116th WAAH Annual Juried Show

Please join the Women's Art Association of Hamilton for their 116th Annual Juried Show.

EVENT

Please join us on Sunday February 5, 2012 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Art Gallery of Hamilton for the 116th Annual Juried Exhibition.
The 116th Annual Juried Exhibition will run from Wednesday February 1 until Sunday May 13, 2012.

HISTORY OF EXHIBITIONS
The first exhibition was held in 1896 and every year since then, WAAH exhibits have been held in various galleries and locations with an annual juried show at the Art Gallery of Hamilton every year since 1947.

For more information about the Women's Art Association of Hamilton, please check out our new website at www.WAAH.ca and follow us on Twitter @WAAH1894

The Brush Off

I am so fortunate to be an artist participating in THE BRUSH OFF at the MUSEUM in Kitchener! Join me and 19 other artists on January 14, 2012 starting at 6:30pm.

1 night. 20 artists. 5 rounds. 38 original works.

VOTE- you determine who moves one

BID- purchase one of the works.

PARTY- DJ, cocktails, dancing.

Tickets are $15 each plus taz. RAM opens at 6:30 pm and the competition begins at 7:30 pm.

Check out participating artists at

http://www.themuseum.ca/Whats-On-The-Brush-Off.htm

Art Auction: Explosive Hope by Miss Lizzie

The Brant Skills Centre is having an ART RAFFLE

All proceeds will go to the Brant United Way!

I have donated to the raffle!!!

1) Explosive Hope, Acrylic, 2009

2) Set of Jewelry.

Tickets are $3 each or 2 for $5

The draw date is November 22, 2011.

If you would like to purchase tickets, please contact me at 519-239-6884 or lizzie_g_ca@hotmail.com

It's Your City Mississauga

It's Your City Mississauga
Take 2: Culture Days
October 1, 2011

Yesterday I experienced a community full of creative and artful people in the City of Mississauga. I participated in Take 2: Cultural Days in Celebration Square. We go there at 9:30 am to set up the It’s Your City Project. It was windy and cold. But the Culture Division employees from the city were out with coats and mitts! We set out project up just outside of the library near the main stage. As people came and went, we simply asked them to participate and almost everyone did when we asked!

It was amazing to see young children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly engage in throwing, squirting, and even pour paint despite the cold and the wind.

As the clouds spread to let the sun shine, the cityscape started to come together. First was the Celebration Square, then Streetsville, and then cake?!? The library was celebrating a birthday so we got to eat cake J

By 3:00 the cityscape was done and people were invited to come and see the landscape they had created, interact, and even touch the textured canvases. This was such an amazing experience and It’s Your City Mississauga demonstrates the passion, the beauty, and the diversity of the community.

A BIG thank you to the City of Mississauga Cultural Division for inviting me to come and do my project during Culture Days. An Even BIGGER thank you for the people of Mississauga for participating!

Culture Days: Take 2

It's Your City Mississauga

On Saturday October 1, 2011 the art installation project “It’s Your City Mississauga” will be happening at Mississauga Celebration Square from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. This project is made possible with the Culture Division of the City of Mississauga.

The “It’s Your City Project” started in summer of 2010 at the Find Your Spirit Festival in Brantford, ON and has been completed in Kitchener-Waterloo, and Hamilton. This is a traveling art installation project which Lizzie Gosse hopes to complete in as many cities as possible.

The theme of this art installation is public interactive participation. It’s Your City project fosters creativity, participation, and interaction between the community, the creative process, and the artist.

What makes up this project?

“It’s Your City Mississauga” will consist of various small canvases what will be prepared with different textures using various household materials. The canvases will be laid out on a tarp where people can use different bottles to pour, squirt, and spray the paint in an abstract form. Once dry, the canvases will be hung to a master board to create a cityscape of the Mississauga area.

What else makes this project special?

The installation will be touchable. I really enjoy touch artwork, even though it is widely unacceptable. The idea of touchable artwork comes from the studying of Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message. To fully understand and comprehend the artwork, the individual must interactive with the medium not only by sight, but by one of our strongest senses, touch.

Time-line

10:00 am to 1:00 pm Painting of the Canvases
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Drying and arranging of the Canvases
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm adding features
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm viewing and touching of the art installation

Organizer

Elizabeth Gosse

Date(s) & Time(s):

Saturday, October 1, 2011 — 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location

301 Burnhamthorpe Road West
Mississauga, Ontario
View Map of this Activity

Directions

It's Your City will be occurring in the outdoor space of Mississauga Celebration Square. There is street parking on Burnhamthorpe or at the mall. There will be stages, other artists and vendors in the area.

http://www.mississauga.com/what%27s%20on/article/1109710--culture-days-take-over-square

Square2Square

Join me on Sunday August 14, 2011 at the Waterloo Square2Square event along King St!

I will be doing a community art project inspired by Jackson Pollock called Commotion Composition! Everyone will be asked to help squeeze, throw, and squirt paint onto a community canvas!

For more information check out the website at www.square2square.ca

Hamilton Art Market July 2, 2011

What are you doing this long weekend?

Join myself and many other local artists for the Hamilton Art Market at International Village at Ferguson St and King St. E.

Pieces from the It's Your City project will be on display as well as many other pieces.

www.immigrantart.org/ham/