So You Want to be an Artist 2011

We missed this as it was happening, but here is the winning piece for the National Gallery's "So You Want to be an Artist?" contest held last year. The winning entry was very good. His artist's statement was very professional as well. As much as we don't like artist's statements, a well-written one is best. Oh, the link this contest was through Ms G-E's appeal for support for valwitton's piece "Scarlett" through the excellent art blog at http://artshhs.blogspot.com/

Both images courtesy of the National Gallery at www.gallery.ca

Art Cabin

Summer vacation found this private cabin in the Octopus Islands of British Columbia. The cabin contains hundreds of pieces of art made of flotsam and jetsam, old boat parts and natural materials. The art is contributed by visiting boaters and is clearly a family affair with the names of the vessels and their crew worked into each piece. Super inspiring.

Thank you to the owners for their generosity in allowing this to happen!

Victoria Strehlau

This year's awesome School's Prize entries from Canada are well represented by Walkerville Collegiate Institute's Victoria Strehlau. There is tons of great art at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/

SISTER CORITA KENT

Found this via old-chum.com who got it via mike mills
SISTER CORITA KENT


Mike likes rule 10. We like rule 7.

Colour Codified

Here are some arresting images of colour used to revisit established images.

An accomplished artist and teacher, Renee Van Halm reworked a famous Canadian Painter... check out Knowledge Network's short videos at http://www.knowledge.ca/program/cartographies-shorts , and choose the one with the graphic that looks like the top one above.

Next are two cool images from arthurbuston.blogspot.com found via boingboing.net. Not Canadian nor student work, but just cool. In one of them he analyzed the five most predominant colours from some Van Gogh paintings and presented their predominance in pie charts. Visual Analytics meets art.

2011 Earth Day Art Contest for BC Students

Here's the cover art for the British Columbia Secondary Schools’
2011 Earth Day Art Show and Competition. This powerful image is uncredited, but it comes from one of the three documents describing the contest... oh, this just in... the artist is Grade Twelver Brooke Thomas. We're not sure which school, but likely in Surrey, BC based on the link...

http://www.artscouncilofsurrey.ca/

Your teacher has to register your intention to compete by January 28th, then the art must be delivered in Surrey by March 11th. Your process must be documented and seems to be important for the judging. Since that makes for a big project, may we suggest integrating your research efforts with that of other school assignments?

SAATCHI GALLERY / SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLS 2010 Deadline

The deadline for entries is coming up fast - December 3 for both the Schools' Prize and the Sculpture Prize. Get your school's teacher to set it up NOW!

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/index.php

This is Erica Phillips' Entry from Collingwood School in West Van. Its a sorta tattoo mermaid totem pole thingy and pretty cool.

There are currently only three other Canadian Schools entered. Get cracking.

Apple for Teacher

MinaE from Vancouver posted this beautiful,creepy drawing called "An Apple For The Teacher" Just in time for us to post for Halloween.

From TeenInk.com

Gloves Fly

We just love this photo with all the action and movement. The sticks fly too.

The caption: "In the dying seconds the boys have done it, down 2 game to 0 they have overcome all odds."

Anonymous from Wilcox, found in TeenInk.com

Paperclips atop the world's largest cyclotron

Ali Lambert was the local favourite after a photowalk at TRIUMPH near UBC. Another TRIUMPH entry won the international competition for photographers who applied to visit the worlds' cyclotrons.

From Flicker...
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Photographer: Ali Lambert
Laboratory: TRIUMF

This image won first place in TRIUMF's local competition. Atop the world's largest cyclotron at TRIUMF, paperclips experience some fringe magnetic field and stand upright, dancing atop the table's surface. High-school student Ali Lambert artfully captured this iconic experience of all visitors to TRIUMF.
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Which high school? Does anyone know?

Flickr wants us to link back to them, so not knowing what that means, here's the link...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/interactions_photos/5074976339/in/set-72157625149642668/

Lost and Found Autumn 2010

We at CanadaSchool aren't the most organized. We found these great images but lost track of their origin.

The robot sculpture came from Woodstock Collegiate Institute in Ontario. Some quick Googling reveals the school's art archive, but then we got lazy and couldn't find the original image.

The spooky painting had a California reference, so it might not be Canadian. Nonetheless, its so cool it qualifies as honourary status.

If you know anything about them, get in touch with us.

My Rights vs Yours

The moustache - what a great symbol!

