Gu Xiong: The Unknown Remains
Human migration, labour, identity -- created by Adam O. Thomas, this short film explores some of the themes from the exhibition of renown Chinese-Canadian artist Gu Xiong at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History in 2019.
Artist Profile: Carol Reynolds
A visit to the studio of Nelson, BC artist Carol Reynolds, as she talks about how she works and some of the things that inform what she does.
Carol Reynold's exhibition Painting the Town ran from June 19 to Sept 6, 2009 at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History.
This is one in a series of artist videos made possible by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
For more information about the gallery, please find us on Facebook, or visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
Artist Profile: Courtney Andersen (Part 1 of 2)
Artist Courtney Andersen talks about some of the work that he's produced, including Advice Plaques and the series If you can't hug the one you love, hug the one you're with.
Andersen has lived in the Kootenays since the early 90's, and is currently an instructor at Kootenay Studio Arts in Nelson, B.C. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Touchstones Nelson.
This is one in a series of artist videos made possible by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
For more information about the gallery, please find us on Facebook, or visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
Artist Profile: Peter Corbett (Part 1 of 2)
Artist Peter Corbett speaks about his plein air painting journey with fellow artist Glenn Clark. The pair followed the route of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateways Pipeline, which would run from the Alberta tar sands to a marine port in Kitimat, BC, a total of over 1,177 km. Field sketches and finished paintings will be shown at Touchstones Nelson from June 15th to September 15th, 2013. The opening will take place on Friday June 14th from 7-9pm. Exhibitions of their work will also be shown at several other galleries throughout BC.
This is one in a series of artist videos made possible by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
For more information about the gallery, please find us on Facebook, or visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
Artist Profile: Courtney Andersen (Part 2 of 2)
Artist Courtney Andersen talks about some of the techniques and materials that he uses in his work.
Andersen has lived in the Kootenays since the early 90's, and is currently an instructor at Kootenay Studio Arts in Nelson, B.C. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Touchstones Nelson.
This is one in a series of artist videos made possible by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
For more information about the gallery, please find us on Facebook, or visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
Artist Profile: Peter Corbett (Part 2 of 2)
Artist Peter Corbett speaks about his approach to plein air painting and studio painting. Corbett and fellow artist Glenn Clark followed the route of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateways Pipeline, which would run from the Alberta tar sands to a marine port in Kitimat, BC, a total of over 1,177 km. Field sketches and finished paintings will be shown at Touchstones Nelson from June 15th to September 15th, 2013. The opening will take place on Friday June 14th from 7-9pm. Exhibitions of their work will also be shown at several other galleries throughout BC.
This is one in a series of artist videos made possible by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
For more information about the gallery, please find us on Facebook, or visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
Artist Graham Gillmore paints You ruined me with your experiments
Time lapse photos of artist Graham Gillmore painting You ruined me with your experiments. The piece is part of his exhibition I love you, in theory, running from March 2 to June 9, 2013 at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History in Nelson, BC.
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Artist Profile: Brent Bukowski
In the studio with Kaslo, B.C. artist Brent Bukowski as he talks about some of the ideas, artists and experiences that inform his work.
Brent Bukowski's exhibition Flow ran from April 25 to June 10, 2009 at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History.
This is one in a series of artist videos made possible by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
For more information about the gallery, please find us on Facebook, or visit touchstonesnelson.ca.
Winter Vibe Episode #3 - Refresh
When people think of the Nelson Kootenay Lake area in the winter, they often think primarliy of downhill skiing - after all, we're home to Whitewater Ski Resort and we're the Cat Skiing Capitol of the world!
But there's a whole host of activities to explore when you're off the slopes: go for a soothing dip in Ainsworth Hot Springs, take in an art exhibition or learn about local history at Touchstones Nelson - Museum of Art and History, go XC skiing on a sunny day at Nelson Nordic Ski Club, reconnect with your yoga practice, have a relaxing massage or spa treatment, enjoy Nelson's culinary offerings, live theatre, movies, shopping and more... there is so much to do in our sweet little neck of the woods.
Come REFRESH in the Nelson Kootenay Lake area this winter, or any time of the year.
2015 CMA Award of Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions
The 2015 CMA Award of Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions (museums with less than $1M annual operating budgets) was presented to Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History for the Roll on Columbia: Exhibition Project.
Le Prix d'excellence en expositions (musées ayant un budget opérationnel annuel inférieur à 1 M$) a été décerné à Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History pour le projet Roll on Columbia Exhibition
Nelson BC Fire and Rescue Hall Celebrates 100th Birthday
Big, red, shiny fire trucks and clanging bells set the scene for the 100th anniversary of Nelson's Fire Station, which gained international recognition in the movie, Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.
Fire Chief Simon Grypma takes us back in time as he explains the Striker Gong System used back in the early 1900s. The Nelson Fire Hall was the most technologically advanced station between Calgary and Vancouver.
Be sure to visit Nelson's Touchstone Museum Nelson and view the exhibit entitled, City in Flames ~ A Journey Through Nelson's Fire History, on display until the end of September, 2013.
Wendy Woon: Museum Education & Progressive Values in the Digital Age
How can museum education foster creativity, both for onsite visitors in our galleries and for the digital age? Examining the history of museum education reveals that we may build upon the values of the progressive education movement to inspire our practice and reinvigorate our strategic thinking about future programming and new initiatives.
This is the fifth annual Samuel H. Kress Lecture in Museum Education, which is intended to further the study, understanding, and practice of museum education in the twenty-first century.
