tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77638246025680677362024-03-05T17:05:45.755-08:00Summer at Dales GalleryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763824602568067736.post-24308719800240547312012-06-20T09:21:00.002-07:002012-07-04T09:33:39.870-07:00Summer at Dales Gallery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Gallery is housed in a Old Victorian space that dates back to the early days of the city. If you ask we'll show you the mysterious circa 1800s </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">re</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">volver that was found tucked in the walls during a renovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With those rambunctious times far behind, the local artisans participating in the Summer at Dales Gallery present gleaming glass, funky metal </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sculptures, sparkling silver jewelry, luscious feltworks, richly coloured</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and beautifully crafted pottery, vivid and innovative polymer clay creations, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and many more items to delight the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">eye in a celebration of form and function. The gallery is staffed by local </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">artisans who are always happy to describe their techniques and processes.</span><br />
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Working in oils, Karen paints city and landscapes. She is interested in architecture, being attracted to various elements of design such as pattern and repetition. Her paintings reflect an interest in rich colour, and the contrast of light and shadow.</div>
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Her most recent works represent scenes observed across Canada with her husband, artist Marshall Hugh Kaiser.</div>
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Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and now living in Victoria, BC, Karen is a member of the Oak Bay Community Artists Society, and shows her work twice a year in the Oak Bay studio tours.</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com537 Fisgard Street, Victoria BC48.4290487 -123.315288726.824523700000004 -163.7449762 70.0335737 -82.8856012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763824602568067736.post-29957408865095944752012-06-17T11:03:00.003-07:002012-06-20T09:49:31.772-07:00Those Great Little Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In today’s world, books and paper are easy and cheap to mass-produce. It’s much more efficient than when it was all done by hand...but in that efficiency, we have lost something. A mechanically produced book, made with mechanically produced paper may look nice and be lovely to read, but it contains nothing of the person who made it.
When an artist creates, their creation acquires just a little of their essence, their spirit, their soul. So it is when we hand-pull a sheet of paper, when we design and hand-bind a book. Each sheet of paper, each book, has just a little of us in it, and that sharing of ourselves enriches us as well as the recipient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa Samphire is Canadian born and began her glass blowing career in 1985. Since that time she has produced a diverse body of work, which includes private and public, sculptural and functional pieces. Over the years she has been recognized and applauded for her glasswork through the receipt of various awards, scholarships, teaching appointments and commissions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blowing glass is a very physical and exciting process, which Lisa enjoys each time she tackles a new piece. She loves trying to resolve the aesthetic and technical challenges that the medium of glass presents. She maintains a freshness and vitality to her work by constantly exploring its properties and following her intuition and curiosity. She is always trying something new by integrating other mediums, playing with color, and exploring patterns and layers. She utilizes different techniques in her works and has continued to look for others as she pursues her career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa's ability to bring a new vitality and approach to her medium year after year is due in part because she continues to further her education and experience. She has taken many courses through the years at Pilchuk and The Corning Glass Museum. She has also taught many courses at Red Deer College, spoken at several engagements, and been the feature of various publications and exhibitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, Lisa has had four pieces acquisitioned by the Federal Government of Canada for its Visual Arts Collection.</span></div>
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Steve Shelley lives with his family in Campbell River British Columbia. Steve
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When it comes to Nature's Edge Wood Design Steve's Philosophy is simple.
