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Keyano opens printshop to foster art in the community

January 5, 2010 2:38:00 PM (4 weeks ago)

Here's Keyano's New Year's gift for the artists in our community - the printshop will be open for renting to qualified printmakers effective immediately. Located in the Norm Weiss Art Centre, the state-of-the-art printshop provides print-artists with the ability to produce work in a professional, safe environment. It is designed and built to provide educational opportunities for Art & Design students and is equipped with facilities to print lithography, silkscreen, relief and copper etching. The i ...Read More

Keyano Jazz Fest thrills high school students

November 26, 2009 10:57:00 AM (10 weeks ago)

"Keyano's Jazz Fest convinced me to become a professional musician," says Robyn Duggan, an 11th grader at Father Patrick Mercredi Community High School. That's the pinnacle of any compliment an event can receive. The Jazz Fest, an annual event hosted by the Music department at Keyano College was held on November 20 and 21. Started in its current form by Bill Prouten, Woodwind Instructor, Keyano College, in 2003, the Jazz Fest not only celebrates the genre but hosts workshops, adjudications and clinics fo ...Read More

Keyano hosts a talent-laden Alberta Arts Days event

September 21, 2009 10:35:00 AM (20 weeks ago)

Alberta Arts Days wrapped up with a talent-laden showcase on the Keyano Theatre mainstage on Saturday, September 19. The event, which began last year as "Alberta Arts Day" in 30 communities, grew into "Alberta Arts Days" this year with over 150 communities participating and over 500 events. Lindsay Blackett, Minister of Culture and Community Spirit, attended a Saturday morning breakfast at Keyano College sharing his enthusiasm for the arts in Alberta. In addition to visiting with the 40 artists, College ...Read More

Independent study art courses launched to foster community artists

August 21, 2009 10:50:00 AM (24 weeks ago)

If your artistic endeavours have been on hiatus lately or if you are a practicing artist - Keyano has delightful news for you. For the first time, independent study art courses are being launched just for the local art community. Drawing 396 begins next week on August 31 and will be taught by Erin Schwab, Art Instructor at the College. Painting 396 begins in January 2010, taught by Garry Berteig, well-known local artist and Art Instructor at the College. Both are independent study courses which mean they ...Read More

Art instructor presents work at world heritage site

August 12, 2009 9:27:00 AM (25 weeks ago)

When artist Garry Berteig updates his resume he will be able to add a new honour: exhibited at a world heritage site. Berteig is a Visual Art Instructor at Keyano College. He teaches painting, sculpture and new media specifically television and film. His works have received international recognition and last month he presented two paintings: The Source of Justice and The Crimson Arc to the Urnes (pronounced Ur-ness) Stave Church in Sogn og Fjordane, about 10 kilometres from Berteigan, Norway, the ancestral ...Read More

Remember the magic of making beautiful music?

September 17, 2008 8:29:00 AM (72 weeks ago)

Keyano College is putting out the call for musicians in response to declining numbers in their three community ensemble programs. During the decades when Fort McMurray's population was relatively stable, participation in the Keyano Community Band, Choir and Jazz Band was exceptional. But as our population has grown and changed participation numbers have been dwindling steadily. "These ensembles are excellent vehicles to awaken the musician within," said Peter Ellis, Visual & Performing Arts Chair at ...Read More

Keyano Conservatory students receive silver medals from the Royal Conservatory of Music

November 30, 2007 10:55:00 AM (114 weeks ago)

November 18 turned out to be a memorable day for Lindsey Herle and Patricia Chai. Both received silver medals from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Calgary that day for achieving the highest mark in their grade level in Alberta.Herle, 15, and Chai, 13 are students of Peter Ellis, Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts department and strings instructor. Herle received the award in grade 8 violin, while Chai received it for grade 5 violin."In bowed strings, violin, viola, cello and bass, students ...Read More

Keyano College's Bill Prouten to release debut Jazz CD

November 19, 2007 9:34:00 AM (116 weeks ago)

Bill Prouten, woodwind instructor at Keyano College calls his Jazz CD Low down No Good. It is also the title tune and is inspired by "Man of Constant Sorrow," the popular track in the 2000, George Clooney movie O Brother Where Art Thou?The tune is not only an homage to the American thirties but also to Jazz, "the pop music of that era," says Prouten. Nevertheless, this is the only piece that will remind you of that time; the CD features all contemporary melodies like Aire to Claire, pr ...Read More

2 x 2 at the Keyano Art Gallery

March 13, 2007 8:47:00 AM (151 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery is pleased to present 2x2 a group exhibit curated by special guest curator Paul Kuhn. The show runs from Friday, March 16 to Saturday, April 7th 2007 with an opening reception at the Keyano Art Gallery with the guest curator in attendance starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 16th. This exhibit features a diverse body of paintings, drawings and multi media assemblage by up and coming Canadian artists Mark Dicey, John Eisler, Geoffrey Hunter and Mark Mullin.Paul Kuhn will also be giving a f ...Read More

Keyano Art Gallery Presents Annie Pootoogook

February 2, 2007 4:02:00 PM (157 weeks ago)

