Friday, February 12th, 2010 (6pm to 11pm) – Rachel Zottenberg of grace-gallery in collaboration with ArtWalk Vancouver 2010 presents ArtWalk Opening Night Party at 2 – 32 Water Street, Vancouver, headquarters of the grace-gallery satellite spaces featuring 23 of Vancouver’s top artists:

Raif Adelberg, Lisa Birke, Ronan Boyle, Bienvenido Cruz, Andy Dixon, The Dark, Christopher Donnelly, Christopher Fadden, Kris Krug, Malcolm Levy, Jeremy Riley, Pamela Masik, Jennifer Mawby, Christian Nicolay, Jeff Petry, Black Peter, Office Supplies Inc., Stacy Sakai, Jesse Savath, Philippe Sokazo, Johnny Taylor, Andrew Tong and Weakhand.

DJs for the opening night are: Michael Venus, Dickey Doo, and Cherchez! Sponsored by Bear Flag Wine, and City of Vancouver through the Great Beginnings Project and CAN.

ArtWalk Weekend Tour on February 13 and 14, 2010
Following the opening, on the weekend of February 13 and 14, 2010, artists and galleries in the Downtown Eastside, Gastown and Chinatown are opening their spaces to the public for viewing, sales, demonstrations and education. Visitors are invited to explore the galleries, retail spaces, studios and temporary “pop up” grace-gallery satellite spaces, and to see the work of over 250 artists from a full spectrum of disciplines. The ArtWalk weekend provides an opportunity for great public exposure for both locals and tourists during the much-anticipated 2010 Winter Games. Maps, signs and other media are available at www.artwalkvancouver.ca.

About Rachel Zottenberg, grace-gallery and the ArtWalk
In a few short weeks, the energetic Rachel Zottenberg, Director of grace-gallery, boldly secured empty, raw spaces from developers for grace-gallery satellite spaces, and transformed them for ArtWalk Vancouver 2010. Rachel is known to assist artists in the development and presentation of new visual, performing, literary and media art. She encourages artists to take risks, cross boundaries, ask questions, and develop the culture of Vancouver’s art community.

Rachel is also the Curator of ArtWalk Vancouver 2010. The ArtWalk Vancouver Society was founded to provide a platform to promote and aid visual artists in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Chinatown and Gastown community. It’s mission is to present an annual event of the highest standard for the enrichment of cultural life in Vancouver. The ArtWalk serves as a catalyst to arouse wider public interest in the arts, and to encourage artistic dialogue and cultural exchange.

Join the first annual ArtWalk Vancouver 2010, and support the hard work and passion of local artists and artisans who love creating and making art for the sake of art. For more information about this inaugural opening and tour, contact Rachel Zottenberg below.

Contact:

Rachel Zottenberg
1898 Main Street @ 3rd
Vancouver, BC, V5T 3B7
604-839-5780
rachelisgrace@gmail.com
www.grace-gallery.com

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Liza J. Lee is the Co-founder and Blogger for Artistrun ArtConverge.

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Contact:

Ingrid Doerr, CANAMADE
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604.681.8844
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Passia Pandora and I attended the grace-gallery reception for Pamela Masik and the downtown eastside Women’s exhibition on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at grace-gallery. The following is a write up and picture of Passia and me from Malcolm Parry of the Vancouver Sun. Liza J. Lee

OPEN WIDE: As for other blooms, photographer Passia Pandora’s My Solstice Garden exhibition of flower studies (www.libertegallery.com) stands far apart from the pistils and stamens of the hugely erotic works she shows internationally. Pandora and arts organizer-promoter Liza Lee attended Rachel Zottenberg’s Main-at-Third Grace Gallery Thursday. That’s when Downtown Eastside women exhibited works they’d created for a series titled A Day In The Life devised by painter Pamela Masik with the Union Gospel Mission. Behind the Grace Gallery, a door marked only by a red-and-white light accesses a small-but-smashing bar-eatery called The Narrow. That’s not the kind of mind required for viewing Pandora’s works.

malcolmparry@shaw.ca 604-929-8456

http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=cc5173b4-e31f-4cdb-bbf9-6f4dfdb02166

grace-gallery presents ‘A Day In The Life’

The resultant work of the art program: The Creative Journey, created by renowned artist Pamela Masik, hosted by the Union Gospel Mission.

Masik founded this program to help women of the Downtown East Side express themselves through art. “These women are survivors,” says Masik. “I believe it is our collective responsibility to empower them to heal and grow, and live a self-sustaining, healthy lifestyle.” For Masik The Creative Journey was a natural extension of her own work. She recently completed The Forgotten series, 69 eight by ten foot portraits of women who have been missing from Vancouver’s Downtown East Side for more than a decade.

In The Creative Journey, Masik led the women through an eight week course, helping them to find their own artistic voice and create several pieces, a selection of which have been chosen to hang on the walls of GRACE. The women, many of them friends of The Forgotten came away with more than just art. “Life out there is hard, so it was good to get in off the street and express ourselves,” says Elizabeth. “We became friends, got updates from each other and supported each other every week. We’re healing together.”

Paintings by Pamela Masik at grace-gallery.

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