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Visual Art

Moshen Khalili has an art  show at Jacana Gallery in Vancouver called Draw Me a Sheep.
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Michael Levin internationally award winner photographer. His show at the Elliot Louis Gallery in Vancouver is on until Oct. 20.
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Susan VanRooy talks about her illuminated nature journal. (click on gallery and scroll down the list of artists on the  gallery page)
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Scott McFarland is a photographer with an international reputation. His work is featured in a solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until January.
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Dave Barnes is in a group show at View Art Gallery in Victoria called Can I Draw You a Bath?
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Leah Pipe is an artist from Hazelton opening at show at the Smithers Art Gallery.
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Shima Iuchi is a visual artist contributing to the Powel Street Festival this weekend.
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Scott August has created a Rocket Lawn Chair inspired by a childhood misunderstanding of lyrics of a Bruce Cockburn song. It's on display at the Kelowna Art Gallery.

Nora Curiston's sculpture work is currently on display at the Smithers Art Gallery. Listen to a conversation.

Jamie Salmon and Jackie K. Seo are the two artists behind Avatar Sculpture Works in Vancouver. They are preparing their larger and smaller-than-life realistic works for a big show in Spain.
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Mariko Ando is an award winning artist and illustrator with a solo show opening in Vancouver called Rabbit Gravity.
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Jody MacDonald is a visual artist with a show on now at the Campbell River Art Gallery.  She started her art studies at a wonderful art high school in Ontario.
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Colleen Miller and Ivan Sayers talk about buttons! They are doing a presentation at Hycroft in Vancouver this afternoon beginning at 2.
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Julie Morrison talks about her father, Chief Walter Harris, an internationally recognized Gitxsan artist.
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David Ducharme is an snow and sand sculptor and ice carver from Winlaw.  He's in Fort St. John to compete in the High on Ice festival.
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Teresa Selbee is an artist from Clearwater with her first big solo show at the Arnica Artist Run Gallery in Kamloops until Feb. 7.  It's called I'm Fine.
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David Western is a master maker of Love Spoons. His book is called The Fine Art of Carving Love Spoons. Check out his blog for further information.Listen to the entire conversation

Boom! was a symposium in Nelson looking at the possible impact of local art and culture on community development issues. Listen to a documentary.

Sheona McDonald is a film maker whose latest work looks at families who have lost babies soon after birth.  The film Capturing A Short Life will air on Newsworld at 10 pm Dec. 9.Listen to a conversation.

Tam Irving is a master ceramicist and long time pottery instructor in BC.
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Joan Balzar's work is on now at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of Wack: Art and  the Feminist Revolution. Listen to a conversation.

Jim Rimmer is a graphic designer, an illustrator, a typographer and much more.
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April White is a west coast artist whose work has recently been featured in a book covering her 25 years of painting.Listen to a conversation.

The Art Studios in Vancouver offers a whole range of creative courses for students who are dealing with mental illness.
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Lise Saurette and Lorry Foster are kelp artists on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.
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Hope in Shadows is an annual photography competition, exhibition and calendar produced on the Downtown East Side. Listen to a conversation about the project.

Velcrow Ripper has a new documentary called Fierce Light : Where Spirit Meets Action. It's on  at the VIFF Oct 9th. Listen to a conversation. Listen to part 2.

Tim Lee is a Vancouver based artist and the winner of the big Sobey Art Award this year.
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Margaret Chinn is a well known Chinese brush painter and art teacher. She and her students have a show on until Sept 25 at the VPL main branch in the Moat Gallery.
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Don Pettit is a photographer and author in Dawson Creek. His latest book charts the history of homesteaders in the region using photos he discovered in archives and attics in the Peace.
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Ivan Sayers is a fashion historian and one of the collectors whose work is in the new exhibit at the Surrey Museum (beginning Sept. 23) featuring underwear.
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The Colouring Book is a collection of poetry and prose examining issues of race and ethnicity. Now some of the writers are making their own films at the NFB based on their writing.
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Alice Young is a calligrapher in Victoria who recently reached across the globe to assist a fellow artist.
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Joseph Plaskett was back in BC for two gallery shows of his recent work. Listen to a conversation.

Herb Rice is a Cowichan artist and co-creator of a new videogame, Adventures of Storyteller.
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Brian Harris is the photographer behind the new Farm Folk/City Folk calendar. Listen to a conversation.

