Visual Arts

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Film tells success story of native ballerina

What: Documentary -- Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina

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Japanese artists stay close to home

The Great New Wave presents six contemporary Japanese artists, selected by former Art Gallery of Greater Victoria curator Lisa Baldiserra and her colleague from the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Sara Knelman. The curators have made an effort to relate disparate artworks around the theme of "home."

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She's young at art

There's no age limit on artistic talent. Which is why Alexandrea Delos Reyes, 11, is not only exhibiting at the Art of All Sorts show at the Fairmont Empress Hotel (which ends today), she's selling.

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Yoshiaki Kaihatsu works on building a tea house out of styrofoam for the Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Show brings a piece of Japan to town

EXHIBIT -- What: Great New Wave

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Some art leaves you scratching your head

When I was a child I built a treehouse with my friends. We called it "the fort" and it had spy holes, a crow's nest and a table made from old boards which we had scavenged.

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History written in woodcut prints

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St. (250-384-4101, www.aggv.bc.ca), until April 11

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Book highlights Victoria heritage homes

What a treasure from the world of design and architecture. This Old House: Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods is a series now complete with the publication of Volume Four: Fairfield, Gonzales and Jubilee.

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Love of art leads to Pender Island couple's new gallery collection

One woman's love of her husband's art is the curious reason why more than 100 of John Wentworth Russell's works are in a small art gallery on Pender Island.

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Artists Nathan and Cedric Bomford are creating a big installation at Open Space that opens tomorrow. The project was inspired by the abandoned cement plant at Bamberton and includes significant architectural details.

Bamberton a statement for artist brothers

PREVIEW -- What: Bamberton: Contested Landscapes

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Exhibit weaves tapestry of culture lost and found

What: S'abadeb -- The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists

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Atrium artist puts on a show

In the past year, Bill Porteous spent weeks painting giant panels along a 152-metre long hoarding that wraps around the Atrium construction site at Blanshard, Yates and Johnson streets. He was energized and excited by the giant commission, but in the last several months decided to return to a more subdued-s

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Detail of a Chilkat blanket at the Out of the Mist Gallery in Victoria, B.C. Novemeber 2009.

'First women' created everyday art

Out of the Mist is a gallery dedicated to North American native art, focusing on the Pacific Northwest. The current exhibit shines a light on "art of the first women." Owner Thomas Stark told me, "I didn't realize how much of the work in my gallery was made by women."

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RBCM curator Lorne Hammond admires a paper ship made by amigrant from a rustbucket that sailed to Victoria in 1999. Other artwork sent to the museum by B.C. Corrections include embossed work, below left, a carved church pew and a painting by "Magee" of a burlesque queen with a black eye.

From behind the walls

Contained within 16 pallets of shrink-wrapped wooden boxes was a cornucopia of objects used by prisoners and staff. The collection, which took museum staff several months to sort, is a mirror of daily life within our corrections system. There are, for example, metal food trays, keys, handcuffs and sewing ma

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View art, feed the needy

The 12th annual Downtown Gallery Walk is on today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Robert Amos

Robert Amos writes about visual arts. A full-time professional artist, Amos was born in Belleville, Ont., and is a graduate of York University in Toronto.

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