Annual Report 2017
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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 - 2018 ISSUE 49 CONTENTS 3 MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 4 EXHIBITIONS 8 ART IN THE COMMUNITY 14 THE GIFT BOX 15 ART RENTAL 16 ARTS EDUCATION 18 EVENTS & INITIATIVES 24 MEMBERSHIP 25 VOLUNTEERS 26 BOARD 27 STAFF 28 FINANCIALS 29 SUPPORTERS 2 CONTENTS A MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The 2017-18 season, our 49th year in operation, was a year of supporting existing programmes, celebrating national milestones, launching a major community project, refreshing our organizational structure, and building new relationships. This past year our exhibitions, events, and arts education programmes continued to thrive, with new managers bringing fresh perspectives and skills to help us continually improve core programmes. To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, we presented a special project called ART+PLACE. This project brought a contemporary dance company from Quebec to collaborate with our local community and respond to the ‘place’ in which we live. We were thrilled to receive a major grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage, Strategic Initiatives Fund, which along with financial and in-kind support from the three North Shore municipalities, Metro Vancouver, and Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, allowed us to launch the North Shore Cultural Mapping Project. We hired a project management team to lead this project through to its launch in 2020. The Board of Directors and I spent the last year updating our constitution and by-laws in preparation for our transition to the new BC Society’s Act this fall. The staff and I also spent the year updating marketing tools, that will include a launch of our new brand at the 2018 AGM. We reinvigorated existing and built new partnerships across sectors, to support our cultural mapping project, our ongoing programming, and to deepen our connections to the people who make the North Shore such an amazing place. When we all work together, bringing different points of view to the table, we help create a community that is diverse, MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 3 inclusive, and creative. Looking ahead we have many new projects and initiatives that we are working on and are planning for our 50th anniversary year in 2019-20. We are losing three long-standing Board members this year: Laurel Parsons, Colin Lawrence, and Olivia Creighton. We thank them for their significant contributions to our organization. Thank you to staff, Board of Directors, members, volunteers, sponsors, donors, artists, community partners and organizations, and funders for all you do to help the North Vancouver Community Arts Council continue to build strong and healthy communities through the arts. NANCY COTTINGHAM POWELL The mission of CityScape Community Art Space CITYSCAPE is to celebrate and promote art and artists through quality experiences in a unique and COMMUNITY ART SPACE inviting gallery space, and to create an inclusive environment which enriches and encourages interaction in the community. BRANCH REFINEMENT Jul 21 – Sep 2, 2017 Opening Reception: July 20 Artists: Bonnie Jordan, Fae Logie and Tiki Mulvihill An exploration of connections to history, family, nature, place and time. ART + PLACE Branch Refinement artists offered a free art activity inviting participants to create sculptural assemblages from natural materials and mementos. CREATIVESCAPE A free evening of drawing and collage with the artists from Branch Refinement. ART RENTAL SHOW Sep 8 - 30, 2017 A semi-annual, salon-style exhibition featuring artworks from the Art Rental collection. PUSHING BOUNDARIES Oct 6 – Nov 10, 2017 Opening Reception: October 5 Artists: Adele Maskwa-iskwew Arseneau, Arlene Bowman, Allison Burns, Krystle Coughlin, Alanna Edwards, Whess Harman, Shelley McDonald, Ryan McKenna, Levi Nelson, Jacqueline Primeau, Michelle Sound A biennial exhibition by contemporary local, national and international Indigenous artists. PHILOSOPHERS’ CAFE Indigenous Culture: Appropriation vs. Appreciation LUSKINIKN A bannock making workshop and community dinner. 