Burnaby Art Gallery
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Address6344 Deer Lake AvenueBurnaby, British Columbia V5G 2J3 Canada Website |
General ContactGallery Secretary 604.297.4422 604.205.7339 |
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Artists Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki exhibit collaborative drawings, prints, and photographs that explore the act and meaning of collaboration in the process of art-making. Through sharing, observing, recording, and reflecting, students will engage with each other in the creative process. In the gallery, images inspire students to create stories and drawings as a collective. In partners, students then generate mixed-media art through unusual methods, with unanticipated outcomes.
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Bring art into your classroom! B.A.G. in a Box programs feature original artwork by local artists, resource materials, art equipment, and detailed lesson plans for art-making activities based on centralized themes. Five boxes are available on a three week loan basis. > THE PRINTMAKER'S PETS: Relief printmaking, animals, texture and line. > MY PLACE: Contemporary Canadian landscape, painting, colour and pattern. > CULTURAL PORTRAITS: Identity and culture, portraits, drawing and painting. > INVENTIVE ASSEMBLAGE: Sculpture, imagination, construction and recycling materials. >NEW! BIRDS & BOATS: Canadian Artist Alistair Bell, pattern, sketching 'trips' and watermedia.
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Printer’s Studio is an advanced program allowing students to spend an extended time at the gallery. Taught by a professional artist, the focus is on creating a series of prints that explore monoprint and collograph processes. Students spend time discussing and developing imagery in the gallery in response to the works exhibited. Artwork is taken to the next level using printmaking techniques, including additive and subtractive, layering, masking and multiple printing. Students learn how to use a printmaking press, ink and print a plate, and refine their images with different printing arrangements and colours.
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Artist’s Studio offers students the chance to explore one artist’s concepts, processes and techniques in detail. In conjunction with the Takao Tanabe exhibit, students consider how the artist has changed, adapted, and/or reflected upon his subjects and the use of media to render a sense of “place” within his work. Students follow Tanabe’s example by exploring the process of creating images from initial drawing to painting. Skills and techniques practiced through line drawing and watercolour painting are built upon by students in their creation of a final landscape print. Working with concepts seen in the exhibition, students’ imagery is inspired by the artist’s emotionally evocative vision of the West Coast.
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Gallery educators bring original artwork and supplies for an art making activity right into your classroom! British printmaker and painter Ernest Lumsden worked to document the spirit of the people and places he encountered during his world travels in the early 20th century. Students use Lumsden’s detailed etchings of portraits and cityscapes as inspiration for drawings, with emphasis on line, tone, and gradation. Echoing Lumsden’s often postcard-like prints, students create multi-media images of real and imagined places.
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Gallery educators bring original artwork and supplies for an art making activity right into your classroom! STRUCTURES & CITIES: Imagine, balance, construct and combine materials to engineer an exciting mini city. Students learn about physics and connecting techniques they can use to support their structures. Elements of colour, pattern, and recycled materials encourage students to get creative. Focus can be adjusted- perhaps a realistic, futuristic, space-age or environmentally sensitive city would fit your curriculum.
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Gallery educators bring original artwork and supplies for an art making activity right into your classroom! Art and science? Observation is an essential tool for both artists and scientists. Looking closely at micro and macro elements, students examine and interpret the details, textures, and patterns that make up driftwood, butterflies and other natural objects. Relief printmaking techniques are used to create a colourful, patterned print that combines close up and overall views for an interconnected image. Engaging for future artists and scientists at all levels!
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Takao Tanabe exhibits drawings and paintings that are inspired by British Columbia’s land, sea, and sky. His landscape images work to capture the essence of time and place, engaging the viewer in an emotional journey. Students explore Tanabe’s vision through his work, and then practice using his techniques through in-gallery drawing, developing skills such as gradated shading. In the studio, students will work with watercolour painting, using colour and light to evoke their own vision of the natural environment.
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You’ve probably heard of embossing and etching, but how about rainbow roll-ups and chine collé? These are just a few techniques printmakers use. Hand made prints range from the most easily accessible stamping to complex images made from layers of colour and line. Students begin with a chance to inspect and decode the prints on exhibit in the gallery. In the studio, they use a printing press to make an embossed image without ink, and a hand pulled print with colourful ink roll-ups.
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Tour any of the exhibitions with your class at no charge. Teacher's guides are available for many exhibitions. Call for dates and content details, or visit our website: www.burnabyartgallery.ca. We also offer guided tours with studio workshops. Deer Lake Park trails and Burnaby Village Museum are on the grounds.
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Secondary student artwork shines in this exhibit by students in Grades 8-12 from Burnaby school district. At the same time, students have a wonderful chance to see the selected artworks from the Burnaby Art Gallery’s collection. Tours focus on exploring to a selection of visual elements and principles seen in the artwork. In the studio students try their hand at a technique and theme seen in the exhibit, specific activity tba.