Location: The Frick Collection, New York, NY
Event Date: 05.11.12
Speaker: Wendy Woon
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TEDxPhiladelphia - Unintended Consequences
The moment that we recognize the impact of an unintended consequence, a new story unfolds. Ideas that arise from unintended consequences are deeply personal. An unintended consequence forces us to reassess our assumptions and challenge our narratives.
Unintended Consequences is the official theme for TEDxPhiladelphia 2019.
The daylong multidisciplinary conference will bring together engaging speakers, performers, and participants to share their stories and experiences of unanticipated moments, their challenges and unexpected opportunities that arose from this, and how it's shaped who they are and what they do today.
Unearthing the South: Indigeneity, Globality, Community (Panel 03)
Unearthing the South: Indigeneity, Globality, Community considers knowledges from the vantage point of local experience and artistic practice in the American hemisphere. More than recounting how the nature/culture divide came about, participants will consider the ways in which both nature and civilization were differently conceived. The touchstone ideas grounding this symposium include interconnectedness, reciprocity, non-human agency, and Amerindian perspectivism. These concepts will help participants to unearth what has always been present, but has been rendered invisible: hemispheric and cosmopolitan indigeneity, human-animal alliances, and other ways of making sense of globality through community.
Organized by Camila Maroja (Colgate University), Iris Montero (Cogut Center for the Humanities), Felipe Martínez-Pinzón (Hispanic Studies) and Jennifer Lambe (History).
Vancouver
Vancouver (/væŋˈkuːvər/ or /vænˈkuːvər/), officially the City of Vancouver, is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The 2011 census recorded 603,502 people in the city, making it the eighth largest Canadian municipality. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. The Greater Vancouver area of around 2.4 million inhabitants is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country and the most populous in Western Canada. Vancouver is a Beta global city.
The City of Vancouver encompasses a land area of about 114 square kilometres, giving it a population density of about 5,249 people per square kilometre (13,590 per square mile). Vancouver is the most densely populated Canadian municipality, and the fourth most densely populated city over 250,000 residents in North America, behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City.
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Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art: Good Eye and Pie
March 10. 2016
Presented by Bruce Bernstein (Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts). Ted Coe was a pioneer in the field of Native Art studies, curating landmark exhibitions, writing seminal books, and promoting Native art connoisseurship. Trained as an art historian specializing in European art, Coe ultimately found his life’s passion in collecting Native American Art and worked tirelessly to expand the public’s understanding and appreciation of traditional and contemporary forms, even as many connoisseurs, collectors, and even artists thought them to be lost. Largely self-taught through years of study and interactions with Native artists and community members, he elevated people’s appreciation and understanding of Native art and, importantly, the cultures and artists that created these works.
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Fray: Art and Textile Politics: A Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson and Lynne Cooke
Fray: Art and Textile Politics: A Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson and Lynne Cooke
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Vancouver ( (listen)) is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city with over 250,000 residents in North America behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada according to that census; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Roughly 30% of the city's inhabitants are of Chinese heritage. Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city.
Vancouver is consistently named as one of the top five worldwide cities for livability and quality of life,
and the Economist Intelligence Unit acknowledged it as the first city ranked among the top-ten of the world's most well-living cities
for five consecutive years.
Vancouver has hosted many international conferences and events, including the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, UN Habitat I, Expo 86, the World Police and Fire Games in 1989 and 2009; and the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics which were held in Vancouver and Whistler, a resort community 125 km (78 mi) north of the city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home. Several matches of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place.The original settlement, named Gastown, grew up on clearcuts on the west edge of the Hastings Mill logging sawmill's property, where a makeshift tavern had been set up on a plank between two stumps and the proprietor, Gassy Jack, persuaded the curious millworkers to build him a tavern, on July 1, 1867. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west. Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B.I. (B.I standing for Burrard Inlet). As part of the land and political deal whereby the area of the townsite was made the railhead of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), it was renamed Vancouver and incorporated shortly thereafter as a city, in 1886. By 1887, the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was extended westward to the city to take advantage of its large natural seaport to the Pacific Ocean, which soon became a vital link in a trade route between the Orient / East Asia, Eastern Canada, and Europe.
As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third-largest port by tonnage in the Americas (recently displacing New York City), 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America.
While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry.Major film production studios in Vancouver and nearby Burnaby have turned Greater Vancouver and nearby areas into one of the largest film production centres in North America, earning it the nickname Hollywood North.
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: critic Christopher Knight
A thorough analysis of the specific images chosen by Pop art's leading artists demonstrates that Pop’s actual subject is art culture, not pop culture. Commercial imagery drawn from mass media provided a relevant visual language with which to explore a wide range of traditional subjects in painting and sculpture, both Modern and historical. There's a reason that Andy Warhol chose soup for his first suite of Pop paintings. That reason is not, as the artist slyly claimed, that he ate soup for lunch every day. Join Los Angeles Times art critic, Christopher Knight as he explores the Pop inventory that instead turns out to be an extensive catalog of other art.
This annual series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith.
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series: Sylvia Yount
Sylvia Yount is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she oversees fine and decorative arts from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. In her curatorial and administrative practice, Yount works to expand and enrich traditional collection and gallery narratives by including Latin and Native American art as well as work by women and artists of color. Her presentation explores the challenges and opportunities of these efforts in the context of shifting definitions of American art and identity, both past and present.
Lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. Free tickets in the G Street Lobby at 6 p.m.
The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art highlight excellence and innovation in American art through evenings with an outstanding artist, critic, and scholar. These talks are a forum for discussing the creative experience and what American art is today.
This annual series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith.