WHAT’S HAPPENING
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Call for Submissions: You Are Here 2022 Calendar
North Van Arts is seeking art submissions for the You Are Here 2022 Calendar. The calendar tells the story of the region through artistically rendered images of locations, places, or scenes that are recognizably in North Vancouver or West Vancouver. By submitting your... read more
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Mother Tongue
February 26 - April 24, 2021
What is motherhood? What does it mean to be a mother? These questions are explored in Mother Tongue, the upcoming exhibition at North Van Arts. “Our mother tongue is the first language we learn, the sounds we hear and know to repeat and attach meaning. Perhaps... read more
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North Van City Mosaic & CityAlive
As working group members of The Mayor’s Healthiest Small City Social Resiliency Collective, North Van Arts is proud to present the North Van City Mosaic and CityAlive. The projects are two of five quick-starts to advance the City of North Vancouver’s social... read more
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New Works! from our Art Rental Collection
until March 31, 2021
Virtual Exhibition North Van Arts is pleased to present our first virtual exhibition of 2021 to showcase the quality and variety of artworks available from our Art Rental Collection. We assembled this small selection from the 213 new works recently added to the... read more
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Woodcut Prints by Rick Herdman
February 5 - April 6
This venue is currently closed Printmaking is the art of replication. Nature exists because it replicates. A seed and a woodcut plate live in parallel; they are born and are shaped by their environment. I conceive of my plates with a mind to encourage the... read more
District Foyer Hall and City Hall, North Vancouver -
Anonymous Art Show 2019
November 22 - December 18, 2019
This group exhibition and fundraising event includes the original work of over 300 emerging and established artists. The fun part is that the artist remains anonymous until the work is purchased. This is your chance to buy art for the love of art, and for... read more
CityScape Community ArtSpace
UPCOMING CLASSES
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Art & Mycology
Art & Mycology is a collaboration with artists and youth using various visual, experiential, movement, literary, and performance art practices focused on fungi to build awareness of how all our lives are connected in society and the natural world.... read more
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Camp Creative Summer 2021
Summer camp registration opens April 28! To be notified when registration opens, email joyelle@northvanarts.ca read more
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Drawing with Plants
This 4-week course will develop foundation skills of life drawing using plant life as a subject. Each class will focus on different materials, including graphite, charcoal, ink and mixed media. Each material will be explored in a variety of methods, using a range of... read more
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Imagined Worlds: Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Writing
This creative writing workshop will focus on speculative fiction (sci fi, fantasy, horror). Students will learn about the bones of speculative fiction and the practicalities of writing it. Each class will include a short prompt (to get the juices flowing), a lesson... read more
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Poetry for People
In this 6-week course local poet Andrew Warner will guide participants in weekly poetry prompts and writing activities for those who are beginning to write, currently writing, or who don’t identify as writers. Participants are encouraged to explore writing poetry... read more
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Stories of Home and Identity
Where is home? Is it where you’ve been or where you are now? And how does this influence who you are or who you become? What do the words ‘home’ and ‘identity’ mean to you and what stories do they hold? Explore these themes through guided exercises and writing prompts... read more
Member & Instructor Profiles
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Jeanne Krabbendam
Jeanne is a mixed media painter, living in Vancouver, Canada. With formal art training in Europe (The Netherlands and France), she lived in Tunisia and Holland before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Jeanne is an artist with broad exhibit-experience, both in North... -
Lilie Rutter
Acrylic
Lilie is an abstract artist based in British Columbia, Canada. She has expressed herself through art from an early age, and after moving across the Atlantic to Canada, she began to seek out more time to paint in between her career and raising her children, gradually... -
Carol Demers
Mixed Media Artist & Ceramicist
My work in painting and ceramics reflects my reaction to the natural world. I seem to be always seeking to unearth the experience of a place and the poetry of things I see in nature. When I really pay attention to the details I have noticed…the sound in silence,... -
Gelareh Raufi
Acrylic Painting
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Ian Bateson
Mixed media and digital art
Experience: During the 1970’s and early 80’s Ian worked in the field of illustration and graphic design, building a solid reputation with the publishing industry as an illustrator of children’s books and a designer and illustrator for academic publications. Ian worked... -
Phyllis Schwartz
Photography
Phyllis Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator who works in photography, ceramics and publishing. She is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design graduate with a concentration in photography and the recipient of the Canon Photography Award. Her... -
Tiffany Reid
Acrylic, Oil, Pastels/Conté
Tiffany Reid – A contemporary abstract artist, influenced by the natural beauty and sweeping landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Having grown up on the North Shore, she truly has an appreciation for nature’s vibrancy and colours, which find its way into... -
Esmie Gayo McLaren
paintings in watercolour, oil, & acrylic
My greatest joy in painting is in convincingly conveying emotion or energy on my paper or canvas. Dramatic or soft contrasts, emotive colors, and varied textures are my tools to bring my subjects to life. I engage the viewer with what I see and feel about... -
Jennifer Lamb
Photographer
“My photographic approach to and reaction to the natural and built environments are summed up in three phrases: · fuelled by curiosity · delighted by discovery · inspired by beauty Colour, line, texture and light attract my eye. I invite you to share the... -
Reyhaneh Bakhtiari
oil painter
Reyhaneh Bakhtiari is an internationally acclaimed oil painting artist. She was born in Tehran, Iran and showed artistic talent at a young age. She went to England when she was 19, where she attended Swindon College, University of London, and continued her studies. ... -
Donna Giraud
Acrylic on Canvas
Self taught, abstract painter Donna Giraud’s large scale acrylic on canvas works are richly textured and rendered in thick expanses of pigment. Interested in capturing the “authentic” stories of human existence, her horizontal compositions fuse an abstract and... -
Julie Fox
Julie Fox is best known for private commissions or donated illustrations for a variety of fundraising events on the North Shore. Her work shares meaning through whimsical designs, fine detail and brilliant colour captivating audiences of all ages. As her family grows...
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