Summer Clay Camp in Lethbridge Herald

 

Jonah Navrrow-Bellavance works on a clay dish creation during a youth clay wheel camp at the Bowman Arts Centre this week.

Link to Lethbridge Herald article.

FALL CLASSES!

FRI. AFTERNOON KIDS CLASSES SEPT 28-NOV 9

  Clay Handbuilding • 1:30-3:00 • 6-9 YRS • $65
  Clay Wheel • 3:15-5:00 • 10-12 YRS • $75
  Exploring Art • 1:30-3:00 • 9-12 YRS • $55
  Exploring Art • 3:15-4:45 • 6-8 YRS • $55

SAT. KIDS CLASSES • SEPT 29-NOV 10

  Clay Wheel • 10:15-12:00 • 10-13 YRS • $75
  Clay Handbuilding • 1:00-2:30 • 6-9 YRS • $65

ADULT CLASSES

  Watercolour • MON SEPT 24-DEC 3• 6:30-8:30• $100
  Drawing • TUES SEPT 25-NOV 27 • 6:30-8:30 • $120
  Clay Wheel • TUES SEPT 25-NOV 13• 6:30-8:30 • $130
  Clay Wheel • WED SEPT 26-NOV 14• 6:30-8:30 • $130


DRAMA CLASSES FOR KIDS WITH LISA VAN OSCH, 
SEPT 29-DEC 8 • $65.00
   
 Ages 6 and up: Saturdays, 1:00 - 2:00
   
CONSERVATORY OF SPEECH LESSONS
    
 Fall semester starts the week of September 10th. Private 1/2 hour individual or group 
 sessions available on a weekly basis from accredited instructors with the Trinity 
 Conservatory of Speech and the Toronto Conservatory.

For more information, or to register, contact 
the Bowman Arts Centre: 327-2813.

Cabinet of Queer-iosities 2012

Opening reception: July 14, 7pm – 9pm. 
Don’t miss it!

Artists include:

Chad Patterson
Trevor Anderson

C.W. Carson

Rick Gillis

Aaron Hagan

Len Komanac

Trudi Sissons

Heather MacDonald-Sorochan

Pamela Vera

Frater Tham

Pam Evans

Shane Golby

Josephine Mills

Celeste Pryde

Amornthep Jaidee

Cate Currie

Arlene Westen Evans

Madison Reamsbottom

Sonis McAllister

Leila Armstrong

Alexis Bialobzyski

Sarah Christensen

Cabinet of Queer-iosities 2012 is an exhibition of small format works celebrating GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered) history and pride through a diverse range of subject matters and approaches. The exhibition is in the oak display cases at the Bowman Arts Centre from July 14 through September 15, 2012. 

Paint Chips: Work by Donna Bilyk

April 21 - May 21, 2012
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 21, 7pm - 9pm
Bowman Arts Centre, 811 - 5 Avenue South, Lethbridge
Everyone Welcome!

Prairie Iron: Paintings by Jim Robinson

April 21 - May 21, 2012
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 21, 7pm - 9pm
Bowman Arts Centre, 811 - 5 Avenue South, Lethbridge
Everyone Welcome!

Antonio Miguel Opening.

Opening Reception, January 21, 2012, 7:00 pm - 9:00 Pm Bowman Art Centre's Oak Showcases.

Antonio Miguel was born in Nogales, Sonora, near the Mexican/US border. He was raised in Mexico City and was exposed to art from an early age; his middle class family had an appreciation of music and literature. As a child, Antonio Miguel sought the company of his older cousin, a very talented musician, writer, and painter, who would become a renowned journalist later in his life.

Given the traditions of that time, Antonio Miguel followed the formal education that would allow him to obtain a professional title and a job. He was thus diverted from the arts, his true passion and talent. He joined the science faculty and chose to study physics, one of the few topics that he didn’t mind that was also accepted by his family. Life, however, always ironic and sometimes incomprehensible, took him on a different road.

It was 1963, that fate led him to take a role as an actor in a university play. Soon after, he saw himself involved in the classical plays of Shakespeare and Voltaire. The early success of these performances took him away from the study of physics and math.

He tired had to divide his time and attention into both careers. Before he could finish his university career, however, something happened that would change his life forever. He was called to play a role in a famous soap opera (“Mama Campanita”) produced by Televisa, the largest television network in Mexico. This would be the first TV novella of more than 40 that he would participate in during his career. He also performed in numerous other TV and radio shows, movies, and theatre productions.

More recently, Antonio Miguel has gone back to some of his early passions: painting and ‘pirografia’ (pyrography) – the ancestral art of engraving wood using fire. This ‘therapeutic work,’ as he calls it, has led him to several gatherings among friends in which he has shown the results of his ‘therapies.’

Now living with his lovely wife in the beautiful colonial city of Morelia (Mexico), he makes frequent trips to Canada to visit his two daughters, who have made Lethbridge their home. As a semi-retired actor, he enjoys a fulfilling life, writing short stories, painting, and using pyrography to illustrate the fruit of his reflections.

"Oldman River Coulee" by Julie Duschenes.

January 21 through February 25, 2012, Bowman Arts Centre Main Gallery.
Julie Duschenes' work is inspired by the Oldman River coulees and surrounding landscape.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 21, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.

The work in this exhibition is from an extended body of work made in response to the overpowering impression made on me by the coulees at first sight and continuing to this day.

I first visited Lethbridge in 1988 to present two slide lectures at the University of Lethbridge and, after that visit, kept coming back to work. The earliest coulee work in this exhibition was painted in 1993, shortly before I moved to Lethbridge from Vancouver and, over more than two decades, I have continued my attempts to re-embody the coulee.

I find that my most powerful and enduring experiences of the coulee are apprehended in seeing and hearing, and the images I have made are attempts to transcribe this non-verbal knowledge. To this end, I have made images in drawing and printing media, watercolour, acrylic and oil painting and present some of these to you, here.