4 EXHIBITIONS | CITYSCAPE THE ANONYMOUS ART SHOW Nov 17 – Dec 16, 2017 Opening Reception: November 16 North Vancouver’s beloved fundraiser and exhibition celebrated its 13th anniversary! Over 1,000 artists, 10,000 original artworks, and over $150,000 has been raised through this annual fundraiser. Always a fun, holiday shopping experience. Artworks are $100. This year, 334 artists contributed 738, 8” x 8” artworks creating an ever-changing matrix in the gallery. CREATIVESCAPE Wrap the Season! create your own wrapping paper using simple and effective printmaking techniques. HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE An evening of live music by JazzHouse with Beere Ideas for exhibitions come Brewing serving their finest brews. from the community and beyond, and are adjudicated by a submissions committee. ART RENTAL SHOW Jan 12 – Feb 3, 2018 Opening Reception: January 11 A salon-style exhibition featuring 200 artworks, newly added to the Art Rental collection. Rent and buy artworks by local artists right off the gallery walls. CREATIVESCAPE Art-inspired spoken word poetry workshop. EXHIBITIONS | CITYSCAPE 5 19TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Feb 9 – Mar 11, 2018 Opening Reception: February 8 A media art installation exploring issues relating to youth transitioning out of government care at age 19 and youth homelessness. Former youth in care currently comprise 40% of homeless youth in British Columbia. NVCAC partnered with Housing Matters Media Project to bring the 19th Birthday Party to the North Shore. PHOTOBASE: RE-IMAGINED MEMORIES March 16 – April 21, 2018 Opening Reception: March 15 Intimate stories of love, loss, family history, immigration, addiction, and identity are woven together, exploring what family photographs can represent. Artists: Angela Aujla, Kathleen Ainscough, Felicia Chang, Jeffery Chong, Linda Coe, Zahra Darvishian, Jackie Dives, Dorothy Doherty, Teresa Frolek, Grace Gordon-Collins, Meghna Haldar, Susan Heal, Taehoon Kim, Jennifer Lamb, Brooke McAllister, Anne Montgomery, Dona Nabata, Terra Poirier, Ross Powell, Connie Sabo, Phyllis Schwartz, Fang Tong, Stephanie Travers, Gina Verster CREATIVESCAPE Collage workshop with artist Dona Nabata Participants brought photocopies of family pictures and explored ways of extending the image, drawing, painting, and manipulating old photos to bring awareness of family stories, discovering the past through a new lens. SFU PHILOSOPHERS’ CAFE Topic Question: how has social media altered how we share family stories? Moderated by Maria Turnbull. The space is owned by the City of North Vancouver, operated by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council since 2001. WOODWARD’S AT CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE by Benjamin Lumb The sculptural work of Benjamin Lumb intersects past and present. His works are conversation pieces. Through tactile storytelling, Lumb explores memory, emotion, and social issues alongside utility and progress. The former Woodward’s department store was the source and inspiration for Lumb’s artwork that has welcomed visitors to CityScape Community Art Space, since March 2018. Original joist beams recovered from the 2006 demolition create the table top, with a weathered barn board inlay, while rebar concentrically arranged forms the legs. 6 EXHIBITIONS | CITYSCAPE ESSENCE Apr 27 – May 26, 2018 Opening Reception: Apr 26 with guest speaker Her Excellency The Ambassador of the Phillippines, Petronila Garcia Artists: Danvic Briones, Pamela Gotangco, Lenore RS Lim, Chito Maravilla, Esmie Gayo McLaren, Five artists of Filipino descent celebrate the roles, struggles, and triumphs of women. A PRINTMAKER’S JOURNEY: BALANCING ART, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY A free talk by Lenore RS Lim, artist and founder of the Filipino Music and Art Foundation in BC. ESSENCE OF THE ARTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: WHY THE CRITICAL CREATIVE MATTER NOW MORE THAN EVER A free talk by Associate Professor Leonora Angeles from UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ). In the past year 586 visual artists presented their work at CityScape, and 15 free interactive components further engaged visitors in exhibition themes. INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE Jun 1 - 30, 2018 EXHIBITIONS | CITYSCAPE 7 Artists: Lori Bagnérès, Jeffrey Hirst, Joy Munt, Barb Pearson, Susan Purney Mark, Lori Sokoluk CREATIVESCAPE Panel discussion with artists Lori Bagnérès, Joy Munt, Lori Sokoluk. CITY ATRIUM GALLERY ART IN THE COMMUNITY ALLEGORY OF OUR SEAS Jun 21 - Sep 11, 2017 Artist: Diane Roy Using a variety of techniques including crocheting, knotting, twisting, and weaving, the artist created sculptures that explore the awe-inspiring beauty of our oceans and the curious creatures that inhabit our waters. Through the use of organic and recycled materials, Diane has created a marine metaphor to convey her concern for the fate of the world and all of its creatures. INVITING Sep 13 - Dec 4, 2017 Artist: Larissa Blokhuis Highlighting the unseen connection and mutually beneficial relationship between trees and fungus, this glasswork and mixed media installation celebrates the relationships that fungi and trees have with each other. City Atrium Gallery focuses on installation art, a form of three-dimensional sculptural work designed to intrigue, animate, inspire, and transform the perception of a space. The inviting atmosphere of the open concept atrium lends itself perfectly to a designated contemporary art space. The City has allocated a 30 foot long space and outfitted it for three-dimensional diverse media installations. The exhibitions