Please join us for MESH this Wednesday, January 18th at 5pm in the Frederic Lassere Building Lobby. There will be a reception with food and a display of Visual Art Student’s work followed by a film screening from Art History starting at 6pm in Room 105 (Realms of the Unreal, 2004).
The Visual Art Student Association and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery invite you to attend the third Behind-the-Scenes Tour of selected galleries in Vancouver.
The Belkin is currently installing the exhibition, “Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry” which opens on Friday, January 13. Naomi Sawada, Manager of Public Programs will give a special, sneak peak and Behind-the-Scenes tour of the gallery. She’ll also talk about gallery operations, programming and exhibitions, and the inner workings of the Belkin. This is an opportunity to ask questions about one of Canada’s leading contemporary art galleries. The tour is specially organized for UBC art history, studio, and curatorial students.
Here’s a link to the exhibition
<http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/
The tour will take place on Tuesday, January 10th from 4:30-6pm. There is limited space available and last time all the spots were filled very quickly. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Paige Armstrong at paigefour@gmail.com to reserve your spot as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
VASA
Thank you to all those that participated in, came to see, and helped make this year’s Wall to Wall Sale happen! We had a great time, sold some art and look forward to doing it again next year.
Call for Bloggers
Deadline: Friday, January 12, 2012.
Attention Bloggers and Internet Socialites!
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in collaboration with the Undergraduate Journal of Art History (UJAH), the Visual Arts Student Association (VASA) and the Art History Student Association (AHSA) is looking for blog contributors on a one-off or periodical basis for the second half of the winter semester.
The Belkin Art Gallery is interested in connecting students with our exhibitions, collections, archives, and publications. This is a great opportunity for students to gain experience and visibility for their writing and contribute to fine arts community here at UBC.
We are looking for short blog-format pieces of 250-500 words that can be published on the AHVA, VASA or UJAH online pages. A total of 4 to 16 openings will be available and distributed through the Belkin’s network.
If you are an undergraduate student in the faculty of fine arts and you like to blog, please send us a few sentences detailing your ideas and we will get back to you by mid January.
Submissions for the second half of the winter semester will be open until Friday, January 13 2012.
Sincerely,
Louis A. Douesnard-Malo
Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo
Public Programs and Exhibitions Assistant
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
belkin2@interchange.ubc.ca
AHSA: http://blogs.ubc.ca/ahsa/
VASA: http://blogs.ubc.ca/vasa/
UJAH: http://www.ubcujah.com/
BELKIN: http://belkin.ubc.ca/
Behind the Scenes Tours
A big thank you to Naomi Sawada of the Belkin Art Gallery for helping organizing such a great tour. Also, thank you to Director/Curator Jonathan Middleton of the Or Gallery and Curator Makiko Hara of Centre A for taking the time to talk with us. We hope to do this again in the future!
Are you a new student to UBC and unfamiliar with the arts community in Vancouver?
The Visual Arts Student Association and Belkin Art Gallery invite you to the second
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of selected galleries in the Vancouver area. The tours offer students the opportunity to learn about gallery operations, programming and exhibitions in a variety of spaces in downtown Vancouver, as well as larger institutions such as the Belkin Art Gallery, Presentation House Gallery, Museum of Anthropology, and the Satellite Gallery.The second tour of this program, on
Saturday, November 5, 2011, will feature two of Vancouver’s long established galleries in downtown Vancouver that focus on local, national, and international contemporary art: an artist-run centre and a non-profit gallery that focuses on Asian art. Starting at 12:15 pm, students will be led on a tour of the Or Gallery an artist-run centre by Director/Curator Jonathan Middleton and Centre A, led by Curator Makiko Hara. This tour is rain or shine! Bring your umbrellas.
Just a heads-up on an upcoming event that you might want to keep in mind. VASA is planning another year of the Wall to Wall student art sale. This will take place in the AMS Gallery in the Student Union Building from November 22-25th. Guidelines for submissions will be sent out via email to all Visual Art Students on November 1st but keep in mind this event is coming up so you can put aside some time to create a piece to submit! We want to be able to cover the walls in a salon-style as we did last year. This means that works of the drawing, print, photography, and painting medium work best for the space. This is an opportunity for students to display their work as well as a chance to sell it. If you have any questions, feel free to email paigefour@gmail.com.
Behind the Scene Gallery Tours
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the white walls of the gallery space? Now is your chance!
Join the Belkin Art Gallery’s Public Programs Director, Naomi Sawada for a behind the scenes tour of two Vancouver galleries. There are ten spots available and will be filled by the first ten visual arts students to email Paige Armstrong at paigefour@gmail.com.
When: November 5th from 12-3:30
Where: OR Gallery and Centre A
http://www.orgallery.org/ , http://www.centrea.org/ , http://belkin.ubc.ca/
Holly Parmley
Brendan Albano
Alison Lau
Yoriko Gillard: VASA president (2010-11)
Paige Armstrong (President 2011-12)