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

http://www.free-press-release.com/news-artwalk-vancouver-opening-night-february-12-and-weekend-tour-showing-over-250-artists-1265652992.html

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

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Contact:

Ingrid Doerr, CANAMADE
151 West Cordova, Vancouver, BC
604.681.8844
vancouvermarket@gmail.com
www.canamade.com

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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.”

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Main Art Drift 2008

For the first time, the Main Art Drift adopts web 2.0 technology to publicize the 4th annual event taking place on Saturday, October 4th, and Sunday, October 5th 2008. Over 100 artists and 61 business owners are registered for this year’s event. This local arts and culture festival will be taking place in artists’ open studios, and participating local shops, cafes and restaurants along Vancouver’s trendy Main Street.

Web 2.0 aims to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users, which has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities. Through the power of web 2.0, artists and business owners along Main Street are easily finding each other and connecting for the Drift through Facebook, a social networking site.

For the 4th annual event, the Main Art Drift launched a brand new website www.thedrift.ca, which empowers artists to upload content on their own, year-round for self-promotion. The new website uses web 2.0 technology to reduce the volunteer time needed to upload and maintain web content. The new Drift site also provides rotating art images to give exposure to all of the artists, as well as links for the promotion of artist and business websites.

Artist and Drift volunteer, Liza Lee set up the Main Art Drift Facebook group to find and contact Main Street community members, including new gallery owners Rachel Zottenberg of grace-gallery and Nathan Drillot of Little Mountain Studios. Liza became Facebook friends with Rachel and Nathan before meeting them in person. Collectively, the trio can invite thousands of Vancouverites to the annual event through Facebook. The Drift website is also getting referrals through Facebook from potential volunteers and performers interested in becoming part of the local art event.

Liza also attributes the internet as a key strategy for audience development for her energy paintings. Her paintings were exhibited in the sacred geometry designer launch at Le Marrakech on August 20th, where many of the guests were invited to the event through Facebook. The sacred geometry event was called the “Shakti Fashion Show” which aired on THE EXPRESS.

Recently, Liza also signed up for MyArtSpace to reach out to gallery owners and art collectors around the world. Her web address is www.art.lizajlee.com, which redirects to her MyArtSpace page. She is also on www.artistrun.org, which is powered by Wordpress, a web 2.0 publishing platform. Wordpress, Facebook and MyArtSpace are free services that enable artists to develop relationships with community members and art patrons.

For the Main Art Drift 2008, Liza has created an original and functional 10 x 7 foot art installation, and small mixed media pieces with recycled materials for a series called “Lacescape.” Her latest series broadly symbolizes the infinite largeness of the cosmos, the minuteness of the subatomic world, and the vastness of the internet — where all matter converges into patterns of information represented by the concept of lace. The threads of lace are the thoughts that weave our multiple dimensions, while the spaces between are the field of formless potentialities. “Everything is made of energy and at the deepest level everything is created from information.” (Sample 8” x 8” “Lacescape” enclosed.)

The “Lacescape” series by Liza Lee is part of a dual exhibition with the “Stellar Drift” painting series by Stacy Sakai at the Artistrun Studio & Gallery. The Artiste is part of a cluster of community-live-work loft buildings, where numerous Drift artists and the new grace-gallery are also showing for Drift 2008.

grace-gallery is located at 1898 Main St, at E. 3rd Avenue -in Vancouver main attractions for the arts, and will be exhibiting Drift artist, Wayne Webb. His work tests our comfort zones with its use of digital collages constructed from appropriated pornographic images from Craigslist, a web 2.0 online community which has been serving as a digital commons since 1995. The popularity of Craigslist lies in its open-ended nature, which allows anyone to post anything for free, including internships, housing, personals, close encounters and erotic services.

Main Art Drift 2008 Open Art Studios Tour

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

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