Tony Massil is an SFU Grad and director of the award-winning documentary, Forty Men for the Yukon.
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Pat Adams is a visual artist living on Bowen Island. She is best known for her watercolour paintings. Listen to a conversation

Tim Andrew and Giselle Duvall make jewellery out of recycled metal, under the name, The Rave'n Iron. Listen to a conversation.

Jim Wolf and Gail Yip came in to talk about Yi Fao, a new book about New Westminster's Chinatown.
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Donna Millen is a textile artist on Denman Island.  She weaves tapestries, scarves and blankets.
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Gail Erikson is a fibre artist in Sooke who is part of the Sooke Fine Art Show.  The show is on until August 4 in Sooke.
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The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig:A Retrospective is on until August 31 at the Kamloops Art Gallery.
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Ian Fry is an artist who lives on Bowen Island.  His latest show, Spirit of the West is on at the Artisan Square Gallery on Bowen Island until August 3.
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Lenka Suchanek is a lace artist who works in wire. Her work appears in international shows and she teaches in Europe and North America.  We begin our tour of some of her work looking at a lotus flower created with green and gold lace work.
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Susan Delatour Lepoidevin is a clay artist taking part in the annual Fired Up show in Metchosin.
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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an artist and illustrator.  His latest project is a book which tells a parable for the environment Flight of the Hummingbird
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St. George's School grade 12 ceramics students a have a show on at the BC Gallery of Ceramics until June 2.  The theme is Resistance.
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June Hunter is a visual artist who made the leap frombeing an employee to being a full time artist about a year ago.  She has a new show at the Havana Gallery on Commercial Drive in Vancouver.
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Artist Suzy Birnstein's works were included in Academy Award gift bags. Listen to a conversation.

Documentary film maker Michael Parfit talks about the making of "Saving Luna." Listen to a conversation.

The new Bill Reid Gallery opening. Listen to a Conversation.

Daniel and Ginnette Taylor run Art for Africa. Listen to a conversation.

Jon Anctil made a movie about Pi for $800 in 8 days. Listen to a conversation.

Julia Trops & Lauren Wilson talk about the first ever Okanagan Erotic Art Show in Kelowna. Listen to a conversation

Yvonne Wakabayashi is an internationally renowned textile artist in Burnaby. Listen to a conversation

Damon Calderwood photographs birds. His new book is called Flights of Fancy. Listen to a conversation

Charllotte Kwon is the founder of Maiwa in Vancouver.
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Jill Allan is a glass blower in Vancouver. She is getting ready for a solo show at Circle Craft. Listen to a conversation.

Chris Dobranski is a master carver based in Tahsis and Haida Gwaii. Some of his work is in the show called Contemporary Craft  on until April 6 at the Vancouver Museum.
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Paul Christian is a Vancouver photographer with his first show at the Shudder Gallery in Vancouver.
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The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is presenting a show called Transporters until the middle of February.
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Cori Creed is a Vancouver artist with a show titled Surround on now at the Buschlen Mowatt Galleries. Listen to a conversation

Tara Juneau is an artist from Vancouver Island who won Best in Show at the latest Sidney Fine Art Show for her painting Divine Order.
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Nathan Lee is one half of the creative team behind Contexture.  He and partner Trevor Coghill cover landscape architecture, graphic design and industrial design.
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Julie Morstad and Stephanie Butler are the founders of Bee and Hornet, a new Vancouver company creating fabric art items for children and grownups.
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Live Edge Design is a company making wood furniture combining rustic and urban sensibilities.
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David Tycho is an artist and writer with a solo art show starting November 22 at the Petley Jones Gallery in Vancouver.
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Shannon Wafer is a Maori artist from Aotearoa (New Zealand) who came to BC to spend some time at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Art and with artist and instructor Stan Bevan.
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The Sidney Fine Art Show for 2007 features art work from southern Vancouver Island and beyond.
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Mary Lance is an independent film maker who has created a documetary;  Agnes Martin:With my Back to the World, about the artist who lived in BC as a child and who went on to become a world famous artist.
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Michael Hockney is a Vancouver Island photographer living and documenting life in Russia.
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Kirsten Chursinoff is a fabric artist in Vancouver with a show on during August and September at the Secret Garden in Kerrisdale.
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Dempsey Bob has just won a lifetime achievement award from the BC Achievement Foundation for his decades of creating totem poles, masks, sculptures and other works.  His son David worked on the latest piece which is at the Vancouver International Airport.
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www.dempseybob.com

