‘It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood’ opens in Rotary Park’s mini galleries on Saturday, June 28 at 11:30 am and runs all summer. Meet your creative neighbours and find out what inspires their art. Here’s a snapshot of who you’ll meet and what you’ll see!
AGS.YYC is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on “attaching stuff to city stuff” to make our city more vibrant, enjoyable, and inclusive. He works with found objects, recycled materials, bright colours, and engaging displays to answer questions about the ways citizens interact with their public surroundings. His work is hidden throughout our neighbourhood, turning obscure and meaningless spaces into mysterious and whimsical places.
Bill (Stoneface Creation) creates garden art from wood, stone, and antlers – inspired by nature, illusion, and magic. He’s creating a mushroom themed diorama for the exhibit. “Sometimes I just see things, when I’m looking at a piece of word or stone,” Bill says. “Then I’ll come up with an existential explanation after I’ve finished the piece.”
Sandra Melnik is on a journey of exploring textile arts. Intuitively driven, following original sketches or interesting photographs, she hopes to inspire the viewer to make their own story when enjoying her pieces.
Colleen Peters (Artist at Play) says her current art practice is a nightly meditative postcard-sized painting in watercolour. She works spontaneously, without a preset idea of what she will paint.
Rob Ward creates animated objects and three-dimensional assemblies by repurposing everyday found objects. You may have seen his installation at the recent Festival of Animated Objects ‘Worlds in Motion’ exhibition at C-Space in Marda Loop. Rob is preparing a piece for the mini galleries summer exhibit titled – ‘Two Riders Were Approaching.’
Textile artist Sky Weir employs a lengthy and repetitive process of screen-printing textile yardage, where colour drives the composition, spontaneously building pattern when mixed and applied intuitively. Her latest series, ‘Reactive Patterning irregular Composition’, was exhibited in Calgary at cSpace and in Victoria at the Colwood Arts and Culture Gallery.
If you’re a local artist and would like to participate in a future mini galleries exhibit, contact [email protected].
Crescent Heights artist Rob Ward creates animated objects and three-dimensional assemblies by repurposing everyday found objects.
Stoneface Creations are inspired by nature, illusion, and magic. Every garden should have one!
Textile artist Sky Weir’s practice is also rooted in a longstanding interest in language-based messaging, exploring civic responsibility and its manifestation for social interaction to foster agency. Her VOTE COAT series was released during the 2023 Alberta election season.
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