June 29/00

College plays important partnership role in

community millennium project

apilano College has partnered with

the Visions of the North Shore art
and heritage millennium project to
celebrate 12 local sites with historical,
natural and cultural significance.

The project involves commissioning
12 artists to interpret each site with a
new work of art. Seven of the 12 are
either art instructors at Capilano
College or associated with the
Capilano College Art Institute. The 12
artists are: (associated with the
College) Joan Smith, Setsuko
Piroche, Wayne Eastcott, Bonnie
Jordan, Taiga Chiba, Jean C.
Morrison, Pierre Coupey; (from the
North Shore community) Arnold
Shives, Xwa-lack-tun (Rick Harry),
Ross Penhall, Jennifer Judge and
Damian George.

The 12 sites selected are:

District of North Vancouver
Cates Park

Lynn Canyon Park
Maplewood Farm
Carisbrooke Park

City of North Vancouver
Grand Boulevard
Mosquito Creek

Lower Lonsdale Avenue
Moodyville

District of West Vancouver
Ambleside Park

John Lawson Park
Dundarave Pier

Horseshoe Bay

Each site will be identified with a
marker and will be highlighted in a
tour map to encourage people to visit
them. As well, six exhibits will take
place with each having a unique focus,
but with most also displaying the
Visions’ prints.

An alumni fundraising event called
Graduated Perspectives will be held at
Capilano College the weekend of
October 6 where the Visions’ prints will
also be on view. Money raised from the
sale of alumni art will go towards

Above is a snapshot from Taiga
Chiba’s submission. Taiga explores
the water world of Mosquito Creek,
one of the 12 heritage sites depicted
by Visions’ artists.

scholarships for students in the Studio
Ast and Textile Arts programs. After the
weekend, the Visions’ prints will move
to the Studio Art Gallery where they will
be on display until November 12.

Youth are encouraged to participate in
the program through school programs
developed by the West Vancouver and
North Vancouver museums, the two
school districts and the Artists for Kids
Trust.

The artwork, accompanied by
archival text and essays, is reproduced in
a catalogue and the entire project, from
start to finish, will be documented on a
CD-ROM. The CD is being produced by
Ken Barbour, an online technician in
the College’s Centre for New Media.
The poster for the six events, plus the
catalogue, were both designed by Jana
Hotkova, a designer in the Centre for
New Media. Nancy Boyd, Studio Art
instructor, and Ruth Scheuing, Textile
Arts coordinator, are working with
members of the Capilano College
Foundation’s Special Projects committee
to organize the alumni art project. A
silent auction for the event’s opening
reception, is being organized by the

Above is a snapshot of Pierre
Coupey’s depiction of Dundarave Pier.
Pierre captures the essence of
shapes shifting into and out of one
another; things appearing and
disappearing.

Foundation’s Jan Hylnsky.

Music instructor, Mark Armanini
has been commissioned to compose an
original piece, which will be performed
at the October 6 reception by the
Capilano College Singers.

To fulfil a public programming
component, a series of print workshops
will be held on four consecutive
weekends in the Studio Art print shop.
They will be presented through the
Continuing Education department and
are being organized jointly by
Continuing Ed’s Ruth Stec and Studio
Art instructor, Wayne Eastcott.

For more information on the project,
please contact Shelley Kean, Visions’
steering committee member and
College communications liaison, at
local 7596.

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