Hannah has an interesting story about her experience with authority imposing its will over display of her art. Some thought her piece was too insensitive to display outside of art class, and maybe so. It culminated with a protest at her school in which the students wore fake moustaches in solidarity with her. This happened about a year ago, so the time for a repeat protest is drawing near.

Although USA based, what happened to Hannah is something that will happen to all artists at some point. Its great that she had that experience and even greater that she shared and sparked a movement. The whole creative arts slamming into the issue of rights vs responsibilities thing.

Lets do the protest again this year? Someone pick a day. Like on some significant INTERNATIONAL free speech day or the first school-day after.

Message to Hannah - get in touch with us for an update. We assume you are still in high school, but as we are Canadian, we have no idea what sophomore means or what comes after!

Her side of the story... http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=216180135931#!/group.php?gid=216180135931&v=info

Top OCAD Entrance Scholarship Winner 2010

Congratulations to Maxwell Hyett of Kingston, Ontario. He walked into OCAD with the top entrance scholarship waiting for him. This is according to the article in the Kingston Whig-Standard...

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2714101

His experience goes to show how important portfolio day can be.

Photo of Max credit goes to Christine Blais of the Kingston Whig-Standard.

TeenInk.com

A quick perusal of the Canadian entries at teenink.com yielded these two images. We liked iwrotehaiku's "Originality is Lost in the Wash" washing machines because they look like giant cameras all lined up. Ama Indeewari's style is so strong and the colours to bright that we couldn't resist bloggin this piece "Leisure". Both these artists have a few more posted and are worth seeing.

TeenInk.com has much more - writing, opinion, reviews, and program guides. Check it out.

ECUAD - NEW Teen Programs in Art + Design

From the Emily Carr site, the above image has no attribution for either photographer or sketcher. Too bad. Nonetheless, we hear the studends are totally enjoying this year's running of the summer institute for teens.

And some good news from their site:

"Starting in the fall of 2010, Continuing Studies will be offering new and exciting workshops for students aged 15 - 18. Whether you are looking for opportunities to develop your portfolio, find out more about studying art or design at the post-secondary level, or just a chance to experiment with new materials and make new friends, there's a workshop for you this fall at Emily Carr. Click to find out more!"

And the link is... http://www.ecuad.ca/programs/cs/teens

SAATCHI GALLERY / SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLS

Here's some Canadian entries to the Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools from the UK.



The top one is a collaborative effort by multiple students from Windsor Ontario's Riverside Secondary School. Cool!

The other is from Alison Davis who is at Bernice MacNaughton High School in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her colourful untitled car is done in acrylic on a 24 x 30 panel.

Enter your work soon at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/index.php

The deadline is coming fast in early August.

What are you waiting for?

These hands are saying "Here's the details. Be there."

The painting is one of a series of multi-cultural tattoos done by Erica Phillips and are symbolic of her commitment to art. The graphics by staffer Ms Barb Labounta were perfectly to the point.

West Van Grad Show Part 5

One of our several favourites from the show, Ms Sevan Agopian made "Eternal Blessing" to explore faith, hope and eternity. It is made with oil stick and encaustic collage on wood panels, and is relatively small with each panel about 8 inches square.

We are not proud here at CanadaSchool - we had to look up what "encaustic" meant. It means using pigmented wax as a medium; apparently an ancient technique. It can be used like paint when wet, manipulated when semi-solid, or carved and cut when hard.

West Van Grad Show Part 4

Ashley Ruby Szarkowicz produced this colourful jar-dropper called "Beyond the Blueprint". She plans to continue with photography after she graduates and sell prints like this one.

Erica Phillips did these two acrylics as part of a larger series of portraits of self and friends sporting symbolic tattoos. She appeared in earlier blog posts as acire2 but has outed herself to attend ECUAD this fall.

West Van Grad Show Part 3

Zora Sauerteig's "Doom" comic book cover was a fun piece. Any art that references the father of microbiology is alright with us. Hopefully Zora will have time while at ECUAD to finish the whole book by her publish date of November 2010. In the meantime we love the certainty of that future exchange rate.



Nikki Koo's spooky "Well" is suitably paired with the "Doom" piece here. Such an effective use of white pencil and those lonely bottles of white-out just lying around in office desks everywhere. Her talent will help her next year while at art school in New York.

There is a faint image of CanadaSchool's crappy photographer marring "Well" plus a reflection of a bit of the piece on the opposite wall. Maybe someone else should take the photos? We have a summer intern position opening up, so send in your CV!

Aside: For a fun intro to the first fathers of microbiology check out http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/18/stop-motion-lego-doc.html