Hello all you parents of young artists!


My name is Brittney Roy and I am the new Art Camps Coordinator at Harcourt House for the summer. There are only a few spots left so if your child is interested in developing the right side of their brain register today! I will be providing a wide range of art techniques that they can put under their artist belts to take with them for the future. These classes are structured to help build your child's confidence, and to open up their minds to so many possibilities of art-making!

I look forward to expanding each artists mind and working to develop what they choose to pursue.
You can contact me by phone or email if you have questions or want to register your child for Art Xpressed at Harcourt House, Monday-Friday (excluding Canada Day) from 10am-5pm.

Thank You.

Brittney Roy
Camps Coordinator

10215-112 St

Edmonton, AB

780.426.4180

harcourt@telusplanet.net

www.harcourthouse.ab.ca

THE STORY EXCHANGE: Saturday, March 12, 2011 1-3pm

Welcome to: THE STORY EXCHANGE on Saturday, March 12, 2011 1-3 pm

The Story Exchange is an informal story circle where people gather to discuss memories and experiences relating to train travel in Canada, perception of space and identity. I will begin by reading excerpts from my blog (as I traveled across Canada via rail) and other excerpts from 'Trains of Recollection: Drawn from 50 Years of Railway Service ' by D.B Hanna. Please feel free to bring your own photographs and/or memorabilia from past travels, even if it is from your morning run to get milk!) My hope is this space will encourage people to tell their stories, and open up into a dialogue that calls attention to our daily movements; bringing the community together.

The Story Exchange is concurrent with the photo-media exhibition: Negotiating Spaces: Visual Recollections of Train travel in Canada by Lindsey Bond, presented by Harcourt House. Bring your Grandpa or daughter or that friendly person at your bus stop. All ages welcome. I will also be setting up a blog for an on-line discussion after the event. Look back to find out more information! www.lindseybond.ca

Negotiating Spaces: Visual Recollections of Train Travel in Canada

Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
3rd Floor, 10215 112 Street. Edmonton, AB
780-426-4180

Exhibition time: Across Canada VIA Rail and an Agricultural Eclipse

Marie-Eve Martel - Agricultural Eclipse
Lindsey Bond (local artist) - Negotiating Spaces: Visual Recollections of Train Travel in Canada
Exhibitions: February 24 – March 26 Opening reception: Thursday, February 24 from 8-10 pm Artist talks opening night: Lindsey Bond at 6:30 pm Marie-Eve Martel at 7:00 pm

This month in the Main Gallery, Harcourt House exhibits the work of Quebec artist, Marie-Eve Martel and in the Front Room, local artist, Lindsey Bond.


Martel presents, Agricultural Eclipse, an exhibition spanning media from low relief sculpture to printmaking. Using the barn as an architectural icon, she looks at the disappearance of these objects within our landscape alongside the proliferation of suburban areas.


In the Front Room, multimedia artist Lindsey Bond presents her new body of work, Negotiating Spaces: Visual Recollections of Train Travel in Canada. Using medium format film, Bond investigates the perception of space in a VIA Rail journey across Canada. From Vancouver to Halifax and Winnipeg to Cambridge she attempts to rekindle the relationship between individuals and the land.




Both artists will present short artist talks prior to the reception. Join as at 6:30 to hear about Bond’s travels by train followed by Martel’s look into “the death of human scale agriculture.”

Did somebody say art classes?

I did. That means it's time to register!

We have a solid lineup of art classes for children, youth and adults as well as a new Saturday illustration class for kids and parents. We also have different classes for different art types. Perhaps you are looking to enhance your technical skills and creativity? Maybe you just want to explore and create. Either way, you are in the right place!

...Well...almost the right place
...first you have to click the link above that says art classes
...then you will have find the class you want to take
...then you will have to register for the class
...get super excited
...go to the studio located in "the Annex building" at 10211-112 St for your first class
...ring the doorbell
...meet your teacher
...go into the studio
...then, you are in the right place!

If you have any questions about spring classes or would like a class brochure please give us a shout by phone or e-mail.