"With strong ties to the outdoors and nature I have always had a keen interest
in working with reclaimed and salvaged wood. Taking a piece of wood that some
else has discarded, or that will lay on the beach and rot or be burned in a burn
pile, and turning it into something useful is very rewarding for me."</div>
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"I get a lot of inspiration for my work, as well as the majority of my
material, while walking our dog on the beaches of Discovery Passage near our
home in Campbell River. Finding and working with the wood I salvage from the
beaches is my favorite pass time. Each piece has completed a journey from its
origins, which can be from far up a mainland river or a South or Central
American jungle, to its time spent drifting around in the saltwater of the
Pacific Ocean, to its final destination here on the shores of Discovery
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Alberta summers spent playing with clay in my Grandma’s studio.</span></i></span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;">When a skill is
something we learn through play as a child we are not aware it’s a
skill, it’s just an intuitive part of us.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After working
successfully as a studio potter for 8 years in Tsawwassen I really
wanted to go to school to live the experience of being completely
immersed into the world of art academia, experimentation, challenging
perceptions and creating for the sake of creating. My journey began
with a 2 year "technical" stop at Sheridan College of Art
and Design in Oakville, Ontario and then off to Alberta College of
Art and Design "conceptual" for two years in Calgary,
Alberta to complete my BFA degree majoring in Ceramics with as many
hot glass classes as I could manage to get thrown into the mix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am now living in Sooke,
BC, have been setting up my studio, building a gas kiln where my work
continues to constantly evolve and take me in new directions.
Forsaking the security of what I "know" I will always
choose to test and push those boundaries to see if there is something
more enticing on the other side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While I have been away my
work has been showcased in local and international juried shows and
is part of the permanent collection at the Jingdezhen Ceramic
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The creative change from designing shows to costume jewellery has felt quite natural to me and far less stressful. I am mainly interested in creating funky and unusual watches with varying themes such as:strawberry or flower garden, ballet, golf, wedding etc.. I can fill requests for particular themes in a bracelet watch, earrings or create a new bracelet strap for an old, treasured watch.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="remaining" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I especially enjoy working with bright and colourful beads and mixtures of glass, lampwork, wood, acrylics and various metals into mixed patterns. Fun costume jewellery keeps happening as well.</span><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">I love to see customers smile and show-off their new one of a kind purchases. If they are happy, I am too. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When taking photographs, I like to consider how unusual perspectives enhance the beauty of even the most everyday objects. I think this allows us to see things differently and focus on details that we would otherwise overlook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I do not alter any of my images and I do not use photoshop or any other programs. Some say I am a purist!</span></div>
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Born and raised in Golden BC, Peggy moved to Edmonton AB, in 1985 to attend the University of Alberta in the Honours Sociology/Philosophy program. After graduating and working in the academic environment for a few years, her husband, <a href="http://www.islandartisans.ca/index.php/base/Member?aid=70" style="color: #006699;">Jo Ludwig</a> and Peggy moved to Victoria BC, where they opened KilnArt Glass Studio in 1997. In 2008, they moved the studio to Crofton, B.C.</div>
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At her studio, Peggy mostly makes fine craft jewellery; however, she sometimes makes stained and fused glass panels and often lamp-worked glass beads as adjuncts for her jewellery. Peggy takes great pride in the highly-refined and exacting workmanship of her jewellery as well as in the fact that all her findings are fashioned from nickel-free sterling silver.</div>
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Apart from making jewellery, Peggy oversees the daily operations of KilnArt Glass Studio as well as keeping her husband's nose to the grindstone-no small feat, as all who know Jo can attest! Consequently, she has no time to offer workshops or classes.</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763824602568067736.post-14055496729231901292012-06-07T18:50:00.001-07:002012-06-07T18:54:32.675-07:00Joan Kagan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joan Kagan has been involved with pottery for over thirty years, continuing her fascination with the potters wheel. She believes that a person cant have too many bowls, and that even the most basic every day pottery can be displayed as well as used. Her mission is to create pottery that is practical for daily use and pleasing to look at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She has worked as a potter since retiring from high school teaching and counselling in Toronto. Over the years she has learned from many fine potters in Canada and the United States. In 2009, she made her home in Victoria, British Columbia where she established her new studio. She continues to teach and to make her lines of household wares, while experimenting with new shapes and colours, and continuing to learn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She is inspired by her new warmer city where she takes great pleasure in being able to see the ocean every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><small style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Drawing, painting and sculpting have fascinated Nancy since she was a young girl. In recent years, her desire to be creative has drawn her to glass fusion, an art form that gives her the opportunity to immerse herself in her artistic passion.