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For a video clip of last year’s Understanding Colour II
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Some photos from our Open House on Saturday, December 17. We had a great time. Beautiful artwork. Over 300 people. Congratulations to everybody who helped put this together. And thanks for coming to visit. If you missed the event check out the Open House video courtesy of ExhibitV
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Nature & the Sublime exhibition opens Friday, August 12 at 7:30
The work in this exhibition is by students from the course of the same title. Although based on landscape and nature, this course examines the more abstract qualities of painting. Students experiment with the application of paint on a surface to create atmosphere, mood and emotion. Natural phenomena and weather are used for their metaphoric capacities. The act of painting becomes a way to connect the artist to the natural surrounding world. Exhibition continues to Wednesday, August 17 in the Slide Room Gallery located at the lower level of VISA.
Here are images from Xane St Phillip’s Painting: Mostly Black course taught in the Spring 2011 semester.
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Sarah Houghton (detail)
The Diploma of Fine Arts 2011 exhibition took place in June 2011.
Sarah Houghton, Anne Marie McPartlin, Tanta Pennington and Marion Whalley were this year’s graduating students.
Presence of Mind Slideshow
This workshop is the first in a series of Drawing Today workshops offered over the summer at the Vancouver Island School of Art. This workshop uses forms such as a personal signature, scribbles and contour lines to explore approaches to drawing.
A one-day watercolour workshop where students learn to approach watercolour painting in a fun and non-intimidating way. The workshop introduces the concept of the doodle as an entry point to artmaking. In one exercise students used numbers as a way to create marks and designs.
Check out some of the highlights of our Open House in April 2011.
This site will showcase a range of work done at the Vancouver Island School of Art. Images will get posted on a weekly basis. We look forward to sharing what goes on at VISA with the rest of the community and we welcome comments and questions.
