face of a thunderbird carved in relief and painted. This artwork will be exhibited at the Gallery in 2010 and will become part of its permanent collection.
Funded: Summer 2008
Lead Organization: Vancouver Art Gallery Association
Project Title: Ian Wallace: New Commission
Amount Awarded: $185,000
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Vancouver, B.C., Canada, International
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 9/1/2009
End Date: 9/30/2010
Key Artists: Ian Wallace – artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: The Vancouver Art Gallery will commission artist Ian Wallace, a leading figure of the internationally renowned Vancouver school of photo-conceptual artists. Using Vancouver as a timely example, Wallace will create a work that will explore the transformation of the modern city during a time of accelerated development. The work will be added to the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection and become a companion to other works by Wallace that reveal the changing relationship of the individual to the environment. The new work will be featured in a major retrospective of the artist's work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2011.
Funded: Summer 2009
Lead Organization: Vancouver Art Gallery Association
Project Title: Ken Lum: Mirror Maze with 12 Signs of Depression and House of Realization
Amount Awarded: $90,540
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Local
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 07/15/2010
End Date: 05/15/2011
Key Artists: Ken Lum – Artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: This project, Ken Lum: Mirror Maze with 12 Signs of Depression and House of Realization, will see two-large scale art works by Ken Lum further developed, created and then presented together with a survey exhibition of his work at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The two art works will provide the central structure for the exhibition’s floor plan and will have a crucial role in the way viewers perceive Lum’s catalogue as a whole.
Funded: Summer 2010
Lead Organization: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A)
Project Title: No Pain Like This Body
Amount Awarded: $25,200
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Local, National
Partners: Plug In ICA (Winnipeg)
Discipline(s): Visual Arts
Start Date: 07/01/2010
End Date: 12/31/2010
Key Artists: Lani Maestro – Artist (Montreal)
Project Description: Internationally renowned Canadian artist Lani Maestro will be commissioned to create a sculpture and a video in a project titled No Pain Like This Body, examining the formation of urban sensitivities (how the experience of the city shapes identity). The works will be presented in a publication, and at exhibitions at Centre A in Vancouver and at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg. The exhibition will include a video and text written by the artist, which will be projected onto an exterior window and seen by thousands of passersby.
Funded: Summer 2010
Lead Organization: Vancouver Review Publication Society
Project Title: Blueprint BC: the Fiction Series
Amount Awarded: $22,500
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland, B.C.
Artist Reach: Lower Mainland, B.C.
Discipline(s): Inter-disciplinary, Literary, Visual Arts
Start Date: 01/11/2007
End Date: 30/11/2008
Key Artists:
Annabel Lyon – Writer (New Westminster)
Lee Henderson – Writer (Vancouver)
Jason Brown – Writer (Victoria)
Jill Macdonald – Writer (Nelson)
Yasuko Thanh – Writer (Victoria)
Sara O’Leary – Writer (Montreal)
Audra Ricketts – Visual Artist (Vancouver)
Lee Hutzulak – Visual Artist (Vancouver)
Zsuzsi Gartner – Editor, Artistic Director (Vancouver)
Project Description: Six works of new, original fiction will be commissioned from emerging and established B.C. writers for the Blueprint BC: The Fiction Series, a recently launched segment of the Vancouver Review, B.C.’s award winning culture and arts quarterly magazine. Each story will be accompanied by an original illustration created by two B.C. visual artists, well known for their skill in editorial illustration. The commissioned writers will explore the diverse settings and psychologies of the province through fiction that is vibrantly and uniquely British Columbian.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Visible Arts Society (grunt gallery)
Project Title: nikamon askiy hci (songs from this land)
Amount Awarded: $31,700
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Lower Mainland
Artist Reach: Lower Mainland
Partners: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, LIVE Biennale of Performance Art
Discipline(s): Media Arts, Inter-disciplinary, Music
Start Date: 01/06/2008
End Date: 31/01/2009
Key Artists:
Cheryl L’Hirondelle – Interdisciplinary Artist (Vancouver)
Archer Pechawis – Media Artist (Vancouver)
Ryan Johnston – Programmer (Vancouver)
Glenn Alteen – Producer (Vancouver)
Project Description: nikamon askiy ohci (songs from this land) will consist of a series of site specific, locative and audio-based activities that will culminate in a web-based interactive environment. Over the course of three weeks, interdisciplinary First Nations artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle will negotiate her way in song through Lower Mainland neighbourhoods. The results of these encounters will be transformed into a fully interactive new media work that will allow the viewer to log on to the website and follow L’Hirondelle on her musical journey through the urban landscape.
Funded: Winter 2008
Lead Organization: Western Front Society
Project Title: Sign-Singing
Amount Awarded: $37,500
Town/City: Vancouver
Project Scope: Vancouver, U.S.A.
Discipline(s): Media Arts, Visual Arts
Start Date: 7/15/2008
End Date: 2/15/2009
Key Artists: Ian Skedd - Media Artist (Vancouver)
Project Description: Western Front will commission a new high-definition video installation by Vancouver-based artist Ian Skedd, entitled Sign-Singing. Skedd will work with a sign interpreter and a deaf choir to create a signed interpretation of the British post-punk band Joy Division’s 1979 single, Love Will Tear Us Apart. The signed interpretation of the song will match the rhythm to the signs and will catch the emotional meaning of the song. A stationary video camera will capture the hands, bodies and facial movements of the choir engaged in this form of three-dimensional communication. The final work will be shown inside the gallery where life-size imagery of the performance will be projected on a continuous loop.
Funded: Summer 2008