“Art in the City” offers young people an opportunity to experience the city differently – looking for art in all the wrong places, or at least, in unexpected places, as well as looking at art where you would expect to find it – in art galleries. Throughout the day, the art explorers interact with art they see, by sketching, writing, and sharing their thoughts with others in the group about what piece they love best or which piece arouses their curiousity. Each stop is a surprise. With their eyes attuned to art, they see art everywhere – on the delicate hoar frost on winter trees, in a park bench, in the pattern on a rug. on the side of a truck.
Alley Art
More Alley Art, some spontaneous and some part of an Alley Art project
Looking at ourselves in a convex mirror in one of the Twin Towers, downtown Regina
Sketching near the warmth of Joe Fafard’s bull
enjoying our Ujrainian Co-op picnic inside the magical spaces of Spafford Books. No one wanted to leave! Ever.
The most beautiful thing at Spafford Books – Oxford, the Bookshop dog
More beauty at Spafford Books
Beauty tucked into every corner of Spafford Books
At the Assiniboia Gallery
Playing Fox and Geese at the Art Gallery of Regina (making a huge doily) in the snow
At the art Gallery of Regina, viewing “Tedium”…about doilies….dancing the doily dance
Every art day needs a napping place! So much beauty, so much to take in – here we are enjoying a calm moment with the kitties of Excalipurr Cat Cafe (with cat birthday cake to follow)
With thanks to the Ukraianian Co-op, Tania Wolk, Leah, Robin and Oxford at Spafford Books, the Assiniboia Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Regina, and the Excalipurr Cat Cafe, and Vera Saltzman, intrepid research partner
To view another Art in the City blog, by the explorers themselves, see Guest Blog: Art in the City