To register please call or stop by the gallery.

ph. 780.426.4180 . e-mail: harcourt@telusplanet.net . address: 3rd floor, 10215-112 st . Edmonton, AB . T5K 1M7

New Year, New Exhibitions

It's that time again - oh yes. New exhibition time! and it will be for the next few weeks as Harcourt House presents the work of two fantastic local artists.

Sherri Chaba: Life-Line
Cynthia Fuhrer: I Make My Own Friends
January 6 – February 12, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, January 6 from 7-10 pm
Cynthia Fuhrer artist talk: Thursday, January 6 at 6 pm
Sherri Chaba artist talk: Friday, January 14th at 1:00 pm,
Room 203 at MacEwan Centre for the Arts and Communications, 10045-156 Street, Edmonton


In the Main Gallery, Sherri Chaba presents a sculptural installation sparked by first hand accounts of the impact of industry in northern Alberta. The reclamation and marriage of manufactured and natural materials compose the sculptures in this thought provoking exhibition. Guests are invited to walk through this work and explore the surreal point where nature and industry meet.




In the Front Room Gallery, Cynthia Fuhrer exhibits a new body of work of people who do not exist. This exhibition grew over an 18 month period when Furher compulsively drew faces, which have since evolved into clay busts.

Fuhrer’s portraits are created with no one in mind and no forethought as to what the faces will look like. These beautifully peculiar busts allow the rawness of the material to show through, yet provide something delicately “human” for viewers to identify with.



Join us for these intriguing shows -- and don't forget about the free artist talks.

End 2010 with (sir)rogates and Foldy Books of Death

Julian Forrest: (sir)rogates
Ian Forbes: Foldy Books of Death
November 25 – December 18, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, November 25 from 7-10 pm
Ian Forbes artist talk: Saturday, November 27 at 2 pm

Well, 2010 is quickly coming to a close that means it's time for our last exhibitions of the season - and a couple of great exhibitions we have...

In the Main Gallery we are excited to exhibit one of our very own local artists, Julian Forrest. Julian is a professor at the University of Alberta and maintains his studio on site at Harcourt House Art Centre.

His exhibition, (sir)rogates, presents a playful yet poignant look at masculinity and issues that arise in migratory oil-rich centres, like Edmonton. It offers viewers a chance to contemplate Alberta’s continually evolving landscape.

This is the first time this body of work will be exhibited - so check it out.

Gracing the wall of the Front Room Gallery, Harcourt House Art Centre presents Ian Forbes. Although Ian currently resides in Vancouver he has some meaningful ties to Edmonton as an MFA grad from the University of Alberta.

Ian brings to us a body of work that began “almost by accident” in the spring of 2008. The Foldy Books of Death (FBoD) are a series of accordion-style books that string together the random sketches and doodles typically relegated to the pages of a sketchbook.

The FBoD's are loaded with much to explore, which you can do on Saturday, November 27 at 2 pm while sitting in on Ian's artist talk.

Goodbye Neil, Hello David

Well, Neil's last show is up and he is teaching his last class as our Artist in Residence. We turn another page in Harcourt history. We all want to express our sincerest thanks and good hopes for the future to Neil. He has been a joy to have around. We will truly hate to see him go. I hope he does pop in now and then to let us know what he's up to and maybe keep his hand in and teach a class or something.

On the other hand it is time to welcome David Janzen. Last Thursday David mentioned that he felt he was following in some pretty big foot prints. I am sure he will be just as successful as Neil. David will make his own substantial marks in the Harcourt soil.

Unfortunately the Visual Arts Alberta Association has seen fit to not collaborate with Harcourt House in the Annual Art Auction and Gala. Therefore, we are rethinking our annual fund raiser out of necessity. At the moment we are thinking it will be in the spring some time. Stay tuned for more information about that.

Anyone who was thinking of making their usual annual donation will still be welcome and the donations will be matched by the Alberta Government's Community Spirit program. Of course tax receipts will be issued for all donations. Those who usually donate works of art can hold off for a little while. We have very limited storage space. We will be in touch with the usual people to let them know when the Harcourt fund raiser will take place.

In the meantime, everyone come out and see Neil's show as well as Duncan Johnson who's work also merits a close look.

I hope everyone has a great autumn and I hope you will be able to visit here a little more often.

Derek Brooks

Executive Director

Harcourt House Artists' Run Centre