North Van Arts celebrates nature in spring and summer exhibitions, events
Programming highlights include Turning Trash Into Treasure and Arts in the Garden
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A Response to Place, installation view at CityScape Community ArtSpace.
North Van Arts is exploring, celebrating, and reflecting on nature through their spring and summer exhibitions and events.
“The arts can provide a new perspective, encourage conversation, and inspire action,” says Nancy Cottingham Powell, executive director of North Van Arts. “The next three exhibitions at CityScape Community ArtSpace look at nature, civilization, and how humans and nature collide or co-exist. Each exhibition is an opportunity to reflect on our existence and impact on this planet.”
A Response to Place (April 22 – June 4) is an ode to the natural world, and a celebration of the West Coast, immersing the visitor in forest and ocean settings.
Common Ground (June 10 – July 30) explores how humans live in cities, specifically the matter beneath our feet and the built-up boundary between body and earth in the urban environment.
Turning Trash into Treasure (August 5 – September 3) is a touring environmental-art campaign raising awareness of the waste in our lakes and oceans by transforming collected trash into art. Eleven artists from North Vancouver to Pemberton were selected to represent their local arts councils and create unique pieces of art from a range of objects recovered through clean-up dives at local lakes and ocean sites.
“Artists were given objects like beverage cans, sunglasses, golf balls, vape cartridges, plastic oars and more that was collected from our oceans,” says Cottingham Powell. “And from these everyday objects, abstract, surreal, and representational artwork was created. It’s a wonderful way to talk about the waste in our water, and what we can do to protect our oceans and waterways.”
Today’s Catch, Cori Creed's artwork from Turning Trash Into Treasure.
“We are also excited to host Arts in the Garden in-person again,” Cottingham Powell says of the highly anticipated event running May 28 and 29. “As we engage with and celebrate the diversity of nature on this weekend, we invite visitors to reflect on their own relationship and responsibilities to this place.”
Arts in the Garden is an opportunity to connect to nature through art. It is a celebration of creativity, with visual and performing art experiences in spectacular backdrops. New to Arts in the Garden, is Feathers & Fungi, an all-ages event that celebrates nature and the relationship between birds and fungi, in partnership with Wild Bird Trust of BC.
This spring and summer, join North Van Arts to explore this place, this land, these waters. Feed your senses and connect to nature with the arts.
Learn more at northvanarts.ca.
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