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Works by Stan Douglas, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Dana Claxton, and more are on the auction block at Audain Art Museum fundraiser

Works by Stan Douglas, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Dana Claxton, and more are on the auction block at Audain Art Museum fundraiser

Chief curator Curtis Collins is just a little bit excited about the artworks on offer at the Illuminate Gala & Auction

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 16, 2021art and design, Audain Art Museum, Audain, Stan Douglas, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Dana Claxton, Whistler, Tiko Kerr

New street banners bridge Musqueam and Punjabi cultures in Indian Summer project

New street banners bridge Musqueam and Punjabi cultures in Indian Summer project

Debra Sparrow and Jag Nagra’s birds and bold textile patterns help renew historic Punjabi market

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 15, 2021Indian Summer Festival, Punjabi market

Stir Pairing:  the weekend brings spinning album covers, sakura-themed food, and B.C. sparkling wine

Stir Pairing: the weekend brings spinning album covers, sakura-themed food, and B.C. sparkling wine

Here’s an idea to pass pandemic time: visit the Commotion’s new online exhibition, order cherry blossom-inspired takeout from Yuwa, and sip Corcellette’s Santé

CULINARY, ART & DESIGN, WINEGail JohnsonApril 9, 2021CULINARY, art and design

Audain Art Museum collaborates with Lazy Gourmet for an appetizing Illuminate gala

Audain Art Museum collaborates with Lazy Gourmet for an appetizing Illuminate gala

The goal is for the virtual event to be as delicious as if it were in-person

CULINARY, WINE, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 8, 2021Wine, BC wine, BC wineries, BC Wine Growers, BC Wine Month, Audain Art Museum, Lazy Gourmet

Trio of Edward Burtynsky films streams at VIFF as part of Capture Photography Festival, April 9 to May 6

Trio of Edward Burtynsky films streams at VIFF as part of Capture Photography Festival, April 9 to May 6

Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark, and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch find terrible beauty in environmental destruction

SCREEN, ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 8, 2021VIFF, Capture Photography Festival

Artigiano partners with Vancouver Mural Festival, adds local art to coffee offerings

Artigiano partners with Vancouver Mural Festival, adds local art to coffee offerings

As the coffee chain grows, so will the number of public artworks

CULINARY, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 7, 2021Artigiano, Vancouver Mural Festival

Arts Umbrella steps into its future with new home on Granville Island

Arts Umbrella steps into its future with new home on Granville Island

The arts education centre for young people soon opens doors to its new building, complete with theatre, pottery wheels, exhibition space, dance studios, and more

ART & DESIGN, NEWSGail JohnsonApril 6, 2021News, art and design, Arts Umbrella, Homepage feature

Major Gordon Smith and Jarislowsky Foundation gifts fund new curator of Canadian art at Vancouver Art Gallery

Major Gordon Smith and Jarislowsky Foundation gifts fund new curator of Canadian art at Vancouver Art Gallery

Late painter’s $1 million bequest believed to be the largest from an individual artist to a Canadian museum

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithApril 6, 2021VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery

What’s Stirring: Italian Design Days celebrate craftsmanship, April 7 to 15

What’s Stirring: Italian Design Days celebrate craftsmanship, April 7 to 15

Made-in-Italy brands take centre-stage at the event featuring virtual and by-appointment visits to Vancouver-based design studios and showrooms

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 5, 2021art and design, Italian Design Days, design, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada-West, Italian

Response: Our Land Narrative video works explore connections to nature at the Polygon Gallery April 7 to 17

Response: Our Land Narrative video works explore connections to nature at the Polygon Gallery April 7 to 17

Screenings are the result of workshops with Indigenous artists and Knowledge Keepers

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 5, 2021POLYGON GALLERY

It’s a puzzle: B.C. designers, artists create jigsaws to beat the pandemic blues

It’s a puzzle: B.C. designers, artists create jigsaws to beat the pandemic blues

Robazzo’s Puzzle Labs features works by Canadian artists; Vancouver cartoonist Lorne Craig depicts Granville Island

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 5, 2021art & design, Granville Island

Gabryel Harrison’s After Every Winter, Soft Wind comes to Visualspace Gallery, April 22 to May 15

Gabryel Harrison’s After Every Winter, Soft Wind comes to Visualspace Gallery, April 22 to May 15

The artist’s new collection of paintings is grounded in previous work with floral imagery but informed by pandemic-induced uncertainty

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 3, 2021art and design, painting, What's Stirring

While they were sleeping: here are some of the billboard images that the Capture Photography Festival had to cover up

While they were sleeping: here are some of the billboard images that the Capture Photography Festival had to cover up

Steven Shearer’s pictures, drawn from his massive archives, unsettle by design

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 2, 2021Capture Photography Festival

Vivek Shraya's Trauma Clown photo series probes the commodification of personal pain

Vivek Shraya's Trauma Clown photo series probes the commodification of personal pain

The writer colourfully tracks her own trajectory a the SUM Gallery, as part of the Capture Photography Festival

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithApril 1, 2021Vivek Shraya, Sum Gallery, Capture Photography Festival

Stir Wine Pairing: Community is at the core of North Shore Art Crawl, PiDGiN, and Township 7

Stir Wine Pairing: Community is at the core of North Shore Art Crawl, PiDGiN, and Township 7

Visiting artists’ studios online, ordering in from indie restaurants, and picking B.C. wine are ways to support local this long weekend

CULINARY, ART & DESIGN, WINEGail JohnsonApril 1, 2021CULINARY, art and design, Wine, BC wine, BC wineries, Township 7, PiDGiN, North Van Arts, North Shore Art Crawl, Stir Pairing

Whistler’s Audain Art Museum takes its signature Illuminate gala online for 2021

Whistler’s Audain Art Museum takes its signature Illuminate gala online for 2021

The virtual celebration features a brilliant selection of unique artworks for bidding in a live auction

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 31, 2021Partner Content, art and design, Audain Art Museum

Stir Q&A: Artist Anique Jordan explores skin tone and the Black woman's body at Capture Photography Festival

Stir Q&A: Artist Anique Jordan explores skin tone and the Black woman's body at Capture Photography Festival

Works from the Darkie series find new resonance as large-scale public art

FESTS, ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 31, 2021Capture Photography Festival, BLM, Homepage feature

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 facts about Mi'kmaq artist Jordan Bennett’s al’taqiaq: it spirals

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 facts about Mi'kmaq artist Jordan Bennett’s al’taqiaq: it spirals

His first lens-based public artwork will be unveiled as part of Capture Photography Festival at BC Hydro’s Dal Grauer Substation

ART & DESIGN, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 31, 2021art and design, Capture Photography Festival, Jordan Bennett, Indigenous art, Public Art, Homepage feature

With virtual Earth Day Campaign, Vancouver eco-artist encourages planet-loving actions

With virtual Earth Day Campaign, Vancouver eco-artist encourages planet-loving actions

Amanda Suutari sees art as a powerful tool in #EarthDaySeedingChange2021

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonMarch 29, 2021Earth day, Earth Day, art and design, Homepage feature

Pictures and Promises exhibit takes a timely look at the lure of advertising

Pictures and Promises exhibit takes a timely look at the lure of advertising

VAG and Capture Photography Festival team up for a show of art that questions and subverts consumer culture

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMarch 25, 2021VAG, Capture Photography Festival, Homepage feature