New Artway heads into New Year with even more
Artway enters 2005 with seven successful exhibits behind it
December 28, 2004
As you likely are aware of already, Visual Arts Brampton has moved its Artway Gallery to the west side of Shoppers World Brampton. The new 54-running-foot-long glassed in exhibit space has so far hosted seven successful shows at the space, since its June opening.
The space opened with Mixed Bag, a one-off celebration of the creative diversity of VAB artists' works. All the exhibits following this have been our annual exhibits, like In Black and White, the Landscapes show, the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show, Drawing in Colour, Brushes with Success, and the current festive exhibit, 'Tis the Season.
While the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show was a relatively full exhibit with 600 entries from more than six countries, it failed the gain the momentum organizers expected. The two past mail art exhibits held in Brampton, Artway's 2000 Great Canadian Mail Art Show and the Art Gallery of Peel's it's in the mail, both received even more entries (800+ and 1200+) with equal or less promotion. However, the group is starting to plan the 2005 exhibit already, and is hoping to get the interlingual website up and running by February at latest.
The next exhibit at Artway will be Jack Reid and Friends, featuring Brampton's own internationally acclaimed artist. The group had planned to host a show of Reid's work ever since the Artway Exhibit Space opened in 1998 as the City Centre EXhibit Space. However, due to our schedule which was limited to guest artists, and Jack's own busy workshop touring circuit all over the Western hemisphere, there wasn't an opportunity for the show until now.
Artway will soon open the Fridge Front Gallery as an addition to the existing exhibit area. The space will feature the art of local school students, as well as VAB's own youth class students. The space may also become the primary host of the Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show.