Lottie K. is a artist living in Falkland BC who works in a whole range of mediums.
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Idar Bergfeth has been a jeweller and designer in Victoria for over 40 years. These days his daughter has joined him in the family shop, Idar, on Fort Street in Victoria.
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Edward Epp is an artist based in Prince Rupert.  HIs show at the Marion Scott Gallery in Vancouver is titled China Diaries.
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David A Haughton is an artist and physician in Vancouver.  His recent show featured wo different sides of his art work. .
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Barbara Heller is a tapestry artist in Vancouver. She is co owner of Fibre Arts on Granville Island and had a recnet show at the Elliott Louis Gallery in Vancouver.
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The Art of the Sari is on until June 10 at the Surrey Art Gallery.
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Dean Heron and James H. Lewis are two of the first group of students at the Freda Deising School of Northwest Coast Art in Terrace.
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Janine Lott is an artist in Kelowna who creates art on and with gourds.
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Geert Maas is a sculptor and painter based in Kelowna.  I visited him and his wife Ellie at the studio and gallery.
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Yim Tse is a master Chinese calligrapher in Vancouver.
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Singing the Bones; A Poet's Search for Himself is a new documentary about poet Gregory Scofield from film maker Hilary Pryor.  Listen to a conversation.

Dorothy Grant is a Vancouver based fashion designer with an international reputation. She has decided to close her shop and follow some new creative inspirations.
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Ted Harrison is one of Canada's best loved painters as well as being an author and illustrator of children's books.
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Devitt Brown is a Vancouver artist with a show on now at the Elliott Lewis Gallery.
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Julia Kwan's film Eve and the Firehorse has been nominated for five Genie Awards, after winning at festivals around the world.
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Ian Johnston is an artist based in Nelson who works these days in ceramics. An exhibition of his work opens Jan 14 at the Richmond Art Gallery.
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Crawford Bay is home to dozens of artisans and craftspeople.  Broadcaster Bill Metcalfe takes us on a visit to two of them.
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Shannon Butler is a ceramics artist in Fort St John.  I talked to her just as she was delivering some new pieces of her whimsical work to the Peace Gallery North.
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Mike Kroecher is an artist who lives over looking the Peace River just outside of Fort St John.  I visited him in his studio to have a look at his view and his oil paintings which capture the beauty of the northern BC landscape. Listen to a conversation.

Craig Benson is a carver who lives on a very small Gulf Island.
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Adina Gwatkin is an artist based in Squamish.
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Carol Reynolds and John Cooper are two Nelson artists whose work is part of the grand opening show of Touchstones, the new art gallery and museum complex.
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Carie Helm had a show at Gallery Vertigo in Vernon.  It's called Haiku and incorporates poetry and paint samples.
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Shima Iuchi is a multi disciplinary visual artist whose show Illuminations of Kamloops was on at the Richmond Art Gallery.
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Viriginia Ivanicki's art show is on now at the Havana Gallery in Vancouver.  This exhibition features a number of her paintings of war planes.
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Roger Goldammer is an award winning motorcycle designer who lives in Kelowna.  He recently won a BC Achievment Award for his work.
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Three members of the curatorial team for the Vancouver Art Gallery Show, Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art gathered round a table at the Haida Rose Cafe for a chat about the work. (Nika Collison, Irene Mills and Lucille Bell)
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Charles Van Sandwyk has illustrated a new edition of the classic Wind in the Willows for Folio Books. Listen to his presention at the VPL  See some of his work at www.jwprintsandmaps.com

Paraviz Tanavoli is a sculptor who lives in Iran and B.C.   His work shows in galleries around the world.    Listen to a conversationwww.elliottlouis.com

Jon Izen and Jono Howard co creators of The Adventures of Yam Roll in the Happy Kingdom, an animated series on CBC Television in the afternoon. Listen to a conversation

Susan Point is a Vancouver artist with an international reputation.  Listen to a conversation www.susanpoint.com www.omegagallery.ca

Alice Philips is a felt artist in Vancouver.  Last week I went to visit her studio listen to our conversationwww.alicephilips.com

Footedge Dance is a new group that aims to cover most of the dance styles of India and take them mainstream in the world of dance.  Listen to a conversation  www.footedgedance.com

Graham and Clifford Pettman are brothers and artists living in Westbank.  Listen to a conversation

John Rogers is a Prince George artist who works with wood and stone...making chain saw carvings, sculptures and mobiles.  Listen to a conversation