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Showing posts with label Art Shows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Shows. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2022

IN BETWEEN THE LINES Poetry and Art Show in Metaverse - Review by Reeti Mishra


The art gallery covers a vast plethora of emotions in women during their most vulnerable moments in life but also depicting their resilience and strength. With lines like ’I know I will burn till the fire burns in me’ to ‘I fear remaining an outline’, a woman’s path though is strewn with monotony, anonymity and most often being almost a non existent entity, these poems are an amazingly brilliant saga of how she carves out her own niche.

From the women as Shakti of the poet Mandira Ghosh and the power that comes from truth, bliss, and consciousness, Anna Yin’s poem speaks volumes about bonding with nature, missing someone loved and the entwining of all three. In Vedas, women are symbols of Prakriti, mother nature. Nature becomes part of us and we derive strength from nature.
Alka Tyagi’s poem leads us to the various phases of awakening, of truth around us!
If Zohra Zoberi’s poem is about empowered moments in an immigrant woman’s life, Sangeeta’s poem clearly states in a subtle manner the power of saying NO to others whereas undeniably stating that the real happiness lies in giving happiness to others.

It was indeed delightful and touching to read, as the poets have woven their poems delicately with words of wisdom and expressions so vivid and diverse; yet so powerful!

My best wishes to Meena Chopra and all the poets!
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Reeti Mishra.
Speaker, Wellness expert, Blogger, Promoter of. Saree through #sagaogsareeinourlives
Spanish literature master level from San Francisco State University, lived in many countries and speaks Hindi, English, Spanish and Italian.

Twitter: @ReetiMishra_
Instagram: reetimishra.art

 
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Monday, December 7, 2015

The AGM and VAM present VAM38: The 38th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts Featuring Up-and-coming Artists


Visual Arts Mississauga 37th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts Winner, 2015:
Susan Clark, Transitional Shelters, 2014, Oil on Panel.
Image courtesy of the artist. Private Collection of Robert Tattersall.

MISSISSAUGA - Since 1987 the Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) has hosted this annual exhibition celebrating collaboration with Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM) at Riverwood. VAM is a not-for-profit charitable organization with a mission to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation of the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences. This annual collaboration with VAM is among the many ways by which the AGM activates its mandate to "bring art to the community and the community to art." as well as the Gallery's mission to Engage. Think. Inspire.
 
The VAM call for entry is one of the region's most anticipated visual arts events, and this exhibition is an opportunity for art enthusiasts to survey and purchase a broad spectrum of work by artists who range from graduating students to senior members of the visual arts community.  This year the jury reviewed 173 submissions from artists all across Ontario, and selected 31 finalists.
Please join us for an opening reception and announcement of awards on Thursday, January 14 at 6 pmVoting for the People's Choice Award will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition, and a juror's talk will be held on Sunday, January 24 at 1 pm.

The 2016 Jurors
Stuart Keeler, a cultural producer with broad international experience in curating, programming, writing about and commissioning contemporary artists, public art and socially based interventions in the public realm; Lila Lewis Irving, a well-known abstract painter who believes that spontaneity is the root of invention for an artist; and Camille Turner, a media/performance artist and educator whose interventions, installations and public engagements have been presented throughout Canada and internationally.
FINALISTS
 
Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka
Peter Adamson
Thelma Amos
Jane Austin
Jorge Luis Ballart
Quratulain Butt
Antonio  Caballero
Clement Cheng
Susan Clark
Rachael Dodgeson
Teri Donovan
Irit Epstein
Anita Granger
Hannelore Hager
Frances Hahn
Florin Hategan
Mieke Herman
Inge Kjeldgaard
Hyeran Lee
Eva Lewarne
Kaitlin Mason
Eileen Menzel
Daina Puteris
Fernando Resende
Susan Ross
Margaret Stawicki
Quan Steele
Nahed Mansour Tajik
Dragica Vidakovic
Marnie White
Janice Ykema
AWARDS
 
First place- $1000 value
Second place- $ 500 value
Third place -$ 300 value
Honorable mention- $100 gift card
 
Awards sponsored by Curry's and Visual Arts Mississauga at Riverwood. 

          
ABOUT VISUAL ARTS MISSISSAUGA (VAM) AT RIVERWOOD
 
VAM is a not-for-profit charitable organization with a mission to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation of the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences. VAM is located in Riverwood, 150 acres of urban wilderness located off Burnhamthorpe Road West at the Credit River. VAM gratefully acknowledges funding support from the City of Mississauga's Culture Division, Community Foundation of Mississauga, Curry's Artists' Materials, DeSerres, and VAM's many individual supporters, students and its membership.      
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Three New Exhibitions Explore how the Modern World is seen through Photography

 
Three New Exhibitions
Explore how the Modern World is seen through Photography 
Chih-Chien Wang | A Person Who Disappears
The View from Here | Group Exhibition
Susan Campbell | Tracing Ambiguity

April 30 - June 21





The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) presents three new exhibitions that examine how the contemporary world is influenced and interpreted through innovative photography. The AGM is proud to be the only venue in Mississauga exhibiting, not one, but two featured exhibitions with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

In one featured exhibition, Montreal artist Chih-Chien Wang presents A Person Who Disappearsa new body of photo-based work exploring ideas of solitude, personal space, intimacy, and definition of the self, inspired by a news report of the mysterious disappearance of a woman and child.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Celebrating "THE RADIANCE OF CULTURE DAYS" ART & POETRY SHOW by Meena Chopra


Celebrating "THE RADIANCE of CULTURE DAYS " ART & POETRY SHOW by Meena Chopra [www.facebook.com]"I am very excited to be included amongst the thousands of activities that are already registered to take place in hundreds of communities across Canada for the fifth annual Culture Day on September 27, 2014."-Meena Chopra

A solo "Art & Poetry" show by Meena Chopra in celebration of Ontario Culture Days Doors Open on September 27, 2014 at 10am
Venue Sampradya Dance Creation, 3250 Ridgeway Drive, Mississauga, L5L 5Y6

"Through my art I endeavour to search the co-existing universal duality. I try to find the totality in the influx of paradoxes in an effort to unlock the mysteries of life. I search the elusive reality of human consciousness through the lines, splashes of colours and the impressions of brush strokes on my canvasses and at times through pen and paper in the form verses."

During the Culture Days weekend, I will open my doors and invite the public to view my art and share my experiences. 
The paintings would be on sale.

I Thank Culture Days-Fête de la culture, Mississauga Arts CouncilSampradaya DanceCreations, and the culture division of City of Mississauga - Municipal Government for giving me this opportunity to showcase my work.

"I penned down the sun shine, 
You! 
An instance 
Inscriptions settled down in a hub 
Structuring words with 
Seething radiance, 
Spread and Smoothened with the finger tips,
Surfaced ,
A spectacular,
ever changing landscape,
Spelled a lifetime,
Blending a new language, 
A simmering new journey
Co-travelling perpetuity."

-Meena Chopra - Artist & Poet

Vist my art website: http://meenachopra17.wix.com/meena-chopra-artist

Vist my poetry: http://ignitedlines.blogspot.ca/

Visit my Hindi Poems: http://prajwalitkaun.blogspot.ca/ 

Also my blog: http://meenasartworld.blogspot.ca/

#culturedays #vistualarts #Mississauga












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