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Show Former Artway show, now the World Art Gallery (WAG) |
... "it's in the mail..." International competition included VAB members and other local artists. Key to the significance of the internationally recognized Art Gallery of Peel show, all the works entered in the show are now part of the permanent collection. Many of our members entered their art into this display, as did residents of 25 or so other countries. Creativity at the mall for Snail Mail Saturday, September 25, 2004 For two Tuesdays and two Wednesdays early this August, VAB was at the Shoppers World Brampton mall, encouraging creativity in the community. On each of those days, mall patrons were encouraged to create postcard sized entries for VAB's Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. On the last Wednesday of the event, mall patrons could actually have their faces drawn for free. Our portrait artists included Marguerite Finlayson, Keith Moreau, Marian Simpson, and Mary Angela Nangini. Mary Noble was a crowd favourite, creating her pictures coloured pencil. While mainly youth participated in the postcard creation, then-former-and-now-current member Mary Angela Nangini sat down and created with us. The event was great for awareness, as many Bramptonians learned of the group for the first time. Entries sought for VAB's Snail Mail Show
Visual Arts Brampton is asking artists from Brampton, the Greater Toronto Area and around the world to send in submissions for its second annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. The show runs August 26 to September 30 at Artway in Shopper's World. The deadline for entries is midnight on August 12. Submissions by artists of any skill level working in any media are welcome, as long as the original or reproduction is postcard size at 4 by 6 inches. "People can take a picture of artwork or do digital art and print it out as a postcard," explained Nicholas Moreau, guest curator of the show. "They can also do it directly on the postcard as original work." Last year's show attracted entries from several different countries, including Australia, Japan and the United States. Entries also came from a number of Canadian provinces, such as British Columbia, Ontario and the Northwest Territories. "The purpose of this exhibit is basically to get art from all around the world," Moreau said. "Without sending it on postcards, you can't really have art from Venezuela, for example, in a local gallery. It allows us to show the creativity from all corners of the world." The submissions for last year's show varied greatly, encompassing nearly every medium known to mankind. Fabric art, sculpture, comic art and mixed media were just a few examples. The Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show is judged, with 15 awards in categories like Snail Mail Show People's Choice Award, Best Animal Art, and Snail Mail Show Award for Innovative Use or Creation of a Medium. The top 50 postcards will be compiled in an online book that will be accessible from VAB's Web site. "Creating an online book is a new idea this year," Moreau said. "It will allow people to see some of the best artwork from the show after the fact." Despite being the only mail art show in Toronto and the surrounding area, submissions were low last year. The glass cases at Shopper's World can hold 1,200 pieces of postcard art, which was stressful for Moreau as only 300 entries were submitted. VAB set up tables in Shopper's World and invited the public to paint postcards. VAB's members also contributed more works. The end result was an acceptable, 600-piece show. "It was satisfying to see the quantity and quality of the works," Moreau said. "It was a diverse selection." Submissions have started to come in from around the globe for this year's show. "They've already come in from across Canada and the United States, Venezuela, Uruguay, Australia, Malaysia, France, Italy and Germany," Moreau said. "It is like Christmas every single weekday when I get the mail. You never know what sort of work they are going to send." Moreau is advertising the show on several Web sites that reach mail art enthusiasts worldwide. He hopes there will be at least 500 entries from the GTA alone this year. "There are hundreds of artists who are interested in mail art shows, so there should be more entrants," he said. "England and Italy are two major players with mail art, so they have a lot of artists who are accustomed to it. We'd like to see some entries from them." Serving as the guest curator for the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show has been a challenge for Moreau, who is an 18-year-old student in the advertising and graphic design program at Humber Lakeshore. "It has not been too tedious, but for the amount of result, which has been fairly low, it has been a discouraging," he said. "I would have expected more entries." Despite the slow start of the show, Moreau has big plans for its future. VAB is currently in negotiations for a permanent postcard art display. This would allow artists to submit postcard art year round. "This is an open stage for creativity," Moreau said. "No matter what you want to express in your work, it is an easy way to show it." The public is invited to make their own postcard art for the show at Shopper's World on July 19 and 20. There is no entry fee to participate in the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. Postcards can be mailed or dropped off to: Snail Mail Central, c/o VAB, 1 Bartley Bull Parkway, Suite 10, Brampton, ON, L6W 3T7. Entries will not be returned. For a complete list of rules and regulations for submissions to the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show, visit www.visualartsbrampton.com. Still time to enter art show Sunday, July 31st, 2005, then Wednesday, August 3, 2005, The