Annie Pootoogook, the recent recipient of the Sobey Art Award, is the featured artist at Keyano Art Gallery from Feb 10 – March 9, 2007, with the opening reception on Saturday February 10 from 7 - 9 p.m. in the Keyano Art Gallery. Pootoogook, a resident of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is quickly becoming an internationally recognized artist.Like her grandmother, Pitseolak Ashoona, and her mother, Napachie Pootoogook, Annie portrays the life of her people in this small northern community she knows as Kinngait. He ...Read More

Departure of a Keyano colleague

January 4, 2007 4:00:00 PM (161 weeks ago)

The Keyano Art Gallery is proud to present its annual community exhibition entitled Departure featuring the work of local artist Andrew Johnstone. The exhibit runs from January 5 to February 3, 2007, with an opening reception on Friday, January 5 from 7 - 9 p.m.Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Johnstone went on to complete a Bachelor of Art degree in Design at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Two years before he graduated, Andrew learned the fundamentals of Fine Arts during a four-month exchange ...Read More

Keyano Faculty Exhibit: Eye/Eye

November 29, 2006 10:27:00 AM (166 weeks ago)

The Keyano Art Gallery is proud to present the annual Keyano College Faculty Exhibit featuring work by Robin Smith-Peck and Garry Berteig. The joint show Eye/Eye runs from November 4 to December 1. A closing reception will be held on December 1 at 8 p.m. in Keyano Art Gallery with artists in attendance. All are welcome to come and enjoy refreshments and meet the artists.Smith-Peck was born in St. Johns Newfoundland and in 1979 earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. ...Read More

And now for something completely different...

April 13, 2006 8:00:00 AM (199 weeks ago)

"And now, for something completely different...".the title of the Visual Art & Design student exhibit, opening at Keyano Art Gallery on Thursday, April 13th, says it all.Once again, Keyano Art & Design students will surprise and amaze us with their varied and exciting approaches to artmaking. The work in this annual exhibit represents the best of the year's assignments produced by students in their first and second year studio art courses. Painting, prints, drawings, sculptures and digital ...Read More

A Traveller's Night Vision

March 10, 2006 8:00:00 AM (204 weeks ago)

Buttons, incense, toothpicks, thread, and nails are just a few of the unusual materials that make up Toronto artist, Kai Chan's delicate sculptural works. Eight of Chan's works will be presented in, A Traveller's Night Vision, an exhibit at Keyano Art Gallery from March 10 to April 8.Chan is one of Canada's foremost artists, recognized for his work in fine craft and sculpture. Born in China in 1940, he immigrated to Canada in 1966. After graduating from the interior design program at the Ontario College of ...Read More

Understory/Overstory

February 3, 2006 8:00:00 AM (209 weeks ago)

Nationally recognized photographer, Sandra Semchuk uses images to tell stories. In a new exhibit opening at Keyano Art Gallery on February 3, Semchuk and her husband, James Nicholas have collaborated to tell the story of the old Canoe Lake road in northern Saskatchewan. Understory/Overstory is a series of sixteen large-scale photos documenting the remains of the old road between Beauval and Canoe Lake. The road began its life as a meandering animal track and much later a route into the rich resources of the ...Read More

States of Being

January 6, 2006 8:00:00 AM (213 weeks ago)

Four artists, four styles, and four different "states of being." Carol Breen, Susanne Kestner Aiello, Diane Faulkner and Louise LeBlanc all use art to explore various aspects of their personal States of Being. Each of these women came to painting at different times in their lives and for different reasons they use art to explore or share their personal observations about the world around them.Louise LeBlanc came to Fort McMurray from Arichat, Nova Scotia in 1981. Arichat is a beautiful French vill ...Read More

Facets to open

October 28, 2005 8:00:00 AM (223 weeks ago)

What happens when you mix three different disciplines and three dynamic artists with a passion for teaching? What you get is a show that speaks to the diversity of the Visual Art & Design faculty at Keyano College. Opening October 28, at Keyano Art Gallery and running until December 3, Facets, is an exhibit of the recent works by Garry Berteig, Shannon Collis and Marie Leduc.Garry Berteig has been teaching in Visual Art & Design at Keyano since 1990. He teaches painting, sculpture, and media. He is ...Read More

Exhibition Season Opens with SKYLINE

September 30, 2005 8:00:00 AM (227 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery opens its 2005/2006 season of exhibitions on September 30th with Skyline: David Janzen: Selected Works: 1985 – 2005.David Janzen is a landscape painter who paints the skyline, the space between the earth and sky. Using traditional painting techniques, Janzen studies the details of our urban skyline – rooflines, streetlights, transformers, transmission towers, surveillance cameras – and how they intersect with the expansiveness of the sky. He presents a unique vision of our contemporary wo ...Read More

Keyano College offers Musical Preparatory year

June 24, 2005 8:00:00 AM (241 weeks ago)

