Help this young Canadian Designer win a $10k “Stuck at Prom” Scholarship ~ Voting ends July 10, 2020

KITCHENER, ONT — A student at Eastwood Collegiate Institute is the only Canadian to be represented in a contest to make prom attire out of duct tape.

The Duck Brand Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest challenged students around North America to create their best prom outfit out of duct tape.

Lena Hart, who was one of about 400 applicants in Canada and the U.S., spent 146 hours and 12 rolls of tape to create her dress.

“I started by going through past sketchbooks that I had, and I had two prom dresses that I designed,” said Hart. “They were my dream prom dresses. So I took those two designs and combined them into one.”

The winner in both dress and tux categories will win $10,000, while the runners up will get $500 and $100-worth of products from the company.

Hart’s dress includes dozens of gold tape roses and petals. A video on the company’s website shows how she created sheets with the tape to resemble real fabric, and then cut them to shape and taped together the final product.

“I took giant pieces of paper, cut them out and put them on my body to see if they would fit and adjusted them from there, ” said Hart. “Then I made sheets of duct tape to emulate fabric, cut out those pieces of fabric from the duct tape, and taped them all together. So it’s 100 per cent duct tape.”

Hart is up against four other finalists, whose fates will be decided by voting.

Voting for the first-prize winner in each category opened to the public on June 29th, ends on July 10th, and can be accessed on the Stuck at Prom website. Supporters may vote once a day per email.

You can vote for Canadian Lena Hart at: https://www.duckbrand.com/stuck-at-prom/vote/lena-hart

Voting closes on July 10.

Support our Plein Air Artists! Add to your collection with artworks made PIPAF in ISOLATION

Thank you for your support for our exhibition!
Some of the artists who have sold also have works coming up in reserve. There will be more pieces for you to peruse coming up!

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Watch the Broadcast

https://parrsborocreative.com/pleinair/exhibition/

Still time to bring in work, Exhibit Opening, Summer Camps

Still time to bring in your work – Exhibit opening – Summer Camps

At Chester Art Centre, we want to continue to reassure you that we have been carefully following government rules and recommendations to manage the risks of COVID-19. We are working hard to ensure everyone at the centre is safe and healthy. That means when you come by, we recommend you wear a safe (but lovely) mask, sanitize your hands, and keep the fashionable 6-foot distance.

EXHIBIT OPENING! Drop-in opening reception July 9, 4-6 p.m.

Doors Wide Open runs July 9-23. We’re so excited to share the wonderful collection that is coming in the doors – we’re planning a drop-in soft opening of the Doors Wide Open exhibit on Thursday, July 9 from 4-6 p.m. Listen to live music by Jamie Junger, wander through the exhibit and enjoy some refreshments as we move everyone through a safely distanced event.

If you can’t join us on opening day, not to worry – there’s plenty of opportunity to come in and see what everyone’s talking about!

Exhibit hours are:

Monday to Friday: by chance, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday July 11 and July 18: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sunday July 12 and July 19: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Still time to enter: If you’ve been thinking about joining our exhibition but aren’t quite sure you should…the answer is YES. Bring in your creative work, as we’re showing a full range of types, skill, ability – and it’s all gorgeous! We want to see what you’ve been up to in this time of isolation, quarantine, social distancing and home-time.

We are opening our doors to everyone to bring us what you’ve been working on, to help us launch our re-opening exhibition.

Exhibition pieces can be brought to the Centre (please call ahead 902-275-5789 to arrange drop off) any time until July 6, 2020.

Summer Camps Scheduled

You’ve asked, and we’ve brought them back – with pandemic protocols and maximum limits, we are able to offer our popular summer camps this year.

Give your child an opportunity to explore art this summer! Chester Art Centre has amazing hands-on interactive art camps for children in two sessions this summer. Camps are limited to 10 participants in each age range. Physical distancing and pandemic protocols will be in place. Cost: $115/child per week.

Sessions: July 27-31, 2020 and August 10-14, 2020

Mornings 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.: Ages 5-7

Afternoons 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Ages 8-10

Call 902-275-5789 to reserve/register, as spots are filling!