Brampton Guardian Visual Arts Brampton is still looking for artists from Brampton, the Greater Toronto Area and around the world to send in submissions for its second annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. The show runs Aug. 26 to Sept. 30 at Artway in Shopper's World. The deadline for entries is midnight Aug. 12. Submissions by artists of any skill level working in any media are welcome, as long as the original or reproduction is postcard size at 4 by 6 inches. There is no entry fee. Postcards can be mailed or dropped off to: Snail Mail Central, c/o VAB, 1 Bartley Bull Parkway, Suite 10, Brampton, ON, L6W 3T7. Entries will not be returned. For information, visit www.visualartsbrampton.com. Shoppers World hosts arts event Thursday, August 25, 2005, Wikinews Visual Arts Brampton has announced the winners of its Second Annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. Currently on display in the Fridge Front Gallery in Shoppers World, The Snail Mail Show features well over 350 entries from 14 countries around the world. This is up from the previous year's approximately 300 from 6 countries. Shown in the exhibit is original works from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. Juror Alicia Mitchell BA viewed the show on August 18 to make her selections from the entries received. Surprisingly, in the process of identifying her choices for each award, Mitcell ended up awarding two sets of relatives. Sarah Baptist won the Juror's Choice Award for Purple, while Ann Baptist won Best Photography for Tires. Nicholas Moreau won Best Snail Art for Albert Einsnail, while his mother Janice Moreau won for Best Use of Medium for Bird Days of Summer. Best of Theme (Remember) went to Beek's Remembrance of My Father. Brampton Guardian Arts editor Tina Depko awarded the Media Award to child entrant Jessica Taylor's Cat love. Toni DiSano of Ballwin, Montana won Best Fabric Art/Sculpture/Installation for her fabric art piece "Vortex". Honourable mentions this year were: * Judith Bush's photograph/mixed media "Los Baños
& Surrounds" or "Altered Landscape/Last Vestiges"
(Mountain View, California, USA) A complete list is available on The Snail Mail Show's website. Entries
from around the world at Snail Mail Art Show Creativity abounds in the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show on display at Visual Arts Brampton’s Fridge Front Gallery in Shoppers World until Sept. 30. This year’s show has more than 350 entries from 14 different countries around the globe, such as Malaysia, Italy, Japan, Australia and Germany. The substantial number of entries represents almost every different artistic medium, from oil and acrylic to fabric and photography. "I am satisfied with this year’s show," said Nicholas Moreau, guest curator. "We have a very diverse selection of postcards." Alicia Mitchell, education coordinator at the Peel Heritage Complex, was this year’s juror. She said her job was difficult because of the large artistic spectrum represented by the works. "It is really challenging, especially with the variety of media and subjects," she explained as she paced back and forth, trying to select winners. "I have a lot of things to consider, especially since this is postcard art. Are they trying to relay a message? How are they using the small surface space of the actual post card? This is going to take awhile." Eventually, Mitchell did select this year’s winners. Moreau is inviting the public to visit www.visualartsbrampton.com after Sept. 1 to view this year’s nominees for the People’s Choice Award and vote for their favourite entry. Here’s a list of this year’s winners: Juror’s Award Media Award Best of Theme, "Remember" Best of Snail Art Photography Fabric Art/Sculpture/Installation Best Use of Medium Honourable mentions Paulina Su wins Snail Mail People's Choice Saturday, October 8, 2005, Creative Urges Visual Arts Brampton member Paulina Su has won the People's Choice Award at the 2nd Annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show, with a slim lead in voting. Her scratchboard work A Type of Wading Bird was one of 21 entries on display in the contest. Paulina had also won an honourable mention from the show. The show, with over 300 postcard-sized works, is running at the Fridge Front Gallery until October 14. International exhibit of chair art starts in Canada Monday, November 21, 2005, Wikinews The international entry mail art show SAT: An Exhibit of Chairs was put on display Friday in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Held in the Fridge Front Gallery at the Shoppers World Brampton mall, SAT is a diverse collection of artworks focusing on a generally mundane object, the chair. Works in the show range from realism to abstract, dadaism to surrealism, post-modern to collage. While some of the entries were submitted directly to Visual Arts Brampton, most came from a previous exhibit. Organized by Pati Bristow, No place to rest, chairs you can't sit on ran at Shopping Trolley Gallery West and Seaman's Library at Foothill College, both in Los Altos Hills, California, earlier in 2005. Guest curator Nicholas Moreau was unaware of the similarly themed exhibit, so soon before. The theme for SAT was based on that of a 1987 juried art show organized by Visual Arts Brampton at the now-defunct Art Gallery of Brampton. Works in Visual Arts Brampton's showing of the exhibition are from 17 countries including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, Spain, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. This is Visual Arts Brampton's third mail art show. In 1999, Susan Williamson created The Great Canadian Mail Art Show for Artway at Bramalea City Centre; the show was so successful that the Art Gallery of Peel adopted it in 2001. The concept of a mail art show was revived in 2004 by Moreau, held at the new Artway Shoppers World. The Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show has been held annually since. Visual Arts Brampton's Fridge Front Gallery primarily hosts artwork by youth from its kids classes, and from schools in Brampton and Oakville. In contrast, the nearby Artway Gallery hosts artwork by professional and amateur adult artists from across Peel. VAB has successfully sought permission to create a third display space in Shoppers World, in the Zellers corridor. The space will host shows of mail art and works on paper year-round. The planned "World Art Gallery" will be the first ever permanent display space for mail art. |
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