Students thinking about pursuing an education in Music, with little experience in the field, will now be able to pursue their goals at Keyano College. In September 2005, the Visual & Performing Arts department will offer students, who are lacking some basic music skills, a musical preparatory year in addition to its two-year Music Diploma.According to Peter Ellis, Chair of Visual & Performing Arts, each year Keyano College accepts students with varying skills and experience into the Music Program, a ...Read More

The Conservatory offers new summer camp

June 3, 2005 8:00:00 AM (244 weeks ago)

The Keyano College Conservatory is offering, for the first time, a vocal and musical summer camp to children ages 4 and up.While the Conservatory has been providing an outlet for the community to discover and explore their theatrical and artistic talents for a number of years, the conservatory coordinator is especially excited about this new offering."The summer camp is a way to familiarize children with Keyano and present them with an opportunity to learn new skills and discover a passion for the arts ...Read More

Art Students create Outside the Box

April 14, 2005 8:00:00 AM (251 weeks ago)

The Keyano Art Gallery is proud to present Outside the Box, an annual exhibit of art works from Keyano's very own Visual Art & Design students. The exhibit will be on display from April 14 to May 7, 2005.Viewers will experience intrigue and inspiration with this diverse exhibition that includes a range of media from sculpture to drawing, photography to painting. Outside the Box is definitely outside the box. The students' work will be presented in the Keyano Art Gallery, in the Norm Weiss Arts Centre ...Read More

Land Survey Unveiled at Keyano Art Gallery

March 11, 2005 8:00:00 AM (256 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery presents Land Survey, an exhibit of photographs by acclaimed artist, Ed Burtynsky. The exhibit runs from March 11 to April 9, 2005.Burtynsky is a Toronto based artist who has captivated the art world with his large format photographs taken of industrial sites located all over the world. Burtynsky uses his camera not as an accusing finger pointing out humanity's deepening mark upon the earth, but as an objective mirror reflecting in it the complex realities of our global needs.Burtynsky h ...Read More

Ed Pien Installation at Keyano Art Gallery

February 11, 2005 8:00:00 AM (260 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery is proud to present Strange Scene a site-specific installation by Toronto artist, Ed Pien. The show opens with a reception on February 11, from 7 - 9 p.m.. The artist will be in attendance and everyone is welcome to come and meet him. The show runs throughout the month, ending on March 5th.Ed Pien is a Toronto based installation artist who creates interactive environments within the gallery space. Pien hangs eight to ten foot sheets of rice paper within the gallery creating compelling ...Read More

Keyano students prepare for conference in Abu Dhabi

January 31, 2005 8:00:00 AM (262 weeks ago)

For the first time in the College's 40-year history, three students will represent Keyano and Fort McMurray when they travel to Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, to participate in the upcoming E-ducation Without Borders (EWB) Conference from February 19 to 21.Computer Information Systems student Lindsay Olson, and Visual & Performing Arts students Chris Amyot and Tracy Bearard recently received approval to present a paper showcasing their experience with the Keyano Virtual Gallery.Keyano's Virtual ...Read More

Rez of War Exhibit at Keyano

January 7, 2005 8:00:00 AM (265 weeks ago)

The perception of youth, especially that of a young Métis in Canadian society, is the theme of Rez of War: I'll hold you if you carry me, an exhibit opening at Keyano Art Gallery on Friday, January 7th. The exhibit features the work of Roger Crait, a young emerging artist from Winnipeg. Crait's bright, expressionist paintings illustrate the clash of modern culture in a darkly, humorous way. Drawing on popular culture and his own experiences, Crait voices the contrasts inherent in his mixed herita ...Read More

Keyano Art Market & Sale

December 10, 2004 8:00:00 AM (269 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery presents the 7th Annual Art Market Show & Sale, December 10 - 22, 2004. If you are an artist and would like to display your 2-dimensional works, call 791-8979.Artists, businesses and groups are invited to rent wall space in Keyano Art Gallery for the exhibit and sale of their two dimensional artwork. The cost is $2 per foot for artists, $3 per foot for businesses or groups. Keyano Art Gallery provides wall space, publicity, opening event and a supervised, secure exhibit space.Deadl ...Read More

Berteig Exhibit Opens November 5^th

November 5, 2004 8:00:00 AM (274 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery is proud to present the annual Keyano College faculty exhibit featuring new work by Garry Berteig. The solo show, Portals of Entry, runs from November 5th to December 4th. A reception will be held on November 12th at 8 p.m. in Keyano Art Gallery with the artist in attendance.Garry Berteig earned a Bachelor of Fine Art degree and a Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Saskatchewan where he also completed a Bachelor of Education. He has been a fine arts and media instructor at K ...Read More

Art of the Stage

September 24, 2004 8:00:00 AM (280 weeks ago)

Keyano Art Gallery opens its 2004-2005 season with a celebration of 25 years of stagecraft at Keyano Theatre. Running from September 24 to October 31, Art of the Stage will feature elements of visual design that contribute to the finished theatrical product.From the script, the director fashions a vision for the production. According to Keyano Theatre Artistic Director, Paul Gélineau, the script is only a blueprint. "What the production looks like -- its ornamentation, feel, design, colours and en ...Read More

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