ENTERTAINMENT. WEDNESDAY, .M Paper and felt show By BERNICE GARGUS Sun correspondent Last Thursday, the West Koote- nay National Exhibition Centre held an opening reception for two shows of paper and felt art. Arctic & making small sculptural boxes called dream boxes that you could open up and play with and see litde things inside," she said, standing before her paper, bead and pastel creation. “They were very theatri- cal and from there they got bigger and more Dreams, and Made By Hand: Felt and Paper are running at the NEC until April 14, Made By Hand : Felt and Paper is the result of a province-wide competition originating in the Canadian Crafts Museum in Van- couver. The show includes sixteen B.C. artists and contains paper col- Tages, wall hangings and sculpture. Lady with Tea Cup, created by artist Francis Semple is a colorful, internally lighted figure made from paper mache, wire, plaster and glue. Semple has three other sculp- tures in the show, including'paper mache torsos of a male and female. Also included in Made By Hand are smaller sculptured forms including Tree of Life II by Gene Kares, made from wood pulp cast into a female form, with roots and branches extending upward from the centre of the head like a fertile thought, and Tea Pots/ Happy Series by Vancouver artist Wendy Macdonald. South Slocan artist Maggie Tchir has one piece in the show, entitled Mountain Memory Box/Dance of the Northem Lights. “In the last few years I started In the future, Tchir hopes to continue making the boxes on a much larger scale. “With paper it doesn’t have to be flat; it can be tom and stitched and crumpled and all those different processes,” she said, “I have a passion for ancient textile processes and have studied carpet-making in Nepal.” Tchir also went to Denmark for an International Felt Symposium, and on Friday, Mar. 15, she will present a slide show at the NEC on historical and contemporary felt- making, including a lot of the work she saw there. On Mar. 16 and 17, she will mounted cast paper work by-New Denver artist Loma Obermayr. Obermayr's ‘art, is sculptural with soft, cold yellows‘and blues forming the landscape: of a craggy, iced world of lost explorers—a ~ bleakness relieved by. silent red and orange suns. “Wherever there's a change of color is another layer of paper, so it’s much more complex to doit than it looks,” said ayr, run- ning her finger over wrinkled, blended cliffs of ice. “I've never ' been [to the Arctic), I’ve never seen it. I dida’t want to do a care- fully calculated study and I think I would have if I had visited the Arc- tic; I wouldn't be able to do any- thing except make little realistic watercolor sketches,” Looking over her work, she dis- cussed how she researched her pieces by reading the journals of explorers and working from pho- also hold a feltmaking and the creation of two- and three-dimensional forms at the Castlegar Recreation Complex. “Traditionally, felting is a very communal experience, In my work- shops I like to do a communal rug or a project where everyone gets in there, pounding and singing— there is a sense of commu- nity that comes out of it, of well-being.” The second half of the exhibi- tion, Arctic Dreams, Expeditions & Encounters is an exhibition of wall- “There’s something about peo- ple exploring that’s very interesting to me,” she said, “because they leave all the comforts of home and go off into the unknown.” In Open Lead Chronicles with a Polar Solar Phenomenon, hand- written letters are suspended over a horizon of expansive white and blended pink. “I see the theme of the show as one of wandering, of exploration; and the visual strangeness of the whole area. This must have been Photo by Thomas Munson Colorful paper tea pots dangle in a suspended mobile at the opening of the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre's present show Made by Hand: Felt and Paper. leaves them hanging visually knock-out stuff com, with the temperate zone where most of [the explorers] were from." “Paper is a really powerful | mode of communication,” she said, fig wandering over to a piece entitled / Ensign Justin Isreal Sprague Freez- ing in his Tent and His Journals, “We have written and drawn on Paper ever since it was first devel- oped. In my, work I want to evoke the idea of writing as communica- tion—and make you go over and | Took through the pages.” She feels the layers of soft grey re paper, like long-forgotten letters - from an unknown explorer sus- pended over a cold arctic horizon, “and here then you have a lot of responses operating; tactilely, theo- retically and also visually.” In her instructions on examin- ing ber works, Obermayr encour- ages fecling her art to truly experience each piece. The NEC is open Tuesday - through Friday from 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., and on weekends from 12 noon - 4:30 p.m. The exhibits will remain on display until April 14. Admission is by donation. Photo by Thomas Munson Featured artists Lorna Obermayr, left, and Mag- gie Tchir discuss the works at the opening of the two concurrent shows now on at the West Kootenay National Exhibi- tion Centre. The Centre will be displaying the works until April 14. Admission is by donation. Treeplanting seen as art A series of ing pho- for those who have. tographs by Dave Brooks opens at the Nelson Museum on Mar. 1, and continues until Mar, 31. The exhibit, entitled Keep Cool: Trees for Tomorrow, takes its title from the instructions on the boxes of trees which arrive in the treeplanting locations and from the personal response of the photographer who has been a treeplanter himself. Dave Brooks moved to the Kootenays from Ontario after stud- ies at Ryerson Polytechnic in pho- tography. He has been taking photographs while treeplanting from 1986 until the fall of 1990. These photos are a selection from the many he has taken in locations all over B.C., and gives a look at the world of treeplanting for those who have not seen it and a reminder and com- in association with ¢ OF British Columbia Country Music Association Bud Country Talent Search "91" CASTLEGAR WY The Sects SaGtledar Sun as Prcfightors FIREWORKS DISPLAY SUNFEST. ‘Sl Fireworks Display for Suntost, This ‘expencive undertaking requires community backi ing. Support your Firefighter's and help make this a reality! RESIDENTS * BUSINESSES * SOCIAL CLUBS YOUR MINIMUM $20 FIREWORKS DONATION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE .,. YOU ARE ALSO ELIGIBLE TO : WIN A TRIP, FOR TWO ANYWHERE TIME FLIES, Castlegar end The Castlegar Sun Dave Brooks photographs are familiar to area residents in the Nel- son Daily News, | for who be regu- larly photographs local musicians, and through his previous exhibition at the Nelson Museum, Travelling Light, a record of ahitchhiking wip back to Ontario in 1989, A member of the New Moon Gallery, Dave regularly exhibits in the group's display area in the Book i? Cool: Trees for Tomor- row is open to the public from 1 to * 4 p.m. daily except Sundays and _ Good Friday, until Mar. 31. : * Exhibitions at the‘Nelson Mu seum are assisted financially by the Government of British Co- lumbia and the City of Nelson. A small admission fee is charged to those who are not mem- bers of the museum. Local women urged to help form new group Women from all walks of life, age groups, and interests are invit- ed to the Castlegar Library on », DELI & DESSERTS All our Salads are homemade! -1106 3rd St. Thursday, Mar, 7, at noon to help form a new group, The Castlegar Women's Association. : As Mar. 8 is International Women's Day, it's an app: time for the founding meeting of a ‘women's networking gro! Several speakers frony other ‘West Kootenay Women's Associa- tions will share their experiences and reasons for founding their organizations. The meeting is slated to run from 12 noon until 2 p.m., so bring your ideas and a brown bag lunch, Open to any vocalist iis “chicken Time Luncheon Special i Wednesday, March 6, 1991 Page 3B ‘The Nelson Museum is present. ing an exhibit on the Women of Nelson: 1880-1950 from Mar. 8 to 28 at the Chahko Mika Mall. The exhibition includes pho- tographs, memoirs, artifacts, and archival items from Nelson and area women and their families, and celebrates the contribution of the women to the growth and develop- ment of their unique community, Opening on Women « of Nelson portrayed Yvonne Munro, who have been | working since September on the, project. 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