</small><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><small style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">“I love how the kiln transforms hard, cold glass into beautiful, colourful plates, bowls and charming pieces of jewellery,” she says. Nancy works with a special (dichroic) glass that shows different colours when viewed from different directions. “After firing, the glass glitters and sparkles. The interchange of colours is endless making glass an exciting and rewarding medium to work with.”</small><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><small style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">From the use of special glass, choice and creation of molds, to pattern designs, each piece is carefully planned and created to produce the finished unique product.</small></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The process of kiln formed glass has been used
for centuries. There are sometimes as few as two steps or many more to make a
piece to achieve the final outcome. The glass, which is specifically designed
for fusing, is first cut into the desired shapes and then reassembled on a kiln
shelf and fired in the kiln at approximately 1460F, for twelve or more hours
making sure the kiln is completely cooled before opened as the rapid temperature
change may break the glass. Then the flat fused piece is placed on a mold and
“slumped” into the desired shape at a lower temperature. This again takes
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I have had many successes (and a few oopses,
which I display proudly in my home) and am always learning and trying new
techniques, which include sandblasting designs onto the glass, using powdered
glass to make very interesting visual effects and some works that have a raised
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Can you teach quilling to the children?" This request from the Head Teacher in an Elementary School in England set Jenny to work learning yet another Teachers Aid skill, first mastering the techniques herself then passing the basics on to the children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quilled greeting cards for friends and relations followed and then on emigrating to Canada in 1996 she took the first steps into professional quilling. Her range of work includes framed pictures, greeting cards, photo-frames and three-dimensional figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jenny works also to special commissions including cards to commemorate special occasions and framed wedding or birth announcements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jenny’s work can be seen at the Gift Shop of the Sooke Region Museum and purchased from there. She also exhibits at occasional craft shows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Born and raised on Vancouver Island, </span><a href="http://www.tonijohnson.ca/" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; outline: none;" target="_blank">Toni Johnson</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> discovered glass through her mother; Victoria Johnson. A hobby that turned into a dream, and finally leading to a career after graduating from the Crafts and Design program at Sheridan College majoring in Glass.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Toni’s passion lies within the hot shop where she sand casts and blows glass. Her work is heavy in texture, and rich colors exhibiting a real west coast feel.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Currently residing in Campbell River BC, Toni continues to work in her private studio creating the glass works for Tide Line Gallery.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was born the eldest of eight children in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, where I remember taking my first art lessons in still life drawing and oil pastels. As a young woman, I studied graphic design at Sheridan Collage Institute of Technology. Recently I returned to school at the Vancouver Island School of Art, where I studied painting, printmaking, and art history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />Experiencing visual art - at exhibits, galleries or studios - is vital to human development. I enjoy involving the public through the workshops and classes that I teach, and the listings I post of local art events in my online newsletter. I am also committed to connecting with other artists in the community through art demonstrations, exhibits and studio tours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />I am married with two children, and live in Victoria, BC, Canada.</span><br />
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China Painting is a very ancient art used in many of the European
and Asian countries. In the creative hands of Flo-Elle, the centuries old
tradition of China Painting is given life Designs are painted or drawn on the
finished china, often recycled white porcelain found at Thrift and Consignment
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The piece is fired several times in a kiln at around 1400 degrees F,
