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Ruth Chambers
July 5 to August 13, 2010
Regina ceramic artist Ruth Chambers created an installation intended to intervene and interact with the small gallery in the Godfrey Dean in a playful, decorative and architecturally transformative way.
Conservatory is comprised of a group of columns made from cast and hand-built porcelain paper-clay slip, and pieces of branches and vines. The ceramic pieces are constructed out of highly delicate, lattice-like line “drawings” that are wrapped around forms before they become rigid.
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| Recent Exhibitions | PRADO II
Parkland Regional Artists Development Opportunity
June 5 - 25, 2010
Opening reception
7:30 pm Saturday, June 6
The second annual Parkland Regional Artists Development Opportunity (PRADO) is a cooperative project with the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery and the Arts Councils of Yorkton, Melville and Esterhazy and District. With the sponsorship of the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils, PRADO II brings together 24 artists from 11 communities in the Parkland Region for an exhibition that runs for the month of June.
PRADO II featured a weekend of professional development opportunities for the artists, including workshops, panel discussions, group and individual critiques with the guest adjudicators. The guests in 2010 included Timothy Long (Head Curator, MacKenzie Art Gallery) and Bruce Anderson (Head of the Permanent Collection, MacKenzie Gallery.)
Parkland Arts Award
PRADO features a Grand Prize awarded to an artist selected by the adjudicators. The winner of the 2010 Parkland Arts Award is Melville artist Crystal Thorburn. The award is valued at over $1,000 in cash and artist resources, and includes a solo exhibition in each of the three PRADO communities: Yorkton, Melville and Esterhazy.
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| Guest Author Reading | Guy Vanderhaeghe
Free public reading
8 pm Friday, May 14, 2010
Born and raised in Esterhazy, SK Guy Vanderhaeghe has become one of Canada's best known fiction writers. Author of The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, Vanderhaeghe has won numerous national and international prizes, including twice receiving the Governor General's Award. He is a member of the Order of Canada and a Trudeau Fellow scholarship.
Man Descending: Selected Stories (1982) made him famous overnight; it won both the Governor General's Award for Fiction and Britain's Faber Prize. He also wrote novels and two plays, where he began to take on historical themes in 1995's Dancock's Dance.
Trained as a historian, Vanderhaeghe blended his deep knowledge of history with the imagination of a fiction writer in Englishman's Boy and Last Crossing, his two most critically-acclaimed novels. The Last Crossing was the winner of the 2004 CBC Canada Reads contest and the The Englishman's Boy was made into a television mini-series for CBC.
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| Recent Exhibitions | Two new exhibitions of photography
April 18 to May 28, 2010
Art of Life
Mitch Hippsley
24 B&W images
My Girls
Evan Tyler
Fashion mannequins from Finland to Yorkton
Public reception
2 pm Sunday, May 2
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| Recent Exhibitions | THIRD SOUND
March 7 to April 11, 2010
Opening reception
Sunday March 21
2 to 4 pm
Alicia Popoff and Leslie Potter are launching a touring exhibition of their work entitled, THIRD SOUND. The work consists of Alicia's canvas paintings and Leslie's welded steel sculptures. The exhibition will start at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery in Yorkton from March 7 to April 11, 2010 with an opening reception on Sunday, March 21, from 2 to 4 pm.
For more info go to the www.thirdsound.ca website
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| Recent Exhibitions | Fountain
Lynda C. Surjik
March 21 to April 11, 2010
Opening reception
Sunday March 21
2 to 4 pm
Regina artist Lynda Surjik creates astonishing and unlikely combinations of paint, wax and bronze sculpture with a wide range of perspectives on a single theme: fountains. Paintings on canvas, translucent plastic and cotton table cloths. Cast bronze alongside carved wax models and pencil sketch plans. This exhibition evokes the possibilities of Dr. Suess meeting Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. Not to be missed! And not soon forgotten ...
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| Recent Exhibitions | Tattoo You!
February 1 to 23, 2010
The Dean Gallery is pleased to present Tattoo, an OSAC touring exhibition curated by Nikole Peters. And since our community has one of the best tattoo studios in the province, the exhibition will also feature the work of Dennis and Adam from Driller’s Tattoos in Yorkton.
We invited anyone with tattoos to have them photographed here at the gallery, and the resulting images are projected along with a selection of prints.
Valentine's Day Tattoo
Sunday, February 14th
1 to 4 pm
The public reception for the exhibition takes place on Valentine's Day. Dennis and Adam will be tattooing live in the gallery. If you have tattoos, or are just interested in body ink in photographs and in person, please join us!
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| Podcasts and image galleries | Podcasts and Images
The Godfrey Dean Gallery posts podcasts on our website, with interviews with the artists and special features like the narration for Andrew Hunter's Giddy Up! exhibition
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