Yours in imagination,

Kathleen Long,
Executive Director

https://www.chesterartcentre.ca/about
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Chester Art Centre Exhibition Opening – Doors Wide Open July 9-23

Here’s just a taste of what you might see at Chester Art Centre’s Doors Wide Open exhibit

July 9-23

Doors Wide Open runs July 9-23. We’re so excited to share the wonderful collection that is coming in the doors – we’re planning a drop-in soft opening of the Doors Wide Open exhibit on Thursday, July 9 from 4-6 p.m. Listen to live music by Jamie Junger, wander through the exhibit and enjoy some refreshments as we move everyone through a safely distanced event.

If you can’t join us on opening day, not to worry – there’s plenty of opportunity to come in and see what everyone’s talking about!

Exhibit hours are:
Monday to Friday: by chance, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday July 11 and July 18: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday July 12 and July 19: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Still time to enter: If you’ve been thinking about joining our exhibition but aren’t quite sure you should…the answer is YES. Bring in your creative work, as we’re showing a full range of types, skill, ability – and it’s all gorgeous! We want to see what you’ve been up to in this time of isolation, quarantine, social distancing and home-time.

We are opening our doors to everyone to bring us what you’ve been working on, to help us launch our re-opening exhibition.

Exhibition pieces can be brought to the Centre (please call ahead 902-275-5789 to arrange drop off) any time until July 6, 2020.

Kathleen Long

Executive Director

Chester Art Centre

P: 902.275.5789

E: chesterartcentre@ns.aliantzinc.ca

www.chesterartcentre.ca

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT! Register with Art Lab now!

Are you looking to travel and get away within the Atlantic provinces?

With the exciting announcement of the Atlantic bubble starting July 3rd, plan your trip to Parrsboro and enjoy the natural inspirations that come with the changing tides on the Bay of Fundy to jump start your creative journey with us this summer.

Join us in getting your creative fix for the summer with upcoming courses with fellow makers and artists at Art Lab.

LEARN FROM THE BEST!

Sign up for a course with Art Lab before registration closes!

Here are the updates in protocol for Courses at Art Lab:

Given the nature of our current world we have worked to find a way to continue to make art and to still offer the opportunity of learning from some of the best. Of course we have had to make adjustments. For your security, the security of the instructors, and those of us at Art Lab here are some of the new conditions:

Art Lab will be closed to the public during your course time so that the class area can be expanded making sure that social distancing is attained.
Students will be asked to sanitize upon entry and frequently throughout the day, and to adhere to social distancing protocol.
Masks will be required for use when needed.

The following is our revised plan for courses but of course things can change. If any cancellation is made necessary by Covid -19, your registration fee will be fully refunded.

Visit our Full Course Listings

Parrsboro Creative

151 Main Street

Parrsboro, NS

https://parrsborocreative.com/cultural-campus/course-listings/

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Summer 2020 @ LSA

The first of our Summer 2020 courses start this month (July 13-17) and there is still time to register!

Lunenburg School of the Arts

6 Prince Street, P.O. Box 610
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
B0J 2C0 Canada
902.640.2013
learn@lunenburgarts.org
www.lunenburgarts.org

there is still time to register!

CALL for SUBMISSIONS

LUCIE MICHEL WORKSHOP SEPT. 17-20 in Baddeck, NS

Lucie Michel is a wonderful artist and a delightful woman, living in Montreal, her work is vibrant and really stunning! She has been a teacher for many years and has a wide range of experience. For this workshop she intends to focus on the idea of simplifying the landscape, using large brushes and collage …. she wants to encourage us to go big! We will mostly work with acrylic paint and although she doesn’t actually use pastels herself, she has said that mixed media is definitely a good idea. The collage aspect would mostly come from us creating our own paper, using a few different techniques, one of which would include using the Gelli printing pad. Here is a link to her website.
https://luciemichel.ca/

For further information:

Linda Wright <lindawright@seasidehighspeed.com>

(902)295-2726