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Judith Hirczy has been creating her one-of-a-kind pieces of jewellery for over 30 years. Originally trained as an architect / interior designer Judith worked in architectural offices in her native Austria. She came to Vancouver Island in the early 70s to a husband whose hobby was lapidary work. Basic instruction in silversmithing was found at UBC and subsequent summer studies at Notre Dame University in Nelson, B.C. provided the groundwork upon which she built her own style. During her years in Parksville, she became a member of the Artisans™ Studio in Nanaimo B.C. co-founded the Handcrafter Gallery in Parksville and started teaching through Malaspina College. Since moving to Victoria, Judith has taught hundreds of silversmithing students at Camosun College as well as privately, some of whom have gone on to become internationally recognized artisans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">West Saanich Woolworks is owned by the Olsen family (former owners of Mt. Newton Indian Sweaters). We are based in the traditional territory of the WSANEC (Saanich) People in Brentwood Bay, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All work is performed by Vancouver Island knitters who are highly valued, fairly paid and profit from this venture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">West Saanich Woolworks values the unique and original. We continue in the steps of our ancestors who innovated to preserve our woolworking culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The wool we use is from Vancouver Island and is natural in its form and colour. It is dependent on the colour of the sheep’s w</span><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></span><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">ool. Wool is carded and spun to produce a b</span><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">eautiful thick wool with natural water repellency. Felting turns casual knitwear into fashion, traditional design into graphic design and knitting into textile art.</span></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763824602568067736.post-42424679687492319132012-05-24T12:10:00.001-07:002012-06-11T10:59:23.045-07:00Rachel MacFarland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From a very young age she has had a
love of art and textiles and was always busy “creating things”. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the early 60's she attended the
Ontario College of Art and worked at Currie's Art Supply store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After moving to Victoria, while
attending to home and childcare duties, she produced one of a kind
wearable art clothing and jewelery.
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 1972 she worked with three others to
start Circle Craft Cooperative and the BC Textile Centre </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and helped to coordinate craft markets
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Between 1974 and 1980 she and Lloyd
Cook operated a unique retail store, Deja Vu, in Market Square,
selling vintage and one of a kind clothing, accessories,etc. She was
also involved with theatre costuming with The Belfry, Kaleidescope
Theatre and The Knowledge Network.
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Between 1980 and 1990 she worked in the
Exhibits Division of the Royal BC Museum,
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“retiring early” due to health
problems. She is now, as health and time allow, producing one of a
kind wearable art clothing and accessories including purses and
jewelery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;">Born October 1953 in San Francisco, Christopher Smith moved to British Columbia in 1970. Because of the circumstances that brought Chris to Canada, he assumed the name of D. Michael McRae. He began working in stained glass in 1975, employed as an apprentice to Thomas B. Shields at the Glass Head Studio in Nelson B.C. This studio was primarily concerned with religious stained glass restoration and residential stained glass design and fabrication.</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;">Also in 1975, Chris (aka D. Michael) spent a semester at the Alberta College of Art, studying glass blowing under the direction of Norman Faulkner. He moved to Nanaimo in 1976, and studied art history at Malaspina College. He exhibited at the 1983, '85 and '88 B.C. Festival of the Arts showcase gallery 'Images and Objects'. He also was an invited participant in 'Glass Act' 1 and 2 at the Fort Langley Centenial Museum.</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;">He opened the original Glaskrafter Art Glass Studio in Nanaimo in 1977. The Studio relocated to Lantzville in 1986. That same year the Canadian Government granted Christopher Landed Immigrant status. In 1991 he moved his studio to its present location behind his home on the edge of Nanoose Bay. Christopher became a Canadian Citizen in 2002.</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;">He has taught glass art at Malaspina College, North Island College, the Nelson School District, and holds private classes and workshops at his studio. For ten years he worked with selected Grade 12 students at Nanaimo District Secondary, helping them design and build stained glass windows for their new library and scattering stained glass windows and fused glass panels throughout the school.</span><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; text-align: justify;">Exhibited widely in the past, Chris rarely exhibits work now as the commissioned work keeps him pretty busy. He does show new work in his own gallery and periodically will have work out at ‘the Old School House’ Gallery in Qualicum Beach and the Nanaimo Art Gallery, downtown Nanaimo.</span></span>
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